Originally posted by Husker Fan:
Aquinas has an excellent senior class returning. Many of these wrestlers were big contributors to the 6A championship team of 2004 as sophomores. Aquinas also has three returning starting juniors who should score a lot of points next year at State. According to a post in April, Aquinas had the most returning points in 5A from last year's tournament with 125. See the entire list below.
http://www.usawks.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=2;t=006864
Here is a copy of the top ten from the above earlier post:
School Total
St Thomas Aquinas - 125
Bishop Carroll - 93
Lansing - 61.5
Ark City - 58.5
KC-Turner - 56
Emporia - 56
Valley Center - 55
Kapaun Mt. Carmel - 48.5
Pittsburg - 48.5
Gardner-Edgerton - 48
I do not anticipate Aquinas going up to 6A next year from 5A. I think a more likely jump to 6A might be Blue Valley West. My son is a junior varsity wrestler at Aquinas. I showed him this post and listing earlier this week and he asked me how many total points that Aquinas scored at this year's tournament. I looked it up and saw that Aquinas only had 130.50 total points. This made me question the 125 returning points because Andy Hurla the only Aquinas senior that wrestled at 5A state this year took first place at 145 at state. I felt that he had to take more than 5.5 points. So unless the list was compiled in a different way, I would say that the differential between Aquinas and Bishop Carroll is not nearly as large as 32 points indicated above. It will be a real battle for the 5A team title next year. There will be a lot of teams that could come out on top.
