You guys are weak. Admit this: Everybody understands that it's pretty strange that our middle school kids wrestle all year long and at the qualifying series a flood of high school wrestlers come in and grab the top seeds. Your only out is that next year, YOU will be that high school guy who gets the top seed. You are talking about "their time to shine". If we make this change, "their time to shine" is a year earlier! We are NOT breaking any new ground. We are stuck in this "feel good" atmosphere that covets kids state medals instead of taking the awesome talent that we have and diving in head first against the nations best. Every single year we have this empty feeling that we "could have" placed much better "had we done this or that" with our national dual teams. That is where the prize is people. Not always looking back and reaching for hollow victories because you have the upper hand.
I can tell you this. If Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin are excelling on the national stage. I want in. I want to take our Kansas studs and show them the heart we have. We have the talent. Let's dream big instead of longing for that big advantage so that we can really rip our 7th and 8th graders a new one.
This change is progressive, not regressive. Let's get this grand state party started! If this proposal fails, the shame is on you.
