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Any time we wrestle someone more than once, we try to improve. It's a great measuring stick to know we improved that much. We're not happy because we didn't win, but we're happy with their effort as a team.

Once again this is a team we don't know too much about. We're just going to go out there and wrestle aggressively.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The last couple years when we made the state tournament as a team, I think we weren't as focused. There's an emotional drain on you because you have to wrestle so many tough matches in a row.

They chose not to wrestle for various reasons.

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.

I just told the guys to not get embarrassed, just wrestle hard and have a little pride in yourself. I was pleased with the way we wrestled tonight. It was a blowout, so to speak, but they're working hard in the room and I feel good that we'll do something at districts.

I think all four teams are pretty close. We have as good a chance as anybody if we wrestle well and everyone is healthy.

I just feel so good at this weight. And I feel so strong. I can wrestle any way an opponent wants to go.

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.

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.

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

I haven't had a chance to wrestle him, but we're in the same sectional so I'll see him there.

I just wanted to come out here and wrestle my best. I've been here four times and I've only won two; I came in here strong and came out on top.

If you wrestle a match for six minutes, then we have a shot.

If you wrestle a tough team tough it makes you a better wrestler. I think we did that.

He would prefer to wrestle than to not wrestle.

He wrestled a little conservatively. I told him he needed to wrestle better in the next round, and fortunately he did.

He?s shown us an awful lot. We?re excited he had a chance to wrestle here. He?s right there.

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.

Hopefully I am going to wrestle in college. I have a couple of offers and I have had a couple of coaches talk to me, but I am going to wait until wrestling season is over to see how I will do in state before I make a decision.

He's wrestled the entire season with torn ligaments and tendons in his ankle. He's had to wrestle with pain all year long. No one's really known about it, we've kept it quiet, but he goes out there and gives 100 percent.

He's very dedicated to the sport. He's very, very strong, and he's eager to learn and improve. (George) is very fast for a big guy. He does not wrestle like a heavyweight. He's quick. He relies on more moves than trying to get one throw and end up on top.

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.

George froze up a bit in the semifinals and it cost him. He had a case of the nerves and didn't wrestle the way he normally does.

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.

They wrestled a very good match. Missouri is a very good team, and they had to wrestle to win.

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.

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.

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

It was nice to have a tournament at home, and I'm happy with the result. Most of the kids got to wrestle five matches today, and you can learn a lot from a day like that.

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.

It was a 4-3 match and he lost. But for a sophomore to wrestle a senior that close, we're very pleased with his performance.

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.

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.

All the teams at the sectional will be tough. We're just going to have to wrestle our best.

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

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.

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.

The competition wasn't all that tough. We just didn't wrestle very well, and that's very disappointing.

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

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.

It's luck of the draw. You could get the best two in the same half of the bracket. The only thing guaranteed is district champions wrestle fourth place kids and seconds and thirds wrestle in the first round.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

I told myself to just go out and wrestle, wrestle hard and everything will take care of itself. I'm usually a fast-pace wrestler, I don't like plodding and the slow pace, so it was good.

It's a nice honor to have (WPIAL title). Nick is tough to wrestle because he's constantly moving.

It's all about getting as many guys as you can through to state. There's a few real tough brackets out there so a few guys might have to work their way through consolation, but it's going to come down to whoever decides to wrestle Friday and Saturday.

Every one of those matches was a state-caliber match. That's what helps you get better. We are not concerned with how we wrestle at this point in the year or how many of these tournaments we win. Our eyes are on the state tournament at the end of the year. We just want to wrestle as tough of competition as we can.

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.

It's nice to be going (to state) with those guys. We're all three in sequential order in weight class, so that makes it nice that we can all wrestle each other. Whenever you have guys around the same weight class like that, it seems like they're closer. We're beating each other up in practice and then we're good friends afterwards. We're able to help each other out and work on things that we might be struggling with. It's nice to have guys you're close with going down there with you.

That's one thing we stressed, was working to not give up the bonus points. I said, if we brawl with them for six minutes, let's see what happens. Our kids gave a great effort. Last week, we didn't wrestle to our top against State College. We were kind of lethargic, really lazy. It was a lackadaisical performance. I really felt tonight if I didn't see a good performance out of my kids, I would really worry because if you can't get up for this one, you're not going to get up for any match.

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.

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.

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

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.

They did what we expected them to do. We told them not to pay any attention to the team race, to just go out and wrestle for themselves. If they do that then the team points and the team title will go with it. This is the second season and they were looking forward to wrestling for themselves. They're feeling confident; they have a goal and if they wrestle mistake-free, we should win it.

A lot of times, when you get into the finals you get hesitant and that's what he did. He didn't wrestle as wide open as he did during the year. With the ability he has on his feet he needs to open up.

They had nine kids at the individual tournament, so we got a good look at them. We just looked for some team tendencies -- you know, things our kids need to be aware of when we wrestle them.

They give the kids a good preparation for the states. When you go to the districts or regions, you have to be ready to wrestle three or four times against tough competition. The kids have to realize they need to be prepared for whatever comes at them at this level.

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.

It was go for broke, go for your moves. You have to wrestle people as good as you or better than you. You can't just beat up on guys who aren't as strong. But we never got mad at each other on a personal level. We knew what we had to do.

You have a kid that's wrestling a real good guy, you tell him hopefully you can win this match, but if you can't, you have to wrestle back hard, not only for yourself to extend your season, but for the team. From day one they see the banners in the gym and they understand. I tell them it's not always about you - it's about everybody on the team. We are a team. Somehow I seem to get everybody to buy into that.

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.

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.

We lost it probably in the semis, where we lost a couple of matches when we were up and we just didn't wrestle very tough, very smart. They wrestled better than we did. They deserved to win.

We are two proven programs going at it for the section lead. Both teams are looking forward to this match. Anytime we wrestle Latrobe, you can throw out the records, because almost anything can happen.

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.

We hung back and didn't wrestle aggressively. When we needed to score, we were hanging back.

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

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.

It's a war. We're going to see what we can do, and if go there and wrestle like we have been I think we'll have a very good showing.

Those two kids have a lot of respect for each other, and you can see why. They know they're not going to win if they don't wrestle their best. And I don't think there's any question they bring out the best in each other. They've had some great matches, and this was another one.

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

We had a few matches like that today. We just didn't wrestle well the first time. This time, the kids were ready . . . really ready.

We just try to wrestle everywhere and wrestle everyone before state. It's lets us see what kind of competition we have, so yeah, we definitely want to come here.

We just lost some close matches. We need to get those things turned around for us. Against Michigan State, we didn't come out and wrestle aggressively. We have got to learn to turn things around. Things don't always go your way.

It's a prime example of us not wrestling the whole match, but it shows that we can hang in there and wrestle against these guys.

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

It makes the (Big Ten) tournament that much easier if you can get that seed you want. But you still have to come out and wrestle hard.

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.

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.

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.

They're encouraged. Some of them felt they did not wrestle as they hoped, but they're working hard.

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.

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.

I basically just told him that if we wrestle our match, nobody is going to beat us. Once we know we could beat him, that swings the confidence in our direction.

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.

How well we wrestle (today) will determine how well we wrestle at the national tournament. We want to get to the nationals any way we can.