Former Carrol 152

Iowa is good, but not that good. Wrestled a lot of Iowa state placers when I was in college and I won a majority of them. Had a lot of kids from Iowa on our team, who always bragged about how good Iowa was. They do as about as well or similar at the National level as KS. Kansas has even fared much better at SR National tournament than Iowa over the past years.

Look how successful Kansas kids are doing this weekend at NCAA. 2 in semis and 4 in the quarters at this point.

Good comparison of surrounding states with wrestlers at NCAA's.

KS 7 (zero Di programs)

Iowa 12 (3 D1 Progrmams)
CO 6 (zero D1 Programs)
OK 6 (2 Big Time D1 programs)
MO 5 (1 D1 program)
NE ? (1 D1 Program)

Maybe the grass isn't greener on the other side and Kansas kids are recruited as well local states with similar populations.

I see a lot of talk on how good Oklahoma wrestling is but see KS has more kids at the NCAA's than the Mighty Oklahoma.