WICHITA, KS, May 18, 2008  --  The high stakes battle for a Sumner County casino will come to a head Monday in Topeka.

That's when the Kansas Lottery Commission will hear proposals from four companies that want to build casinos.

The Lottery Commission will make the final decision as to who will get the bid for the casino and end a months long showdown between not just four casinos but two towns.

For $500 million Harrah's said they'd bring to Sumner County a casino, championship golf course and several restaurants.

Vegas powerhouse MGM/Foxwoods anted in with a $425 million proposal with a hotel, water park and also a golf course.

But a vote by Sumner County commissioners pulled both proposals off the table.

"They've have established criteria that has to be sited in Wellington and I wasn't first of all aware of that," said MGM/Foxwoods partner Bob Knight at the time.

The county instead endorsed two plans at the Wellington exit: Penn Gaming's $365 million Hollywood style resort and Marvel Gaming's plan for a $350 million casino, deluxe hotel and one-thousand acres for offsite hunting.

Still those casinos hoping to build in Mulvane had an ace up their sleeve.

State law says the casino proposals have to be endorsed by a local government but not necessarily the county commission.

So the Mulvane city council string annexed the land from city limits to the casino sites at exit 33 and then gave their stamp of approval to the Harrah’s and MGM proposals.

The move sparked Sumner county to sue the city of Mulvane.

"We feel it was clearly an effort to avoid the county commissioners.  We're challenging that on a technicality and we're challenging it as being adverse to public policy," said Sumner County Counselor Jack Potucek.

The city of Mulvane fired back with their own lawsuit saying county commissioners didn't evaluate all casino proposals on their merit and instead favored the two Wellington proposals which were the two with the lowest proposed investment, and the lowest projected revenues.

The Mulvane mayor said in a prepared statement the county "the state of Kansas and Sumner county will lose millions of dollars each year in revenue. This is not a battle between two cities this is about doing what is right for Kansas".

Two companies are vying to build a casino in dodge city, and four in Wyandotte county.

They will all make their presentations on Tuesday.