They are dealing with a pool of 730 wrestlers. That makes things way easier than dealing with four states of high school wrestlers. There were a potential of 504 varsity wrestlers at the bobcat alone. Throw in just the other 2500 Kansas varsity wrestlers and you have five times the competitors to evaluate. Not even an apples to apples discussion. Sorry. .

Now let's discuss the broad range of skills in HS be the FACT that ALL D1 wrestlers are at a level with much less variation.

And yes smokey I have done all of the above.