Little guy wrestlers compete

Last Saturday, the Superior little guy wrestlers spent the day in Frenchtown at the second of three Inter Valley Tournaments. The wrestlers have one more qualifying tournament left before the state competition and so the short week season will soon be drawing to a close.

Crabb said that the season spends a lot of time introducing kids to the sport of wrestling in hopes that if they do decide to wrestle during high school they have an idea of how the sport works.

“We just want to teach them the basics,” Crabb said. “We’re basically sort of doing a lot of prepping. My main goal with the older kids is to get them prepared for high school. With the younger kids, I want to teach them a good stance and some simple moves so they’ll have that foundation.”

Crabb said that little guy wrestling is a lot different from high school wrestling. They don’t really keep results for most of the season until the qualifying tournaments come around during the first weekend of March. Of course, throughout the season, the coaches want the students to also enjoy themselves and have fun.

Several others lessons are also wrapped into the season. The sport promotes hard work and self-discipline. The coaches also hope that the sport teaches the kids to practice good sportsmanship and to learn that even when you lose that it’s an opportunity to learn to fix what went wrong

Next weekend, on March 26, the boys will wrestle in Missoula. Below are the results from this past weekend’s competition.

Beginner:

108 pounds

1st Jake Lapinski

Novice:

60 pounds

1st Michael Parkins

80 pounds

3rd Jack Mitchell

90 pounds

4th Dylan Darsch

95 pounds

8th Drake Neil

100 pounds

8th Ryan Cahalin

110 pounds

5th Thad Haskins

119 pounds

10th Michael Frost

190 pounds

1st Kade Parkin

Middle:

70 pounds

2nd Blaine Parkin

105 pounds

2nd Nathan Lapinski

187 pounds

1st Aaron Kelly

Junior:

100 pounds

5th Thor Gulick

112 pounds-A

2nd Bridger La Pierre

112 pounds-B

4th Trenton Constant