I am a little rusty with stats, and have a question. I have taken a survey for the Boy Scouts for an upcoming adventure. There are 24 scouts and I need to break them up into 3 groups of 8. I have a survey out where each of the scouts can select up to four other scouts they would like to be paired (grouped) with (ie, first preference, second preference, third preference and fourth preference). So there are 24 lines in minitab (one for each scout), and 5 columns (first column is scout providing their preferences, and the next 4 columns are the preferences (second column is first preference, third column is second preference, fourth column is third preference and 5th column is fourth preference. The scouts actual name is the data inside the minitab worksheet. Is there a tool in minitab which can help me decide statistically who I should group with who based on their input?
Thanks in advance....

Thanks in advance....