in my opinion those tournaments that had to cancel need to look at hosting a novice tournament this year. i like the open and novice splits but would rather see less small tournaments on saturday and keep the bigger ones we already have. novice needs more mat time than ever and probably will not travel out of state like some of the better kids. maybe there should be a novice tournament every weekend since that mat time is the most important thing for those kids. im not saying the series is going to be the best thing but for the best kids i think it would be another way to get the best of the best wrestling against each other more than just every now and then. then we can start taking more and more better kids to cliff keen and tulsa. thats where people notice how good kansas looks as a state.