Barry,

You get that competition outside of the three weeks we set aside for the KANSAS Kids State Tournament Series. The rule has always been flexible to allow kids who live out of state but attend school in state. These kids ALWAYS belonged to a Kansas Kids club. This is a town, not a suburb, that exists in another state that decided that it was more convenient to wrestle in Kansas. You are an attorney, would you want a rule that said you didn't have to pass the Kansas bar if you have passed the Oklahoma bar and you live close to Kansas? To me this is a situation where the line has to be drawn and the gray has to be made black and white or we will have small towns from Colorado and Nebraska wanting to do the same thing.

This isn't about getting better or improving competition. If were about that I would say bring them all in but then it wouldn't be a STATE tournament.