illness always a threat to disrupt wrestling duals

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The roughly 1,000 people in attendance at Alton D. Ask Gymnasium in Sparta buzzed with anticipation and prepared for a roller coaster of an MVC dual meet that Rob Gronkowski Super Bowl 49 Jersey turned out to be just that.

It wasn't the best dual meet ever wrestled, and it wasn't packed with match http://www.patriotsofficialnflauthentic.com/DARRELLE_REVIS_SUPER_BOWL_JERSEY.html after match that went down to the wire.

There were some very good matches, but we also were robbed of better ones that didn't materialize due to injury and illness. It was a very good dual that could have been even better.

The two best teams in the area were incomplete.

How about Holmen High School's Darius Wright vs. Sparta's Brock Polhamus at 132 pounds or Sparta's Dan Dawley vs. Holmen's Noah Risch at 195?

Holmen won 34 28 after Sparta stormed back from a large deficit to tie the dual at 28 with just the 285 pound match remaining.

Holmen's Hunter Hauser then walked on the mat and had his arm raised in victory with Sparta being forced to forfeit . due to injury.

There really is no reason to think that Hauser wouldn't have won that match. The kid is good.

He is 34 2 with his only losses coming to last season's WIAA Division 2 champion and last season's WIAA Division 3 champion.

Hauser wrestling just amps up the environment a little more. Rather than simple applause for receiving a forfeit, we see some celebration on the mat and Holmen's bench, and a Rob Gronkowski Super Bowl Jersey little more action from the crowd.

That isn't a dig at Sparta's Joseph Benish, who wrestled well until his injury. Hauser had just been wrestling really well.

We got Sparta's Tristan Zurfluh and Holmen's Ryan Stalsberg at 138, and Sparta's Michael Murnane and Holmen's Avery Hackett at 145. We even got Holmen's Tyler Westpfahl and Sparta's Greg Skon at 170 and Holmen's Duncan McKinney and Sparta's Kyle Burkhalter at 182.

But we also didn't get to see Sparta's Trygve Zurfluh or Polhamus or Holmen's Risch or Jacob Wiemerslage or Charles Serauskas.

Injuries (skin diseases included) happen in wrestling. Serious ones. They are part of the sport.

But when the team on one side of the mat is ranked ninth in Division 1 and the team on the other side is fourth in Division 2, the preference is to see them both at full strength.

Despite the emergence of a very interesting dual, we didn't get to see that Thursday.

Coaches of small wrestling programs are snickering Tom Brady Super Bowl Jersey right now. They'd love to have the resources of Holmen or Sparta two of the strongest programs from the youth level up in the area.

The Vikings have a youth program in place that seems to grow by the year. On Thursday, it was announced that Sparta's youth program is 131 strong.

But Sparta coach Jake Larsen said he's been without a complete lineup all season and isn't likely to see one.

There are some things you just never get to see, and it seems to happen more in wrestling that any other sport.

I used space on a page just like this over three years ago to beg for a match between Sparta's Matt Tourdot and De Soto's Chad Johnson that we weren't going to get.

They both won state titles that year and have gone on to Tom Brady Super Bowl XLIX Jersey do great things at Old Dominion and Augsburg, respectively.

The difference there is that injury wasn't a factor. They were just in different divisions http://www.patriotsofficialnflauthentic.com/JULIAN_EDELMAN_SUPER_BOWL_JERSEY.html and competing in different invitationals.