Originally Posted by BigPin22
The following is the tail end of the 2023 4A State Championship results.

Only 6 teams (highlighted in red) in the bottom 25 are actually in the 4A classification for other sports and most of those are really small 4A schools. The rest of the teams in the bottom 25 are all 3A teams that get bumped up to 4A for wrestling.

Only two teams (Carbondale-Santa Fe Trail, and Colby) that are classified as 3A schools but have to wrestle in the 4A classification finished higher than the bottom 30 schools in 4A tournament.

SIZE MATTERS! laugh

PLACE CLASS TEAM
31 3A Hugoton
32 3A Columbus
33 3A Frontenac
33 3A Holcomb
35 4A Osawatomie
36 4A Clearwater
37 3A Burlington
38 3A Marysville
38 3A Topeka-Hayden
40 3A Wellsville
41 3A Hesston
41 3A Meriden-Jefferson West
43 4A Altamont-Labette County
44 4A El Dorado
44 3A LaCygne-Prairie View
46 3A Cheney
46 4A Eudora
46 3A Girard
46 3A Hoyt-Royal Valley
46 3A Iola
46 3A Nickerson
46 4A Parsons
NQ 3A Kansas City-Bishop Ward
NQ 3A Perry-Lecompton
NQ 3A Wichita-Trinity Academy



I guess 4A is lucky that Hoxie wasn't in your classification! They would have been a small school that would have easily won 4A. I am only saying this as you make it sound like smaller schools don't have a chance in 4a.