What a Weekend

DJ and I went upstate to Binghamton, NY for the Freestyle/ Greco-Roman Wrestling State Championships. It was just a wonderful ride which took up about 3 1/2 hours to get there. We picked up 2 other boys that really wanted to wrestle up there also, but didn't have a way to get there. We had two cars that went up. I had 3 boys and the other car had 2. So not bad odds- 3 adults to 5 teenage boys!

Binghamton was just wonderful. Of course we spent most of our time in a hockey arena which had wall to wall wrestling mats in it, but that was what we were there for. Day one had a ton of wrestling for us. DJ was pretty much on fire! he won his first 2 matches in 2 periods (which is very good). Drew won his 1st match and lost the 2nd. Carter won his 1st match and lost his 2nd also. Frank did do very well in Freestyle and lost his 2 matches. Chris was wrestling Greco on the 1st day and he lost his 2 matches also. By the end of the evening (almost 10pm) we were all exhausted!

Day 2 brought more excitement. DJ was still on fire. He won his 1st match of the day, but got injured during the match. He never even gave me a hint that he was hurt and still continued to wrestle that match and won in 2 periods! About 30 mins later he came up to the stands and he looked like death. He dislocated his shoulder again! His next match was a BYE (which means the kid he was suppose to wrestle dropped out) so we said , lets see if the swelling goes down and maybe he would be able to move the shoulder. Of course that didn't happen! He couldn't even move his hand! He was now done and he probably would've place 2nd in this tournament and been able to go to Nationals!

I have to say that I think both of us were pretty sad that he couldn't finish out the tournament. He was wrestling sooooo well. He really deserved to wrestle injury free. He works so freakin' hard for this every year. Oh well, nothing you can do now. Just move on to Empire Games in 4 weeks from now. Hopefully, he will be able to wrestle then. Here are just a few of the photos of DJ wrestling. The first photo DJ is wearing the red and black striped uniform (singlet). He is facing the camera.

The next 2 photos DJ is wearing the blue uniform

We really had a great time the whole weekend. I would love to just go up there (especially this time of the year) and relax.

Ok.... I will update a little more tomorrow and hopefully I will have some of my mini album loaded up to show you. It is nothing too special, just something for the coach to remember the year. Until tomorrow.