Regarding the middle school tourney: I think you are still going to have to allow for some "criteria" for kids that may be a clear 1st teamer, but can't make the Sunday tourney. I feel like there were very few, if any, mistakes in placing kids on teams. It would be cool if we could make a tourney like that work. Center of the state somewhere? Probably wouldn't take too long to run, since it would only be 7th and 8th graders. I don't know how many people asked me "how many teams did Kansas bring?!!" and when I would tell them "4" they were baffled as to how we do it. Like someone said earlier on this subject, "watch the names of the kids that participated in these dual events" at the high school level.
My hat is off to Pennsylvania for winning the thing, but from what I understand, they had over 300 kids apply for positions on the ONE team that they brought. You would think that they would have tried harder to help more kids and put together several teams. (which they do for the Schoolboy duals)
I think Kansas realizes that this is simply a step up the ladder to becoming a good high school, and possibly college, wrestler. And the more kids that participate, the more quality kids we have competing at a high level, which in turn makes all of the Kansas kids better.
