First off I want to congratulate this years Ark City 5a State Champions, A few people on the forum thought I was bashing you guys when I said "Ark City would not have won 12 titles in a row in 4a." That comment had nothing to do with your(this years) team and I am sorry if you thought it did.

This post is not to bash 5a it is to simply show that a change needs to be made. There have been some great ideas posted this year. I am all for combining 5a and 6a and having a 16 man regional bracket, I do not care about a rankings list that one person makes or how many so called top ranked wrestlers would be in the combination 56a state. 4a, 5a and 6a team rankings proved that the people making the list are not always right.

As I mentioned before there were 44 kids with losing records in the 5a state tournament. Here is how they did.

Those 44 and a few extra with a 500 record gave up
57 pins = 228 team points
4 tech falls = 14 team points
10 major decisions= 30 team points

That's a total of 272 team points scored off of kids that should not be there.

Of the 47 kids I looked at
31 of them went 0-2
10 of them went 1-2 beating another kid with a losing record!
2 of them beat a kid with a winning record and still went 1-2
4 of them went 2-2 beating kids with winning records.
none of them placed.

It just blows my mind that kids in 3a and 4a have to win at min 2 most likely 3 or 4 matches at regional's to qualify for state And some kids in 5a earn a first round bye that automatically qualify's them before they even show up. Something needs to be changed to make the 5a tourny not have kids with 4-15 records in it.