*** Official Youth, High School, College and International Wrestling Thread ***

[NewChief]

My wrestler won 1st in Novice and 3rd in Open today.

Highlights:
Wrestled a really, really good kid who has a lot of stuff. He bridged for like 20 seconds twice to avoid the pin. Still got beat on points, but my son has always been really really shitty at defending a pin, so I was so stoked to see that.

Wrestled a kid who, a month ago, pinned him in the second round (it was a weird pin, as my son was leading him on points and generally whipping his ass and suddenly the ref slapped the mat). Anyway, my son pinned him 8 seconds in today. It was freaking awesome.

Anything that goes around my boy's neck is his kryptonite. Headlocks or reverse halfs or anything like that has made him panic and basically give up a pin in the past. Today, he got headlocked with constricted breathing for 30 seconds to end the first. He fought it off, came up crying, got his shit together then threw a headlock on the other kid and pinned him in the second. It was freaking awesome to see him bounce back from, what in the past, would have beat him.