The problem isn't depleting the number of kids for either sport. Except in the smallest schools kids know if they have the size and skills to play basketball or if wrestling is their sport. No one can deny, that in many circumstances, the skill sets are totally different. However, that short little amount of time they call jr high wrestling isn't long enough to introduce a kid who has never wrestled to the sport. It sets them up for failure. The experiences you have had at Norton are unique. Norton, Hoxie, Smith Center, to name a few, and I mean few small schools are unique. They have tradition and a history of success and you guys still live in an area where kids may have a work ethic. Jr High wrestling needs to last a full season, not half. Kansas competes on a national level due to kids club, for most part. Yes, there will be exceptions, but they will be just that. Kansas wrestling will not progress any further until we change this rule. This is bigger then the 500 mile rule and all the others people complain about.

Finally, do you really have any basketball players in Norton??