I have heard many stories of the 70's Norton-St. Francis duals. There was a repeat in recent times when in '97 Sainty & Norton were ranked #1 & #2 in the state and were able to arrange an early January meeting at Norton. It was a full house--at least 1000 in attendance. Norton won the dual. In the Leoti regional that year Norton and Sainty tied for regional championship but Sainty got them at State--even though Norton had four individual champions and one runner-up. Every high school wrestler should have the oppprtunity to be part of this kind of excitement and intensity.
