:p Colby
Concordia
Fort Scott
Rose Hill
Host Schools. How will the Schools be assigned?
Quite a challenge to separate using geography, strength of program, Hotel facilities, etc...
Would like to see and hear your thoughts before official announcement. Hurry to make your predictions before the final State list.

Marysville
Eudora
Pratt
Coffeyville

Bonner Springs
Russell
Andover Central
Holton

Regional assignments now posted

where did you see that they were posted, i myself cannot find them?

sorry, they were listed in another place...but i found them...

2005 Regional Wrestling
February 18-19, 2005

CLASS 3-2-1-A
Beloit High School – Derek Holmes, Regional Manager
Belleville, Beloit, Bennington, Burrton, Ellsworth, Gypsum-Southeast of Saline, Hoisington, Hutchinson-Trinity, Lincoln, Lyons, Mankato, Minneapolis, Osborne, Phillipsburg, Salina-St. John's Military, Smith Center, Solomon, Stafford, Stockton, Sylvan Grove-Sylvan

Fredonia High School – Tony Blackwell , Regional Manager
Anthony-Anthony-Harper-Chaparral, Baxter Springs, Burlington, Caney-Caney Valley, Cheney, Cherryvale, Eureka, Fredonia, Frontenac, Garden Plain, Goessel, Halstead, Hesston, Howard-West Elk, Leon-Bluestem, Neodesha, Rosalia-Flint Hills, Sedgwick, Whitewater-Remington, Wichita-Independent

Onaga High School – Loren Feldkamp, Regional Manager
Burlingame, Cottonwood Falls-Chase County, Easton-Pleasant Ridge, Effingham-Atchison County Comm., Eskridge-Mission Valley, Herington, Hillsboro, Hope, Horton, Marion, Onaga, Oskaloosa, Richmond-Central Heights, Rossville, Sabetha, Saint George-Rock Creek, Saint Marys, Silver Lake, Wabaunsee, Wellsville

WaKeeney-Trego Community High School – Brad Griffith, Regional Manager
Atwood-Rawlings County, Cimarron, Deerfield , Elkhart, Ellis, Hays-Thomas More Prep-Marian, Hill City, Hoxie, Kinsley, Lakin, Leoti-Wichita County, Montezuma-South Gray, Norton-Norton Comm., Oakley, Oberlin-Decatur Comm., Plainville, Quinter, Saint Francis, Sublette, WaKeeney-Trego Comm.


CLASS 4A
Colby High School – Jeff Quenzer, Regional Manager
Andale, Buhler, Clearwater, Colby, Goodland, Haven, Hugoton, Larned, Lindsborg-Smoky Valley, Nickerson, Pratt, Russell, Scott City-Scott Comm., Ulysses

Concordia High School – Greg Ferguson and Doug Moore, Regional Managers
Abilene, Atchison, Carbondale-Santa Fe Trail, Chapman, Clay Center-Clay Center Comm., Concordia, Council Grove, Hiawatha, Holton, Hoyt-Royal Valley, Marysville, Meriden-Jefferson West, Perry--Perry-Lecompton, Topeka-Hayden, Wamego

Fort Scott High School – Bob Beckham, Regional Manager
Baldwin, Basehor--Basehor-Linwood, Bonner Springs, DeSoto, Eudora, Fort Scott, Garnett-Anderson County, Kansas City-Bishop Ward, Kansas City-Piper, Kansas City-Sumner Academy, LaCygne-Prairie View, Louisburg Osawatomie, Spring Hill, Tonganoxie

Rose Hill High School – Jim Linot, Regional Manager
Andover, Andover-Central, Altamont-Labette County, Augusta, Chanute, Coffeyville-Field Kindley, Columbus, Douglass, El Dorado, Independence, Mulvane, Parsons, Rose Hill, Towanda-Circle, Wellington


CLASS 5A
Kansas City-Turner High School – Bart Swartz, Regional Manager
Kansas City-Harmon, Kansas City-Schlagle, Kansas City-Turner, Kansas City-Washington, Kansas City-Wyandotte, Lansing, Tecumseh-Shawnee Heights, Topeka-Highland Park

Paola High School – Mark Lentz, Regional Manager
Gardner--Gardner-Edgerton, Ottawa, Overland Park-Blue Valley West, Paola, Pittsburg, Shawnee-Mill Valley, Shawnee Mission-Bishop Miege, Stilwell-Blue Valley

Salina-South High School – Gregg Gordon, CAA, Regional Manager
Great Bend , Hays, McPherson, Newton , Salina-Central, Salina-South, Topeka-Seaman, Topeka-West

Wichita-Haysville-Campus High School – Jerry Brown, Regional Manager
Arkansas City , Liberal, Valley Center , Wichita-Bishop Carroll, Wichita-Haysville Campus, Wichita-Kapaun Mt. Carmel , Wichita-West, Winfield


CLASS 6A
Emporia High School – Jerry Cook, Regional Manager
Derby , Emporia , Junction City , Manhattan , Topeka-Washburn Rural, Wichita-East, Wichita-Heights, Wichita-Southeast

Overland Park-St. Thomas Aquinas High School – Sarah Burgess and Lorne Park, Regional Manager
Olathe-East, Olathe-North, Olathe-Northwest, Olathe-South, Overland Park-Blue Valley North, Overland Park-Blue Valley Northwest, Overland Park-St. Thomas Aquinas, Shawnee Mission-South

Shawnee Mission – West High School – Harvey Shephard, Regional Manager
Lawrence , Lawrence-Free State , Leavenworth , Shawnee Mission-East, Shawnee Mission-North, Shawnee Mission-Northwest, Shawnee Mission-West, Topeka

Wichita-Nothwest High School – Jay Means, Regional Manager
Dodge City , Garden City, Goddard, Hutchinson , Maize, Wichita-North, Wichita-Northwest, Wichita-South

These have yet to be posted. Where did you get them? Just curious.

Ranking of Regionals based on 4A Preview. Might be a silly way to rank the regionals, but wanted to have a little fun! The 4A Preview ranks the top 30 teams in order.

Colby Regional:
Top 10 teams- 5 (1,6,7,9,10)
Overall number of teams in top 30- 8

Concordia Regional:
Top 10 teams- 4 (2,3,4,8)
Overall number of teams in top 30- 8

Fort Scott Regional:
Top 10 teams- 0
Overall number of teams in top 30- 7

Rose Hill Regional:
Top 10 teams- 1 (5)
Overall number of teams in top 30- 6

Here are some stats based on the 4A Preview. You be the judge?

Coach Lane- They are on the KSHSAA page. Do not use the link in the post. Go to KSHSAA page and navigate to it from there.

I noticed a mistake on my post.
Rose Hill Regional has 7 top 30 teams.

The direct link is http://www.kshsaa.org/WRESTLING/wrstreg.html . They changed the URL after updating the page.

Someone fill me in...since when has HOPE had a team? I noticed them in the 3a Regionals at Onaga, are they doing a Co-op with someone?

That's a good question.

Since when has Mankato had a wrestling team.

I don't know about these schools but a lot of times a small school will have a wrestler or two that wrestles in a co-op with another school until regionals when they have to split from the team and wrestle at their regional. I believe Morland did this several years ago with Hoxie and Dighton used to do it with Scott City.

Baxter Springs does this with Columbus
Frontenac does this (I believe) with Pittsburg
Neodesha does this with Fredonia

In track Sedan did that with Caney but now does it with West Elk.

There are a couple of schools around Salina that have just started programs or are in co-op with other schools. This is Smoky Valleys first year and Solomon High School is going to St. John’s Military’s. This is also the first year for Bennington, don’t know if they have started a program or are going to Minneapolis.

Good luck to these schools this season. With all the talk about schools cutting “this and that” it is good to see these schools adding wrestling.

Cody Garvin wrestled last year for Columbus in 4A until regionals, then wrestled for Baxter Springs at 3-2-1A State and placed 3rd.

Garvin, a talented athlete, certainly benefits from the outstanding Columbus coaching staff and program.

Tuesday November 09, 2004
The Hutchinson News

Nickerson-South Hutchinson USD 309 OKs combining wrestling squad with Haven's

By Dave Stephens

Nickerson High School's wrestling team will have to go more than the extra mile to pin its opponents this season.

In an agreement with Haven USD 312, Nickerson-South Hutchinson USD 309 approved a cooperative agreement to allow wrestlers from the two schools to merge their teams. The measure comes at a time when Nickerson's wrestling team has only four members and no coach.

Details of the plan still have to be ironed out between the two administrations, but with wrestling practice scheduled to begin next week, USD 309 Superintendent Jerry Burch and Nickerson Principal Kevin Abbott urged the board to move quickly.

"We need to provide something for the young men in our district who want to wrestle," Burch said.

Board member Lori Dohrmann questioned part of the agreement suggesting USD 312 would receive all gate receipts from home meets - to be held in the Haven school district. Abbott, however, said the agreement was fairly standard.

"We're the ones that have the problem; they don't need to let us join," Abbott said. "It's obvious that some sort of financial obligation is probably not out of the question."

The question that does remain to be settled, Burch said, is how the four students from Nickerson will be transported to Haven for practice each day. Options speculated on included having the district transport the students in a school-owned vehicle, having the students or parents transport themselves, or develop some kind of mileage reimbursement program.

"I think part of the biggest issue we have is that three of the boys are just freshmen," Burch said, implying they would not be able to drive themselves to practice.

Copyright 2004 The Hutchinson News

Salyer, while we appreciate the articles and stuff, don't you have a job or anything?

I have to agree!!! It isn't so bad, but can't anyone get online and read this for themselves??

Maybe just give the link and be done with it. Just like your previews and box scores. Anyone who loves wrestling knows how to buy a paper or knows to long on and read it there.

On well, at least wrestling is getting written about, it's just time consuming to read it twice!!