Placing 6 when there are only 32 schools is too much. Sending 16 out of 32 to state is crazy.

Wrestling is popular to the competitors because of the individual aspect not the team events. Dual team state is always after the individual format in nearly every state that have both. Even in the dual team format the motivation is self oriented. I have never seen ANY data presented that supports your popularity claim from viewers. The ONLY live, prime time, televised Folkstyle wrestling event is the NCAA INDIVIDUAL Championship tournament. It has to be paying off or they wouldn't have expanded coverage.