Ponderosa finished last year as a Top 20 team (Cliff Keen/NWCA poll). I have not seen this years poll yet but I expect them in it. What a great opportunity for Hoxie to test themselves against a nationally rated program. There is competition points in Kansas (30 in a season per wrestler)...which means that Hoxie could hold each of its varsity wrestlers out of one previously scheduled dual and create "room" to wrestle Ponderosa. This is a common practice in surrounding states.

I would like to see more Kansas teams schedule duals against the likes of Blue Springs, MO; Broken Arrow, OK; Omaha Skutt; and Ponderosa.