This year the boys did the traveling wrestling team. We have had so much fun. This year State wrestling was in Panguitch. We headed down there early in the morning. Mason was telling me he wasn't feeling good on the way down until I told him Grandma and Grandpa Teichert were going to come and watch him, then he was perfectly fine. He makes himself so nervous before these matches. It takes him two matches before he settles down and just has fun. This time he was fine from the beginning. Tyler and Mason loved having Grandma, Grandpa, Ammon and Brooklyn come and watch them. The boys wrestled so good this weekend.
The boys have loved their coaches. They have taught them so much and had so much fun with them.
Mason ended up wrestling for first and second place. Right before he was up this dad came up to hi and asked if he was wrestling for first place. Mason told him he was. This dad goes on to tell him how good the kid is he is going to wrestle and that he better wrestle hard if he wants to win. That really bugged me that a dad would do that to a little kid. I think he should have told him "I bet you can win if you just go out and wrestle hard." Some people!! Mason ended getting first place. He was so excited. He hurt his back during the match when he went to throw the kid so when the match ended he was crying. I thought he must have thought he lost because it was pretty close but he said he was crying because his back was hurting.
We waited for a long time for Tyler's last match. We missed his semi-final match because it happened so fast and Mason was wrestling at the same time.
Mason just wanted them to hurry up and give him his medal. He didn't want to wait for it. He kept asking me how much longer.
He finally got it and was so excited. He got a shirt that says "state champion" on the back, his bracket and a giant first place medal. He was one happy kid. Last year he got second and this year first, so he improved but so did all the other kids this year. Everyone improved so much from last year.
Tyler ended up wrestling for first place also. He wrestled so hard, but ended up getting second. He lost by two points. It was close the whole time. It was sad because he has worked so hard this year and wanted to take first so bad. He got third last year and second this year so it was still and improvement. I think he is ten times better this year then last. When he goes to practice he is there to learn and get better. It was all he wanted to do this year during the season. To bad Mason is so much smaller because it would be nice to have someone closer to his size to practice with. He had lots of fun. I think he did a great job!
He had a hard time smiling about second place for me, but he did get over it and will hopefully be able to get first next year.
We had fifteen boys go to state this year. One got beat out, 3 got third, 4 got second and 7 got first place.
Elly and Drake had fun playing with all the kids too. We made some great friends this year and had so much fun wrestling all over the state.
These boys were so cute walking around with their arms around each other. The walked all over like this. They had a couple more at one point.
It was fun to watch the boys work so hard at something. They practiced hard and wrestled hard at every meet we went too. We were so proud of these boys.
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