Who writes this

Joe Spisak

Joe wrestled for Boiling Springs in Pennsylvania and won the PIAA state championship in 2010 at 130 pounds. He wrestled at the University of Virginia from 2010 to 2015 and qualified for the NCAA championships four times, at 133 and 141. Both of those are public record: the roster archive at virginiasports.com and years of FloWrestling coverage.

That matters here for one specific reason. He spent years of Novembers on a descent plan, standing on scales in school hallways, doing the hydration and body fat routine this site writes about. The rules have changed since then, more than once, which is why every rule on this site is checked against a current manual rather than remembered from 2010.

Since wrestling he has built consumer product companies, sold one of them, and now runs a logistics marketplace. That record, with its own receipts, lives at spisak.co.

Why this site exists

It started with a number. The NFHS minimum body fat floor is 12 percent for girls and 7 percent for boys, and every weight cutting app on the App Store is built on the boys number. Applied to a girl, that produces a target roughly six pounds below the lowest weight she is legally allowed to wrestle. Girls high school wrestling grew to 74,000 athletes in 2024-25 and the information layer around it is still boys content with the pronouns swapped.

So this site does one thing: it writes down the rules and numbers that actually apply to female wrestlers, with sources, and says so out loud when a source cannot be found.

The rules this site follows

• A missing number beats a wrong one. Every rule number, weight, and price traces to a primary source: a rulebook, a state association manual, a brand's own product page. Where we could not read the primary document, the page says so instead of citing it. The jewelry section on the rules page carries no rule number for exactly that reason.
• Product claims are graded. The gear page distinguishes a women's last that is confirmed from a brand's own claim from a unisex product marketed at women, because repeating marketing copy as fact is what every competitor page already does.
• Where sources disagree, we say so. The colleges page carries two different counts of NCAA programs, because the official count and the maintained public list measure different seasons, and picking one number would have meant pretending the other did not exist.
• Every article ends with what we could not confirm. That section is structural: a page physically cannot ship here without it.

What this site is not

It is not medical advice, and it is not the authority on anyone's certified minimum weight. That number comes from the NWCA Optimal Performance Calculator, fed by a certified assessor, and it is what officials enforce at the scale. Weight management for a high school athlete belongs with her coach, her athletic trainer, and a doctor who knows her. This site will tell her what the rules say, and it will never tell her to cut past them.

Corrections

If a number here is wrong, it is the worst kind of bug this site can have, and it will be fixed fast. Reach Joe through spisak.co.