The 40 40 40 and 40 40 48 are all good proposals that will greatly benefit KS HS wrestling. If all regional can not be wrestled in one day, then there needs to be another proposal.

If the community thinks 12 team regionals need to be wrestled over 2 days, with a fully seeded 16 bracket,tournaments, perhaps a 48 48 48 654A structure is the answer. But, probably saves no money, saves no travel days, in fact will probably add one travel day to each current 6A and 5A school.

3 X 48 structure will require moving 16 schools from 5A to 6A, moving 32 schools from 4A to 5A, and moving 16 schools from 321A to 4A. 654A classes will have 48 school size parity. Moving the biggest 16 321A school to 4A will remove the biggest 4 schools from each 321A regional (reducing the 321A pressure currently with 21 or 22 schools in their regionals). Need to get 321A folks thoughts on moving their biggest 16 schools to 4A: how will that effect the quality of their regionals and state tournament. 2013-14 KSHSAA enrollment info reflects the following schools would be moved up to 4A:
St. George-Rock Creek 247
Hesston 247
Holcomb 245
Hiawatha 244
Hays-Thomas More Prep-Marian 243
Sabetha 239
Cheney 238
Halstead 238
Easton-Pleasant Ridge 236
Marysville 234
Beloit 234
Gypsum-SE of Saline 233
Silver Lake 232
Cherryvale 230
Anthony/Harper-Chaparral 230
Wichita-The Independent 224





Last edited by WillyM; 03/14/14 12:24 AM.

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