Randy, I will guarantee you, even if you shorten the season some club will eventually begin holding folkstyle tournaments on those weekends immediately following. In fact those weekends of high school regionals and state (as some clubs already know), would be perfect for some club to make a bunch of money because they don't have other tournaments to compete with. And in turn, most if not all clubs will support these tournaments, just as they do now.
I have been rather surprised that some club locally hasn't already tried to hold a folkstyle tournament during the heart of the freestyle season. As Ottawa (with the 6U state) and others have proven, if there is money to be made out there, someone will do it.
I don't think it will do any good to adjust our season until we have the hearts and minds of the majority of our parents/coaches/club directors all thinking alike.
sportsfan02,
I think once the Kids State tournament is completed that there would not be much demand for wrestling folkstyle tournaments beyond that for the majority of Kansas wrestlers. Most of the folkstyle clubs stop practicing after the state tournament. Some kids do wrestle another folkstyle tournament or two like the Brute Nationals in Kansas City the weekend after Kids State. But for the most part the wrestlers seem to move on to other sports or into freestle/greco practice and competition. For these reasons I think there would be very little demand for more Kansas folkstyle tournaments. That is why I think no one has organized Kansas kids folkstyle tournaments after Kids State.
My son is participating in the Kids State tournament this year for the first time in high school. He is a junior in high school this year. He has decided to wrestle post season this year since he wants to improve his wrestling skills for his final year of high school and possibly to wrestle in college. I personally have been an advocate of the shorter Kids season for many years but I always let him make his own choice in high school whether to participate in it. He decided to this year because he wanted to wrestle at the Brute Nationals since it was in Kansas City. If these post season folkstyle tournaments were not available to him this year, he would be going to freestyle practices right now.
