The cost is PART of the issue. The other part is not having FS/GR offered locally or coaches who know about these styles. I know Topeka, KC, and Wichita (not sure about western KS) have several FS/GR clubs, but there are alot of very talented wrestlers in other areas of the state who NEVER get exposed to summer wrestling due to the drive time and schedule juggling of all memebers of the family it would involve just to go practice. I realize that most college coaches use summer wrestling to look at future prospects. I also think alot of college coaches miss out on some extremely talented wrestlers by doing so. This is where I feel the problem lies. It is drilled into wrestlers heads that if they don't do summer wrestling, then they probably won't get recruited, no matter what your career record, how many times you placed at state, or championships you won seems to matter as much as what you did in the summer. Therefore, alot of our high school wrestlers do not participate because they did not participate when they were younger due to many reasons that range from availabilty to cost and feelings like they maybe have missed the boat even though they may have went to some FS/GR camps but never competed in Fargo (and that cost I won't mention). Fund raisers you say? Most of these rural communities have been asked by every school and community organization to assist in some way for a fund raiser all school year long. Most folks in these communities are tapped out or recovering for the next big ticket item which will be the county fair. In larger populated areas this probably isn't as big a problem as it is in communities with less than 5,000 population. That is where some of the talent gets shuffled and lost.