I am not from Kansas, but nevertheless, I find this topic very interesting as well as a topic which I am somewhat dealing with with my middleschool sons. My kids are now in middleschool, but ever since entering middleschool wrestling, they have really not progressed in their folkstyle wrestling as compared to when they were in 4th and 5th grade where they would have practices catered to their needs and be given more individual attention.
During freestyle/greco season is another story as they have continued to improve.

But at times my kids wonder if they are better off not wrestling for their middleschool team and have them practice at different sites and have practices catered to their needs as opposed to go to daily practices with virtually no worthy practice partners who simply do not push them. At times they have felt as if they are wasting their time away in those 2-2.5 hours of practice time not being able to practice or drill techniques that has been taught to them and has worked in the past, as well as not being pushed during live wrestling. The fact is that they are at a much higher level then the team and are not improving.

After reading all of the above posts, I have to agree with what Mike Furches states in many of his posts. I do not think that an individual or individuals should be held back in their progress, or opportunities to find the best possible competition they can (being tournaments or in the practice room). I on the other hand, do not agree in over doing the national tournament circuit, I have intentionally limited that for my kids as well for some of the reasons
In this situation, it is not the coach's fault, as most of the kids are beginners and the coach is doing a good job with them. But what does that do to my kids?
So basically these experiences has been a big eye opener for me and my kids as far as looking into what highschool they would be attending, something that we will simply have to investigate and research.