You know the whole thing with Kansas and their wrestling venues is a real disappointment. I grew up in Missouri and did not go through this as a kid. Now we live in Kansas and we all have to put up with the facilities issue, especially for youth wrestling here in District 1. I understand there are no level 1 arenas in the state that are available, and K-State and KU cannot rent theirs, but to hold a highschool state meet in a highschool gym is a real letdown and an embarassment. My inlaws live in Iowa and my parents live in Missouri. Look at the way they run their HS state tournaments over there, then compare to KS. This tournament should be the highlight of a young man or woman's highschool career, not some backwater filler event. Whoever decided this should be brought to task. If we want our kids to wrestle on a national stage and the event to mean something, it should never be in a HS gym. We have kids vying for scholarship money and this is not the way to help them. It is clear, the tournament should be divided- using Wichita, Hays, Salina or Topeka arenas as a venue. We can bemoan the crappy state facilities all we want but to bring out of state guests to a HS state tournament being held in a HS gym would make us the laughinstock of the midwest and will be a step in the wrong direction, just showcasing our inability to keep up with our neighbors. This needs to be redone.