re: How Many High Schools in Arkansas Have Wrestling

All kinds of body types wrestle. That's the best thing about the sport: it's based on weight, so you can have "fair" competition among all shapes and sizes.

Wrestling is definitely seen as cross-training for lots of football positions from lineman to linebackers to dbacks. If you follow the in-state wrestling programs, they'll usually get a coach or two from the UofA to provide a quote to them about how great wrestling is for development of football players (lots of times it's coaches from the midwest like Bielema).

It's an awesome sport. There's something about that individual 1v1 competition on a public stage that is hard to beat. My son wrestled from when he was 5 up until COVID. He started back again in high school and was doing well, then he had a really scary staph infection that led to MRSA in his knee and a hospital stay and we bailed on it (mountain biking is his primary sport). I do feel like wrestling was pretty crucial in developing him into the competitor and athlete he is today, though.