We went out and wrestled tough, and with a lot of power. That gives these guys a lot of confidence going into the final.

Because of our injury at 215, we knew it would be tough with three weights to go. There were lots of tough matches. Apple Valley was just tougher than us.

We have one more goal and that's to win a state championship. We wanted to give ourselves a chance to reach that goal and we did.

I was hoping to get one victory down low, but when we came up with two, that was huge.

We've always known we were strong up top, and (Thursday) we got a chance to see it. We needed them to step up, and they did.

There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.