Here is how the Salina newspaper described it:

Saint Thomas Aquinas sophomore Isaac Dulgarian was having his way with Will.

Dulgarian, a defending state champion, had 10 takedowns in the first round, after allowing Will to escape over and over. The Aquinas wrestler built a 20-8 lead after one period.

And then things got worse for the Salina sophomore.

Dulgarian shot the leg and tried to slam Will to the mat for another takedown. Will tried to avoid and jerked his body as he was going to the mat. His neck got caught and he remained on the mat after officials stopped the match.

"I don't think it was intentional," Peters said. "He didn't have a way of bracing his fall. The refs called it a slam. It was an unfortunate chain of events. I know Isaac felt bad about it."

Medical staff treated Will for several minutes in the middle of the mat as matches went on all around Hartman Arena. Dulgarian, who was penalized a point for the slam and was later disqualified from the match -- costing him a chance at a second straight state crown -- kneeled in his corner and watched.

Technically, Will won the match, but after being carted out of the arena on a stretcher, his season is over. He has no injury to his neck, Peters said. But he has a concussion, a CAT scan revealed.