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Also something else about Blanton being able to hang with these guys. When he wrestle Shirky last Shirky won 3-1. So yes I think he can hang with them.

I'd throw binder in there too!

Heck keep it were it's at or move it back to Frankfort. The main thing that needs to be fixed is the way our tournament is ran. Host seeding tournaments and regionals. Have 16 or 32 man brackets. Let middle school kids that place at the midfle school tournament still enter. Quit watering down the tournament, let's have true youth state champions. In WV, OH, PA and so on it is a great accomplishment to win the state championship. Only thing now that our kids get out of it now is having their names called in the face off. If your afraid it will make less experienced kids show up, have a novice state tournament aswell. Best of both worlds.

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The only people who should be blamed for depriving kids from those areas from wrestling are the adults in those areas who haven't figured out a way to or don't care to get youth wrestling off the ground. Everyone understands and has sympathy for the disadvantages with rural areas (population, money, travel). But how can you blame that on anyone else and what are your solutions to this "disenfranchisement"? To answer your question, no one is depriving anyone in this state to wrestle youth.

But yet, there are only so many places that can hold 1000 kids to wrestle. State has been open every year to teams that wanted to host it, last year an entire region decided to host it together and spread the money out between the teams and it seemed to work out. This year during the meeting, no one wanted to host the tournament, everyone just looked around the room and thankfully the NKY stepped up to host the tournament. There are opportunities for the regions and teams in the "rural areas" to run the state tournament and make money for their programs, and use that as a tool to grow the sport. Many choose not to.

heavyweights should be big boys not 220s running away from people