He came out physical, and he's a short, strong kid. It was hard to move him.

It's never easy to lose a match, especially one of this prestige. I'll have to look through it and realize how much I accomplished. There are a lot of other kids who dream of being in a title match with that many people watching.

At the beginning of the season, everybody wants to be able to wrestle down at Madison in February. It feels real good to do that (for the first time) in my senior year.