For the win...

Earlier today, my brother Todd and I and Dallas drove over to Council Bluffs, IA to watch my nephew compete in the Junior College National wrestling tournament.
At the beginning of the day, there were 35 wrestlers in his weight class from all around the country and there are just four competing in the semifinals tomorrow…my nephew, Tucker won all three of his matches and is one of those four.

He won his first match pretty easily and then decided to make it exciting. During his second match, he was behind by three points heading into the final period and towards the very end got the pin.

In his most recent quarterfinal match, he was behind 3-2 with less than 10 seconds in the match…he shot in and with five seconds left scored a takedown…then his opponent scrambled to get out and with one second on the clock was awarded one point for loss of control.

The buzzer sounded and both coaches threw out their “challenge bricks” (It’s a wrestling thing 5020202020Recent

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