If you wrestle a tough team tough it makes you a better wrestler. I think we did that.

It was hit or miss throughout the day.

It was good to see kids that normally aren't the heroes come through.

It's just a great feeling. We felt a little bit of that pressure and after Friday night for those kids to come back, it was just tremendous. It's a testimony to how hard they worked and knowing what they needed to do to come back. They did a great job. I can't say enough about all their hard work and what they did getting here.

Anytime a kid goes through the back door it takes a ton of heart.

Sometimes he may look like he's not in it but Kyle is just a solid wrestler.

Some were battling injuries and sickness; it would have been nice to have seen what they could have done.

Coming in, I knew it would have to be a good combo of front and back door for us to do well.

Wrestling is so much a mental sport they need to make sure they're not over-estimating or under-estimating anyone. Just stay focused and do the things they do well.

His record speaks for itself. There were a lot of people over here that placed that he wrestled sometime during the year and he beat the vast majority of them.