If the state tournament would have been split in the last few years, at least one class would have missed the following matches:

Erisman/Luedke
Knox/Garcia
Carrol/Hemmerling

And people from 6A would never have seen these wrestlers:

Earl Jones
Eric Luedke
Danny Grater
Ross Taplin
Jake Kriegbaum
Tad Greer
Jordan Bedore
______ Devoe
Neil Erisman
Etc.

People from 4A never would have seen these wrestlers:

Sequoya Hill
Lukas Zouzas
Doug Hoover
Charles Knox
Cody Garcia
Josh Baldridge
Dustin May
Tristen Deshazer
Kyle Potter
Justin Dyer
Josh Carrol
Zach Hemmerling
Tyler Perry
Thomas Rhodes
Michael Bradley
Shawn Bunch
Gabe Conaghan
Bishop Carroll 2002
Stewart Bogart
Brett Stewart
Ben Coleman

As you can see, my knowledge of 6A wrestlers is much greater than my knowledge of 4A wrestlers and finals matches. I'm sure Les Brown could help me out with both of those. For those of you who agree with me, feel free to add wrestlers or matches that I have forgotten. For those of you who want a separate site for 4A, feel free to explain why you wouldn't miss seeing them.

What I do know is that I enjoyed seeing every one of these wrestlers compete. I understand that the Colisseum is a crappy building, but I can not for the life of me understand why 4A wants to be completely separate from 5A and 6A. Why can't all 3 classes be in Salina or Topeka instead? What is so absolutely terrible about waking up an hour earlier?

I've said it before and it may just be because I was a crappy wrestler, but walking out for the opening ceremonies at state and seeing the huge crowd was absolutely unreal. That's something that I will not soon forget. Don't you think walking out and seeing a crowd that is 33-66% smaller be less captivating? If you want to move the tournament from Wichita, heck, go nuts. But to take away the excitement just for the sake of trying something new? I don't understand it.