I would like to add a disclaimer of sorts to this thread, because I'm well aware that there are many elete wrestlers out there who regularly take on all comers, and perhaps, more than a few wrestlers out there who, during the course of a season, eagerly bump up or down a weight class to take on a steller opponent - just to compete and see how they stack-up against another elete wrestler, or likely state champion.

This past year, I recall that Joe Bach, bumped up to go against Atticus Disney. A couple of years ago, I remember Aldon Isenberg, bumped up (or down, I forget which)to take on Mitch Arnold. I didn't get to see the Bach/Disney match-up, but I did watch the Isenberg/Arnold match-up, and to this day, it stands as one of (if not) the best wrestling match I have ever seen.

It strikes me however, that a willingness of many elite wrestlers (or their coaches) to unnecessarily compete against a steller opponent during the course of the regular season is simply not the norm (this is not to say that it ever was the norm).

I can easily appreciate the fact that there are many valid, tactical reasons for avoiding any such unnecessary match-ups, and my remarks are not intended to cast aspersions upon the competitive instincts of our Kansas wrestlers, nor their coaches.