Ethan also had his final wrestling meet. It was an all city tournament and so Ethan had four different kids that he had to wrestle against. He pinned his first opponent from a different school. Then he had to wrestle one of his friends from his school. He had wrestled him a couple of times in the past and he had won one and his friend had won one. The match was close, but Ethan ended up winning by two points. Ethan got his points in the first round when he took him down a couple of times. For the next two rounds Ethan started on bottom. For both rounds Ethan was not able to get out from being on bottom, but because he started there, the other kid didn't get any points from it. The third match was against another kid from a different school. This kid was really good and Ethan didn't get any points on him, but he also didn't get pinned (the kid pinned all of the other opponents). His final opponent was another friend from his school. This was the top JV kid for his weight class at his school. Ethan had only wrestled him in practices and said he was really good. It was another close match though. The other kid got a couple of points early one, but then at the end of the first round Ethan almost pinned him and was able to take the lead by one. For the next two rounds the other kid picked up a few points here and there until he was ahead by three or so points. But then, in the final 15 seconds Ethan almost pinned him again and ended up winning. So that meant that Ethan got 2nd place for the JV boys in his weight group for the city. He was really excited about that. I think he is definitely planning on doing wrestling again next year. And it really grew on Rebecca and I too. At first we were very skeptical, but we were impressed by how hard he worked and how he learned to manage his frustrations and never give up, even when things were very physically challenging.
