I just looked at the KSHSAA site and found the regionals pairings for this year. Some interesting and tough regional tournaments.

2004 Regional Wrestling
February 20-21, 2004


Class 6A

Dodge City High School –
Dodge City, Garden City, Goddard, Hutchinson, Maize, Wichita-North, Wichita-Northwest, Wichita-South

Leavenworth High School –
Lawrence, Lawrence-Free State, Leavenworth, Shawnee Mission-East, Shawnee Mission-North, Shawnee Mission-Northwest, Shawnee Mission-West, Topeka

TBA
Olathe-East, Olathe-North, Olathe-South, Overland Park-Blue Valley North, Overland Park-Blue Valley Northwest, Overland Park-St. Thomas Aquinas, Shawnee Mission-South, Stilwell-Blue Valley West

Wichita-Southeast High School –
Derby, Emporia, Junction City, Manhattan, Topeka-Washburn Rural, Wichita-East, Wichita-Heights, Wichita-Southeast
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Class 5A

Bonner Springs High School –
Bonner Springs, Kansas City-Schlagle, Kansas City-Turner, Kansas City-Washington, Kansas City-Wyandotte, Tecumseh-Shawnee Heights, Topeka-Highland Park, Topeka-Seaman

Newton High School –
Great Bend, Hays, McPherson, Newton, Salina-Central, Salina-South, Topeka-West, Valley Center

Shawnee-Mill Valley High School –
Gardner--Gardner-Edgerton, Kansas City-Harmon, Olathe-Northwest, Ottawa, Paola, Shawnee-Mill Valley, Shawnee Mission-Bishop Miege, Stilwell-Blue Valley

Wichita-Kapaun Mt. Carmel High School –
Arkansas City, Liberal, Pittsburg, Wichita-Carroll, Wichita-Haysville Campus, Wichita-Kapaun Mt. Carmel, Wichita-West, Winfield
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Class 4A


Abilene High School –
Abilene, Carbondale-Santa Fe Trail, Chapman, Clay Center-Clay Center Comm., Colby, Concordia, Council Grove, Goodland, Hoyt-Royal Valley, Marysville, Meriden-Jefferson West, Perry--Perry-Lecompton, Topeka-Hayden, Wamego

Andale High School –
Andale, Andover, Anthony-Harper-Chaparral, Buhler, Clearwater, Haven, Hugoton, Larned, Mulvane, Nickerson, Pratt, Scott City-Scott Comm., Towanda-Circle, Ulysses, Wellington

Coffeyville-Field Kindley HS –
Andover-Central, Altamont-Labette County, Augusta, Caney-Caney Valley, Chanute, Coffeyville-Field Kindley, Columbus, Douglass, El Dorado, Fort Scott, Garnett-Anderson County, Independence, LaCygne-Prairie View, Parsons, Rose Hill

Hiawatha High School –
Atchison, Baldwin, Basehor-Linwood, DeSoto, Eudora, Hiawatha, Holton, Kansas City-Bishop Ward, Kansas City-Piper, Kansas City-Sumner Academy, Lansing, Louisburg Osawatomie, Spring Hill, Tonganoxie
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Class 3-2-1A


Easton-Pleasant Ridge High School –
Atchison-Maur Hill Mount Academy, Burlingame, Burlington, Easton-Pleasant Ridge, Effingham-Atchison County Comm., Eskridge-Mission Valley, Herington, Horton, Kansas City-School for the Blind, Leavenworth-Immaculata, Onaga, Oskaloosa, Richmond-Central Heights, Rossville, Sabetha, Saint George-Rock Creek, Saint Marys, Silver Lake, Wabaunsee, Wellsville

Hesston High School –
Baxter Springs, Cheney, Cherryvale, Cottonwood Falls-Chase County, Eureka, Fredonia, Frontenac, Garden Plain, Goessel, Halstead, Hesston, Hillsboro, Howard-West Elk, Leon-Bluestem, Marion, Neodesha, Rosalia-Flint Hills, Sedgwick, Whitewater-Remington, Wichita-Independent

Hoisington High School –
Burrton, Cimarron, Elkhart, Ellis, Ellsworth, Gypsum-Southeast of Saline, Hays-Thomas More Prep-Marian, Hoisington, Hutchinson-Trinity, Kinsley, Lakin, Leoti-Wichita County, Lyons, Montezuma-South Gray, Oakley, Quinter, Russell, Stafford, Sublette, WaKeeney-Trego Comm.

Norton-Norton Community HS –
Agra-Eastern Heights, Atwood, Belleville, Beloit, Hill City, Hoxie, Kensington-West Smith County, Lincoln, Minneapolis, Norton-Norton Comm., Oberlin-Decatur Comm., Osborne, Phillipsburg, Plainville, Salina-St. John’s Military, Sylvan Grove-Sylvan, Smith Center, St. Francis, Stockton

Hope you all have a great season.
Ryan Jilka
Goddard High School

what seems to be the toughest 4a regional?

Once again I see the state in it's infinite wisdom has put at least 6 of the top 10 teams in the same regional (Norton). In no particular order, Norton, Hoxie, St. Francis, Oberlin, Plainville and S. Center. These towns will have kids knocking each other out of the state tourny. and still end up on top.

Abilene is the toughest one in 4A- No contest!!

Location or toughness of the regional doesn't bother me as much as the facilities. There are schools (won't mention any names),based on the size of their gyms, that shouldn't be allowed to host a regional. When the parents of the athletes in these substandard schools get tired of traveling they will put some money into new facilities.

I would have to say Abilene also it is packed with good teams

I would say Abilene as well. Nothing against the other regionals, but with Abilene having all of the schools in the western part of the state in attendence, while the other three regionals are a split of the teams in the east, there's bound to be an abundance of talent at that regional.

man, the 119 lb weight class for the 5a kapaun regional looks tough again for atleast the 3rd consecutive year it looks like atleast 1 or 2 very good wrestlers will miss out on going to state again because this weight is loaded (last year it was 112, they year before 103, and now 119), as if they were in another regional would have qualified without a problem.

carroll-karl brown
winfield-garret harding (i think he's at 19)
west-tristen deshazer
campus-tim elliot
ark city-conner crumbliss

Finally, I don't have to drive to the far ends of the planet to watch our regional. I can just take the short 25 min trip to abilene and be home by dinner (which i hate to miss).