Ok, sportsfan02 I can agree that maybe football, basketball, soccer, baseball etc. are all about the team. You win as a team you lose as a team and all that jazz since you depend on others to work with you during play. But when it comes to martial arts and wrestling it's about the athlete. You can't tag Bubba to come in a take over for ya. It's "Mano E Mano",nobody on the team casting spells or sticking pins in a voodoo doll to help you win.

Now it's nice to have team support and teammates to work out with assuming you got enough teammates to work out with, but even the kids don't fool themselves, they know who's got it and who don't. Still they get to be a part of something that's organized and community supported. It's always good to be included in something bigger than yourself. Strong teams survive on their ability & resilience not their presence.

If you only had one wrestler qualify for HS State would you keep him home because the rest of the team didn't make it? I don't think so. Would the whole team be there to support him? I don't think so. So where is the team now? They are at track practice, golf practice, swimming, baseball, goofing off etc.. How do I know, cause I've been there. The only kid on the team to go to state and not one of my 20+ teammates were there to support me.

So this issue really does stink for those kids who are missing out on an opportunity to further their career or their college resume. Guess it's not a mystery why KS HS wrestlers are potentially overlooked by colleges. Nobody knows who the heck they are because they rarely get any exposure on the national level.