There used to be regional, sub state, and then state. Only eight made it to state in 5A and 6A. Honestly, with only 2.5million inhabitants, we should combine 5A with 6A and then 4A and 321A so that we only have two state champions. In Wisconsin they have three and they have more than twice the population of Kansas. Missouri has 4 classifications and nearly double the population. In the 50's and 60's we crowned only one state champ, then in the late 60's we divided up the state into two classifications, in the 70's we kept carving them up until we ended up with 6 classifications and four state champions. I have often wondered why this happened. No one should be able to just show up at a regional and be a state qualifier. That is embarassing to our state. Since not all of the brackets were made available I don't have access to the data but I was told that one of the 5A regionals had one bracket with 3, two with 4, and one with 5 wrestlers. To me this is very sad.