This will start the season off with a bang!

Baldwin - 6th Place at 2011-12 4A State
Bishop Carroll - 2008 Kansas 5A State Champions
Broken Arrow, OK - 2010, 2011, 2012 State Champions
Gardner Edgerton - 6th Place at 2011-12 6A State
Iowa City West - 2011 Iowa Dual State Champions
Lawrence Free State
Manhattan - 2011-12 Kansas State Champions
Olathe North - Coached by NHSCA AA, Southern Conf. Champ and NCAA Qualifier Josh Carroll
Pittsburg - 4th Place at 2011-12 4A State
SM East - 6th Place at 2010-11 6A State
Topeka Seaman - 6th Place at 2011-12 5A State
Olathe Northwest
Omaha Skutt, NE - 13 straight Class B NE State Titles - 1996-2010.
Platte County, MO - 2010 Missouri Class 2 State Champions
SE Polk, IA - Traditional Iowa Power
St. James Academy - 4th Place at 2010-11 4A State

Wow, looks like a good one, any predictions on who will be at what weight? Who are the good out of state guys that will be there?

Dustin Williams G.E vs Tanner Bailey BA Ok?
they both wrestled 145 last yr both were sophomores and I believe Bailey won state in Ok as well as Williams did here in Ks.

Kevin Seybold

106 lbs- Pup Simmons- Broken Arrow-(#8 national rank- Flowrestling)

As a team, there are 3 top 50 in the nation according to intermat.

South East Polk, Iowa - #13
Iowa City West, Iowa - #27
Broken Arrow, Oklahoma - #19

I cant wait to see how our Kansas boys rise to the challenge.

I'm sure they will re-load but Iowa City West lost Laux, Bauer, Hathaway and Koethe to graduation.

17 days till the toughest one day tournament in Kansas!

Who's going to be considered the favorite to win 120#?

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*Have not heard from Platte County yet

106:
Hellickson - SEP - Ranked #3 in Iowa
Peska - OSC - NE State Placer
Hail - BA - JH State Runner-up
Tujague - SJA - Ranked #2 in 5A
Crow - SEA - KS State Placer
Kester - PT - KS State Placer
Newcomb - ONW - KS SQ

113:
Sloboth - OSC - NE State Runner-up
Stone - MH - KS State Placer
Jones - PT - KS State Placer
Jorgenson - SEP - Ranked #9 in IA - FR
Hensley - SJA - KS Kids State Placer - FR
Schafer - ON - KS Kids State Placer - FR

120:
Simmons - BA - OK State Champion
Meyer - SEP - Ranked #10 in IA
Cokeley - SJA - KS State Champion
Pratt - BAL - KS SQ
Kenny - ON - KS SQ

126:
Walters - ICW - Ranked #2 in IA.
Clark - BA - OK State Placer
Zak Hensley - SJA - Ranked #2 in 5A
Stovall - ON - KS Kids State Champion
Hollingsworth - SME - KS SQ

132:
Dittmer - SEP - Ranked #5 in IA
Edwards - BA - 2X OK State Placer
Jorns - SME - 2X KS State Placer
Haug - ON - KS State Placer
Clark - BAL - KS SQ

138:
Wakefield - ICW - #1 ranked in IA
Shoemaker - BAL - 2010 KS State Champion - 2012 State Finalist
Matthews - MH - KS State Placer

145:
T. Bailey - BA - 2X OK State Placer
Strickland - SEP - Ranked #4 in IA
Walker - OSC - NE State Placer in 2011

152:
P. Bailey - BA - OK State Finalist
Kerr - SEP - Ranked #7 in IA
Mitchell - SME - KS State Placer
Pratt - SJA - KS SQ

160:
Miklus - SEP - #1 ranked in IA
Williams - GE - KS State Champion
Foshee - BA - OK SQ

170:
Blackford - SEP - #1 ranked in IA
Guillen - SEA - KS State Champion
Salsbury - SJA - KS State Runner-up
Rasmussen - OSC - NE State Placer
Allen - BA - JH State Runner-up

182:
Warren - BA - 2X OK State Placer
Pesek - GE - KS SQ
Muehlberger - SJA - KS SQ
Butler-Smith - ONW - KS SQ

195:
Pelfrey - ICW - #1 ranked in IA
Fowler - GE - KS SQ
Vaverka - BA - 2010 JH State runner-up

220:
Fisher - SEP - #1 ranked in IA
Avalos - PT - KS SQ
Stanley - SEA - KS SQ
Feist - SJA - KS SQ

285:
Scanlon - SEP - #1 ranked in IA
Foerstner - ICW - #6 ranked in IA
Hall - SEA - KS State Placer
Atkinson - SME - KS SQ
Feist - SJA - KS SQ

SE Polk has 12 ranked wrestlers coming down. Looking forward to this one!

OK, thanks...

did some post get removed from this one

Richard Fergola should not be seeding this tournament. Someone please wake up and tell him to leave KS wrestling alone.

Look no further than 120lbs. A nationally ranked state champ with a 36-2 record last year seeded third. In this weight a state qualifier was seeded first because he beat the two seed who is a state champ. He beat him in this tournament last year. 12 months of wrestling has happened since then.

The practice of using your tournament's placings as a high seeding critieria is STUPID!! Especially when you 25% of the teams weren't there last year. Wake up folks! The goal is to win state not to win the Gardner Invitational! So you win state and get penalized a year later for not having wrestled at this tournament?

It is nothing less than embarassing to Kansas wrestling. We have teams from five states at this tournament and we had Dumb and Dumber seed it.

Further, many coaches have been complaining for more than five years now that you do NOT have BYES in a scramble format. If you have 16 teams which create 4 pools of four, if a team doesn't bring a wrestler it should be correctly scored an OPEN weight which is a win for the wrestler and fall bonus points should be awarded to team. Everyone wants to call this a team sport when convenient but then when it comes time to correctly score it as such they don't know what they are doing. Sad.

Not very good feed but you can watch the finals and semi's on blazerbroadcastnetwork.com

What time is the finals?

Is this a Jerry Bauerly sighting???? He is still alive. Watch your grammer Jerry, I see you are from Iowa.

Yes I am and I will be watching for Jarrods results.

Those pesky Freshman can be drawn in anywhere!