There are several influential names mentioned above (Cairns, Blosser,etc). I don't think any of the above mentioned have had the influence on SE Kansas wrestling that Jody Thompson has had. He started the Labette Community College program, for years ran the Parsons city league for youth, summer freestyle/greco. He has coached dozens if not hundreds of successful high school coaches (several in SE Kansas) and several college coaches (two of them National Championship coaches). The list of accolades is much more impressive than what I just stated.