Originally Posted By: BrandonPigorsch
The freestyle numbers won't raise until high school coaches can coach wrestlers out of the KSHSAA season. The State GR/FS meet date does not allow High school coaches to work with their athletes until days before the state tournament. This is a KSHSAA rule that definitely needs lifted. Tulsa Union is a tough team, but not all of their wrestlers wrestled like D-1 college kids. Many of their weights had kids who did not place at Newton. Where they are good they are good, but their line up had holes in it. They do have a coaching staff that is full of college wrestlers. Only 1 or 2 were D-1 wrestlers. Their head coach played football in college FYI. Union is a great team, but you also have to understand their enrollment is pretty large so they have a nice selection of athletes to choose from.


Tulsa Union also has some the best athletic facilities in the region, which helps attract the better athletes in the Tulsa metro area. Their football stadium and sports arena put many of Kansas' DII college programs to shame.


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