Originally Posted By: XGHSWC

Originally Posted By: Ricky Bobby

What is appropriate to say about 321A and 4A is that it is much more difficult to qualify to state than 5A and 6A. This is because of the sheer size of brackets 16 plus kids versus 8 or less.


No!, it is not appropriate to say this. There are kids that are not going to state that where in the NW Wichita regional or the Bishop Carroll regional that would qualify in just about any other region regardless of class. Tell them it's easier when they have already beaten 4A/3A kids that are going. They would love to have been in 4A or 3A. And I looked at the brackets and they don't all have 16, especially in 3A, some had 10, not much different than 8 huh. Anyway, it is not the quantity of kids in a bracket that makes it tough, it is the quality. It all comes down to which region and which weight. That is what determines who goes to state.


X,

Name them! I know that there were a few brackets in the big school classes that handed out free passes to state. You will find that NONE have done so in 4A or 321A. In 4A, no regional had 16 teams because only 60 schools have wrestling programs. With 15 teams attending, it makes it pretty hard to have a "full" bracket. In 5A, the Shawnee Heights regional had just 4 full brackets and 1 with only four wrestlers (GO TO STATE FREE CARD!). I know that the 5A regional hosted by Turner had lots of incomplete brackets and at least one with a the FREE PASS being handed out. I wish I could analyze all of the regionals but unbelievably the brackets for most of the 5A and 6A regionals are unavailable.


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