As stated, this is the 12th Annual Metro Classic. Here is a list of team winners:

1992 Missouri 30 Kansas 18
1994 Missouri 30 Kansas 24
1995 Kansas 39 Missouri 15
1996 Missouri 43 Kansas 18
1997 Missouri 39 Kansas 15
1998 Kansas 36 Missouri 19
1999 Missouri 37 Kansas 19
2000 Missouri 29 Kansas 27
2001 Kansas 32 Missouri 13
2002 Kansas 33 Missouri 19
2003 Missouri 39 Kansas 21

To qualify, you have to be a Metro area senior. The Metro is defined by roughly a 75-mile radius of KC. In the past, that has included Garnett, Ft. Scott, Effingham, and Sabetha on the Kansas side and Cameron, St. Joe, and Marysville on the Missouri side. The population base is substantially bigger on the Missouri side. But that is just an excuse and a poor one at that.

The wrestlers do have a weigh-in and get a 7-pound allowance.

Yes, Missouri does take this event and their wrestling serious.

I would like to give a few opinions and such, but right now, I’m really “in-the-dumps” and not in a very good frame of mind to be writing. But I will get over it!