I'm still at it but I love this reply better than Bob Lutz's:
http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/sports/qa_forum.html?forumId=1707 Q.
With 2 high school All Americans this year in the metro area plus several college All Americans in wrestling throughout the country from Kansas and 2 new college programs in Wichita alone there has been very little coverage of wrestling. Wrestling is 5th in Kansas in terms of high school participation which ranks well above gymnastics which someone was crying about, so where is our fair shake?
Swayz, Chapman,KS 6/02/05
A.
I think your definition of "very little coverage" and mine are probably different. I would guess that we devote more coverage to wrestling than all high school sports except football and basketball. Of course, with boys and girls basketball in the same season, it can appear that wrestling gets the short end of the stick. But this season we began a weekly high school wrestling notebook, covered the best Thursday duals and were at weekend tournaments more often than not. Then we cover the heck out of the state tournament. I think one thing that hurts wrestling coverage in Kansas, not just at The Eagle, is the lack of Division I wrestling programs in the state. Makes it much tougher for us to keep up with the state's best wrestlers once they get to college.
Kirk Seminoff 6/02/05
