The loophole here is to just join the HS team right before the state series. If you've been wrestling National Tournaments you shouldn't have any problems thumping the guy on the A team. That way you get the best of both worlds. You also get to mess up the state seedings as well for giggles. Plenty of different kids clubs to practice with until state series.
The other loophole is for National Tournaments to start getting an endorsement, sponsoring or sanctioning from Oly Committee. At least that is the way I read that. You'd think that the Oly committee would be on board with it.
What I am trying to say is there is always a way around things. Depends on how much people want to work together or not.
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Will not work...KSHSAA will NOT let you compete at regionals if you haven't been out for 1/2 of the season. Ask Lucas Vincent. Many of the great HS tournaments will not let you enter unless your AD has entered your wrestler with a high school contract. I have looked for loopholes.
How many times do you see individual accomplishments mentioned on this web site versus team accomplishments? If it were truly a "team" sport then we would have a dual state.
As far as recruiting goes. As long as we have three or four different sites for our state tournaments then colleges will NOT send anyone to watch our wrestlers. This, to me, is the biggest KSHSAA issue. Only seven states do not conduct their wrestling state tournament(s) at a single site. We could have a three day event but mighty Rick and Gary say no. Jason Halling, if you think the KSHSAA is an advocacy group for the state high schools you are dead wrong. It is a pure dictatorship in reality with only a superficial look of fair representation. We could go on all day long with ridiculous rules such as DEAD WEEK, travel limits, competition points, 5 match limit per day, no clinics or camps, the lack of officials evaluation system, yada yada yada.
