I am willing to support the advancement of wrestling in all classes in Kansas, but I don't think you do that by having state for 456A at the same site. We do that when we wrestle other classes at places like Beliot, Newton, Liberal, and other tournaments all year. I like the opportunity to wrestle good wrestlers in other classes, and think all coaches should continue to fight for the advancement of Kansas Wrestling. We CAN do that without having our state tournaments at the same site. People like Coach Baker at Hoxie help advance Kansas Wrestling and they participate in a state tourney outside of the Wichita mess. Saying our push to split the 456A state is only looking out for our class is not true and we will continue to fight for wrestling in Kansas and world wide whether we have 456A state together or not!!!
The issue is and will always be the inability of the KSHSAA to run a quality State event with the huge numbers present at the combined 456A tournaments.