Vince,
That is so crazy I give up 5a & 6a used to only have 8 man brackets at state. This would eliminate nearly ALL of the under .500 records. The problem with your suggestion is that many teams CANNOT even fill an entire 14 weight class roster. JV wrestling is the equivalent of Kids novice or Kansas Middle School wrestling so I don't think your solution will raise the standard of quality wrestling at the state tournament. I am sticking with my suggestion to combine 5A and 6A and call it good. There are 154 schools in 3A (the largest class) in Wisconsin and only 32 kids qualify for state. Seven of the 20 wrestlers who wrestled in the last Olympics were from Wisconsin High Schools.

Coach Neil, I agree with your points on D1 wrestling. I merely used it as a barometer for the lack of exposure because winning 4x's in Kansas doesn't mean as much as winning 4x in most other states. Therefore all levels of college coaches are not interested in seriously looking at Kansas wrestlers unless they perform well in the summer. I guarantee you that ALL D1 programs were interested in Vasquez just as they were in Jesse Jantzen a few years back.