He would prefer to wrestle than to not wrestle.

When he came in as a freshman, he loved wrestling, loved competing. He began a path then.

Matt's accomplished quite a bit in his high school wrestling career. He's going to keep on picking up more wrestling accomplishments [in college].

He was definitely forcing the issue. I thought the referees could done a better job of forcing the wrestling a little bit. There was a lot of edge play.

He was like that at 14.

He came out and took control of the match. He's pretty aggressive. He's pretty good. That was impressive.

He just loves wrestling. This loss hurts right now, but we know he's gonna have a more than bright future.

Illinois Best Weekly has four of us in their rankings. It's one of the premier wrestling conferences in the state. (Talent) goes pretty deep in the DVC.

We decided that if they said he could go, he was going to go. I think it was a lot just to get him on the mat. He did not want to go down quietly.