I'm jumping in w/o reading any of the 7 pages of comments.
When comparing states that are better than us nationally one component that should be looked at is Freestyle/Greco. I would guess that all the states that are "better" than us also out perform us at Fargo, Freestyle Duals, Greco Duals, etc.
Freestyle is dead in Indiana. I remember when we'd schedule our tournament is March or April and we'd constantly have to compete w/ 3-4 other tournaments. This year was nadda, maybe one other tournament on our weekend. We can't field competitive teams for freestyle or Greco Duals. Our best skip out on Fargo, even worse our low top tier kids skip out who would greatly benefit from a week or two w/ other top talents in a training camp setting.
So while I get the arguments for class wrestling. I'm not sold on the quality of wrestling increasing b/c of class wrestling. Yes our kids will get more college looks, but our national performances will still lack.
The kiddie folkstyle circuit and $$$ has killed off freestyle and Greco in Indiana.
Shallow minds (no offense) that believe the only way to win a high school state title is by constantly wrestling folkstyle limits our over all depth as a state.