Joe,
Did you ever think that maybe it has nothing to do w/ class wrestling and that those states in the top 10 are just better than us? Also, every state in the top 10 except for Iowa has a larger population than Indiana. I would contend that Florida, Maryland, and North Carolina are not better than us, but for an Indiana kid to goto a D1 school it pretty much has to be Big 10 if they want to stay anywhere close to home. I'm guessing the Florida, Maryland, and NC kids are going to schools outside of the big 10. I could be wrong though.
Lefthanded,
Then you are saying since those states are bigger, it's not fair to compare them and say they're better than Indiana? Isn't that the same thing as saying one high school is bigger than another so it's not fair to compare the quality of wrestling programs? And if it's not fair to compare them against one another, why is it fair to rank them through competition against one another?
I never said I was against class wrestling. I said that the size of the states is the reason there are so many more D1 wrestlers coming out of them and not because they have class wrestling. I was just pointing out that Joe always finds a way to go to that when there could be a completely unrelated reason.
Here's something to chew on though. Shouldn't the number of wrestlers placing at state be proportional to their school's size? So if say, Pioneer gets 1 state placer and they have 300 students, shouldn't it be expected that CP gets 10 placers if they have 3,000 students? These are completely made up numbers, but it shows you that per capita, the little schools are doing just as well as the big schools. Now the team tournament....well that's a different story.