Vince:
Here's the funny thing about D-I in Iowa: You go up and down the roster Iowa, Iowa State and Northern Iowa, and maybe HALF of the kids on those rosters are from Iowa. Might be less (I haven't run the numbers lately). But if you go to Upper Iowa, Wartburg, Simpson, Luther, Morningside or wherever, it's more like 95 percent are Iowa kids. If you figure 25 kids (average) per program, times 17 programs (other than the D-Is), and take 95 percent of that, you end up with 404 Iowa kids wrestling in-state at the college level right now.

Will:
A while back we discussed you providing a list of states whose rules are less restrictive than Kansas. I wondered what ever happened with that. As I have said in the past, Kansas is vastly less "oppressive" than Iowa. Travel restrictions (believe it or not) are more generous, weight control and weigh-ins are easier to work with and recent schedule changes (because Des Moines wanted to make the arena available for NCAA basketball in five years) have forced us to cram more matches into less time. There are a lot things about the Kansas system I'd trade for in heartbeat. The off-season contact rules are almost identical.
Also, Grand State died on its own after what, two years or something? And as for dual state, I was on one of the original committees that formed the proposal for that with Kit Harris and some others. It's not that KSHSAA "won't even consider" it; it's more that because other sports that both have individual and team competition (swimming, track, etc.) don't do two different championships and it would set a precedent that they haven't figured out a way around. On the contrary, I've always thought that Rick was supportive and very interested in dual state. It's always been a case if making it work.
I'd be curious to see what the plan was. I know at one time we had discussed taking the top four teams out of each Regional to dual state, and holding it in like Salina or somewhere the week after traditional State. I had added the suggestion or wrestling out to fifth and sixth places at Regionals so that teams that had more kids would be rewarded.