Justin:

That is a great gift and Coach Ed and family are wonderful. Your next step is probably going to need to be — even before you go to the board — is to scare up enough interest in the school to be able to justify the cost.

What your local school board is going to look at are these things:
1 — Are there enough kids interested both in the high school and lower grades to justify starting the program? You need to have kids now, but also know you will in the future.
2 — What will the cost be? You have to figure out what it will cost to pay coaches, transportation and equipment.
3 — Find community support. If there are people in the community (not just potential wrestling parents) that would be willing to go the board and speak on behalf of starting the program, that would be great. Maybe even have the Nickerson coaches come in.
4 — Where will you practice? You need to make sure you've already identified potential locations for that.
5 — Once you have the answers to these questions, you need to go to your athletic director and let him know what you want to do and see if he will support it as well.

My experience in dealing with boards has shown me that these are the questions you'll get asked when you go to them. And if you don't have the answers, they'll probably send you back to get them.

Whatever happens Justin, keep fighting for this. You're doing a great thing already, just keep it up!