If I misread your oringinal post on this subject, I apologize.

"My point was that , to the best of my knowlege, this is the first time I can think of that the Bluejays went head to head with most of the best 5 and 6 a teams in the state and beat them. " Mike Fairleigh

Norton has been going head to head with the best wrestling teams in the state for a long time (as has St. Francis, Oberlin, Hoxie, Goodland, Oakley, Colby, Atwood, etc. etc.).

". . .many of the people that did not think they could wrestle with the larger schools have gained respect for them. " Mike Firleigh

This is the fourth year that Norton has attended this tournament and if memory serves me right (and it does fail from time to time) the BlueJays have not finished lower than 6th or 7th (year 1) and this is the third year that a trophy has been earned at the TOC. Shouldn't some some sort of respect been generated by now?

These people whose respect may have been earned with this championship are obviously ignorant about Kansas wrestling--its history, tradition, and strengths. Many of these people are excessively egocentric and believe that the size of school attended either bewtows or removes athletic attributes..

If the Norton victory did anything to dispel that idea, great! My guess is that these same people will be putting some kind of spin on this victory soon.