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measured up the state geographicly, split at hwy. 183 and 77. I didin't have time to do the east and central, but the west is pretty easy to count up because there are so few towns there.
I figured that I would just count for the last 15 years because the ancient history part of state records does not seem to have much affect on how things are now, as it would appear that the west is weakening somewhat. this is what I came up with, and I may not be totally accurate on the no. of 321 a schools.
6a: west has 2 of the 32 schools, 6.25%. in the last 15 years, took 6 titles, or 40% of the titles, but in the last 5 years, took 0, or 0%.
doesn't really show anything except that Dodge and Garden didn't win a title in the last 5 years.
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5A:west has 2 schools, 6.5 % of the total 5a schools, 0 titles in the last 15 years, which shows that hays high and Liberal have been extremely consistent during this period.
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4A west has 6 4A schools, 9.2% of the total 4A schools. won 6.5 titles (tie in 96 bet. Ulysses and Columbus) or 43% of the titles. in the last 5 years, took 3 titles, or 60%.
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321 A: west has 18 321A schools that I counted,
or 27.6% of the total schools shown entered at the state tournament in 2004. There were more than that if you count the teams that were represented at their substate and were eliminated there, but I won't count them. West took 13 of the last 15 titles here, or 86.7%,
in the last 5 years, took 3 of the titles or 60%.
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so, what this indicates is that there were 219 teams represented at the state in all 6 levels, (probably not quite that many as I am not sure that all 4 through 6 A teams have wrestling) and 28 are from the west. that is about 12.8 % of the total. in the last 15 years, they took 25.5 of the 60 available titles, or 42.5 %, and if one only considers the last 5 years of recent history, they have 6 of the 20 available titles, or 30%. so whether they are the best or not, they certainly are still winning much more than their share of the titles, especially when one considers the fact that they are so minimally represented in 5A and 6A. Richard will have to do Central, as there are way too many people there for me. One thing that is notable, though, the two largest population areas, the KC metro area, and the Wichita, area, COMBINED account for only 9 of the 60 15-year titles, and only 4 of the 5-year totals, and that is lumping Wellington in the Wichita and Paola in the KC metro areas. Not a very impressive stat for them, I wouldn't think. This of course does not reflect the countless world freestyle and greco titles no doubt won by that area.
