States like CA don't have very many small schools. States in the center of the US are predominatly small (less than 1000 students) Unless we go to radio school or boarding schools like in Austrailia, KS and the center of the US will always have more small schools than large ones. Competition within the teams of smaller schools is lower to earn a varsity spot therefore the overall level of competition in smaller school classifications are lower (in general). Wrestling and other individualized sports provides an avenue where elete small school athletes may compete /w large school athletes, however as teams they cannot. If the CA or East coast formats would be adopted in KS the sport would be dropped at most schools. If this is possitive to the sport than adopt the 1 state tournament philosophy. To split 4A in wrestling does not make since as some Regional brackets are not full now. If you have an 8 man qualifier than many times there could be 1-4 round robin brackets. I don't think any of us are for that.