473 quotes about wrestled follow in order of popularity. Be sure to bookmark and share your favorites!

Like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed. I drew with a stick on the sand the diagrams of my motor. A thousand secrets of nature which I might have stumbled upon accidentally I would have given for that one which I had wrestled from her against all odds and at the peril of my existence.

Nikola Tesla

I'm really proud of the way my team wrestled this year. It's one heck of an accomplishment.

Wayne Hicks

I'm glad for the kids. I think the kids wrestled really hard. I think we came up just a little short of winning second place.

Steve Lopez

Brian was due for a good tournament. He wrestled really well.

Vince Bicocca

It was a real disappointing loss for the kids. We expected to win going in. It's just a tough loss when it comes down to one point. There are so many different things to look at, but Bret Harte deserves credit. They wrestled really well.

Vince Bicocca

I lived wrestling. I took only one week off after my junior year. I lifted weights, ran and wrestled five or six times a week. Then I traveled to Pennsylvania last summer to compete.

Shaun Toomey

I thought the kids came together and wrestled exceptionally well. The best thing is we came back from adversity.

Jerry Mcswords

We're pretty happy with that. We've gotten a couple of seniors back in Conte and Stover. They've only wrestled about 10 matches each.

Mike Humphrey

They were clearly the better team. We knew it was going to be really tough tonight, and we wrestled okay, but okay is not good enough against those guys.

Carl Adams

I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, and I'm happy, Doctor, I finally won out over it.

James Stewart

Our whole team wrestled really solid. It was a tough tournament. There were state placers in nearly every weight class.

Tony Prentice

We had some injuries toward the end of the season, but a lot of teams have that. It's very gratifying. The kids wrestled [well].

John Salmon

Taylor wrestled a good match, but needed to be a little bit more aggressive on his shots.

Chad Latch

I actually wrestled the No. 1 seeded guy first. I didn't realize he was the No. 1 seeded guy until I after I wrestled him. The brackets were messed up, so I didn't know.

Josh Humlie

He has wrestled in many, many national competitions.

Mark Grindstaff

He wrestled very well coming up the back side. He was behind in every match, but came back and won.

Jim Heinzler

We wrestled Mount Pleasant at Trinity's Elite Duals, but Zach and Donnie didn't face each other. It will be a great match ... assuming both make it to the final.

Chuck Tursky

We wrestled really tough. We just gave up some late pins. We fought hard and wrestled well. We made some mistakes and they capitalized on it. I'm happy with the effort but not with the outcome.

Dennie Mcdaniel

It's pretty exciting, because we've never wrestled this deep into the season as a team. I think it's going to be a good match and all we're focused on is Bonduel. If we win that first one, then we'll get ready for the finals.

Dan Hahn

If he wrestled like he did when he won the tournaments this year, he'll make it to state.

Cameron Beard

I feel pretty good about the way we wrestled.

Marshall Hahn

I've wrestled since I was 6 years old. I've gone through some of the most excruciating wrestling camps, where they say, 'We're going to kill you.' I made it through all of them. When it comes right down to it, it's all mental.

Mike Whitehead

It was good to see the pins. But there were a couple of guys who could have wrestled a little better.

Roman Gutierrez

I feel pretty good about it. My confidence is high going in there. I've already wrestled like 10 ranked guys this year. I'll have to upset a few people, but for me it's not an upset. I know I can get on that podium.

Pat Castillo

We have wrestled better, but everyone is very tough in the state tournament.

Mark Bowman

It wasn't what I wanted. I'd rather leave here with a third than (leave) with nothing at all like I did last year. I guess I wrestled a lot better once I lost because it gave me the drive.

Tommy Hill

I thought he wrestled a great match when he defeated Mark Brown. He wrestled smart.

Brian Kapusta

It was a nice win for us. The boys wrestled with intensity. We're getting our groove going before the conference meet, which is a good thing.

Jim Guttridge

It was good. We wrestled real well. We had a lot of young guys step up. We rebounded real well.

Joaquin Bautista

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

He just wrestled solid. It was basic stuff, nothing really fancy.

Kirby Moses

It was a good match for Knapp. We wrestled well as a team and that's something to build on. We went out there and had some fun but tomorrow is a whole new day.

Joel Greenlee

There were a few close matches where we might have been able to pull out a win, but we just didn't match-up that well with Connellsville. Everyone wrestled tough and it's always good to see how you stack up with the top teams.

Darrin Cummings

She wrestled like we thought she could. And we got her wound up enough to get excited. She's a pretty mellow kid and she wrestled very aggressive.

Kerry Benthin

We have overcome injuries and sicknesses and wrestled real well at the state tournament. It's been a long season but we'll remained focused.

Trevor Carritt

We went out and wrestled tough, and with a lot of power. That gives these guys a lot of confidence going into the final.

Larry Goodnature

That?s three great matches he?s wrestled for us (since a shoulder injury). Blake is a four-time state champion. He knows how to win.

Russ Hellickson

I think they just wrestled hard. The guys who won, the guys who lost, every single one of them wrestled tough. Windsor is a well-coached team. We knew they were going to come in and just get after us. In order to prevent that, we've got to make sure we're even more prepared.

Adam Alirez

As a freshman, Bryson did everything, and more, that you would expect a freshman to do. He came in and wrestled like an upperclassman. He's one of those guys we knew we could count on. We could see growth from week to week.

Wayne Smythe

This was a good match for Kyle. We knew it was going to be a tough one. Kyle gave up the takedown early but he wrestled tough after that. He's focused. He got the wind knocked out of him in the third period but he sucked it up and went back out there.

Steve Kurzinger

Denny Linton wrestled a great tournament and was selected as the outstanding wrestler by the coaches.

Ariah Fasana

Coley didn't wrestle his best, but he wrestled well enough to beat a pretty good kid.

Bill Plein

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

It was incredible. We wrestled outstanding. We broke the record for most points, most champs, most finalists and most placers. We had 14 placers. You can't do better than that. It was amazing.

Todd Cheney

Brandon has had a tough season, but tonight he wrestled much better. For a sophomore to pin a Moffat wrestler - it's a highlight.

John Wisniewski

What can you say. Wayland wrestled tough. They're good. I thought we'd win maybe three more matches than we did. Our kids weren't up for it. But then again, Wayland should probably win the states.

Dave Baldanza

She wrestled tough. It was a long tournament with long time periods between matches. That can cause fatigue for any wrestler. She won the important matches.

Dan Roton

Ryan came through. He wrestled an exceptional tournament.

Jerry Mcswords

The team wrestled very well against top competition and I think we did regain some respect from everyone down there. There were only powerhouse teams ahead of us.

Bob Greenly

Michael's a committed athlete. Loves the sport and has wrestled well. We've wrestled against the Eastern Slope schools in our region a lot this year and he's dominated in those matches.

Guy Brickell

I think the team next year is loaded with some young talented guys that will really step up and do well. Coach [Cramer] is awesome. He's been around the sport for so many years, having wrestled in college and all. He's someone we all listen to because he's been there and gone through everything.

Brandon Macarz

There's a lot of times you've just got to have the chance. Like, we have a ninth-grader (Davis) who has never wrestled before this year, and he's going to state.

Brad Eubanks

He is a wrestler who likes to stay real far away. So I made sure that I was an arm distance away from him. I grabbed the wrist at all times that I could. I wrestled my match, or tried to at least.

Jared Jaminski

We wrestled very well against Latrobe. [Latrobe] had just dominated a very good Albert Gallatin team. Latrobe gave us a good battle, but the kids came through when we needed it.

Chuck Tursky

We wrestled pretty well against them. We had to forfeit one weight and won five matches. They are a perennial top five, top eight team in the state and they are very good this year.

Andy Coulombe

I thought they wrestled well. I can't say that I'm disappointed with one kid today. They all put it out there.

Mike Radke

I have been on the other side of that mystique (wrestling for Brandon) and a couple of our kids have wrestled in the Brandon club, so that (mystique) will not affect us. We will not be intimated by Brandon.

Dennis Kitko

Buddy really wrestled tough against a very good kid. He was in on the kid's legs a few times and couldn't quite finish, but he is making big improvements.

Robert Arballo

We haven't beaten Bedford since 2001, the year we both won state. If we would have wrestled a little smarter, we might have gotten them today. The opportunities were there, but we didn't capitalize and Bedford did. I've got to give them credit. They pulled out the wins in key situations.

Tim Roberts

I think that we wrestled pretty well overall. As far as the final round goes, we wrestled extremely well. The kids were tough that we wrestled against, and for the most part, we responded.

Bob Berceau

We don't have an eighth place on the wall (BHS mat room), so I don't want to put one up there. I went out and wrestled my match.

Nathan Scherer

He was one of the strongest kids I've wrestled against. I went in with a good attitude, and told myself I wasn't going to lose.

Chris Harvey

My dad is really into wrestling. My dad wrestled in the past and always talked about it and we tried it out one day and I fell in love with it.

Denny Linton

I'm not so impressed with the eighth-place finish. But the kids wrestled hard and I think we're ready to go into the sectional tournament.

Jim Pappas

I am certainly pleased with their performance at the county tournament, everyone who won All-County honors and the kids who didn't. They all wrestled competitively.

Don Jantzen

The guys wrestled tough today. They just built on the way we're wrestled the last couple of weeks and took care of business.

Bill Reed

It wasn't as easy as it looked. He's really a tough opponent, he kept coming at me, I wasn't expecting him to come at me like that. He did his part and wrestled me tough.

Darrion Caldwell

He wrestled very intelligent. He never got himself in trouble.

Jim Smart

We wrestled at 11 o'clock, 1 o'clock and 3 o'clock, and they were all tough teams. We had a good day. Our kids wrestled tough.

Bobby Deberry

All 14 guys contributed and we had some (consolation) guys win some big matches for us. Some of our guys are a little disappointed, but I think they wrestled hard and did the things we asked of them.

Matt Young

We wrestled well. We are learning how to compete through the lineup. We won five matches and could've won four more. There were a couple of close matches.

Mario Harpel

He likes to get the first takedown. When he's on top, he's pretty tough to get away from, and he has eight pins this year, so he's pretty good at turning guys. On the bottom, he's difficult to hold down. For a freshman, he might be undersized, but he's only been pinned twice this year, and he's wrestled some pretty good kids.

Paul Nicodemus

These were just two evenly-matched teams and if we wrestled 10 times we would probably split.

Pat Boyd

Jamie wrestled a tough and dangerous opponent. He wrestled smart and avoided a pin from a guy who is known for pinning his opponents.

John Sacchi

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 was the best that Matt has wrestled all year. He's looking real good.

Kent Hall

Sam had an excellent tournament for a freshman. He had a real good chance, at one point, of winning the whole thing. The champ basically walked through the competition except for when he wrestled Sam.

Craig Oren

They all have an unfailing respect for him and they see having wrestled for him as a rite of passage.

Kurt Howell

I wanted to have my senior in that last match. It was a tough loss, but there was good wrestling nonetheless. We wrestled to our potential.

Ben Orth

He wrestled hard and he gave all he could. He had a great career. He placed in the region four times and is only the fifth Herndon wrestler to do that.

Tyler Andersen

If I go to sections, I go to sections. If I go to state, I go to state. Whatever happens, I just want to go out with a bang. If I go out, I want the guy who beat me to know that I was a Bret Harte guy and that I wrestled with a lot of heart.

Jose Cañez

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

Our kids are in shape and they wrestled very hard. Cody was on a mission. As a senior, he wanted to come away with no questions about who was the best in the KSAC.

Tim Curtis

I wasn't happy. I felt I could have wrestled a lot better.

Trevor Hall

If he gets past that kid, there is a good chance he goes all the way to the final. He wrestled a good match. The kid was just got the better of the overtime.

Kevin English

That was probably the first time I've been totally impressed, 100 percent. We wrestled the toughest competition - top-ranked wrestlers - and just went after it. They all beat top-ranked wrestlers whether they placed in the tournament or not. And to come out with a third place trophy and missing two of our guns, man, that's unbelievable.

Adam Alirez

Every match with Nick has been close. We've wrestled four times [in high school matches] and I've won all four. This win means more since it's my senior year.

Ashtin Primus

I was kind of tired and I didn't warm up that good before the first match. I got a much better warm-up in before this last match and I wrestled a lot better.

Shacoi Berry

I'm not quite sure if he was ready or not. If he wrestled him again he'll be ready. When you get to those type of matches, you have to be able to step it up in the championship match.

Darren Weber

Alan got down right away. But he came back. He really stepped up and it was nice because it got the team rallying again. We lost at 125 and he was down, so the guys were down. We ended up being up for that match and he wrestled real well.

Todd Skinner

I give credit to West Ashley. They wrestled hard and beat Stratford to get here.

Dennie Mcdaniel

Conroy weighs in at 106 and wrestled opponents near 114. He wrestles non-stop. He has the heart of a lion. He pushed his opponent to the edge in both matches.

Al Gaccione

I get more nervous for (Josh) than I did when I wrestled. I wanted him to do well. I knew how much pressure he had. I'm so happy for him.

Justin Arthur

I was pretty confident because I'd wrestled him before, and beat him, so I had the mental edge.

Chris Harvey

He wrestled with it the rest of the year, but there was a point where he wanted to quit. I was talking to him and talking to him about it, but he needed to find himself, and he did.

Chad Powell

We've got a lot of young guys on the team this year. Tonight, they just flat-out wrestled. They just brought it.

Bob Berceau

This was really new to them and they suffered from culture shock. After that, they wrestled really well. It didn't help that they were in tough weight classes with 119 (Karns) being the toughest and 125 (Parker) right up there.

Shawn Finch

That's a good year. Three of those (losses) came down to the last match. We're pleased with the 13-4 record. We wrestled a tough schedule.

Andy Davidson

I'm excited. I'm also proud of the guys who weren't able to qualify. We had a day where we beat guys we lost to earlier this year. The whole team wrestled well.

Trevor Carritt

Everything went wrong. No one wrestled like they did Monday. No one went out with half as much intensity, half as much pride.

Mike Burke

We knew we were going to have a rough time. We lost a couple of close bouts. For the most part we wrestled hard in front of a very hostile Mesa High crowd.

Dan Southard

We did real well. We didn't lose a match [that we wrestled], so yeah, that's pretty hard to top.

Lennie Zalesky

We would've liked to have wrestled a little better in some of those matches, but the biggest thing is getting the win and moving on. But we're going to need to get some bonus points along the way.

Mark Reiland

He knew all he had to do was beat the guy in front of him. He went out there and wrestled his match.

Aaron Sarra

We had some competitive matches, we wrestled well, we had to forfeit our matches which makes it tough. Overall it was a positive last meet.

Bill Cole

The guys started slow but finished strong. Eight out of the 10 guys wrestled to their seed or above.

Rocky Bonomo

Our kids supported each other all day and everyone wrestled to their potential.

Jim Day

He's had some really good workout partners in the room. And we got him into some JV matches, but there's nothing like going out and wrestling varsity. We got him back for Utah and he's wrestled really well.

Mike Pallotto

He ended up being a little stronger than I expected. In that second period, I got a keyhole move. I wrestled him last year in the finals and got him on the same move. You don't see all nine people in the finals that much. Then again, you don't see all nine win it, either.

Kyle Grape

Our kids came out and wrestled hard. They have their goals set and came out after them. The impressive thing was the quality of the substitutions. They came out and got after it, too.

Brian Hearne

All those guys coming up that back side wrestled tough.

Jim Heinzler

We wrestled tough. We just want to do our best at state. We've done everything we can do to perform. We've still got a little bit of work to do, but we'll just keep wrestling tough.

Brock Moore

This might be the last match ever in his career. I thought he wrestled the best match of his career.

Mark Sommer

I think our guys have wrestled really hard. They have all gone out and competed for us. It is important that our guys come through the back door to get us points.

Barry Harrington

I didn't want to repeat my junior year at Masters, so I wrestled as hard as I could.

Drew Velasco

He wrestled a great tournament. Obviously, you'd like to win a state title, but wrestling's a sport where anything can happen and sometimes it does happen.

Tom Trovato

That was a big match. They had wrestled each other before and it was really close.

Greg Varela

He's injured, but I'd want him to be at his best if I wrestled him.

Trevor Melde

A lot of forfeits, so it just came down to a couple of key matches. As it turned out, we had a few more wrestlers than Gwinn did. They're very much like us. They're very young. So it was nice to get the win, but both teams had not wrestled well.

Andy Skewis

Tylor wrestled aggressively the entire tournament. He was focused on offense for every second of his matches.

Jeff Courtright

Everybody felt good. We wrestled well and it was pretty exciting to win.

Dave Gracia

We wrestled him tough all match and it just didn't turn out our way. It doesn't sit good in your stomach. I don't like it.

Jason Emmons

We always knew that Marcus was a special kid. He just wrestled his heart out (Saturday night) and it was awesome to see him win.

Jerry Sisneros

He's wrestled in those situations so many times in tournaments, and that's something not a lot of parents or coaches understood when they watched him. He's experienced those big-type atmospheres.

Duane Blackburn

I was proud of the way all six of our guys wrestled. We were picked to finish 12th, and they battled all weekend to do much better than that.

Roman Gutierrez

That's a strange choice, but we've wrestled Kalispell so much, I think they were confident Ryan would go for a leg ride. The coaches were all yelling that from the side and Ryan picked up on that and did a cradle into a pin for the win.

Marty Kloker

We wrestled really well. We had so many guys step up and come through the back door really hard for us. It was the most complete effort we've had.

Barry Harrington

Tanner wrestled a real savvy match that should put him in a position for a decent seed at the district tournament. Cody, who has been pretty flat for the last several weeks, looked like the Cody we saw earlier in the year and turned in a great performance.

Dan Knight

More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill - none have wrestled without pride.

Dan Gable

Not a bad season. In the last match, once we knew we couldn't win, we wrestled some different guys. We've had so many injuries that I didn't know if we could beat Richmond, but we gave it a good try.

Jake Shulaw

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

We've gone through a great season. We've wrestled a lot of quality opponents this year and we've been in the fire before. We're tapering at the right time and our guys will be ready to go.

Dave Grant

Jesse Wood got a win for us. He's been very consistent and he's wrestled very well. And Jason battled to get a win. Overall, we just didn't compete very well. We are better than what we showed tonight.

Pat Timm

I knew it was going to be tough getting another victory against them. We need some matches like we had last year (a 52-16 Milton win). But we lost all the close matches. We haven?t wrestled well in our own gym this year.

Bob Greenly

We were thrilled to host it. I'm happy that we took third and we wrestled the best we could.

Roger Bubel

It has probably been the most stressful week of my life for me, getting all the guys prepared. This has been our goal all season long, even dating back to last season. The guys worked hard and wrestled very well today. They deserve this.

Nate Etheridge

Hopefully, he's 100 percent. Charlie's been going full tilt in practice for two weeks and has wrestled in two matches. He's missed a lot of mat time, but is not as beat up as many of the kids he will face in the postseason.

Chuck Wonsettler

The performances by everyone were outstanding. A lot of the [opposing] coaches took notice of how we wrestled.

Brian Degaetano

With each match he's getting faster and his timing is getting better. He's so excited and he wrestled very, very good today.

Armando Gonzalez

Jarrell came back and won by one. Hopefully, that may help him turn the corner. Tobias wrestled well - everyone did. wrestled with heart tonight.

Don Eggenburg

Coming off a long tournament at Penn State this weekend, I just don't think we had that spark. But at the same time, Central wrestled quite a dual. They won all the one-point matches.

Tom Minkel

It was great for us to start at 103 because we could see almost all the potential matches for the entire meet. Pittsville has a good team and they wrestled tough. I think the biggest difference was we won the close matches.

Bill Verbeten

Every kid he wrestled placed in the top six, so that means you hit the best that were here. But he was able to handle it.

Wayne Smythe

Jon wrestled hard and gave 110 percent and that's all you can ask of him, win or lose.

Jason Rostorfer

Brendan wrestled (Nicholson) a pretty athletic and pretty strong heavyweight from Marion-Franklin.

Jerry Mcswords

I'm happy (Beau) came down and busted his fanny to get a medal. He could have maybe won a couple more, but he wrestled well. He had a goal to get down here and he did it.

Marty Ruley

I knew how good they were, and we wrestled them awfully tough. We were in four overtime matches.

Scott Goodale

We wrestled well. We're just getting ready for district right now. There was a lot of good wrestling on both sides.

Terry Foster

The guys rebounded well from that first loss last weekend. We wrestled well after that. We just got caught a couple times in pins. We've got to turn some of those things around.

Jim Zalesky

He wrestled smart. He's a tough kid. I can never count him out.

Mike Pallotto

That was the best I've ever wrestled, this year at least. I'm coming off a knee injury. I need to have surgery. For me to win all my matches here and at districts means a lot to me.

Owen Thulin

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

He didn't place but wrestled pretty well.

Joe Gaboury

This was a nice win to finish the season. Everyone in our lineup looked tough and wrestled the way we've preached all season.

Jeff Courtright

Brock only wrestled six varsity matches last year and now he's a state qualifier. They gutted their way through a lot of things this season. There were times they picked up the team and carried them on their backs in dual meets.

Pat Stendback

We stepped up and showed what we can do. Everybody wrestled tough.

Jon Warren

I'm very, very proud of everyone who's wrestled before. All the alums here watching are part of this championship.

Matt Oney

We knew Webster-Thomas would be tough. Section V teams are always tough and they just wrestled awesome.

Rob Weeks

He is mentally tough, and he wrestled with confidence. He was out to prove he could be a state champ.

Bob Adams

There were good kids at his weight. He wrestled each match smart. He was a little conservative, but he went out and executed.

Chuck Tursky

They are wrestling with a lot of the same pollution problems that we wrestled with several years ago and that, to some extent, we still are grappling with.

Steve Page

It probably hasn't happened many times [in the 53-year history of the tournament]. There have been a lot of brothers who have wrestled in this tournament, but there can't be many who have won the same year.

Chris Como

They are as solid as I've seen them in a long time. They are good position wrestlers. They are very, very solid. They are always well?coached. My hat's off to them. We wrestled great today. It's a credit to them. Why get upset when you got beat by a better team. We didn't lose it. They came out and won it. The good thing is we won't see them anymore this season.

Tom Mashek

Josh really settled down after that first-round loss Thursday and has had a really strong tournament since. I think he came in a little tight even though he's been here before. He finally relaxed and has wrestled real well.

Shawn Bradley

All three boys wrestled great over the four days of competition.

Joe Ward

The team wrestled the most aggressive they have up until now, and I think they're really coming together as a team. Today they supported each other more than they had up to this point.

Jared Esala

We wrestled a very solid match. We're pleased with our progress and we have two weeks of practice to sharpen up before the VOL Tournament.

Jon Abernathy

We wrestled very well. Anytime you have 12 of 13 wrestlers in the championship or third place matches you have to be pleased.

Jeriamy Jackson

We would have liked to host this - no one wants to travel - but we came in with our heads up and wrestled tough.

Aaron Wilcox

Tim came out on top of the rubber match. He wrestled a smart match by being patient and not forcing the issue. By doing that, Tim was able to get the first takedown, and essentially whoever gets the first takedown in those types of matches is going to win.

Tim Neff

A couple of guys didn't have their best stuff, but all the guys wrestled well tonight. These were two tough teams.

Jeff Hickok

Nick went out there and took a bunch of shot early but got tired and ran out of gas. I'll take the blame on that one because we should have wrestled Larry (Reichard). I thought Nick had a good week of practice and maybe knee-wise he was ready to go out there but conditioning-wise he wasn't.

Joel Greenlee

I thought our kids wrestled great. We were really aggressive.

Mike Simons

The guys we have wrestled hard all year and have really given the extra effort and looked to go for pins because we've been down points.

Steve Smerz

They did everything they could, but they were just a little short. All my kids wrestled well. We just weren't able to finish up everything we needed to.

Jade Gribble

He definitely turned it on his senior year. He wrestled every match, 16-0 without (winning) any by forfeit.

Al Gaccione

He wrestled a solid match and didn't give his opponent anything. He took it to overtime and pulled it off. That was big.

Chris Persike

Anyone that has wrestled before at a high level understands that you just don't get in shape for wrestling in a week and a half. It doesn't work that way.

Daniel Lewis

The whole team wrestled well.

Steve Olson

What a great job by Brett. Sometimes Brett doesn't believe in Brett, but he did tonight. I'm so proud of him. In fact, I'm proud of all of them tonight, even the ones who lost wrestled hard.

Steve Henry

He wrestled a tough, smart match.

Jack Cullen

I wrestled a much smarter match this time. I moved my feet more this time since he's so good on his feet.

Colin Johnston

Josh bounced back the way we expected him to. He went out there and wrestled hard and did some of things we worked on this week to get him ready.

Randy Reidler

I'm very happy with how we wrestled. There are a lot of schools year in and year out that don't get somebody out. It wasn't just getting out, but the way they did it.

Roger Branham

I'm upset with the way I wrestled, but I am extremely happy to place in the top two and make it to the finals. I never thought I would make it to the finals.

Kyle Doherty

We wrestled better than we did in the first. We got after the guys, and they wanted to get to the state final.

Clifford Garnto

Seven of 10... but you always hope for more. A lot of the matches went our way. For the most part, our kids wrestled well. But (today) is when it really counts.

Pete Ventresca

It's the same draw I got last year. I would have rather wrestled someone else.

Tyler Riccio

He wrestled really intelligently today. His last match was a real tough match but he focused and stayed in control.

Wally Caldwell

McAfee's got a tough kid, the Mishawaka champ, but he's already wrestled two No. 2 kids in Porter of Ben Davis, and was right there with him, and he did beat Lewis of Norwell once. I like his chances.

Robert Loshe

The thing I thought was great about Chris, he was willing to change his look a little bit, look a little more dangerous. He was a good sport, too, letting the police officers arrest him, putting the handcuffs on him and wrestled him to the ground. He had to do it three times.

Marsh Myers

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

We wrestled really well. Our kids never gave up. Wanting to be here is the biggest thing this time of year and our kids did a good job with that.

Darrin Cummings

I was nervous for about the first 10 seconds. Then I settled down after I got the first takedown. Then I relaxed and wrestled.

Bryan Goodman

I guess it just wasn't meant to be. I think I wrestled better my second match, but my first match didn't go the way I planned. It's all right.

Manju Jabbie

It doesn't get any better than to have five guys in the finals and one of them your son while your other son is also down here. We're very fortunate since things have gone very well for us. They're great kids and they've wrestled hard.

Mike Polz

We wrestled a terrific dual as a team against Purdue, which is what we have been looking for all season. Everyone wrestled hard and we had some guys step up big at a few weight classes. Darren's match was really the marquee one of the dual, that is as good of a college match as I have seen in a while.

Tom Minkel

I felt great going into that match. I thought I wrestled the best match I could. He's a pretty good. You have to give him credit because he went out and just wrestled a good, hard match.

Brennan Whitman

If you make a mistake, (Jordan) will counter. I got the early takedown and wrestled safe, made him chase after me.

Kurt Backes

I was pleased and proud with the way our guys wrestled. This was our best team effort of the year. The wrestlers stepped up to the challenges and wrestled well. We need to use this as a turning point to our season.

Jeff Courtright