Jon Wagner Quotes (28 Quotes)

I didn't know what to expect from him. But for him to tech fall is a credit to the kind of athlete he is.

That was a great match. Adam scored late to tie it up, but lost on a last second reversal. Adam wrestled well, it was just one of those things.

We're going up there and taking it one match at a time. Right now, we're just celebrating our first sectional.

I had the head referee come over after the match and say the wrong call was made, but it didn't do Matt any good. Our kid has his hand raised as the winner and it's taken away from him. That's wrong. It's tough to win a match in overtime when that happens.

They (St. Rita) are a very good team. There's no doubt about that. We got off to a rocky start against them. But to our kids' credit, they fought back. They gave it everything they had.

Daryl had a real tough road today. But he beat a tough kid from Mascoutah and came back and wrestled real well in the next match.

That just killed Matt's momentum. Picture yourself thinking you won a match and then having it taken from you, he didn't recover from that and it cost him.

We'll enjoy it for a couple of hours. But it's right back to practicing in the morning.

We're going to get after it in practice and then be ready to go on Tuesday night. We're going to take a look at our injuries and see who can and can't go, and then go battle and try to get back up here next weekend.

It's a big honor for me and the kids. It should be a lot of fun.

Adam was winning by one late, but he was called for stalling to tie the match. It was kind of a tough call right there. Then their guy escapes in overtime to get the win. You can't fault Adam there. He wrestled a very good match.

We knew we would have tough some matches in the finals. But I thought that the kids wrestled hard. Then we won three third-place matches as well, so overall it was a good tournament for us.

I thought Morris had a heck of a tournament. He beat some good kids to win this thing and looked really good.

We kind of took it on the chin for a few years. But this is two in a row now and I think it shows a change in the quality of wrestlers in Metro-East has now.

It's been a long time that we've waited for this chance. We have had good teams in the past, and we just could not get past Granite. Hopefully we have one more good weekend in us.

We had a really good day today. The 10 kids that we had advance came in and really banged. It was a team effort. We feel real good about it. The kids are sore and banged up, but they competed real hard.

A.J. wrestled really well against a kid who placed in the state. It was a good win for him.

We knew we were going to have a tough time in the championships. Not to say we were underdogs, but we knew we were up against some kids who had beaten us before. I thought all our guys wrestled well in those matches.

They have been in our regional a lot and we have not been able to get past them. This time, we won't see them until the sectional.

The kids all wrestled hard all day long. We had some tough matches that we won, some we lost and some bad breaks along the way. But I'm proud of what we did up here today and tomorrow we still have a shot at some medals.

Sean is not happy with himself right now. He thought he made some mistakes to lose that one, but he gets to go to sectionals and I'm sure he will get another chance at Ian there.

We're proud of that. I thought we needed to get 11 guys through to win the regional, and we had a chance to get all 14 through, but I'm very pleased getting 13 guys through to the sectional.

I thought Chris looked very impressive. He really goes after people, doesn't he

That was a tough match. It was tough, both guys battled hard, Sean should be proud, but he's not. He's a competitor and he hates to lose. There's nothing I can say to him tonight, he knows what he has to do (today). He knows he is in position to get a medal if he wants it. It will be tough for him to get re-focused on third place, but that's what he has to do if he wants to go home with a medal (today).

We had a great day. A.J. came back strong after losing yesterday. When Sean puts his mind to it and competes, he's capable of beating anyone.

We have a good shot at that, I think. We have to get through some tough teams up there. It's our first one in a long time because we have always run into some tough Granite City teams, we will see them next weekend.

It was a good effort. I thought we got banged around a little bit at some classes in the early rounds, but kids rebounded well and had good tournaments.

We're banged up after the individual state tournament.. But these kids have been resilient all year long and we've battled through a lot this season.