Greg,

I have never said that MS wrestling impedes the development of wrestlers. You are twisting my words! I am stating that if the regulations were lifted all wrestlers would benefit. Many MS wrestlers do NOT participate in their school's program because the missed events and workouts are not worth it to them. The MS room suffers by these leaders not being there to help develop the others. It is simply common sense that if you let wrestlers do both MS practice and Club practice along with MS events and Open events that development will improve for ALL wrestlers. I cannot give you facts because this is NOT ALLOWED but I am stating that if it was you would see some of the gap close between us and other elite states. Another way to see how KS matches up is to lift the travel restriction for HS wrestling, even if it is for only ONE event per season. Then we could take KS wrestlers to Beast of the East, Ironman, Powerade, RTOC, etc. We are robbing our wrestlers who work their tales off the opportunity to showcase and match their skills against the best.