I used caps to help easily distinguish my responses to your comments. Not yelling. It is pointless to change one's volume when conversing with a fence post.
I have no more emotion in this argument this year than any year since we started the HS division. I still contend that once you have moved into HS you should wrestle the HS division. Is that going to make a meaningful impact to the overall Kansas competitiveness, no. Are there are only a handful left? Yes and I believe it is because of discussions like this. YOU WILL NOT GET BETTER IF YOU ARE IN HS AND YOU WRESTLE 7th and 8th GRADERS.
There are lots of good ideas on here and I think we can use them to help evolve the sport. I have no idea why this is so debated. It is frustrating to believe that the concept of having an advantage from wrestling HS is not clearly apparent. Last year we had a HS state champ wrestle 14U and I believe he might have been an undefeated HS state champ. Are you kidding me?
We started the MS state tournament and it has been VERY successful. Maybe it is time to adapt to that classification. I like that idea and I like the idea of having Cadets and Juniors so that underclassmen can move up as Juniors or stay in the Cadet class if they want. I believe both of these ideas will add more wrestlers but only if we have a district and state tournament starting the weekend after HS state. (I know that one MS league goes a week longer but surely parental pressure can force a change there. That is another confounding situation. Why would a MS season go beyond the end of HS?? I digress.)
This is my last post. Shawn and Chad have twisted and turned every possible statement made that is contrary to their position. I am done being twisted. I will just keep pushing forward and doing the best I can while standing up for what I believe is right, HS wrestlers belong in the HS division, I dont care how old they are. Over and out.
