Richard,

First of all thank you for your congratulations on Jacob's achievement this weekend. I do appreciate that.

My involvement in Kansas Kids Wrestling in my son's six years has been just as a parent. I do believe I have been a pretty involved parent year around with Jacob in his participation. I have also been pretty active the last couple years on this forum.

I am really not aware of a general integrity problem in our District 1. I am assuming you are referring to the 9 person bracket that so many have been posting about. From what I read that happened in our North Sub-District. If someone was allowed to participate with a late weigh-in then a mistake was made. I just do not know enough about it to honestly comment on it.

I do know that the No.1 wrestler from the North Sub-District in my son's 12 & under, 120 pound bracket did not make weight at Districts. His father came up to us before the Ottawa District meet to wish Jacob good luck and told us that his son weighed in at 120.6 pounds so he missed it by less than a pound. Jacob had defeated him twice in their only two matches this year but both were close matches. If he had been allowed to compete, Jacob may have not won Districts and ultimately State, so the weigh-in process can definitely be crucial to the end result and needs to be fair.