We will never shorten the Kids season until we end the state series on an earlier date. I do agree with your pints Sportsfan but those are fund raising opportunities for clubs and the idea being to get kids to attend HS state may work but doubtful. Until KSHSAA goes to Iowa and sees what a REAL HS state tournament looks like we will continue to have dismal attendance. I like the idea of merging 5A and 6A and then join 4A & 321A to have two classes and have 8 regionals. That qualifies two brackets of 32 for state, hmmm, the same number of wrestlers we have today! Place 8 and have a 3 day, two class tournament with final Saturday evening. It would be a real SHOW then. We might even have some college coaches attend. Now that we have a dozen or more programs in KS, maybe we should listen to the college coaches for suggestions.