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Comments
from National Champions
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| 125 |
| Repeat National Champion Matt Shankey from Augsburg
discusses his matches: |
"That's what I came here
to do. Everyone else is pretty good. I knew going in there I'd
never wrestledhim. He's a pretty funky kid; I just had to stay
with my stuff. As long as I stay with my offense I don't think
anyone can beat me. I thought I wrestled real good. It feels
real good to get the second title...a big weight off my shoulders."
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Thoughts on his takedowns:
"Thats my singleg (?) he knew my what my shot was and that's
my best shot. I just keep going back to it. The more I do it
the better I get and you just can't stop it; the same with in
the semifinals. How does it feel to get individual and
possibly team title? "Unbelievable, I've never
been part of anything like this. I went to Apple Valley HS and
we were real good there but this feels unbelievable and my teammates
are the best teammates. I mean obviously all 10 of them are
All-Americans. It feels real good. I mean the team title means
as much to me as the title I just won. I mean if I won. if I
do my part to win the tournment that's my contribution."
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| 133 |
| Two-time National Champ Mark Matzek of Augsburg: |
| Thoughts about back-to-back
titles: "It's about the
best years I've ever had. I almost want to say it's a relief
but tomorrow it'll be even better after you achieve something
like this and then our team. Last year we took second when we
wanted to be national champions and now this year we wanna break
the record. Team Chemistry: "Awesome every
single JV guy has so much support and they push us everyday
through practice. Did you do anything different today
than yesterday? "I was overanalyzing myself the
only reason. Today my philosophy is 'Just go wrestle'. I've
been doing that you know 15 years probably and if I can wrestle
with Shankey and Tidwell. There's no one who's going to be tougher
than them." |
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| 141 |
| National Champ Dustin Hinschberger of Wartburg discusses
his match: |
"I just focused on what I
beat him with a the beginning of the year, Kinda had a plan,
stuck to it, and the plan worked. On winning a 2nd National
title "The first one is as hard as the second, it feels
great, it's awesome, unbelievable."
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| 157 |
| Augsburg's three-time National Champion Marcus LeVesseur
is flying high: |
"It feels excellent, I'm
loving every moment of it right now." Compared
to the first two titles? "This one is a little
more special because actually I'm going to win a team title
to back up my own title so that's a great thing." Have
you wrestled LeBeau before? "Actually I wrestled
him last year at nationals in the quarts and I won that match
as well." Strategy: "I just wanted
to stay focused and keep control ... and that's what I did.
I controlled every aspect of the match and I won a 6-0 match."
More pressure? "there's more pressure
but I want to keep it under control one match at a time as long
as I keep doing that all the pressure in the world won't matter."
Can you hear your mom while on the mat? "Actually,
when I was little I did all the time but nowadays 'no'. All
Ihear is Coach Swenson saying 'no, no, no' and 'yes, yes, yes.'"
Thoughts on a team record: "We already
got a record so the last record was 151 and we had 154 after
the first two weights and so I'm loving it. This is my first
chance to be part of a championship team and I'm soaking it
all up right now." Going to relax now?
"Oh, it's going to be so good; I can' wait."
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| 165 |
Garret South, Luther (165): Feeling
of national title "I don't know if it sunk in
yet, its been a long time coming, I knew i had to wrestle hard.
I didn't wrestle the match I wanted to in the finals but a win
is a win in the National finals. " after getting
second last year " Oh it's sweet revenge, last
year just gave me a lot of fire, I wrestled awesome all year
this year and it's because of that loss last year."
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| 174 |
Joe Moon, Augsburg (174): About almost
not coming out this year " it's
true I just started about six weeks ago, I'm glad I came back,
glad I'm not
sitting in the stands I can tell you that much. It's tough coming
back,
it's tough defending a title coming back on short time like
this, but I'm
glad I did it." about the finals match
" He (Chris Healy) wrestled really
well, his style is tough for me, he stayed in good position
the whole
match, he's a good wrestler, he deserved to be in the finals."
about
winning individual title and team title " Unbelievable,
setting records,
or I believe we did as a team, but it's awesome, couldn't be
happier.
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| 184 |
Duane Bastress, York (184): First
National Champion for York wrestling,
feeling of national title " Great there is a strong
tradition for York
wrestling and I just wanted to win a National title for coach."
any extra
pressure " I just went out like every other match,
but I was definitly a
lot more nervous than I ever was before, it's awesome, it feels
great."
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| 197 |
Akeem Carter, Wartburg (197): "It feels
great, two purposes I had,
actually three purposes to win this today, one was to glorify
Gods name,
second my brother is in the Army and I wanted the news to get
to him that
I'm a National Champion. third I wanted to represent Wartbug,
and I think
I did all three of those today." comparing to first
national title " Well
everytime I came into the finals so far, it was somebody big,
and knowning
me I'm just quick, got the technique, and I adjusted that and
I think I
got that today. I really achieved that today." about
oppenent shooting a
lot in the first period " Yeah he did! he had
a style that i wasn't used
to. I mean it was good though, it was good to see a new style,
new
technique and challenge me at the same time, challenging my
style and see
how I come out."
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| 285 |
Ryan Allen, UW-LaCrosse (285): " It feels
awesome, actually knowing you
got all the hard work to pay off. Everything is good when it
ends like
this ya know. Seven all-americans out of eight, it's phenomenal,
and all
of us are coming back, including Jason Lulloff, so were excited
for next
year." On familiar oppenent " I just
look at what I do and hopefully I'm
doing the right stuff to win."
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