Hello?!?!?!
Draw a line from north to south, closely approximating highway 81--how many 4, 5, 6A school are there on the west side of that line?
4A = Ulyssess, Hugoton, Scott City, Goodland, Colby, Pratt, and Larned. That is 7 of the 64 4A schools which is a tad over 10% of the total.
5A=Hays, Great Bend, Liberal; 3 of 32 right at 10% and if you want to argue I will give you the two Salina schools, so 5 of 32, or 15%
6A = Garden City, Dodge City, Hutchison (just so we don't quibble about it) 3 of 32 = less than 10%.
Therefore, eastern Kansas "dominates" 4-6A wrestling because the number of 4-6A schools comprise about 12% of the total number of schools in those three classes.
Now count the number of medals won at the state tournament by those Western Kansas schools (and here you can count the two Salinas or not)--I have not done so but am willing to bet that they won a percentage of medals this year that is greater than 11%.
In the west the same line will yield an almost 50-50 split between western and eastern Kansas 3-2-1A high schools that wrestle. When you count medals (and you can go back as far as the tournament has been held at Hays--I have ) you will find that the number of medals won by Western Kansas schools is far greater than their percentage of membership. (You can distill it down further to the medals won by the 3-2-1A school in the NWKL and MCL ; a total of 15 schools or about 25% of the 3-2-1A schools that wrestle. That just gets obscene) It was not until the 5th and 6th place medals were added that the percentages of medals between west and east quit being totally ridiculous in the favor of the west.
Hey, you can look it up! ;-)
