First off, Circle had three wrestlers in the championship match, Jacobs at 103 (lost in OT), Hoyt at 125 (won) and Plummer at 189 (pinned his man). It bothers me that the official KWCA rankings have Hoyt out of the top six and Umscheid in the top 6, even though he lost two matches last weekend, one of them being to a freshman from Wichita Independent.
You say "Wichita Independent" like they deserve no respect. The kid you are talking about was probably 16-3 as of 3 weeks ago. Jeff Watkins has done a great job of developing that program, and you can expect it to be a perennial power in a few years. He had great success at Wichita West, and will do the same at Independent. Rankings mean absolutely nothing at this point. They are fun to look at, but the only people that really care are parents. Wrestlers shouldn't even look at the dang things!
