Fredonia 22

If the schools in Wichita/Topeka/KC were to add Middle School wrestling, you open up I believe a better chance to get kids to wrestle in high school because they can do it right after school and be home at a time that may not be as hard on some parents as USA wrestling would. Also I would think teachers would make good recruiters in the halls to get new bodies to participate.

We have 30 plus at both Middle schools.Both MS have dual today with Fort Riley and JCMS. We had 19 schools here with 433 wrestlers this past weekend in a tournament finished 5:30 p.m.. The year before we had 561 and finished at 8 p.m. We now limit to 36 wrestlers per school. Chad Lindsley email the wrestling coaches the final brackets on Monday morning. I was able to watch Tristan Star of Lawrence wrestle and he is tough!. Some of the names I tried to get over to the mats and watch: Bazan, Deam of JCMS and Canfield, Sprague of Concordia. I was inpressed with Riley County MS kids for a first year program they are tough. Little bumped out for next year. Coach Drennan of Lawrence mentioned, "Both Lawrence Schools will not be allowed to come next year due to budget cuts"!. I like the attraction of LAG, kids from Hays to Lawrence Concordia to Topeka. RMG

Bob is that Dave Canfield boy...

Atchison has 16

I coach at Coronado Middle School in USD-500 and we have about 22 kids out for wrestling. Our problem is that we don't have a tournament or anything for the kids to shoot for. We have 4 triple duals 2 before Thanksgiving and 2 after. We are currently 2-2 we should be 4-0 but giving up points at open weight classes is hard to overcome sometimes