There are a lot of wrestlers that have aspirations of standing on the top of the podium at State, but many of them won't get there. There is no shame in wrestling the best you can and still not achieving this goal. As for the 100 win mark, I do believe that is something to be proud of. Although wrestlers today get a lot more matches than we used to, it is still a crowning achievement. I don't have the statistics, but my guess is that less than fifteen or twenty percent of wrestlers in high school (I am talking Kansas) reach that mark today after a high school career. If you finish top fifteen to twenty percent in your high school class for grades after four years, that is an accomplishment, and there are a lot fewer students you are competing against in your graduating class than there are that wrestle high school in the state of Kansas.


Lee Girard