Contrarian,

I agree with you the three class system and even could live a 48 team class for the two larger classes even though I would rather see the top two at 64. A 3 class state tournament at one site would be a real plus for the wrestling community.

One logistic obstacle with the 48 school class would be the current KSHSAA class structure. KSHSAA would have to change its structure and combine parts of classes as your plan detailed. I've never seen them do anything like that and they don't seem to make exceptions much. At least the 64 class plan would still fit into their stucture.

I used to live and Ohio, and their state association allowed each sport to divide up there classes. Football had 6, Wrestling 3, Tennis 2 and 4 for baseball. It was nice to see flexibility allowed for the better of the sport.

A comment on the Indiana system. I've move to Indiana about a year ago. I've gotten some opionions. Their one class tournament was in Conseco field house 2 weekends ago. Nice venue. One thing I've found out on Indy is that they try to minimize their wrestling. Of course the one class thing. Also, in the state series, they do not have wrestle backs or in other words they don't wrestle for a true third. If you lose in the first round at State or even semi-state, you're done. If you lose in the second round, the best you get is 5th. If you make the semi's the worse you could do is 4th. That really sucks. You make it that far, and you get the state champ in the first round your done. Why? The answer I got was that the school administrators didn't want the kids to miss a full day of school.
So they start at State on Friday night then finish on Saturday.

Maybe the Kansas system isn't all bad.