Muskego Wrestlers Take 3rd in La Crosse

Muskego Wrestling Coach Sean Fortmann was busy over the break along with his team, and the hard work of the season so far has paid off.

Competing in the Bi-State Classic tournament in LaCrosse, the men on the mats showed that its youth wasn't going to limit its success.

"This is an extremely competitive tournament with over 54 teams from Minnesota and Wisconsin," said Fortmann. "We walked away with two 3rd place finishers, Austin Quartullo (120 lbs.) and Connor Price (152 lbs).

He said he was happy with the performance, as "Connor and Austin both wrestled and lost to arguably the best wrestlers in the whole tournament and yet came back to place third. Austin lost to a two time state champion 2-1 while Connor lost to a University of Wisconsin recruit and came back and won 6 matches in a row to place third."

Other solid performances were turned in by Cameron Rygiewicz 4-2 at 132 lbs; Ryan Honerlaw 3-2 at 170 lbs; and Vinny Nazario 2-2 at 113 lbs. 

"I have been telling our kids that we needed to make it through December and we have. We have a really young team and were able to weather a tough stretch in our schedule," Fortman said. "I think as we look to the second half of the season our kids are going to really start to make some big improvements. We survived December and now we are going to hit our stride in January and February. We have a lot of work to do but I like this group and think they are going to do some good things here."