It seemed like a long time coming, but wrestling season is finally here again, and yet, we could have used a couple more weeks of rest. Mijo, for one, did not even wrestle. He was put on the injured list and sat out the first tournament, along with quite a few of his teammates. I think it is awesome that the team is loaded with something like 54 wrestlers currently on the roster. According to coach, about half of them are girls, so both teams should be able to fill full teams and the girls did what they showed up to do. Something like 8 of the 10 weight categories on the girl's side were filled. A lot of them are new but coach kept posting that so and so wrestler had won their first match of their career, so it was exciting.
I wish the boys were in better shape, but for whatever reason, probably football, a lot of the boys are walking around with injuries. Mijo could have wrestled, but the coach chose to let him rest the ankle a couple more weekends, his back-up, who fights JV was also injured on his shoulder, so for this tourney, we did not have a heavyweight. For that matter, we only posted three varsity boys, but another one had been coughing up blood, so he didn't show up. A lot of the boys who will end up on varsity, fought as JV, and there was success there. Mijo's sparring partner last year, who fights 220, was fighting his weight, the weight class has been changed to a max of 215. He was struggling all week to lose weight down to 220, and he was within a pound, only to find out now he was off by about 6 pounds, to 215. By fighting JV, he was then put in a sub-category, where he fought at 225, something I still don't understand completely.
Still, he was able to sweep the competition and he got a first-place medal, along with a new kid from Akins who transferred to Crockett, I believe, who just joined the team and hasn't finished his paperwork. He also fought JV and was able to sweep his competition, so we had two first place wins on the first day. Another kid I don't know also got a 2nd place win and then as a kind of surprise, Mijo convinced one of the freshmen linemen to join wrestling, and he got 4th place in his first tournament.
All in all, I think it was a good first tournament, the newer people got some needed experience, and the team is on its way. They will have this week to rest, then start up again the week after with a dual, I believe the following week.
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