Last year the date was moved from June to May and we had 305 wrestlers in Junction City. I believe this was up from 225 in 2007. Somehow the date has been moved back to June. I personally don't like as it is the weekend before Southern Plains this year. But, it is what it is. We are thinking about hosting it at St. James High School this year. We would utilize seven surfaces on for Greco and begin wrestling at 7pm on Friday night. We would finish Greco on Saturday morning and switch to six surfaces for Freestyle. We need five hundred wrestlers this year so I am challenging the FS/GR clubs out there to shoot me an estimate of how many they will bring. I would also like to propose that any wrestlers who wish to compete on any of the dual teams (Schoolboy, Cadet, or Juniors) must compete in the state tournament. Garcia, Reick, Hermreck and Peterman need to stand behind this. Graduation and track will be over with so NO EXCUSES!
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Totally agree, especially on the part I bolded above. My concern of moving the tournament back is that we make sure we have tournaments in state that our wrestlers can go to. It seems like there are less and less tournaments from year to year, pushing the date back runs the risk of even less mat time unless there are more tournaments.
