I just looked at my opponent and envisioned what I had to do and got it done for the team. I came into the season and trained hard, managed my weight and thought about what I was going to do this season. I was looking forward to having to wrestle him in the county. Luckily, I had the pleasure of wrestling him and I got it done. This is an incredible boost to my confidence.
Chris Weston
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Again, that's something that the public has to wrestle with.
Steve O'brien
What I liked is that he really didn't wrestle well and still got out. Having never won a sectional match, I'm sure he felt a lot of pressure. But I hope he wrestles to his ability in the district.
Steve Haverdill
He would prefer to wrestle than to not wrestle.
Mike Dinovo
At our first team meeting, he handed out binders that detailed daily workouts from the fall to the end of the season. He emphasized that this team would not be a joke and that we'd better be here to wrestle, and if not, he would find someone else to. His organization and motivation has really helped us.
Jim Crumlish
I think Nick is his own competition. If Nick decides to come to wrestle like earlier in the year, he?s going to be tough to beat.
Aaron Sarra
In ninth grade and 10th, he did basketball, [but] I always told him to wrestle. Basketball wasn't working out for him.
Billy Mcallister
Next weekend is the weekend we have to wrestle perfectly. We didn't wrestle perfectly this weekend, but hopefully we saved it for next weekend.
Brandon Macnaught
It betters us in the long run. If we wrestle those harder teams now and keep building up until the final then we are just getting better as a team. And that's what our goal is - to get better as a team.
Nick Anurak
My brothers used to wrestle me all the time. They used to love to do moves on me, just to make me tougher. I loved it. I thought it was really fun.
Whitney Conder
He's a tough kid. I will have to go out and wrestle like I always have and see what happens.
Russell Weakley
Adam wrestles with a lot of heart. When you're wrestling guys that are 30 or 40 pounds heavier than you, you have to wrestle with heart.
Chopper Mello
There's not much you can say, BEA is solid top to bottom. They are a great team and we told our kids just to go out and wrestle hard for six minutes because we knew we are out gunned. But the competition will only help us. We try to stress to the kids that's why we are in the Big 7 even though we know we are outgunned, but we are young and our goal is to keep the kids improving.
Brett Michaels
I think coaches tend to make more out of that than the wrestlers do. If you are a good, sound, fundamental wrestler it isn't going to matter how many times you wrestle someone. Sometimes matches can go back-and-forth when the kids are more even, but if you're better, you'll win.
Scott Benitz
It's still hard. I had to wrestle my hardest for the full six minutes. I gave him all I had. That's what you have to do with all of these matches.
John Pycraft
I just went out and did what my coach told me to do - wrestle the entire match. I knew I had him about the second or third time he tried shooting and he didn't even get my legs.
Andrew Martin
Getting the first one and doing it fast relieved a little pressure. I was really nervous to get past that one. I was also tight for my semifinal. I didn't really wrestle well. I didn't attack. I just sat on the lead, which isn't my style, but I really just wanted to ensure that I got to the district.
Josh Miley
Danny made a decision early on which weight to wrestle and we set a goal to win the section. We made the right choice and he reached his goal.
Ron Tompkins
We thought it better to pull him rather to risk further injury if he continued to wrestle.
Dan Southard
I am feeling good, trying to stay positive. I'm just taking it one match at a time. I'm trying to wrestle smart and not overlook anybody.
Alex Warren
I think the whole team was proud of Josh and happy to see him finally get a chance to wrestle. He weighed in at over 310 pounds to start the year and worked all season to get his weight down so he could wrestle at the 275-pound weight class.
Tom Chicantek
Who didn't wrestle well tonight? Just about everybody did. That's what we're all about, getting to this level and wrestling well.
Denny Brighton
I just wrestle my style and not worry about what my opponent might do. I don't tie up - I have to wrestle with quickness because I'm small for my weight class.
Brent Fosheim
There are some high-caliber teams here and placing anywhere in the top six is a great accomplishment. Matt Stephenson wrestled really well and was in every match. It's a good point in the season for Matt to realize that he can wrestle well at a tournament like this.
Chad Latch
We control our own destiny. We should be in those matches. We didn't get all the premium points. We needed some tech falls and pins. We had to wrestle perfect - not just good - to win.
Darren Testa
Our guys have to be consistent and wrestle one of their better tournaments to have a chance of making it to state. We'll need to win the close ones. To do that, we must limit our mistakes and take advantage when an opponent makes an error.
Deryll Rohda
I tell them you're gonna sweat, you're gonna bleed, and you gotta understand that. I don't begrudge any girl that wants to wrestle. So far, they've all done what they have to do. When you have a daughter like I do, you want her to have just as much opportunity as any guy does.
Mike Giordano
I think our kids went out to wrestle hard. They were just flat out stronger than we were at every weight class.
Frank Mucha
Once he got his first match under his belt, he was a little disappointed that he didn't wrestle (Huffman) better.
Darren Weber
He just needs more experience and to wrestle more high-caliber kids. If he's going to get better, he's got to beat tough kids or compete there with them.
John Hittle
If I meet him next week, it's a whole different match because it will be for the team state title. He's a great wrestler and anything could happen next week, so I just have to prepare my best for all the guys I might wrestle.
Josh Chappa
I would have loved to have a chance to wrestle against him and see where I stand. I really wanted to.
Mario Gonzalez
They beat us up pretty good (in a dual meet) earlier this year. It will be tough to make that up. We'll have to wrestle well.
Mike Humphrey
Coley didn't wrestle his best, but he wrestled well enough to beat a pretty good kid.
Bill Plein
It's the last time I'm going to wrestle here. It's sad, but I'm going to go away with a bunch of good memories. I've had a lot of great experiences over the last four years.
Mack Lewnes
It's nice when you can wrestle another team that is also young and rebuilding. The kids wrestled hard and we're getting better.
Kalin Makaiwi
I think four to six of our kids could slide through to district if we wrestle well and get a little bit of luck. Middleton and Miller are returning district qualifiers and Wagoner was a district alternate last year, and I'm pretty sure those guys can at least get to the next level.
Bill Perry
I wanted to give some of our guys who have worked hard all year and won't be wrestling Saturday a chance to wrestle at that level. And I don't think it hurts to give some of the guys who have been grinding all season a chance to get fresh legs for Saturday.
Shawn Groshek
You have to apply to wrestle there. If accepted into the tournament, you expect to see the toughest wrestlers in the country. With teams like Iowa, Iowa State, Illinois and Central Michigan, the competition is stiff.
Derek Delporto
They've been using different kids. We don't know much about Brown, but we have to wrestle with just as much intensity as we would in a meet where we knew our opponent.
John Sacchi
These are the guys that make a difference when we're making our run for the CCS title. These guys are the intangibles who are starting to really wrestle at the caliber we want and I'm really pleased with that.
Armando Gonzalez
I think we were a little in awe of being in the quarterfinals and didn't wrestle our best match.
Tommy Sanders
If we wrestle well, we could beat them. But we'd have to have a really good day. We match up real well with the other two teams.
Joe Lehmann
[It's] hard to do. I've been hard on myself for a few days. But it's something I got to get over, like it never happened. I just get out there and wrestle and use it as a little motivation to get at people a little more.
Pat Castillo
Realistically, we would like to get 10 kids out to district. Is this feasible? I think so, if they all wrestle to their potential. Anything less than eight district qualifiers would be a disappointment.
Chance Vangundy
I know I have to get things done, so I think that's what motivates me. I think that will continue when I go to college because I'm hoping I can play football and wrestle in college too. If I do that, I'm going to have to keep working hard.
Casey Luther
We want to wrestle well at their place and shut them down in their own gym. We'll use that as a motivator. But it's easier to be at home.
Denny Brighton
This was a lot of fun. I wanted to wrestle well for the fans, and just because that's the way I am. But it was a lot of fun. There wasn't any pressure, it really didn't matter what happened, it was all about having fun.
Billy Chamberlain
I thought Holcomb had an easier draw, but it turned out that the freshman he faced in the first round ended up second at district. It turned out to be a really bad draw and he didn't wrestle well.
Nick Burgess
We're starting to wrestle up to our potential. There were some tough teams, and it showed us where we need to get to by (the state tournament).
Rand Baker
If I got that first takedown, then I'd have to make him wrestle instead of running away and making it a more defensive match for himself. I took him down and made him chase after me instead of the other way around.
Kurt Backes
Points are hard to come by. Four-nothing is a pretty good lead, but with five minutes left to go, you just can't sit there and not wrestle.
John Prezzia
A lot of other kids in the past have paved the way. I always try to help others wrestle their best. You especially want to help and encourage the younger kids. You want them to keep up the program after you are gone.
Brent Fosheim
That was the best I've ever seen him wrestle. A year ago he'd lose his cool. He's grown up a lot and he's wrestling with total confidence. He dictated the action in every match and took his aggression out on his opponents.
George Fotenos
I do kind of like being the underdog, it doesn't put as much pressure on me. I feel like I wrestle better when I'm not under pressure.
Dusty Mcanich
That was the third time he had to wrestle his kid in the last three weeks. It was a tighter match, but Kevin finished strong.
Joe Godinho
Collectively, that's what you're shooting for. That's pretty close to as good as we could possibly wrestle as a team. I've been coaching a long time, and this is as proud as I've ever been of a team.
John Hollman
The only pressure I have is the pressure I put on myself. You can't worry about (the fan support). You just have to come out and wrestle.
Teyon Ware
We wrestle five times, so hopefully it will come Saturday.
Dan Cummings
I don't know if we expected to get trounced like that. But we had a lot of young guys wrestling against their seniors and juniors. We were hopeful we could wrestle a little better and not get pinned as much.
Charlie Morgan
Last year, they beat us 70-0. I was very pleased with how we worked today. We weren't intimidated. The difference is that a lot of the Council Rock South guys wrestle 12 months a year. Our guys have other interests - lacrosse, cross-country, golf, soccer. I think well-rounded is a better deal.
Craig Deacon
It's really frustrating. I watch these guys wrestle and I know they don't work as hard as I do and don't put in the time and effort that I have. You feel that you deserve to win, deserve to be an All-American and be on the Olympic team, but you still have to go out there and do it and I didn't get it done.
Luke Smith
Wilton always has a good team and it is a tough place to wrestle. Right now we are concentrating on (today). No matter what happens, on Wednesday we will start preparing for districts. We are taking it one step at a time right now.
Bill Plein
We were looking for a senior night win. We've got to wrestle with a little more heart. Sure, we're going to make mistakes, but we've got to have more heart.
Don Eggenburg
Some say he's the best in the country. I just want to go out and wrestle the best and see what I can do against him.
Trevin Cowman
He's been a little under the weather, and he hasn't wrestled his best in the last few matches. We expect him to wrestle better than what he showed tonight. He's got to step it up now and finish strong.
Scott Harmon
This is a rebuilding year for us, but we have some very good wrestlers in our lineup and some who have struggled, but for us to win we have to wrestle well, like we have all year. Anything can happen in a dual, but we will have to win the matches where we are favored and stay close in the others.
Russ Cozart
It was relieving when we got the decision. But I had practiced like I was going to wrestle. I didn't slow down or anything.
James Fleming
The wrestling coach came up to me and asked me if I wanted to wrestle. He explained the sport to me, and I said I'd try it out.
Sam Zylstra
Our seniors, Andy Hill and Mike Waters, obviously have big goals of making it to the state tournament. I want to see all five kids keep their focus and conditioning up. I want them to wrestle well but relaxed and not let the pressure get to them.
Kevin Mcfann
We're peaking at the right time of the season. We had to come into every match with high intensity. We made sure we'd be prepared, warmed up and ready to wrestle.
John Coutoumas
It was awkward at first because I didn't know what to do. When I first wrestled all I wrestled was boys. It didn't make me uncomfortable at all, but guys don't want to wrestle girls.
Moriah Fernandez
We knew he'd be back. We just didn't know when he was going to be 100 percent healthy to wrestle. We worked around his injury. We listened to Ben more than anything. His body told him what to do.
Greg Randall
Football players who don't wrestle think we are cheerleaders. We're not cheerleaders.
Alyssa Vavricka
The competition was excellent and we were very happy to get into (the tournament). We are group A so how many times are we going to get to wrestle Grundy. I'm really proud of all my wrestlers. We were at a disadvantage because we are not at the level of competition as the other teams but our guys went out there with courage.
Karle Byrd
It's going to be a stretch, but if the fall on their face here and we wrestle well, we can beat them. We want to send the seniors off on a fun night.
Mat Sprague
No matter where I ask him to wrestle, he never complains. He just nods his head and goes out and does the job. And he's in such great shape, he wears people down.
Robert Nebeker
You find out a lot about your team when you wrestle eight times in two days. Considering the caliber of competition, I'm happy with how we did.
Rex Miller
Every time I wrestle him I have a hard time with him. He constantly moves in and out. With a lot of people I can set up my ties, and with him, he stays away, so it makes the match a little bit more interesting.
Cole Konrad
Since we were celebrating the 50th anniversary of Bald Eagle wrestling we told the boys to continue to come out and wrestle hard and show those honored that the tradition is still going strong. And we need to continue to keep it going.
Skip Pighetti
I just have to wrestle more (matches) now. … I'm getting kind of used to answering the same questions. But it's OK. A lot of girls have come up to me and said, 'I couldn't do that.' But really, it's no big deal. It's just my life.
Priscilla Brownfield
He'd do all the bull work that none of the head coaches wanted to do. I think of him a lot. He'd want us to wrestle for ourselves and reach our goals, but he's in the back of everyone's mind who knew him.
Lucas Seelow
I think it was a great season for him. He will wrestle in college and this will be a building thing for him. I think he will be a better college wrestler than a high school wrestler.
Tom Trovato
We're banged up. We're looking to get healthy for January and February. In the grand scheme of things it's probably not worth it for them to wrestle in this tournament.
Shad Benton
With all six coming back I think we'll have a great season next year. I can't wait for it to start. I'll take about a week off and then enter a freestyle tournament. I plan to wrestle all summer. I still want that state title.
Brodie Ambrose
We won't take them lightly. They're the best in that area. We'll come in and see what we can do and we want to wrestle well. We've been upset before (In this meet). 1997 comes to mind.
Brent Faurote
We needed a win and the coaches told me to wrestle smart and get it done. This was my last year and I'm glad we were able to end it on a great note. Merrill is a tough team and we knew there would be some dog fights, but we got it done.
Steve Virgil
Most of them start out watching their kids wrestle. Then they fall in love with it, and start going to matches long after the kids are gone.
John Demarco
We need to get a bunch of guys to go in there and wrestle like they're capable of wrestling. We need to stay away from major upsets.
Brent Faurote
I think it's going to be a tight match. If we wrestle to our potential, I think we can win eight or nine matches and obviously we'd win. Even if we split seven-seven, if we do our job, we can win.
Chopper Mello
Our kids have worked hard all year and they deserve to wrestle (at team state). I think we'll go with our regular lineup.
David Maldonado
I don?t even think about (being undefeated). If those thoughts enter your mind, you may not wrestle to the best of your ability.
Manju Jabbie
We've been doing more intense drilling, so they'll go in there healthy and ready to wrestle. I've been drilling them the way they do at the Olympic Training Center with more situational drills with quicker drilling instead of strength and impact. Just quick repetitions.
Joaquin Bautista
He tried to wrestle, but he couldn't handle the pain.
Bryce Broughton
The time away (from wrestling) was good. I missed it. It gave me a lot of time to think. I'm glad I'm still able to wrestle even though I've had a lot of injuries. The feeling of going to the ring and that adrenaline rush is what I like most.
Scott Steiner
We are looking forward to it. We match up really well with them. It is one of the few teams that we will wrestle that we are favored in more matches than they are.
Tom Erikson
I'm still a firm believer that if you have a quality kid and he wants to wrestle in college, you can get him in school and get help whether it's financial aid, Pell grants or college scholarships. It obviously helps if you're a good student, because you can get some other finances through academics as well.
Jim Tonte
They're a very tough team to compete against, and they're the toughest team we've competed against so far, but I wouldn't say that's why we got creamed. We just didn't wrestle up to our ability.
Dustin Teeman
I won't go to a doctor. I'm scared he'll tell me I can't wrestle.
Greg Hawkins
It was real hard. I worked hard all year long and just to have a string of injuries toward the end of the year and one keeping me out, it was real tough watching my teammates wrestle out there without me. But I think it was a good thing that happened to me; it helped me to work harder.
Joe Dubuque
Lou has really put us on the map. He has been so important to this program because he's shown other kids in the school that you can wrestle and be successful at St. Mary's. Just because we're a small school and we have to roll out the mats in the cafeteria to practice, it doesn't mean we can't be competitive.
Wayne Hicks
We showed a lot of heart. We're really banged up. Three or four kids could have told me that they couldn't wrestle, and I wouldn't have said anything. But they sucked it up and wrestled knowing it was the Greensburg match.
Vince Deaugustine
This is the best I've seen B.J. wrestle all year. I hope he can continue to progress ... he has his sights set on a state championship this year.
Ben Gerdes
There are some challenges in the future that make it harder to do waste-to-energy, so we're going to have to wrestle with a few of those things.
Merlin Hove
I knew I was going to wrestle Collin in the finals. Collin is real good. We've butted heads in the practice room at camps . . . I have to wrestle the match of my life.
Ryan Fields
Our goal is to wrestle tough and try to earn some respect.
Steve Smerz
This tournament is a great chance to see some of the teams in our league we haven't seen yet. A lot of people haven't seen Fortuna wrestle this year. They haven't participated with hardly any of the league schools and they've been competing well.
Robert England
We want to wrestle as well as we possibly can. If we do that, we'll get some kids qualified.
Mike Zeyen
I'm looking forward to another shot at East because we seem to match up with them well. And these are all important matches. (Tuesday) night's were and tomorrow's are both important for seeding for districts. It's nice to wrestle them now.
Coach Tom Smalley
We still have a shot, if we wrestle our tails off. The kids are wrestling hard, and that's all you can ask for. We're right in matches with tough teams, but we're just not getting the job done in getting bonus points.
Anthony Verdi
We came out sluggish. I don't know why. It might have been because we had a long time between weigh-in and when we were supposed to wrestle.
Clifford Garnto
My goal is to make it to the second day. I want to wrestle as hard as I can and finish in the top three.
Will Bringgold
You can't lose the close ones -- 40, 52, 60. We lost them all. You can't lose the close ones. In a match like this against a team like that, you have to win those. Our goal is to always win the group, and if they want to win the group they can't wrestle like they did tonight.
Kevin Mccann
It doesn't matter who I wrestle. You still have to go out and get the job done. You only have to win by one point. Sure, you'd like to pin, but it's rewarding however you get the win.
Rob Hoffman
We just need to be able to fight hard, have heart and believe that we can win when we're out there. We can't worry about what it says in the paper. We just have to realize that these guys put one shoe on at a time like we do, and go out and wrestle.
Kerry Mccoy
I'm excited. Just the improvement these guys have made has been great. Hopefully we'll have two state champions. The kids that I have always step up. If they wrestle like they know how, we should be OK.
Joaquin Bautista
Just wrestle under the name of 'wrestling' or pick some other creative name. Because as soon as you make it about the fact that it's people of short stature wrestling, that's when you're inviting the exploitation.
Gary Arnold
They came to wrestle; we were at the prom.
Bruce Shumaker
We've got some tough matches, but we like to turn that around and say no one really wants to wrestle a Rapids kid in the first round of the tournament. To be champion you have to beat everyone. It's just too bad that some championship caliber matches will be held on Thursday night.
Scott Benitz
The biggest thing is we went out and wrestled hard and competed. We're probably in control of our own destiny, but we've just got to wrestle. We've got to take care of our job. We can't expect any favors from anybody else.
Mark Reiland
Our ultimate goal is to win the state championship. Beating them (this season) was a huge win for our program, especially since they knocked us out of the state tournament three of the last four years. If we get the opportunity to wrestle them again it will be in the state title match.
Todd Cheney
Tonight I don't know what he was. I haven't seen Kyle wrestle like that in two years. Hopefully, we can flush that out before Saturday.
Rob Leavitt
Josh and Lucas, these last couple weeks started to wrestle like they started this season. This was huge because it's a big confidence booster going into state.
Dave Schmidt
The same skills and drills have been taught to every boy who's ever tried to wrestle at Hartland for more than 30 years. The same hard work ethic, desire and passion is passed on to each class.
Kirk Evenson
It seems like whenever we wrestle, somebody wins by one point. And I think that's why our matches are so good, so intense. We know it's going to be close.
Brandon Kendzierski
The nice thing is that they'll have a bye next week (in the first round) so they'll get to see who they will wrestle. They'll get to a little scouting, which is always nice. Plus, it's one less match you have to wrestle.
Steve Smerz
It made me want to focus and get my grades up and not make the same mistake twice. I knew I wanted to wrestle. I wasn't taking care of it in the classroom. It caught up to me.
Joey Severino
Ryan only weighs 179 pounds and he's wrestling at 189 pounds, so most of the guys he is wrestling are bigger than him. Most of the guys he is wrestling are cutting weight to wrestle. For him to do what he did shows the type of heart he has. And he decided he would go 189 so his brother (Sean) could go 171. That shows you what type of person he is.
Tom Trovato
Having a tough team and people around you who want to wrestle helps. It keeps you going and you keep them going.
Peter Hooker
I'm not that disappointed (by losing to Bernard) because I've had that pressure of being ranked No. 1. I hated it. You've got that target on your back. Last year, I was ranked fourth, and that's better. No one notices you. You can just go out and wrestle.
Dennis Roche
Everyone has been stepping it up in practice, so we're ready. I can't wait to wrestle at league.
Jordan Beaver
We're not lying to the kids. We know we're not going to win the dual. What we're looking to do is to win as many matches as we can and wrestle well. We want to use it as a barometer going into the sectional.
Vince Trombetti
They're going to have to wrestle well, but they all could place. Right now, they're in the top 32 in the state and every match they win that number gets smaller. It's a good accomplishment to get to the final 32, but let's build on it.
Mat Sprague
It was good to wrestle someone of that caliber; it's nice to have that challenge. It will be good to learn from it and do better next time.
Alex Becka
We have to wrestle six minutes just like everybody else. That's his goal, he wants to get there and we're going to do the best we can to make sure he does it.
John Wetherell
Our boys came out, they were ready to wrestle. Shawn Switzer looked pretty good tonight getting back in the lineup. It was a great effort for a team that hopefully is going to peak at the right time.
Skip Pighetti
A biography is like a handshake down the years, that can become an arm-wrestle.
Richard Holmes
I just feel so good at this weight. And I feel so strong. I can wrestle any way an opponent wants to go.
Frank Molinaro
Everyone is good up there. Mike is good enough to defeat anyone at this level. He's good enough to come back and score. All he has to do is wrestle his match and he'll do fine.
Brian Kapusta
I am going to tell them to wrestle like Devils. And they should have nothing to lose.
Bobby Deberry
We didn't really wrestle bad. We came down here last year and just looked horrendous. Tonight we got caught and got beat.
Denny Schwartz
The White House is trying to wrestle back control of the agenda. He's got to proactively make news rather than just react.
Glen Bolger
In some ways that would have been nice. But I love the guys I wrestle with and I love the coaches. They work me hard.
Nick Parisi
We were a little flat coming out of the county tournament. We didn't wrestle to our capability throughout the lineup.
Mario Harpel
He's the hardest in the nation to wrestle. He's fast, strong and a great athlete. He has everything that I have to offer, maybe more.
Nate Gallick
I told them to wrestle clean and no mistakes, and to concentrate on their strengths. Let it flow, and don't get tight. Be aggressive and create your own opportunities. I told then not to let up.
Marc Billett
She has pink shoe strings, but she's one of the guys for the most part. People want to come watch her wrestle, and she goes after it.
Glenn Hartman
You tell him six weeks ago that he's going to be second in the state and I doubt he'd be disappointed in that at all. We didn't even know if he was going to be able to wrestle.
Joe Gordillo
When we came back, we had a good talk. It's disappointing to get a loss when you have five kids win and five kids lose. It puts a negative, somber note on the weekend. We're a good team, and we didn't wrestle as well as we should have. We need to wrestle with a sense of urgency and make the small adjustments.
Troy Sunderland
Switzer got us off to a good start. We're always telling our kids they have to wrestle the full six minutes, especially at the district duals where everyone is out to win.
Skip Pighetti
Danny and Cory are our best shots, but I wouldn't count Mike of Trevor out. If they can figure out a way to wrestle well, they have a shot.
John Chapman
I had to take a long road. After my quarterfinal loss, I had to wrestle a lot.
Joel Schlegel
The kids know we're a little bit of an underdog. But I think there's only two teams capable of beating Franklin in the state, and I think we're one of them. We have to wrestle our best, and try and make some breaks, but we've got a shot.
Bob Anniballi
We fought every match. I told the guys that we didn't wrestle our best match. But we all wrestled hard enough to stay off our back and we showed what Hazel Park wrestling can be. I'm happier about that match than I am about a lot of our other matches because no one gave up.
Mike Conflitti
Mike didn't wrestle real well. He wasn't as aggressive as he's been. He seemed a little intimidated by Nelson.
Tom Mcgarity
We knew it was going to go down to the wire. A couple of swing matches didn't go our way. They were ready to wrestle. They were the better team tonight.
Kurt Kuchenbrod
In the matches you can't do anything unless he happens to look over. It's different watching him wrestle.
Steve Okamura
(Hughes and Weisman) got what I call a good draw as for the district. If they wrestle to their potential, our thought is they will get to state. They both can qualify.
Mike Ellsworth
He's a tough kid. When he wants to wrestle he can beat anyone at any given moment. The key is to make sure he has confidence in himself. He's still a sophomore.
Aaron Sarra
We knew they didn't have a 171-pounder and Daniels didn't get to wrestle last week because Carthage bumped their wrestlers.
Kevin Huck
I just didn't wrestle my best in the semifinals. I think I got caught up in the moment and wasn't mentally in the match. That took me out of it. I definitely should've wrestled better.
Brodie Ambrose
He was determined to wrestle six minutes against Justin.
Mark Petersen
It's a shame that Rory can't wrestle, but it's good to have Joel back in the lineup. His career has been marred by injuries.
Jamie Kyriazis
If a couple things don't fall our way, New Bedford has the ability to blow us right out of the building. We need to stay right with New Bedford and wrestle them strong in all of the weight classes.
Marc Loranger
Part of our philosophy is to wrestle the absolute best, because that is what we want to be.
Clint Musser
We're just looking for a good effort. Realistically, every kid has a shot. If they wrestle as well as they can, they're going to make it through.
Mike Radke
If you wrestle a tough team tough it makes you a better wrestler. I think we did that.
Harvey Starbuck
It's really great. I though coming in here I would have to wrestle real hard to repeat. I came here and don't think I wrestled my best in the finals, but I managed to get that point to win the match and that's good enough for me.
Nick Twining
That was a hard match, just a really good match. Being ranked No. 1 in the state is weighing heavy on Mike right now. His first couple of matches here he was wrestling not to lose. He didn't wrestle as good as he can. But he's got to get used to the pressure; it comes with the territory.
Skip Pighetti
Although we went 2-2 we still wrestled fairly well. We played around with our lineup a little to see how we would do in certain weight classes and to get some younger kids mat time as they did not wrestle jayvees there.
Rich Ormand
Do we think about Rapids? Yeah. If we wrestle Rapids we'll be one of the top two teams in the state, but we're concentrating on winning the first two matches before that.
Scott Arneson
I think that shows you what wrestling the kind of schedule we wrestle does for you. Sure, some of our kids might take their lumps and not have a lot of wins, but it pays off in a big way at the end of the season.
Mark Durante
Kyle is wrestling extremely well right now. He came down from 140 to wrestle at 135 and he just wrestled real smart and aggressive.
Mark Petersen
I really wasn't thinking about anything. My head was so clear. I was just ready to wrestle. I knew I could handle him.
Nate Moore
Chet wrestled the best I have ever seen him wrestle in these last few weeks to close his career. He came up just short in a couple matches or he may have ended up qualifying for us as well.
Chuck Kearney
Maybe we can wrestle in our own gym.
Bob Greenly
You can't discount any of the teams, because it's such a tough (area). It's all about who's going to show up, wrestle best, who's healthy and the top two teams will come out of there and they'll represent our (area) in the state.
Jim Haskin
I think in some ways, we made the finals boring for some people. The kids just did a great job. ... Baker, he doesn't like to have to wrestle a girl. It just drives him nuts. He's just got to get beyond that and just finish that out, because he's been ahead of her every time.
Bob Freund
In the early matches we didn't have the intensity that we needed. They beat us at a few weights I thought we could win, but we didn't wrestle well. You have to credit Rapids, they got the job done.
Todd Vanderloop
[Conklin] started out a little slow, but he picked it up at the end. It's redundant, but if you wrestle hard the whole time, good things will happen and those two showed that.
John Lange
Their coach told me afterward that this place is crazy. But for the sectionals we'll have to use the gym and roll out the bleachers. It still will be good to wrestle at home.
Jon Kanavich
Casey has to remain focused and wrestle very well to get [to the state finals]. Casey is feeling good about this weekend. He is confident going into the tournament.
John Gluck
After our slow start this year, we had a meeting with the kids and told them that we had to get better every day and that we had to wrestle our hardest win or lose. They have responded and we are certainly doing that. There will be some more tight matches coming up and wrestling here (Paulsboro) is good experience. Our kids battled, all the way up and down the lineup.
Gene Barber
I feel like we could wrestle better, but that's how things go. Not many people in the state thought we would get this far.
Nathan Scherer
I learned long ago never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
Cyrus Ching
Gregg really did a great job for us. He's such an aggressive wrestler and he always jumped at the chance to go up against whomever and help the team. He never complained - he just wanted to wrestle.
Mike Semar
I'm just glad this day is over. This is almost like a wakeup call. I had never been put on my back all season long until (yesterday). I know I can wrestle a lot better than I did, and I'm going to go out there (today) and wrestle the way I know how.
Jonathan Taylor
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