Originally Posted By: nastyway
newton and garden city go year to year on which is tougher i would say in past basehor could come in third but derby seems to be tougher these days than basehor

Originally Posted By: Ricky Bobby
This year could have been tougher with the addition of Shawnee Heights and Emporia, but the "bad" weather kept them from attending Derby. One problem that Derby has in terms of competition is that only around 20 teams attend. While at Basehor you have 32, which helps to add to the depth in the field. Basehor also has two very tough out of state programs with Oak Park, MO and Glenwood, IA. I've decided I will rank the 5 toughest two-day tournaments in Kansas just to help fuel this discussion.

1. Garden City
Awesome out-of-state competition and some of the best in-state programs butting heads. Not to mention some the top wrestlers in the country with Trujillo of Rio Rancho, Snider of Ponderosa, Cokeley and Moeder of Saint James. It would be nice if they could make this a 32 team tournament, 27 teams went last year. I say add good team from Oklahoma.

2. Newton
Best mix of large and small class programs in Kansas who annually compete for state placements. Also, draws from nearly every region of the state. If only Bishop Lynch, TX and Perry, OK still went to this tournament I'd give it the nod as Kansas' Toughest 2 Day. They should add a few more teams anyways and make it a 32 team field.

3. Basehor
Good out of state programs, along with several state contenders from Kansas. The bottom half teams aren't quite as talented as the aforementioned tournaments bottom halfers.

4. Derby
This tournament has had some of the best individual matchups of any tournament in the last few years with Blair/Cokeley, Moeder/Nitcher, Caldwell/Nelson/Detmer. Weather hurt the quality of Derby for this year. It needs to get a better mix of elite smaller programs to attend.

5. tie: Eudora and Rose Hill
Eudora's an early tournament that gives your team plenty of chances to wrestle with a pool format. Some pretty decent programs attend and there are some marquee matchups in the finals.

Rose Hill is the last major tournament before the state series and matches some of the top 4A programs and 5A programs in the state.