An interesting story from the Associated Press will be hitting the papers today or tomorrow concerning the Kansas Senate's 87-32 vote today to provide incentives to small, struggling school districts to consolidate with neighboring districts. I was wondering what people thought this might mean to wrestling in the state.

Iowa made a similar move in the mid-1980s and at first it appeared to be a death-knell for many smaller programs that were gobbled up by bigger programs. But by the mid-1990s, you saw wrestling reach communities it had never reached before.

Communities that had been "basketball-only" in the past now had wrestling (due to the consolidation with schools that already had it). it took a few years, but while it dropped the number of seperate district that had wrestling, it actually expanded the number of communities in which the sport got a foothold.