Placers Quotes

We want them all to go on, and realistically they all have a shot. They all want to be state-placers and they're all looking to be pretty tough. I just want them all to have a good time. - Brian Nicola

We want (area) placers and we want qualifiers for state. As a team, I think we're ready. - Steve Lattizori

This was very disappointing, especially since we had planned to win this. We thought we would win it if we had five champions and four placers, but we had four champions and only two placers. - Trent Miller

Paul broke the Waldport dry spell of state placers last year when he placed fifth, and now we've made a bit more recent history by placing three wrestlers in the same year. It's been a long time since that has happened and since we've had a wrestler in the state finals. With all these placers returning next year, we are poised to make major gains next season. - Ezra Morse

Our whole team wrestled really solid. It was a tough tournament. There were state placers in nearly every weight class. - Tony Prentice

It was incredible. We wrestled outstanding. We broke the record for most points, most champs, most finalists and most placers. We had 14 placers. You can't do better than that. It was amazing. - Todd Cheney

And we should have had another three placers, we just made a couple of mistakes, and the guys who beat us were in the money. - Joe Wells

Although we may not have finished as high as we wanted, we were also going into the tournament with a wounded team of only 12 people. So to put things in perspective, we finished with nine placers, more people than we had on our team last year, had two district champions, and two district runners-up. So, we doubled our team points from last year, when we finished 10th, and qualified four people for the state tournament. - Ezra Morse