Maybe KSHSAA could implement the same thing college wrestling does and allow each regional to have 3-4 wildcards. The wildcards could be voted on by the coaches of each respective regional (that may be worse than a seeding meeting!!). If each regional added 4 kids that deservedly should be in the state tournament, that would only add 16 total kids to the tournament. It would result in 8 pigtail matches, and wouldn't add much overall time to the tournament -- especially with the addition of a 4th mat (at least in 321A).

A good wildcard for the norton regional would have been Thiele (sp?) at 160#. Based on the consolation semifinal match with Campbell from Hoxie, he deserves to the in the tournament.