Anyone who thinks there should be an NCAA weight over like 210 needs to watch Nash Hutmacher vs Peter Marinopoulos. Hutmacher looked like he was twice his size. And yet Marinopoulos, a backup 197 pounder, could still take him down.
If you want to shift 184 & 197 up a bit fine, but the only legitimate reason to close the gap between 197 and 285 is so there’s a weight closer to 97kg for guys with freestyle aspirations.
Yonger Bastida is yet another example of a 197 bumping up to heavyweight and doing better at heavyweight than they did at 197 despite giving up weight