True for everything said, but I would not make a blanket statement that PA is "the hotbed", consider this. They are basically the most populous (4th in the country) hotbead, so they should have a lot of AAs. States like KS, OK and IA are hot hotbeads with very small pops. Also, the hotbededness you speak of applies only to one thing, that is state were said DI AAs went to HS and not overall when considering college, developement, etc. Yes, they also have however many college programs, but what level are they competing at. Only once in history I believe has a team from PA won the DI title. Also those kids started in PA but obviously the bulk of them were developed at the college where they went. Until colleges from PA start winning NCAA titles, the kings, the hotbeds, are still OK and IA. PA scores well at Fargo but that is because they enter ~10 kids at every weight because of their extremely large state pop., like CA. Same thing applies for the HS Nationals. What would the results look like if each team could only enter 1 at every weight? The National duals is another way to measure where they can only score off of 1 at every weight. I cannot ever remember PA winning the National duals. When it comes to the best team with 1 man at a weight, OK is still king as they have won the National duals like 8 out of the last 10 years. Just some thoughts. My point is, I will certainly not bow to PA as the almighty "hotbead" of wrestling, but that is just me.