htown,

don't want to belabor the point, but this doesn't happen once in a while ,or three years in a row, of five out of eight. . . it happens EVERY YEAR. If it was an anomoly, it would be understandable, but it is EVERY YEAR.

My sons wrestled and have since completed their high school careers. It was difficult explaining to them that "life isn't fair" when wrestlers that they had defeated during the season made it to state from other regionals and they (my sons) were staying home. Fortunately they made it to "the show" but I know full well that had they lived elsewhere they would have made it multiple times.

Again, please don't equate sometimes, often, or sporadically with EVERY YEAR--it is NOT the same.