His two losses wrestling up at 158 pounds against returning All-Americans Chad Bailey of Michigan State and Matt Hughes of Eastern Illinois. Both of those matches were extremely competitive and Bill had a chance to win both. Once he drops to 150, I feel he will be more impressive. In practice he has been impressive and I look for him to return to his NCAA Championship form at Las Vegas. He put on 15 pounds during the summer which should aid him this year.
Wrestlers have a lot of ups and downs during the season.
I am looking forward to seeing how we fare in Las Vegas and access our performance afterwards. The one aspect that we can't forget is that it is not how you start the race but how we finish it. Our goal is to build up to the Big Ten's and NCAA's but every match we wrestle during the year is one important step in the journey.