One area where CA is way ahead of Kansas is in emphasizing freestyle and greco. Many of the youth programs do not wrestle any folkstyle until the kids are cadet and junior ages to coincide with high school. My son wrestled in SDIKWA out of San Diego and they use a blended style that emphasizes freestyle scoring. It was bizarre coming from the midwest and intially i thought it was crazy, but i sure saw it pay off down the road for a lot of kids. I do think it helps the exposure of their elite wrestlers to college programs and also helps ensure that
they dont have that drop off of kids like we do from folkstyle to freestyle.