Rtrburn76

My man Jalen Benson

Lets start from a clean slate...no reason to try to fix what is totally broken. You have a 16 man bracket for state.....Which is fed by 4 semi-states which each produce 4 state qualifiers, so you have 16 man brackets. Regionals: Sends top 4 to a Semi-state (2 Regional sites feed each Semi-state) 32 man bracket is a grind, injuries occur, long days and waits between rounds wear on the wrestlers. Friday night is first round. Gives Most Working Parents a Chance to come the first day. Can consolidate to 4 mats, better venue options. Leaves us room to add on with a Sectional and redo regionals for growth. Wrestling starts at 10am and is done by 5 at the latest. Food for thought guys, it is how its done in other states. Don't come back with the "KHSAA won't change"; your only adding to the problem. Either we get united or we continue to let wrestling fail in Ky. Rankings do play apart even to the border teams; because they are wrestling teams with Nationally Ranked Kids, so if they do suffer a loss but a minor decision...It MATTERS! This is reason you don't see the perfect records of wrestlers by the border teams, because they have wrestled the BEST that's why they are so DAMN good. If I had the choice we'd wrestle North of the Ohio River every chance we got. Might get our butts handed to us, but we know where we need to improve. Wrestling is a year round sport and unfortunately you got to travel in the off season. I'm not trying to be harsh, Wrestling is the only sport I care about and I take it extremely personal when I see it or the wrestlers being held back. Lets tell the KHSAA we need to go back to the table and discuss what's best for growth in KY. I say put a panel together and reach out to KSHAA.

Track head to head, notable wins, margin of victories. Have the 8 region team champs Coaches seed the top 8

Now now....We don't seed remember

If we as a community don't come together as a whole on this system sucks....they aren't going to change. But why do we seed any tournament or regions. Their seeded by recorded and head to head = same way rankings are compiled.

That's why I said 4 regions feed a semi state...there is no reason to have more than 8 teams at a region. 32 man non seeded bracket = a cluster #$_&. It's a general consensus that this system is severely flawed

145- Trent Johnson #1 .vs #2 Nathaniel Lawrence

Until the KHSAA figures out that they are the problem, Wrestling will always be limited in KY. 1st round of tournament is Sectionals with 8-12 teams feeding a Sectional; The 4 tops finishers advance to Regionals 2nd round/ 2 Sectionals feed each Regional (16 total State Regionals) ; Top 4 advance to a Semi State 3rd round/ 4 Regionals feed a Semi-state (4 total Semi-states); Top 4 advance to State State 1st round Friday Night, Got to win Friday to get a chance to take a podium seat. Saturday Night Finals...1 MAT UNDER THE LIGHTS!!!!!!

And once again you have the #1 .vs #2 guys are wrestling in the quarters. Should be Seeded by region and then separated by rankings (Region Champ that's ranked the highest gets #1 spot, the next Region Champ that's next highest ranked gets the #32 spot) that Region to try to get the top 4 guys in the semi's. This has came up year after year, whats it gonna take to fix the issue.