Is it just me, or was Norton's regional tougher than Hoisington's? Not that I'm complaining...we got 4th at Hoisington, and I don't know if we would have done so well had we been put in Norton's. I just wondered if it was just me, or what.

Duh! What a silly post.

Thank you fanatic :P

Do you wrestle A.C. Tomanek?

LOL, nah, I'm just the newspaper writer for our team and a fan.

Hey man that's awesome that you keep up with the team. Wrestling needs all the possitive support and media that it can get. You do your part man. Wakeeney did have a good showing at Hoisington this weekend I was impressed.

Yeah, I was really impressed with how we did. Jewell has come a long way, and Flax had some illness earlier this season, and Schuster was injured, so I'm really glad that we did so well.

Hoisington had to have been the weakest regional in the state

Hoisington had to have been the weakest regional in the state

Hoisington was equally as easy as the first JV tournament of the year, if not easier. I wouldn't be bragging A.C.

Hoisington was NOT the weakest regional--Hesston was. It will be surprising to me if more than 12 state medals, total, are won by wrestlers from Hesston.

All of the Regionals are equal each one qualified 56 wrestlers for the state tournament.

Here is some interesting data to look at in terms of the regionals!

REG SITE AvgWins AvgWin%
Norton Comm Regional 25.7 79%
Easton-Pleasant Rdg Regional 24.0 76%
Hesston Regional 22.1 72%
Hoisington Regional 22.4 71%
Grand Total 23.5 74%

We wrestled the Hesstion regional and when you compare the average Wins of the wrestlers that made it to state, to the other regionals I would say that Hesston was not as far behind as people think.
I think that there were some brackets at each regional that was tougher than at other regionals.

Here is some more interesting data!
By Bracket By Regional

Sorted by Average Wins
Wt REG SITE AvgWins AvgWin% Rank
103 Hesston Regional 23 72% 1
103 Easton-Pleasant Rdg Regional 21.5 73% 2
103 Norton Comm Regional 21 74% 3
103 Hoisington Regional 19.75 69% 4

112 Hesston Regional 23.5 66% 1
112 Norton Comm Regional 22.5 75% 2
112 Easton-Pleasant Rdg Regional 21.75 74% 3
112 Hoisington Regional 19 59% 4

119 Hoisington Regional 25.75 80% 1
119 Hesston Regional 23.75 81% 2
119 Easton-Pleasant Rdg Regional 23 71% 3
119 Norton Comm Regional 22.5 76% 4

125 Hoisington Regional 27.5 78% 1
125 Norton Comm Regional 27.25 80% 2
125 Easton-Pleasant Rdg Regional 24.5 77% 3
125 Hesston Regional 15 60% 4

130 Hoisington Regional 27.25 79% 1
130 Hesston Regional 24.25 75% 2
130 Norton Comm Regional 22.25 75% 3
130 Easton-Pleasant Rdg Regional 20.25 73% 4

135 Norton Comm Regional 26.75 73% 1
135 Easton-Pleasant Rdg Regional 24 78% 2
135 Hesston Regional 21 74% 3
135 Hoisington Regional 20.75 68% 4

140 Norton Comm Regional 27.5 77% 1
140 Easton-Pleasant Rdg Regional 26.75 82% 2
140 Hesston Regional 24 72% 3
140 Hoisington Regional 22.25 76% 4

145 Easton-Pleasant Rdg Regional 26.75 75% 1
145 Norton Comm Regional 26.5 83% 2
145 Hesston Regional 26.5 75% 3
145 Hoisington Regional 18.75 55% 4

152 Norton Comm Regional 30 78% 1
152 Easton-Pleasant Rdg Regional 26 78% 2
152 Hesston Regional 22.75 70% 3
152 Hoisington Regional 15 68% 4

160 Hoisington Regional 30 82% 1
160 Norton Comm Regional 27 86% 2
160 Easton-Pleasant Rdg Regional 25.75 76% 3
160 Hesston Regional 21.5 68% 4

171 Norton Comm Regional 26.75 81% 1
171 Hoisington Regional 23.75 69% 2
171 Hesston Regional 23.25 74% 3
171 Easton-Pleasant Rdg Regional 22 70% 4

189 Norton Comm Regional 28 86% 1
189 Hoisington Regional 24 71% 2
189 Easton-Pleasant Rdg Regional 22.25 73% 3
189 Hesston Regional 19.75 80% 4

215 Easton-Pleasant Rdg Regional 26.75 80% 1
215 Norton Comm Regional 25.75 76% 2
215 Hesston Regional 20.25 72% 3
215 Hoisington Regional 19.25 62% 4

275 Norton Comm Regional 26 82% 1
275 Easton-Pleasant Rdg Regional 24.5 80% 2
275 Hesston Regional 20.5 70% 3
275 Hoisington Regional 20 75% 4

Your statistics, while interesting, are meaningless as they do not account for strength and quality of competition,(or the number of forfeits that are part of the wins).

Several weeks ago some on this forum had suggested keeping "score" of the regionals at state --6 points for a first, five for a second, etc. etc. to determine which regional was the toughest. Once the points are totaled it wil be obvious which regional was the toughest.

Good luck to all state qualifiers.

It all boils down to....the luck of the draw! Be it out of a hat or a pencil line defining the boundaries for each Regional! Such is life, get used to it!

wood--could not help but notice that you are from Russell; one of the schools who profited from the "luck of the draw" and got assigned to the Hoisington regional. You have the luxury of having a "such is life" attitude.

Look, Ive been to the "easy regional" and the "tough regional", the point is, sometimes you get lucky and get into the easy regional and have a cake walk qualifiying for state, other years you get into the tough regional and have to work your *** off to place. Either way, if your a good wrestler and you deserve to place, then 99.9% of the time you will place at the tough regional. However sometimes you get into that bracket with 5 ranked guys and good wrestlers have to sit at home. Thats just the way life is, deal with it.

If a person wanted to use the "Rankings" as the standard to judge whether the correct wrestlers "Made it", then here are the numbers:
Based on the last set of Rankings there are 84 ranked wrestlers. 75 of those qualified for state.
Which is slightly less than 90%.
If you throw in the atleast 3 injured or sick wrestlers that surely would have made it, then there would have been 93%.

I also know of a few wrestlers that I believe should have been ranked, but weren't because they do not wrestle for the big name schools.

While I know there are a few heartbreakers (152 Norton) and a few Illnesses (145 Hoisington)

I think there will be some great wrestling this weekend.

God Bless

That is the only way the Regionals are equal is 56 qualifiers. You can't say that the best 224 wrestlers in the State did qualify.

Nicely put 85.. This complaint has been beat to death over the years and always will be. One thing that doesnt get mentioned too often is how being in that "tough region" has its advantages as well. Just the preperation and mental toughness getting through it. When many kids throughout the years have taken 4th at regionals and then the next week win the State, how can that not be good for the sport. The tougher the competition you see on a consistent basis the tougher your going to be on a consistent basis. Be thankful you are in the midst of the best competition. You benefit from it.