It will be interesting to see how many Open teams there are in NorCals. I think it should be six while SoCal has eight to reflect the larger number of schools in Southern California. It's not as if the pool is the same size for both areas -- and by limiting the NorCal Open to six, it drops quality teams down a division all the way to D-5, giving NorCal a better chance to compete for state titles.
But it's possible they'll go to eight, in which case some difficult decisions will have to be made without on-court results to go by.
Six:
2 NCS
2 CCS
2 SJS
Eight:
2 CCS
3 SJS (D1, D1 runner up, D2)
3 NCS (pick one semfinal loser)
or conceivably 2 from SJS and 4 from NCS, but it would seem to make more sense to take three from each.
Clay - Would the D1, D1 runner up and D2 teams in the SJS all be as good as the 4th, 5th or even 6th NCS team? I would say if it goes to 8, NCS will have 4 and SJS 2.
I don't think they'll move a Central Section team north this year because the SoCal Open doesn't have many candidates outside of the Southern Section. La Jolla Country Day is the only one, so unless SoCal goes six (five Southern Section and LJCD), they need the Central teams to fill the bracket.