“It's just a great feeling. We felt a little bit of that pressure and after Friday night for those kids to come back, it was just tremendous. It's a testimony to how hard they worked and knowing what they needed to do to come back. They did a great job. I can't say enough about all their hard work and what they did getting here.”
“We knew we were going to have to do it through the back door because we knew we didn't have enough through the front door. It just kept building. We won 10 of 12 matches Saturday morning and that was key right there. We won the three matches in consolations and we knew then no one could catch us - although we had to keep double-checking just to make sure.”
“We knew they had a good team coming in with a bunch of of good individuals. It was an ugly win, but we'll take it and try to fix the things that hurt us.”
“Wrestling is so much a mental sport they need to make sure they're not over-estimating or under-estimating anyone. Just stay focused and do the things they do well.”
“His record speaks for itself. There were a lot of people over here that placed that he wrestled sometime during the year and he beat the vast majority of them.”