Mr Roberson,

In a perfect world, our kids would all be wrestling for the hometown club. Unfortunately, it doesn't always work that way.

As far as loyalty, I can tell you that there is nothing but loyalty when it comes to supporting your local Jr High and High School wrestling team, no matter where they wrestled (or still wrestle) in their youth programs. Case in point, my son wrestled his first year of Jr High and his team had a very good year, to include winning the city championships (four Jr High Schools here in Lawrence). The kids that wrestled on this team came from at least three different youth programs, two of which are outside the city limits.

My son (sorry Beeson, but I can't help to live vicariously through my son) has become very close to his Jr High teammates. When we go to tournaments this year, he spends more time with these kids than he does with the kids in our program which he has now been part of for five years.

You are definitely on point when you say that Kids' wrestling is about building a good High School program. In our situation, it just happens that a number of these kids will have spent a majority of their youth wrestling years outside the city limits.

Oh, and I almost forgot, anyone who has a kid wrestling is certifiably insane, so you were on point with that comment as well.