I love what Nebraska does. Geography team wise, then the top 8 teams get separated. 1 and 8, 2 and 7, 3 and 6 and 4 and 5 usually pair together wherever the hell they send them. I will say they do something similar in Football. We need to get rid of East and West bracket in football. Have a first round that is based off of Geography, then, reseed and make the bracket state wise. For wrestling we can have 1st round and reshuffle or something. I will say it will never be perfect though, individuals might be good on certain teams.....if you get 5 in a regional from 5 mediocre teams at 170 that are ranked...it's still going to be an issue. So not sure what the solution is. Maybe Regional and SubState could happen 4 Regionals 2 substates. Top 6 out of Regionals qualify to make it 12 at Substate with it then being seeded for top 4 getting byes at that stage. Then eliminate half the field again and have 12 weights at state. Then hell with it 2 pools of 6 at state, you get 4 matches on day one in pool, then final pool match the next day. If you finish in top 3 of your pool, you cross bracket and face someone from other pool with like record. 3rds go for 5th, 2nds for 3rd and 1 for 1st. That also allows for a lot of opportunity to score points for schools with smaller numbers, and furthermore it opens up the chances of wrestlers getting more mat time and being recruited by college coachces. Also, allows for those traveling to catch more than 1 maybe 2 matches of a kid.


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