Ive been to the Indiana state tournament the last 5 years. Indiana is fortunate to have a great facility, which is "Bankers Life Arena" or where the Pacers play. Holds 19k. Also logistically they are much better off as its in Indy which is almost exactly in the middle of the state, its in a major metro city with plenty of hotels, restaurants and parking.

Also unique to Indiana is they have one class and the tournament starts on Friday night and finals are Saturday night.

But its a party and good time. The whole wrestling community from the state shows up, and the kids get recognized. They do a parade of champions on Friday night and announce every school. Its weird as they have a school with over 5000 students and a school with under 200 students that qualified a wrestler. They stand next to each other the same. Its just a great atmosphere watching the final on Saturday night. They turn the lights out and I they had around 15K in attendance. Its professionally done is on Fox sports TV and the winner of each weight gets interviewed after the match like the pros. The atmosphere is electric and I would say if the kid makes the finals, he's most likely will be wrestling D1.

I know its logistically difficult in Kansas to put a state tournament together in one spot. But the tournament should be a gathering of the whole community. Kansas doesn't know what they're missing out on I know people don't like change, but if it happened, people would enjoy it so much more.

I know discussed, but tweak the format to make it happen. Go to 8 man brackets or switch to 3 classes. I think you could make it happen that way.

I think Bramlage would be the best place. Central location with large enough stadium and parking to host it. 40 hotels in the city should be able to handle the capacity. Junction city could also help. I don't know, but what city wouldn't want 800 wrestlers and there families to come to spend a lot of cash in their city. Its easy money. That's what I don't get, Cities not wanting the stimulus.