I have been in that situation my brother is a wrestler and i played basketball and wrestled basketball all through high school and it has happened to me i played basketball in 2 substates that had the 3 of the top 5 teams in 3A both times which my high school team was top 5 and the team that beat us played and won the state championship junior and senior year. and then 2 more that were top 10 state ranked teams. there fore 5 of the 8 teams were top 10 so i know ur situation and basketball there are what is called 8 substates and only the winner gets to go the state tournament and i know how it feels to have a stacked regional but we didnt grip about it or say it wasnt fair if we didnt win it was our teams fault the better team won thats sports trust me there were teams that we beat that made the tourney and i sure think that they werent deserving but hey we got beat thats all there is to it. so again yes life isnt fair and sports are a major part of a high majority of peoples lives. I now go to more wrestling matches then basketball games because i like watching and supporting my familey friends extra wrestlers where always my teams biggest and noiseist fans so i always paid that back to them by doing what they did.