I love how easy it is to manipulate statistics, first of all there aren't 40+ states with class wrestling. Second of all, of the states with one class over fifty percent of them are in the bottom half of the most populous states in the country and the ones that are in the top half (California, Texas, New Jersey, and Indiana) repeatedly produce studs at the collegiate level. Also, on the discouragement of specialization topic, that can be felt at any school regardless of size as long as one sport, usually football, dominates, which is the case at many big schools.
Umm, yes there are exactly nine states with single class wrestling: Indiana, California, New Jersey, Texas, Hawaii, Delaware, Kentucky, Arkansas and Vermont. Mississippi does not sanction wrestling. Arkansas just stated sanctioning wrestling last year and Texas is celebrating their 10th year of sanctioning wrestling this year. So to say all of these one class states are below average is without knowing the whole truth. More states with class wrestling are in the top 25% of top wrestling states than single class states.
that would be because about 75 percent of states have class wrestling so of course more are in top 25 percent, just like 75 percent of kids go to big schools and 75 percent of state qualifiers are from big schools