New 5a Alignment

[osufan]

I do not know who does them or when they will be released. But it is fun to speculate on what the new wrestling district alignments will be for next year. Below is a a proposed alignment for 5a (I will give one for 4a) in a separate topic.

What do you think?


The new 5a alignment that I have put together is based on the new UIL Football District Alignments just released.
It does not include any new wrestling programs for next year since I do not know who those are.
(I did delete 3 in District 19 that I know do not have programs anymore.)

I tried to base the alignments on geography and keeping the current ISD and/or Wrestling District assignments where possible. There was no way to avoid some very large Geographic Regions due to the size of Texas and the sparseness of wrestling programs in West Texas. I did group some Dallas schools with Bryan/Killeen since they are closer than the current grouping with the Houston schools.

I also suggest District sizes of 6 to 10 with 4 going to the playoffs, like is currently done in Football and Basketball.
With 4 going to Regions from each District, it would be rare for a truely qualified wrestler to be shut out of the playoffs.
The current rule, of only 2 advancing, can easily penalize some very good wrestlers in big competive Districts.
This proposed arrangement would result in Regional and State 16 man tournaments like we currently have.

Suggested Playoff Format:
Each of the 4 Districts in a Region advances 4 (with a wrestle off for place 4)
16 man Region is seeded like State is currently (based on matrix of places 1-4 in the 4 Districts).
Each Region advances 4 (with a wrestle off for place 4)
16 man State is seeded same as currently (based on places 1-4 in the 4 Regions).


5a REGION 1 (33 Teams)
New / Old Dist Team
01 04 El Paso Americas
01 03 El Paso Bel Air
01 01 El Paso Coronado
01 03 El Paso Eastwood
01 04 El Paso El Dorado
01 01 El Paso Franklin
01 04 El Paso Montwood
01 04 El Paso Socorro

02 06 Amarillo Tascosa
02 09 Ft Worth Paschal
02 10 Keller
02 10 Keller Central
02 10 Keller Fossil Ridge
02 10 Keller Timber Creek
02 07 Lubbock Coronado
02 11 Northwest
02 08 Weatherford

03 16 Carrollton Turner
03 12 Coppell
03 10 Grapevine
03 11 Lewisville
03 11 Lewisville Flower Mound
03 11 Lewisville Hebron
03 11 Lewisville Marcus

04 10 Colleyville Heritage
04 10 Euless Trinity
04 08 Haltom City Haltom
04 10 Hurst Bell
04 12 Irving
04 12 Irving MacArthur
04 12 Irving Nimitz
04 08 N Richland Hills Richland
04 10 Southlake Carroll

5a REGION 2 (31 Teams)
New / Old Dist Team
05 13 Arlington
05 13 Arlington Bowie
05 13 Arlington Houston
05 13 Arlington Lamar
05 13 Arlington Martin
05 12 Grand Prairie
05 12 Midlothian
05 12 South Grand Prairie

06 17 Allen
06 17 Plano
06 17 Plano East
06 17 Plano West
06 18 Richardson
06 18 Richardson Berkner
06 18 Richardson Lake Highlands
06 18 Richardson Pearce

07 18 Dallas Jesuit
07 14 Dallas Skyline
07 14 Dallas Sunset
07 15 Dallas White
07 17 McKinney
07 17 McKinney Boyd
07 19 Rockwall
07 19 Rockwall-Heath

08 25 Bryan
08 25 College Station A&M Cons
08 25 Copperas Cove
08 25 Killeen
08 25 Killeen Ellison
08 25 Killeen Harker Heights
08 25 Killeen Shoemaker

5a REGION 3 (37 Teams)
New / Old Dist Team
09 20 Conroe
09 20 Conroe Oak Ridge
09 20 Conroe The Woodlands
09 20 Conroe Woodlands College Park
09 20 Klein
09 20 Klein Collins
09 20 Klein Forest
09 20 Klein Oak

10 21 Houston Cyp. Creek
10 21 Houston Cyp. Fair
10 21 Houston Cyp. Falls
10 21 Houston Cyp. Lakes
10 21 Houston Cyp. Ranch
10 21 Houston Cyp. Ridge
10 21 Houston Cyp. Springs
10 21 Houston Cyp. Woods
10 21 Houston Jersey Village
10 21 Houston Langham Crk

11 23 Houston Math Science & Tech
11 22 Houston Strake Jesuit
11 23 Houston Westside
11 22 Katy
11 22 Katy Cinco Ranch
11 22 Katy Mayde Creek
11 22 Katy Morton Ranch
11 22 Katy Seven Lakes
11 22 Katy Taylor

12 24 Beaumont West Brook
12 24 Clute Brazoswood
12 24 Frndswd Clear Brook
12 23 Houston Bellaire
12 23 Houston Chavez
12 24 Houston Clear Lake
12 23 Houston Lamar
12 24 LC Clear Creek
12 24 LC Clear Falls
12 24 LC Clear Springs

5a REGION 4 (33 Teams)
New / Old Dist Team
13 28 Austin
13 28 Austin Akins
13 27 Austin Anderson
13 28 Austin Bowie
13 26 Austin Westlake
13 29 New Braunfels
13 26 New Braunfels Canyon
13 26 Pflugerville
13 26 Pflugerville Hendrickson

14 29 Converse Judson
14 29 San Antonio Churchill
14 29 San Antonio Johnson
14 29 San Antonio Lee
14 29 San Antonio MacArthur
14 29 San Antonio Madison
14 29 San Antonio Reagan
14 29 San Antonio Roosevelt
14 29 San Antonio Wagner

15 30 Corpus Christi Carroll
15 30 Corpus Christi King
15 31 McAllen
15 31 McAllen Memorial
15 31 McAllen Rowe
15 32 Pharr-San Juan-Alamo
15 32 PSJA Memorial
15 32 PSJA North

16 31 La Joya
16 31 La Joya Juarez-Lincoln
16 31 La Joya Palmview
16 31 Mission Sharyland
16 32 San Benito
16 32 Weslaco
16 32 Weslaco East

[Chap Wrestling]

This ia almost identical to what I put together last week. The only sticky point is who from the south to add to Region 2. The Killeen schools make sense. Bryan and A&M are pretty close to Houston, but i believe they petitioned to get out of region 3 a few years ago based on who they played in football. They now play with the Houston schools. The other option might be the Pflugerville schools.

[cwilson]

4 from Districts, 4 from Regions. 16 at state. I like that better than two and four.

[Barrett O'Connell]

I think they will stay with 8 districts per region as I believe that is what they do for every sport. Even if it means 4-6 team districts I would be suprised if they don't do it that way.

[Chap Wrestling]

I think they will stay with 8 districts per region as I believe that is what they do for every sport. Even if it means 4-6 team districts I would be suprised if they don't do it that way.

I'm afraid of this, too, because UIL always seems to want to force every square peg into their round hole. But it certainly would be better for wrestling if they went with 4 districts per region. If they go 8 districts, some may only have 3 teams. That is ridiculous.

[jbleiler]

That would be very difficult to do. There is no way they split up the Cypress schools.

[cwilson]

4-6 team districts. Don't like it. But, Barrett may be right.

[cwilson]

Move one team from District 2 or 4 to District 3. Then you have 3 8 team Districts and only one 9 team District.

[HwtDad]

Thanks for the effort, but...HIGHLY doubt your "District 2" prediction: can't see UIL putting an Amarillo school and a Lubbock school in with 6 schools from the west side of the Metroplex. No way would they be able to afford to travel to compete with each other (much) during the regular season, and think what it would be like for post-season: SOMEbody is likely to travel a HELL of a long way for EVERY step of the post season, Districts, Regional, and State.

Example: if the Region I tourney FINALLY comes to the Metroplex (has been in El Paso and now Amarillo the last few years), then Amarillo could have to travel to the Metroplex TWICE for Districts and Regionals (650 miles round trip, EACH time), and then, if they are lucky and advance, their prize is they get to travel all the way to Austin (1,000 miles RT) for State, for a total of 2,300 miles in 4 weeks!

(this stuff gets so crazy, I won't even GUESS what the UIL will do, ultimately. All we can really do is watch and wait - and get ready to be surprised....)

[cwilson]

You could go 6 four team districts, one two team district (coronado and Tascosa), and one 6 team District. 2 qualify from each four team district, three from the 6 team district, and one from the two team District.

Or, you could just do a 32 team regional and knock it all out in a weekend.