The competition gets tougher the further into the tournament you go. For the most part we wrestled tough, but still lost some close matches.

Both Josh Klein (127) and Jon Saylor (217) were not at 100 percent going into their bouts and I saw they were hurting a little so I threw in the towel rather than risk any further injury.

We knew we were going to have a rough time. We lost a couple of close bouts. For the most part we wrestled hard in front of a very hostile Mesa High crowd.

We thought it better to pull him rather to risk further injury if he continued to wrestle.

I don't care what the competition was, it's still 50 points.

It's intense, but then they'll walk off and get something to eat together. I've seen that competition test-wise, too [academically]. 'What did you get? I'll do better than you.' You see that desire to be the best.