1) Is KC Turner really that good? Was this some mystery seeing as how they dominated the state tournament a year ago? You said you were at the tournamnet? Are you sure you were there? Duh. Could this team be for real, you ask? In all actually, this team is "unreal" in how good they are. Congrats to Turner.
2) I don't know who the "we" is that's been saying that Aquinas is overrated. I can't seem to find that information on the web anywhere. It must just be you. They finished in sixth and ahead of any other 6A team that was there. STA is the "real deal" on any weekend and the "Hat" will have their hands full if they want to repeat.
3) As for seeds, Glenwood's coach did not argue for a single one, because yes, obviously, there are no common opponents, and because he knows that his kids just came to wrestle and not look at brackets. Wrestlers were seeded based on previous state and Bobcat placings, but ultimately just went on winning percentanges because of all the outstanding records. Glenwoods wrestlers were seeded, because most weight classes were seeded out to 16 and in some cases 20 places.
4) Apparently, the 189 from Turner is injured as is Goodland's, also unfortunately, Jimmy Stewart from Paola is out for what appears to be the entire season. So, no, they were not avoiding the bracket. You should sign your name when you attempt to insult the integrity of these people. On the contrary, they were all devastated that they could not attend. With three state champions still in the bracket and multiple state medalists and qualifiers, 189 was still a great weight class.
5) Do you think Taplin deserved the OW? Yes. He showed his Iowa counterpart what the top 160 lber in the state of Kansas is all about. Granted, a case could be made for every wrestler that won his respective weight (Bahe with the first period pin, either of the Baker brothers, Peterson over Deeds, Connelly winning as a 5 seed, Shroeder winning with a bad wheel all weekend, I mean this could go on and on, they are all so good), but Taplin truely dominated his finals opponent and had him "broke" by the middle of the second period. You usually don't see that in a finals match in a tournamnet of this callabur. This is no slight to Artist, who is excellent, but Taplin is that good. Congrats to Ross on his well-deserved OW.
*** Side note: Goodland was minus about 3 of their regulars or they might have won this tournament! Whew! Good tournament, great stuff! I hope we battled hard enough to get to keep coming back!!
