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Varsity player Junior Chris Graves goes for the pin
as this Ralston wrestler finds himself on the bottom.
Freshman Ron Minor and his Prep opponent prepares
for action.
Experience Gained

A ttending grueling two-hour work- conference, and a record of 7-3-1 . They
outs nightly, fasting, and pumping also won the MN Invite. " Everybody out
iron in the weight room even on there was outstanding," said Coach Jeff
weekends-that was the life of a wrestler. Salberg .
Finishing with a record of 4-6, the A bright spot in the varsity season was
varsity wrestlers suffered from a combina- the South Sioux City Invite, where they
tion of problems. Assistant Coach Bob finished with high spirits and a first place.
Danenhaur attributed their losing season to Seven varsity wrestlers qualified at
injuries, loss of team members, and districts, and the team finished seventh as
inexperience. a whole at State . Wrestlers who placed
"It's hard for even someone who does high at State were Junior Pat Friend <115)
very well at the freshman level to switch and Freshman Brian Richmond (98) with
to varsity," said Danenhaur . Six of twelve second place finishes and Junior Chris
JV wrestlers were moved up during the Graves (112) with a third.
course of the season. But records didn't tell the whole story.
The loss of players to the varsity team For, as Salberg put it, " We improved every
didn't prevent the freshman team from week; from a coaching standpoint, that's
having a winning season, however. They the most you could ask from anybody."
ended with a second place rating in their

Sizing up his opponent, Senior Tom Ferin plans his
first move.

5truggling against a Millard South player, Junior Scott Senior Brian Benjamin sends his competition flying. 149
'<\ass tries to reverse his opponent. Benjamin ended his season early with a shoulder
separation.