Jon Wagner
Jon Wagner
determination determined downs kid last morris nice ups
It's real nice to see Morris get through. He's had some ups and downs this season. He's a determined kid and it showed with that last win.
bring came ends goal home kids short tail winning
The kids really competed their tail ends off. Our goal was to bring home some hardware, and that's what we did. We came up a little short of winning it, but that doesn't take anything away from what these kids have accomplished this season.
close fourth kid quality ranked sean third win
The kid Sean wrestled, I think is ranked third or fourth in Missouri, so he's a quality wrestler. Sometimes you have to win the close ones, and Sean did that tonight.
beat few fifth good great guys left losing lost matches move proud quality seconds third won
I'm really proud of Daryl. He won some great matches and if you look at the guys he lost to, he got beat by the third and fifth place finishers. So he's losing good matches to quality guys. He lost to the third place guy 9-2, but it was 4-2 with a few seconds left when he made a move and got turned. He'll be back.
bit classes early good kids
It was a good effort. I thought we got banged around a little bit at some classes in the early rounds, but kids rebounded well and had good tournaments.
bringing catch finish high home medals oak possible tough
It's would be real tough to catch Oak Park. But tomorrow's another day. It's kind of a day for individuals. We still want to finish as high as possible as a team, but it's more about individuals bringing home medals at this point.
cost match picture recover taken thinking won
That just killed Matt's momentum. Picture yourself thinking you won a match and then having it taken from you, he didn't recover from that and it cost him.
battle bring chicago fight great guys home jump mindset tough wrestlers
It's a big jump from sectionals to state. There are a lot of tough wrestlers up in the Chicago area. We're going to go up there and battle and see what we can come back with. Some of the guys wrestled great just to get there, but they all have the mindset to bring home a medal, so that's what we're going up there to fight for.
honor
It's a big honor for me and the kids. It should be a lot of fun.
against doubt fought gave good rocky start
They (St. Rita) are a very good team. There's no doubt about that. We got off to a rocky start against them. But to our kids' credit, they fought back. They gave it everything they had.
good hopefully past teams time waited weekend
It's been a long time that we've waited for this chance. We have had good teams in the past, and we just could not get past Granite. Hopefully we have one more good weekend in us.
beat came kid next road tough
Daryl had a real tough road today. But he beat a tough kid from Mascoutah and came back and wrestled real well in the next match.
past regional until
They have been in our regional a lot and we have not been able to get past them. This time, we won't see them until the sectional.
adam call escapes fault good guy overtime tie tough winning
Adam was winning by one late, but he was called for stalling to tie the match. It was kind of a tough call right there. Then their guy escapes in overtime to get the win. You can't fault Adam there. He wrestled a very good match.