321A State / 4A,5A, & 6A State Tournament

I have been to several State Tournaments at the Kansas Colliseum. For the last two years we have attended the 321A State Tournament at Hays.

I would have to say that the atmosphere and the general aura of the State Tournament @ Ft. Hays State University is just AWESOME!

I have never in my life witnessed so much energy and anticipation at a wrestling event ever.

I understand why wrestling in the North West part of the state is so good. The fans and the people in the crowd are so in touch with their wrestlers.

When a school has a 100 kids in it and 30 go out for wreslting, then the town brings 200-300 people to the state tournament just to watch.
WOW

I think that the only way to duplicate that same kind of atmosphere and aura for 4A, 5A and 6A would be to move them to their own venue and then the schools have to bring their fans.

I can honestly say that I believe there were wrestlers feeding off the energy of their fans.

We sat right in front of the St. Francis section and everytime one of their wreslters took the mat, all eyes and energy from their fans were directed at the mat. It did not matter if it was a consolation match or a championship match.

The people that ran the tournament were great.
There were no major security issues or bullying by the people working the tournament.

I do not write this to in any way knock the 4-5-6A tournament, but rather to compare the facilities, security, atmosphere and overall performance of the people who run these two tournaments.

321A is by far the best ran, best hosted, best atmoshere tournament.

I can only hope that some of the local 321A shools will get more involved with their wrestling program and take more interest in the state tournement.

If any have not been to both tournaments, I would challenge you to attend both and then compare for yourselves.