I will lay out a few reasons the USAW-KS made the change!

In the past few years, NHSCA has tarnished their luster of being the premier event. In the past NHSCA has had a very strict set of criteria used to qualify. Recently those have been relaxed and almost anyone that wants in ... can get in!

Another factor is the weight class entrants are allowed to enter. In the past, you could only wrestle a class that you had wrestled in State tournaments. Now, NHSCA allows whatever wt. class ones Alpha weight would allow ... regardless whether a wrestler made scratch weight at the class or not.

With NHSCA, USAW Nationals, Flo Nationals often on the same weekend ... the competition of "the premier" event may have been lessened!

Another factor that can't be ignored is the fact that Kansas ... is an USAW State!!