Dear Ed:

I believe the Edison's have contributed a great deal toward USAW Kansas wrestling and I do respect your (joint) contributions.

I also appreciate Mr. Mercer's contribution.

However, I do believe it is the goal of all high school wrestling coaches to field as competitive a varsity team as possible, with either male or female wrestlers.

You claim there to be a gender bias and yet offer no substantiated proof. There have been no legal challenges brought by these young women, therefore I am left to conclude the obvious: there are male coaches who do not believe there should be an intrusion on the male dominated sport of wrestling by females, however these coaches are forced to accept these participants due to Title IX.

I will not attempt to "tear" or attack you, and I would never raise the "race card" as we are talking about gender and not race.

I am disappointed you would even mention that subject.

Lastly, kindly answer my question regarding out of state athletes participating on the Kansas Krusaders team?