Hard topic - No matter what change is made if any, there will be instances where the new method needs to be modified and changed to better fit someones needs and others who fall short of State. With budget cuts and school consolidation now facing many areas of the state the overall economy will be helping make some of these changes more of a reality sooner than we may think. With so many smaller schools within a small radius of each other in some areas it will be cheaper and more feasible for the state to highly consider the option of maintaining one building instead of half a dozen within a certain square mile range.

Someone mentioned earlier about the 5A/6A having byes in their brackets as a reason for combining them into one. Looking at most of the 16 team regionals in 4A - 321A they themselves are loaded with byes. Yes some with very few but others with allot.

So the question is, is wrestling a sport that all throughout the year we have teams from all classes competing against each other, 321A kids pinnig 6A kids, teams showing up for duals with less than half a team, there are so many more versions and we all have seen them through our years of watching HS wrestling. Is this a sport that our wants and needs would be better meet with one State Champion by dropping the barriers of classes. Deviding the state into districts, regions. Eliminating the senseless league tournemants, and instead have a District Tournament, than a regional tournament, and if needed a sub-state, than finally State. This would solve the age old question-"would the real state champion please stand up", giving us our Grand State, eliminating loosing records going to state, no one could ever say that you didn't earn your way to state, and an tournament that colleges would definitely come see.

Anyhow we all have our own versions of what would work and what will not, and the fact what slows progress and change is upper administration who has the final vote, because with change there is less need for so many of them.

RJohnson