This is how every morning starts out. A nice warm up with 400 of your closest competitors. You may think it is easy to keep an eye on your kid from the stands but let me tell you it takes an eagle eye to figure your short chunky blond headed boy from the other ten short blond headed boys in black singlets.
They did not have enough kids for the 75lb bracket so they combined the 75 and 80 lb bracket which meant Luke drew only 80lb wrestlers for they day. I decided not to tell him this bit of bad news. I decided to share with him shortly before he had to wrestle that his first match was against a girl. That did not go over well. He really has some mental barriers with wrestling girls. He lost this match. It was a kick to the ego for sure but it was early.
His next match was against Shane. He is a fellow Ray-Pec wrestler. That means no coaching for the match. Not great for Luke. What was worse is the fact Shane is 80lb and a 4 time state champ which is sort of a big deal since he started when he was 4. Luke did not get pinned so we took that as a victory even though the score did not reflect a victory for him.
Luke also considered the fact they had to stop the mach twice for a nose bleed a personal victory. This allowed his ego to come back to where it was before he started that morning.
I thought Luke was done for the day. He wanted to stay and see a friend of his finish for the day. I let him go down with one of the coaches to watch closer. What ended up happening was that Luke had one more match for the day. Since they combined the weight brackets they ditched the elimination rule. These are some of the things I do not know about wrestling. Another dad was on the mat, the dad of the kid Luke wanted to watch, he quickly took his kids headgear and shoes off when they called Lucas Long. I was looking down at the mat trying to figure out who the kid was with Keegan's head gear on and where the heck did Lucas go. All of a sudden they yell up from the floor for me to watch Luke is wrestling. Hun? What? What is going on? Oh goodness, he is wrestling. Quick grab the camera.
They did not have enough kids for the 75lb bracket so they combined the 75 and 80 lb bracket which meant Luke drew only 80lb wrestlers for they day. I decided not to tell him this bit of bad news. I decided to share with him shortly before he had to wrestle that his first match was against a girl. That did not go over well. He really has some mental barriers with wrestling girls. He lost this match. It was a kick to the ego for sure but it was early.
His next match was against Shane. He is a fellow Ray-Pec wrestler. That means no coaching for the match. Not great for Luke. What was worse is the fact Shane is 80lb and a 4 time state champ which is sort of a big deal since he started when he was 4. Luke did not get pinned so we took that as a victory even though the score did not reflect a victory for him.
Luke also considered the fact they had to stop the mach twice for a nose bleed a personal victory. This allowed his ego to come back to where it was before he started that morning.
I thought Luke was done for the day. He wanted to stay and see a friend of his finish for the day. I let him go down with one of the coaches to watch closer. What ended up happening was that Luke had one more match for the day. Since they combined the weight brackets they ditched the elimination rule. These are some of the things I do not know about wrestling. Another dad was on the mat, the dad of the kid Luke wanted to watch, he quickly took his kids headgear and shoes off when they called Lucas Long. I was looking down at the mat trying to figure out who the kid was with Keegan's head gear on and where the heck did Lucas go. All of a sudden they yell up from the floor for me to watch Luke is wrestling. Hun? What? What is going on? Oh goodness, he is wrestling. Quick grab the camera.Luke won this match with a pen.
He ended up finishing 3rd. He has a bronze metal for the day. He received bonus points for wrestling kids a weight bracket up.
Next weekend............you guessed it........another wrestling tournament.
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