With the increase in the amount of dual tournaments both offered and attened in the last couple of years, I think this has the affect of degrading the significance of dual win streaks. The reason I say this... I've officiated one of these varsity dual tournaments already this year, and there was 1 really good team there, a couple of decent teams, and then about 7 terrible teams, 2 of which were combination teams of jv wrestlers from several of the varisty attending schools. Basically what this means to me is schools are getting 3 and 4 "Dual" wins in a day that really aren't even quality wins. Not only that but you can rack up 25 or more duals in one season now, and out of those 25 you may only face 5 teams that have full rosters or are quality teams.

In the past the NCKL was basically dominated by Abilene for about 7 years and racked up somewhere around a 55 dual win streak, which included no dual tournaments. This was at a time when Clay Center, Concordia, and even Chapman were sending 8,9,10+ wrestlers to state every year and finishing team wise in the top 6.

While I know this is not the case, I would state two statistics. 1 for consecutive duals outside of dual tournaments, and 1 that includes dual tournaments. Just my thoughts.


William Nigel Isom
Officials Director (USAWKS)
KSHSAA #14274
USAWKS #577
Riley KS