Have a local wrestler who has injury defaulted in a couple of recent tournament championship matches. So, what is the big deal. He beat his semifinal opponents to qualify for the championship match--he earned his place at state and he will be seeded at state based on his regional finishing spot.

We hear/see/read more crap/whinning/crying this time of year: 6a5a regionals unfair to 4A, unfair advantage to private schools (recruiting), lets wrestle a true 2nd place match to give someone another chance, so on so did so and so, refs all suck, etc, KSHSAA or our league officials do not like our school or our coach. Another one, get tired of hearing so and so bitchs all the time--about anything and everything!!

Let the kids wrestle. The cream will rise to the top. Ref calls even out 99.99 percent of the time---in 20 years remember only one really bad ref call that kept a wrestler from state (at a 3rd place regional match, losing opponent put his forearm in the leading opponent's mouth, ref called biting and disqualification. Both losing wrestler and his coach stated in writing that our kid was not biting. Went to appeal and KSHSAA backed the ref and disqualified our kid from wrestling at state. Now that was a robbery!!!