This wasn't intended to get into a shouting match. This was out of hurt feelings. And it wasn't from my husband. You are right, Dan have been gracious to let us practice on our clubs night off. And we're always thankful for the advices he gives my son because we value what he has to say. Our first 2 yrs in the wrestling community, we always heard bad things about your family. We didn't listen because people usually say bad things about someone else out of jealousy. Your family, especially Dan has always been nice to us and have never done anything bad towards us, so there was no reason to listen to other comments. I just saw him
do what the Oklahoma coach did at the classic, and never thought he was like that. Raising both hands screaming Yeah! directly at my husband. But then maybe I read too much into it. I was just hurt.

My first paragraph, was towards you. The second paragraph was in general and towards my son. We have learned a lot the past year about wrestling. Mainly on the topic of cutting weight and stalling. Don't go off just yet. I'm referring to everyone. We're realizing thats just a part of wrestling. A lot of kids do it. We went down to 46 at Tulsa, because everyone in the wrestling community knows that you can't compete at that level without cutting weight, sad to say. Because if you don't,
you'll be wrestling kids that are usually 1 or 2 weight class higher. Learning this year what happened at the seeding meeting before subs, I
couldn't believe you can still switch weights. People were doing it to run from competition. We knew your son was going at 49, and didn't run. Us running from competition? We don't know enough people to know who's good or not. The only one's we really know are from our district. We could've wrestled at 46 at state knowing your son was going at 49, but my son didn't want to. He wanted to beat your son. Not saying it in a mean way, but knowing how good your son is, beating him would be a big
accomplishment. We were wondering why he wasn't wrestling at 52. As you stated, he beat every kid at that weight that placed, so why not
wrestle there. We just felt bad that one kid didn't qualify in our weight for State because your son went down. He placed in the top three
all year, and fell short from qualifying. It was disheartening. He probably would've placed. We hate to see something happen like that to great people like their family. But that doesn't matter now, state is over. My son wrestled great this weekend and the whole year, and congratulations to your son. He didn't take it as bad as I did. He has a baseball tournament this weekend and has already forgot about wrestling. Regarding stalling, thats just a wrestling tactic. We hate that your son does it against our son but thats just part of wrestling. He's not the only one that does, a lot of kids do it too.

Regarding you saying my son bad mouthed your son. I can't believe that and ask anyone that knows him. He is the most liked person at his
school and around our neighborhood. He is friends with everyone, even to the kids that aren't popular and who are hated by other kids. I'm sorry, but your son probably misunderstood him. And I will make sure he calls to apologize to your son. He was just so excited at districts against your son because it was a close and exciting match going into double overtime. He knows now he's getting close. And knows beating him will be a major accomplishment for him. I know what ever he said, he didn't mean it in a bad way, it was out of excitment. He was upset too to see your son root against him when he wrestled against the salina kid, and shake the andale kids hands after my son wreslted him.

Lets get this straight, we were never mad at you for going at 49, we knew it at the classic. We all talked about it. There's nothing to be
mad at. We were wrestling there regardless. My son came up to your son after weigh in at subs and said hey Zac, I'm wrestling you tomorrow and
said hi to your older son at state. At subs, I didn't look away, You said whats going on, I said hey, nothing, you replied, nada, nada as you walked away. I admit, I wasn't talkative that day. Had a hard day at work and was in a daze. If you knew my job, you would understand. This may be the starting point of this whole controversy. You thinking I was
mad, when I wasn't. And my husband doesn't recall Dan saying hi to him at state. This proves that mis-reading people is always the starting of controversies. You mis-reading me and visa verca, same with our sons. And I can't believe you said, we were only gracious this year because your son wasn't wrestling at our weight. They wrestled all year last
year against each other. Were we not gracious last year? I think so. We were friends until up to Subs this year.

Lastly, regardless of who said what, we think your son is a great wrestler, we don't take anything away for him. and thank you Dan for
all you've done for my son. Hope we can be friends again next season. If you're going to Reno, good luck. We opted out because I have to fly to California and my son has a baseball tournament this weekend. The original message was mainly a message to my son, even though he wouldn't read this. To tell him in my own way how much he's a true champion no matter what the end result is. And I wanted others to know. Even though, they wouldn't know him by name, but who he was. (if that makes any sense)

I rather not continue this on the forum, if need to, we can talk on the phone. As stated by "wrestlingparents" post, friendship that are built in wrestling will be ones that will never be forgotten. That goes true with any other sport. We thank you for your friendship, and hope it won't end because of misunderstandings.