I have to disagree Spexy. There absolutely are easy or at least easier roads to State. I know you have seen brackets with only 3 or 4 wrestlers. Or as Coltstrong and Coach Prieto point out the unfairness in the strength of one 6A regional vs the others. Ask any of the teams in the North regional if they want to change places with any of the teams from the DC regional. Once upon a time when only 4 wrestlers placed at State it was hard to argue balancing the regionals. Now when they place six wrestlers at the State tournament there is a very good chance that the 5th best wrestler in a very tough regional would have placed in the top six at state while wrestlers with losing records or even wrestlers who don't win a match at regionals end up qualifying.