I agree with you that other D-1 Kansas wrestlers from the 2009 class along with Caldwell will become All Americans over the next few years.

I also really agree with you that not having an in-state D-1 program hurts us in developing D-1 All American wrestlers. The exposure you have from having a program in state would be a great incentive to young wrestlers to work hard to become a Division 1 wrestler. It would also offer more opportunities for Kansas wrestlers to participate in a D-1 program. It would be a lot less expensive for them to walk on at Wichita State, Kansas State or KU than an out state school. I looked at Nebraska. It has ten Nebraska wrestlers on its roster and one of them Craig Brester is a former walk on. He finished his career yesterday as a three time All American, including being a two time finalist. It is possible over the years that Kansas has had several D-1 wrestlers with All American potential like Craig Brester and these athletes never thought about wrestling D-1 due to a lack of D-1 wrestling opportunity at Kansas universities.

I do want to add congratulations to Tyler Caldwell and to all the Kansas college wrestlers who achieved All American status at every level of college wrestling Junior College, D-I, D-II, D-III, NAIA and Club. It is quite an accomplishment to achieve All American honors at all these levels. Even though it would be great to have D-I opportunities in Kansas it is encouraging to see college opportunities at the other levels growing at Kansas colleges and to see so many of our former Kansas high school wrestlers wrestling at these Kansas colleges.