There's a chance that we could wrestle six matches over the weekend. And we could wrestle four times on Friday. But we're excited about it. The kids have bounced back from the (Penn-Trafford) loss. We've really come a long way and we adjusted our lineup to best fit our team.

Chris Mary

Kyle's been one of the top wrestlers in our program since he's gotten here. He's a rock in our lineup, and that's nice to have on your team when you go out to wrestle.

Todd Vanderloop

We were glad to get (three) wrestlers out to district. I'm very happy Chip made it through to district. I'm just happy they all got another week to wrestle.

Matt Mccoy

The 14 guys wrestle so well together. There's no superstars, and nobody's out there to be the hero. We have just a bunch of guys on the same page doing their jobs.

Bill Verbeten

It's exciting to wrestle against the best. It's pretty intimidating going up north. Those fans are smart and let you know it's their territory. It'll be less intimidating wrestling at Liberty (High School).

Jeff Newcomer

If I wrestle in college it will be as a heavyweight and I'll have to bulk up a whole lot more. In a way, it sucks, but it wouldn't bother me. I'll be able to chow down instead of cutting weight constantly. I've weighed as much as 250 pounds and that's when I maxed out on the bench press at 485 pounds. So I guess being at heavyweight would be all right.

Jarrid Rodriguez

Burlington came out here at us and showed our kids that we weren't ready to wrestle.

Don Eggenburg

It's a long, hard road to wrestle back like I did. I wrestled tough and had a good tournament.

Jack Meritt

It was a good run. I was really on my way here, but it kind of fell apart. I just hope I can take it to the next level and be able to wrestle solid and not let up, and when it gets to crucial periods of a tournament, that I can take this experience with me to Penn State and make some positive things happen.

Derek Coffey

I guess he knew how I wrestle or something, because he just took me out of the way I wrestle. Every time I tried to set something up, he went for a collar tie-up, and he was just so strong.

Nick Shappee

We're doing well. Depending on how we do in the morning, we'll wrestle to win or for third.

Jim Nielsen

When you don't know David, he can be tough to wrestle against. But there are a lot of tough kids in that weight.

Doug Rine

I think our team came ready to wrestle today. I think we wrestled just about as good as we could. We did not lose a match we were supposed to win, and we won a few we weren't supposed to. I am proud of there effort, and they all did a good job.

Scott Auderer

I'm real proud of the fact all three of our seniors were able to wrestle in the district. I think they raised the bar from where it was and where we want to go. Hopefully, we'll have this many moving on to state next year.

Brad Todd

They know they need to wrestle their next opponent, and only worry about that one. There's no sense in looking ahead, because if you do that, you might not be there.

Curt Berger

It's a pretty big rivalry. We're both returning All-Americans. We're both the top lightweights. It's always a good match when we wrestle.

Joe Dubuque

We didn't wrestle well all day — yesterday and then today. We did not have a good tournament.

Gary Wilcox

Last year he barely snuck into district. Since then he put the work in. He's a gritty, hard-nosed kid who has really learned to wrestle. He has the confidence now.

John Gramuglia

It probably helps that we know each other so well. But it hurts you a little, too. I just need to go out and wrestle as hard as I can. If I do that, good things will happen.

Kyle Gilchrist

I would have never imagined for us to be 26-0 with the schedule we wrestle, but I am proud of these kids. They have all worked so hard, and I have never been around a team as close as this one.

Carmine Colace

When I was a freshman, I didn't wrestle as well here as I thought I could. I looked up at the stands and saw lots of people.

Troy Dolan

We're going to sit down and talk and figure out how to wrestle these matches. At this level it's hard to tell a kid to take it easy. … These guys are like pit bulls (at states).

Matt Giampietro

We have a big tournament at Pueblo Centennial this weekend and it's getting tougher and tougher every year. We're going to have to screw our heads on straight for it and get ready to wrestle.

John Haberman

It's almost like we have a chip on our shoulder, and I think that's the way we like to wrestle. Guys wrestle with a physical style, and I think they get after it and that's why it's an exciting opportunity for our young guys.

Lenny Bernstein

To take away games, you really, really need to examine the specifics and wrestle with it. This is a really big deal. It's something that none of us should take lightly.

Dan Jurdy

I'm still going to the state tournament. All wrestlers hate to lose. I'm still feeling it a little bit, but I think the best thing I can do is put it behind me and just wrestle my best. I'm still confident I can take the state tournament.

Mike Waters

We just didn't wrestle very well. We had a lot of guys who were winning but then got pinned.

Kent Hall

I guess if you had to point a finger at some body it would be us. We were 8-0 in dual meets in our league, but I don't consider us the favorite. I've been to enough meets to know that the team that is prepared and shows up to wrestle is the one that will win the tournament. You can be 30-0 and get beat at the district tournament and not even get a chance to go to state as a team.

Mike Simons

That's not important right now. Right now, I'm paying dues. What is important is getting exposure and a chance to wrestle.

Mike Speer

That was a total shocker. I think the kids were really hoping to wrestle Wells and turn some scores around.

Wally Caldwell

I feel like I improved a lot on my feet. I feel pretty confident. I might have to wrestle Matt again in the (region) semifinal. He beat me last year, so I wanted to make sure I beat him.

Pat Strizki

He's dangerous. No one likes to wrestle this guy, and I can see why.

Bobby Douglas

While the struggle was happening, the second security guard came in after firing on the subject. A third bystander also joined in trying to wrestle him to the ground. And while they were in that position on the ground, the subject stabbed the (second) security guard, who fired on him three times.

Matt Mclaughlin

He was anxious to wrestle. He had his head on at the right time. I'm very proud of him, too.

John Belyea

He knows an any given day he can be beaten if he doesn't wrestle.

Rob Willman

I wrestle him and he's a lot stronger. Then the same moves I try to put on him I put on the other guys, and it's a lot easier.

Dale Shull

He's 100 percent healthy and he has enough weigh-ins to wrestle at 52. A lot of people knew he was down to 52 because that's where he weighed in at the Washington County Tournament.

Rich Burgdolt

I don't discourage anybody. If you want to wrestle, you can wrestle.

Todd Fox

We're definitely looking forward to wrestling at home again. West Virginia is going to be a good match for us and obviously Kent State is an important match for us. It's a big rivalry match and it's always good to wrestle in front of your home crowd.

Joel Greenlee

When he was younger, I didn't want him to wrestle because I just didn't like it. Then when he started wrestling, I fell in love with it. I think Sam was born to compete.

Linda Mulleady

He's No. 1 in the state, but everyone in the state tournament is tough, so there's not that much of a difference. I'm going to have to wrestle him some time if I want to achieve my goal. He wrestled at 171 pounds last year, so I'm going to assume he's strong, but the way I'm looking at it, he's beatable. I'm just going to wrestle my match.

Zach Callas

I think all four can place if they wrestle to their capabilities. Obviously, at this level if you get a break or catch a little luck, that's always good, too.

George Bergman

I knew after watching Dane wrestle a couple times last year that he's got the whole package. He's very talented and has been wrestling for a long time.

Tim Giel

Hopefully we can wrestle a better match against him this time around. There are also two other kids that Justin has lost by two each. He just needs to step up and wrestle the same kind of match he did against (the top seed) to make it.

Sam Paul

The conference championship aside - that's great for the community, the school and everything else - but the kids realize how much tougher they're getting because we're starting to train. We have fun all year long. We wrestle and enjoy it and then we just start to pick it up.

Mark Deaugustino

If you have a three or four guys go deep, you can win the State Open. You've got to get everybody to wrestle well and get your team points. That's what we're going to try to do.

Ricky Shook

It was hard because some of our guys were pumped and ready to wrestle but then they had to have to sit out for a round. It took its toll on some of our younger guys.

Daniel Cramblett

The tradition there goes back a long time. It will be a good environment for our guys to wrestle in. It will be Big Ten wrestling at its best.

Scott Hinkel

She's doing well with her goals. She wants to go to Pacific University next year in Forest Grove and wrestle on its all-female wrestling team. She works hard. She's working hard so she can keep her goals. She's definitely improved over the years.

Larry Finnicum

I loved it right away. It was great to finally wrestle kids my own size and age after getting pounded by my brothers.

Whitney Conder

I know he thinks he didn't wrestle his best. But he's second in the state; that's got to feel good eventually.

Joe Gordillo

You need not wrestle for your good. Your good flows to you most easily when you are relaxed, open, and trusting.

Alan Cohen

By moving guys around, it only makes us weaker. Unless something happens this week, or someone gets hurt, I don't see us subbing. Our (regular) kids have worked hard all year and deserve to wrestle.

David Maldonado

It's the best I've seen him wrestle all year. I think he's peaking at the right time.

Ben Orth

We want our kids to be able to wrestle on a national level as well as a state level, and Evan and Nick have that experience.

Keith Walton

We had a really good tournament and we had guys wrestle hard. New Milford also had a great tournament. This says a lot for wrestling in our two little towns.

Ricky Shook

Putting 12 in the finals is almost more than you can ask for. I was proud of our five champions, but you always want more. We lost a few matches to better wrestlers and a few we just didn't wrestle well in.

Scott Benitz

The wrestlers don't have a chance to be in front of the home crowd and they seem to wrestle better because of that.

Kyle Mayse

That kid will wrestle seven days a week if you let him.

Darren Testa

Sitting out and missing the whole season was really frustrating, especially seeing the team wrestle and you can't wrestle.

Anthony Baccam

He goes after it. Out there, you see the guys who are winning, and they're out there to wrestle - they're wrestling the same way they've wrestled all year. He's wrestled enough in a lot of big tournaments . . . With the experience, it makes it easier.

Jack Walters

I'm sure he won't be seeded any higher than fourth. Even though he's a three-time section champion, that doesn't matter. It's about what he did this year and he just didn't get to wrestle that much.

Chuck Wonsettler

Girls have the right to wrestle and they should be allowed to wrestle with boys.

Nick Petrov

The older I get, the smaller the ones I wrestle with. I used to go at it with three at a time, I can't do that and come to work the next day anymore.

Gary Cook

I was pretty excited. I got to compete against some of the good AAA guys and out of state wrestlers that I'll never get to wrestle. This match will help because I went against a lot of different styles.

Troy Dolan

If all of our kids wrestle to their capabilities, they can place. It's a matter of mentally being ready to go. You just hope you're hot and put together a good tournament. We have kids that can do well.

Tyler Andersen

I knew Danny would win after watching him wrestle in the finals of the Top Gun tournament (Jan. 13-14 at Alliance, Ohio). Danny lost, 3-2, to a kid who also won at the Ironman tournament. That kid was dominating everybody until he wrestled Danny.

Mike Downing

The last four weeks we've been getting better each time out. Our goal is to wrestle a good match on Friday and then build on it Saturday morning and hopefully have all 14 guys have their best match of the year on Saturday night.

Scott Benitz

It's nice to be able to wrestle with my family and friends watching.

Alex Tirapelle

I wanted to wrestle smart. (Jordan's) a strong kind; he's real defensive and explosive. If you make a mistake, he'll counter it.

Kurt Backes

That just made me refocus. I worked my butt off after that and really got myself ready to wrestle.

Cody Moody

He liked to wrestle and hang out with his friends. Pat was like my best friend... we were together all the time.

Levi Brearley

I'm going to come out like an animal. If I don't step up and wrestle better than I ever had, that's it. But I'm going to place, I know I will.

Justin Rivera

For the seniors I know this win meant a lot. But we still have more we want to accomplish. We wrestle Fortuna on Tuesday and judging by their performances in prior tournaments it's going to come down to a few swing matches just like tonight.

Robert England

He's good. He's really good. But at this point, anything can happen. If I go out and wrestle my hardest, you never know what might happen.

Kurt Kuchenbrod

We started to wrestle more aggressive the second two duals. Even in the close matches, we wrestled better.

Roman Gutierrez

Everything that we do throughout the whole season - the number of matches we wrestle and the competition we wrestle - is in preparation for this.

Tony Vanhorn

We don't talk about that streak in the room, but when you reflect on it, it's pretty amazing and almost unbelievable. We've had two good weeks of practice and we're wrestling complete matches. Tonight might have been the best we've gotten all 14 guys to wrestle this year and I think we're still improving.

Scott Benitz

We figured it would be low-scoring. Luke can wrestle any style he needs to.

Mike Pratt

I just beat the 12th ranked kid in the state. I watched Hoffman wrestle at Top Gun and Brecksville and I thought I could beat him if I wrestled to my ability. I haven't looked at the district bracket yet, but I am hoping to go to state.

Jon Zofkie

We didn't wrestle the best we did all year. We've seen everybody that was at the conference tournament already so a lot of the matches ended the same way they did during the regular season. We could have won a couple more matches.

Jared Esala

We have a definite advantage at home. Teams have to walk through the big front door and then wrestle in the spotlights.

Jason Stevenson

It's going to be 10 times harder. That's because we didn't wrestle well at the Warrior.

Korey Kostur

You've got to be ready to wrestle no matter who you wrestle, that's all there is to it.

Ty Eustice

They chose not to wrestle for various reasons.

Sean Fleming

We wanted to come out here and wrestle hard because it's Murphy-Carbondale and our kids want to win. I know that both sides want to win and both sides came out and wrestled hard. You can't even make predictions in this meet because anything can happen from one meet to the next - but hey, it's Murphy-Carbondale.

Dan Baker

We'd hope so, a little of that intimidating factor. We go down to Reno and wrestle in tournaments and see a lot of different people from throughout the country, and they know of Keegan.

Kary Hadden

I've been lucky to have Zach. It especially helps that he is bigger because that makes the other kids I wrestle in my weight class seem easier.

Luke Manuel

I think they need to wrestle their match and things will take care of themselves. Kyle had two ranked kids and has to beat one, Devon has the top rated kid, and Justin has a few tough kids at 119.

Sam Paul

I feel like we can place in the top three, but it all has to do with the number of kids that can wrestle.

Rick Chapman

We just wrestle our match, that's really it. Try to stay focused on what we've done all year. He had the same type of match in the semis. We made the decision that we're going down and not neutral (to start the third period) and we need out at least to tie.

Dean Cox

I knew I had to take better shots. I was wrestling real poorly the first time (I faced him) so I knew I had to wrestle a lot better -- and I did.

Kyle Reilly

We were pretty banged up with injuries and sickness at the Hawkeye 10 and against Creston. We needed the rest to get everyone healthy. Having wrestlers out of the line-up has affected our team mentally. We have addressed that with the team and we expect to wrestle well Saturday.

Trevor Carritt

I can't really go wrong if I go there. I can get a great education and wrestle for a great team. I just have to get in first.

Lou Ruland Iii

(On Friday), I felt like I wasn't wrestling right. I was feeling really sick, and I was going to go home. But I chose to wrestle sick than go home and get well.

Bobby Escalante

When I wrestle someone at 103, they're not as strong as what I'm used to because I wrestle my brother so much.

Sean Hall

It's good to win, but we need to wrestle better. As a team we didn't wrestle good, but a few kids pulled it through.

Kyle Avery

Just watching them wrestle . . . they have that aura about them. They've been there, they know what is going on and they know how to take charge. They will be tough for any of us to defeat.

Gene Wilder

You have to wrestle. You come here to wrestle. If you don't wrestle, you lose. This call was correct. We didn't wrestle. That's not what we want the program to be known for.

Duane Watson

Three go to states. Do we run from these people? No. We go and wrestle.

Mike Downing

We had tough draws in the first round, and we knew it. We probably didn't wrestle quite as well as we could have. It's the state tournament, and there are a lot of tough wrestlers; everybody's good down here. You have to be ready to go.

Chad Latch

It's hard to get two byes and not have to wrestle until four.

Jared Digmann

Tecumseh is beatable. We just have to come out and wrestle well. We've never had a state-qualifying team before, and this is the best chance we have.

Tim Busen

This year, I want to go win the whole thing. Last year, I learned that I just have to go and give it my best every single match. I just have to wrestle my style and be able to wrestle the whole six minutes. Just keep pressuring my opponents to try to win.

Matt Gille

You're only as good as the competition you wrestle. If we wanted to, we could probably go undefeated every year in duals if we wanted to go find the weakest teams to compete against, but that's not our objective. Our objective is to go out and find the toughest competition to see what we're made of, and hopefully that improves us when we get down near the end.

Dave Schutter

Going into the match, I was seeded to lose. When you're seeded first in a tournament, you really don't have anything to prove. You just go out and wrestle like you're suppose to. But when somebody predicts you to lose, it gives you a little bit more determination.

Ryan Legg

We had five county champs. It's those wrestle backs that hurt us before. They helped us this time around, which shows you that it truly was a total team effort.

Jim Grim

I just wanted to beat him so bad. I never looked at the scoreboard. I was told not to look at the scoreboard and just go out and wrestle. I thought I was up. ... Still I won a silver medal but now I'll always think of what might have been.

Donny Clark

I really am looking forward to that. I have nothing to lose. He's the three-time state champion, and he's the guy with everything riding on him. I can just go out there and wrestle.

Adam Vaccari

I wanna go out with some character. It's a lot harder to wrestle back to third than second because you're coming off a loss.

Patrick Hunter

We're definitely ready. We've been to the playoffs before, so we know what to expect. We wrestle in the first round Tuesday night, so we're anxious.

Doug Castellari

I fought and fought because it's so important to these seniors. We wrestle so well at home at the regional here.

Mike Watt

He's been losing weight naturally throughout the year. So he'll wrestle 130 at Princeton this weekend.

Joe Gordillo

It was a convincing win for Nelson. Irwin and Scherer pretty much dominated. All three have a good shot at making the finals if they wrestle well.

Brent Faurote

He's had a nice year. Last year, he had an injury and it affected him in the individual tourney. He needs to be healthy and in his best shape. He tried to wrestle with one hand after he hurt his upper arm and shoulder.

Chris Mangum

It's that time of year, it really is. We've wrestled everybody that is ranked in the top 10 except for Parkview. But that's what you have got to do is wrestle tough people.

Steve Lattizori

It was a great learning experience for him. To be there in that atmosphere and wrestle against the best kids in the state is only going to benefit him in the long run. He is an amazing wrestling who had a great year. Hopefully, this motivates him to work even harder next season.

Kevin English

Someone is going to the finals who won?t belong there, and someone in the consolation bracket will have to wrestle a guy (McCoy) who is ranked No. 1 in the state.

Kacey Mcnulty

That's the best Oregon State team I've seen from top to bottom since the early (1990s). They wrestle hard, they wrestle physical and they're very well-balanced. There wasn't a weak link.

Chuck Kearney

We were very disappointed (by the loss). We've lost some wrestlers to attrition and injury, but we just didn't wrestle particularly well.

Jon Abernathy

Carlos had a good tournament. He's a senior, but this is just his first year to wrestle. We needed some big guys, so after football he came out for the team. I wish I had had him for four years because he has come a long ways.

Kent Hall

You have to understand the measurement of success sometimes comes in not where you wanted them to end up, but how far they've come. I've asked a lot of these kids to step up, and they've done that. I can't fault the kids. The majority of them wrestled as hard as they could possibly wrestle.

Wayne Branstetter

It took longer to weigh in than to wrestle. The other teams were just so small.

Kerry Benthin

He's worked hard, he's wrestled his whole life and goes around to different states to wrestle. I think it's sad how it ended for him.

Chuck Pipher

He continued to wrestle well. He moved very well on his feet. He hustles all the time and never slows down.

Brandon Roy

I want them to enjoy the week because it is a great accomplishment to make it to state. Each kid has to wrestle his best and if we can walk away with that we will be happy. As far as team standings go, we will be where we will be.

Doug Short

I watched him wrestle in his semifinal match and saw that he got tired in the third period. I knew I had to put pressure on him in the third period. He got tired and I took advantage of the opportunity.

Clayton Wetzel

We wrestled very well. We weren't outstanding. We just wrestled like we're supposed to wrestle.

Mike Radke

Last year I had butterflies all in my stomach. This year was different. I was calm and just ready to go out there and wrestle. I was just trying to get up early and hold on to the lead.

Shacoi Berry

He was harder to wrestle than most of the other guys. I just thought that I couldn't get turned on my back.

Michael Bowman

They are favored in a few more weight classes then we are. If our kids just show up and wrestle, then that is a meet that we can realistically win.

Jessie Reyes

Josh had a phenomenal season. He never missed a practice. He came to get extra workouts in. He worked hard and he sought advice from the coaches to improve and he showed up to every meet ready to wrestle for the team.

Bob Benincasa

We're trying to wrestle the toughest competition we can find.

Dave Carlile

This is a very, very big relief. I'm a very happy guy. He said there was no tear of any sort, which is what they were worried about. All I have to do is ice it, and I can wrestle whenever I feel like I can.

Chad Davis

I'm pretty disappointed, along with the rest of the team. We had our chances and we just didn't make the most of them. We just didn't wrestle well today. Sometimes when it rains, it pours, and that's exactly what happened today.

Patrick Timm

Some matches we need to win are 33 and 57, 65, 87, 97 and heavyweight. Those are some matches that we're capable of winning if we wrestle how we should.

Troy Sunderland

It felt good. I knew I had to come out and wrestle Casey as hard as I could.

Kellon Balum

We don't care who we wrestle. This is a together squad and I told them to relax and have fun. They've worked hard to put themselves in this position.

Mark Mears

It's pretty crazy, but I'm probably the least nervous I have ever been. I've been in this position so many times, now I just have to go out and wrestle like I know I can.

Shane Webster

We're just banged-up. When you give up five forfeits, it's tough to win. Latrobe wrestled well and we didn't wrestle our best.

Brian Kapusta

As tragic as this is, I'm proud ... of my six guys that wrestled this weekend, because they were able to overcome this awful tragedy and wrestle the way I think Caleb would have wanted us to wrestle. To have the guts and the courage to move on is astounding.

Gary Baum

He wants to travel. He's looked at the kids ahead of him, and he wants to go find them and wrestle them. He wants to go wrestle the best. That's who he is.

Jim Albert

We'll have to wrestle a smart match. He (Samuels) knows that.

Rob Willman

I knew as soon as the whistle was blown that Dwayne was going to run over and get it or wrestle it out of somebody's hands.

Dominic Kinnear

Every time you wrestle a team like Buena you get a team that's prepared. They will give you a tough match every time, and that's exactly what they did tonight.

Keith Hoover

We lost too many in the wrestle back but our four can make it pretty far next week. If we all place we should be top two or three. If we put at least three in the final we could win it.

Tyler Howe

I just kind of wanted to relax my senior year and not practice hard and have fun. But once that first tournament came around, it was like I just had to wrestle.

Drew Velasco

I didn't even know if I was going to be able to wrestle this year and now I'm going to state.

Dylan Jans

It creates more opportunities for girls to prove they can wrestle, whether it's with boys or other girls. That young lady is blazing a trail for wrestling in Wisconsin and for women's wrestling in the country.

Bob Empey

Cats tend to stalk and pounce, so he's trying to do that as well as play with her. With dogs, they tend to wrestle and jump on top of each other. They're trying to find a happy medium.

Autumn Nelson

Josh wasn't quite there at 130. He was wrestling OK, but his shots weren't quite there. He wasn't wrestling like I expected him to wrestle.

Trent Rollins

Going 4-1 is a pretty good day. When you wrestle five matches, you're going to be tired. In his last match Wednesday, he beat the No. 3 seed 7-5.

Andy Coulombe

We just don't know yet. That's one of the issues the executive committee is going to wrestle with.

Barry Cullen

We only won four matches but we got bonus points from three of those four. Cleveland State is a decent team that beat Ohio State earlier this month. There's kind of a rivalry between us so we were fired up and ready to wrestle.

Joel Greenlee

I've never had a kid who will match John's work ethic. He would wrestle live every day if I let him. He truly loves to wrestle.

Ron Ledbetter

It's great for the central area. We will have a place for our kids to wrestle locally that will be able to get exposure.

Randy Pfitzer

When we're in Ann Arbor, it tends to be more of a 50/50 crowd which is unusual anywhere else we're visiting. It always rocks, and it's always very intense. It gives you some extra voltage when you wrestle.

Tom Minkel

To be honest, we didn't wrestle very well. We had some opportunities to get some more wins and didn't pull it off. We made some mistakes we shouldn't be making this time of year.

Pat Timm

We learned a lot of things wrestling in the district meet. The kids picked up a lot about how wrestlers that are good enough to go to the state finals wrestle. Watching good teams, you learn a lot about style and aggression and what the sport is really about.

Ryan Kardash

We try not to think of numbers and rank. We have a team with enough talent that if we wrestle our best, we can beat a team ranked higher than us, like Cornell.

Matt Valenti

I hope we wrestle them again. It's good, but it's also bad. These kids worked so hard to get the No. 1 ranking, and they kind of just gave it away. We tried to warn them that High Point was a great team and ready to take it to us.

Kevin Mccann

We're just going to continue to focus on doing the things that we do. The worst thing to do is worry about what someone else is going to do and get away from what you do. So we want to focus on our core strengths and just wrestle hard.

Kerry Mccoy

Even though we didn't wrestle our best, we definitely made progress. This team has gotten a lot better over the course of the season, and the conference has gotten better. We fared pretty well. It's just really about declaring yourself as a competitor.

Joe Wells

My uncle used to wrestle. I just love wrestling.

Alyssa Vavricka

It's going to be a tough tournament. It's going to be a tournament in which we could improve on some district seeds if we wrestle well.

David Ganey

It's going to be a good match. ... The way I look at it, it's just another kid to wrestle. Don't worry about what he's done in the past, and what his record is and all of that. I just look at it as another match to go out there and make sure I get the win.

Andrew Dahl

I didn't wrestle him in last week's section tournament, I wrestled him in a dual meet. I'm not taking anything for granted. I just have to go out and wrestle.

Paul Snyder

I was against the same type of guy and I was up 16-2. I didn't wrestle smart and he tossed me with 15 seconds left. I learned a lot from that mistake.

Sterling Coons

I wasn't sure what to make out of this season. I wasn't sure if I was just getting lucky with some 103-pounders. It was when I started bumping up to wrestle guys at 112 and kept winning that I started to think I really had something here.

Tom Morton

You have to wrestle smart. You can't just go out and try a new move. You have to do something constant, something you know you can do.

Astin Villarreal

Each week you have to wrestle at a higher level. We all have to step it up this week.

Donnie Ament

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.

Kyle Pasek

When they saw me wrestle, that's when they moved me to defense, ... Wrestling is kind of the same technique you'd use on the defensive line, where you have to stay low and use your hands.

Mike Patterson

It's weird. We've been going at it for so long that we can't really wrestle each other anymore.

Jamie Franco

Pete has come on very strong lately. He's finally figured out how to wrestle instead of just brawling.

Don Cooley

My legs felt like Jell-o out there. I did not wrestle well at all. I just had to wake up.

Jeff Solomon

We didn't show a lot of spark after winning the sectional. But we wrestle with a lot of emotion tonight. I was happy with the effort.

Pat Hogan

Arundel came to wrestle and we didn't. Kids who won the first time didn't win tonight. That shouldn't never happen.

Rex Miller

When you wrestle a team so many times it gets closer and closer, but that didn't happen today. The kids wrestled great and we were able to rotate kids in. It feels great. It's a little different going in as a favorite. We have to take it one step at a time, two down five to go.

Todd Cheney

He just can't continue. We understand that. I'm proud of him for even trying. If he did not wrestle this year at all, he'd still have accomplished more than most other wrestlers in a lifetime.

Cory Cooperman

We just didn't wrestle well. We gave up points. We gave up pins. If you're going to lose, you have to manage your score so we can get points.

Gary Wilcox

We started the year with a victory and we ended the regular season with a victory. I was glad for the seniors to get a win over Perry. We were very aggressive and ready to wrestle whereas earlier in the evening versus ADM that wasn't the case.

Jim Pappas

I?m just not very pleased. Yeah, we won 55-15, but they gave up a lot of forfeits. We were lackadaisical and empty and we can?t wrestle like that to win.

Joe Horvath

Our shape is good and we're going to wrestle hard. It's great to have the tournament (at home).

Dave Grant

All of the guys are capable of beating me. If I wrestle up to my potential, I am capable of beating any opponent.

Dave Connolly

We're excited every time we come down here and get to wrestle some of the best teams in Delaware and teams from North Carolina, Virginia and so on.

Mike Semar

He's definitely a good wrestler, but if Chris can come out and wrestle like he did at districts, there's no doubt he can advance.

Travis Reinsch

I think we've got a good chance to get a lot more guys through to district this year and that will help our team score. It's just a matter of how we wrestle on that day. If we wrestle to our full potential, I think we can do very well as a team.

Brad Todd

I think they let it fly in the first match and they were down in this one. They were flat and weren't ready to wrestle. They were so elated with that first win that to come back against a quality team ... they had to be ready to go, and they weren't ready to go.

Kevin Mccann

I can say I got to wrestle at Wells Fargo (Arena) the first year it held state. I'm happy about that.

Evan Brown

It all boils down to mistakes, and he had some today. He's beaten half of the kids ahead of him, but he just didn't wrestle his best today.

Eric Sorensen

As long as we wrestle well and finish strong, we should definitely make the groups, but we'd like to be a first or second seed going into it.

Erik Simonsen

If they wrestle like they did this weekend, we could make a statement at states.

Erick Jensen

We wrestled fairly well today. We wrestled at the Bo Henry Tournament last week; we wrestled really well there. Today, we didn't wrestle as good as we could've and I think the guys realize that; I think they kind of figured out that there may have been a few matches we lost that we should've won.

Zach Errett