Staude's story also has prompted others to come forth with their hazing tales, says McKenna. He said they came back from a match in Hustisford and they stopped at a McDonald's and they went in the bathroom. All the wrestlers were pinching each others' penises. After that, he quit the team. Four boys were expelled from school and go on trial this month.
Wrestling is a very macho sport.
I think there's an aspect to this sport that isn't in other sports, and that's domination. Macho wrestlers, he says, want to degrade those among them who don't live up to the macho image. Kids shoot BB guns at the family's windows and set firecrackers off in front of their apartment late at night. I think that the sword cuts both ways. But again, I think that's part and parcel of the emotional dynamics of this case.