Lets do some math on mileage, gas and hotel cost only. I will use Ark City as a reference point, just because that is where I will be coming from. There are towns closer and farther away but this will be a good measure. Lets say these are your series tournaments: Haysville (2 hours driving, there and back one day), Garden City (8 hours driving, one night hotel), Salina (4 hours driving there and back long day), Olathe (6 hours driving, one night hotel), Maize (2 1/2 hours driving, there and back one day), Colby (10 hours driving, 2 nights hotel stay), Manhattan (6 hours driving, 1 night hotel stay), Paola (6 hours driving, one night hotel stay). That would be for just 8 tournaments in the series, you are wanting 12. So in two months we will have had to stay in a hotel SIX nights at a cost of $360.00. We will have driven for 44 hours which is roughly 121 gallons of gas costing $365.00.

If I stayed in District 2 like I do now, in the same 2 month period I would have driven 9 hours and spent $120.00 in gas. There would be no added cost of staying in Hotels.

I am saving $605.00 not chasing the points. And I am still getting Great Competition. Your series leader will not be the best wrestler, he will be the kid who can afford it.