I think that the price of fuel and the other cost of going to the meets on the weekend have cut into the number of kids that take up wrestling in kansas and other states and the money it cost to enter keeps on going up each year along with people stealing money from the kids programs and what the state body did at the state meeting this year by taking a pass away from the clubs that left early.
All the coachs the went to the state meeting paid there fuel cost out of there own funds and then they find out that they lost a floor pass on top of everything else is a hard pill to have to come back to there clubs and tell them.
I have been helping dist 1 to set up the state tournament for the last 6 or 7 years and have hauled wrestling matts to Topeka free, the gas comes out of my pocket and have done it because the kids need people like me and others to make it work and yes I will be back this year but I think its time to understand that people sometime in life have to cut things out when people steal and the price of gas goes over 3.00 dollars a gallon and people make rules up at the state meeting as they go.
Now you may not agree but think about what it cost a weekend end to wrestle and not all people make a lot of money like bankers and lawers.