I wonder what this argument would look like if Jake Hattabaugh had not been injured? This injury really kept Andale from making a serious run at state.
Let me just throw the scenario out there for you: Hattabaugh is healthy wrestles to his potential and wins state this adds roughly 22 points to Andale's team score at state. They now are sitting at 127 total points in the 4A tournament. Hattabaugh taking 1st moves Lucas Cortez of El Dorado to the backside where he meets up with Colton Easterberg of Clay Center in consolation semifinals. Cortez wins and this moves Easterberg to 5th or 6th. Now Clay Center receives something like 124 total team points at the 4A tournament. Then Andale is likely the team is at the top of the Chief's rankings. This is all hypothetically speaking.
This is in no way to diminish what Clay Center has accomplished this season. I just wanted to throw another perspective out there.
What the heck is all that Ricky. All of a sudden you have some great insight. Refer to previous posts and you will clearly see that I already discussed Hattabaugh and the fact that if he were not injured we would likely not be having this discussion. Thanks anyway though for verifying what I already said twice.
And #1 fan what the heck is that. I would give you Andale over Goddard with Hattabaugh but certainly not "by far".
All three are great teams along with Derby, VC, GC, Emporia, Heights, Lansing, Abilene, Andover Central, Norton, etc. prove one thing for sure as Pigorsch said, it is nice that we do have such a competitive field in Kansas that we all can and should be proud of.
