I don't think Kansas having four classes instead of three classes has that much to do with our wrestlers not getting noticed by Division I wrestling schools or obtaining scholarships. I think the bigger reason there is limited college wrestling opportunities for Kansas wrestlers has more to do with the fact that we do not have Division I wrestling at Wichita State, K-State and KU. More opportunity would open up for Kansas wrestlers if we had programs at universities outside of Kansas too like Texas, Colorado, Texas A&M, etc.. More college wrestling opportunities for Kansas wrestlers would open up if we had programs at Pitt State, Washburn and Emporia State. The number of Kansas wrestling scholarships in comparison to a sport like football has more to do with the limited amount of overall college wrestling scholarships available.

I really do not see it that the KSHSAA purpose should be to set up a state wrestling tournament series so more kids are noticed by Division I wrestling schools or to help us develop national finalists in the national high school tourney.

I am just not sure why Kansas high school wrestling should be that different than any other high school sport in their state tournament series. Don't the other sports in Kansas have at least four classes too? I have been around a lot of cross country state meets the last several years and they have a lot of runners who qualify with their teams to the state meet. Many of them are not as a good as the lead runners but the state experience seems to me to be a very good thing for them. I think they get a lot out of it.

I saw a lot of wrestlers this weekend who probably had under .500 records but I also think they got a lot out of the experience. A lot of them probably just started wrestling in high school. Do we really want to take this state experience away from them? Maybe we are lighting a fire in them for wrestling from this state experience that will last the rest of their life. Possibly they will get their kids involved later in life due to this experience. Maybe we are getting their parents and friends interested in wrestling for the first time. We need this sport to grow with the broad sporting public if we really want college wrestling opportunities to grow.