Perhaps some added logic for a six match rule would be the distance Kansas teams have to travel to get to tournaments. Kansas is not a high density populated state---such as the BIG 10 Conference States--Ohio, Ill., Mich, Minn, Iowa??, plus the northeast and Atlantic Seaboard states. Kansas is not New Jersey, RI, Vermont!

The six match rule forces teams into bigger, 2 day tournaments (i.e., 16+++ teams). 2 day tournaments are very expensive for long distance traveling teams--its motels and eats or ride the bus for long hours on 2 days.

Perehaps tournament seeding shoulds be looked at--especially in Kansas. Big tournaments, such as the Bobcat Classic--a 32 team tournament, had some brackets that had 5, 6, 7, etc opens--which converts to lots of first round byes, and even a few second round byes. All tournaments have several teams that show up with opens, often less than half a roster. Oak Park, the Bobcat Champ, had only 10 wrestlers. Why have byes in the first round. Seed everyone? If there is an uneven number of wrestler in a weight class, not divisable by 2, then there would be only one bye--and then give the bye to a middle seeded wrestler. Have seen tournaments where the top seed/champion has wrestled only 2 matches. Make the top seeds work to win. Not sure how this would affect a bracket and the tournament flow as it got deeper into the bracket.