Sports Editor

It is 1999 and the county duals of wrestling have sprung upon

us like a lion on a wildebeast. It seems as if the wrestling season just

began and already we get to see three of the four county

high schools face off against each other on the mats at McIntosh.

McIntosh is the favorite in the meet, as they have never lost the

county duals meet.

McIntosh traveled to a two day tournament in Fitzgerald

last week. They made the trip with only nine wrestlers and still

took third place, scoring 140.5 points. Fitzgerald won the

tournament, scoring 170 points. Seven of the nine McIntosh wrestlers placed

in the tournament and five of those seven were champions of

their weight division. "We would have won the tournament if we had

had our full squad," said Coach Hutsell. "We had more

champions than any of the other nine teams at the tournament."

Carlos Dinkins won the 103 pound weight division and

Josh Rickards won the 125 pound weight division. Johnathan

Nieves was the champion of the 130 pound grouping, while

Eddie Smith pinned all his opponents and won the 135 pound

weight division. Matt Waters won the 275 pound weight

division. Michael Lee finished in second place of the 152 pound group

and Daniel Graham finished in third place in the 112 pound group.

Coach Hutsell will be without a few wrestlers at the dual

meets due to illness and injury on Tuesday and he forsees a

permanent switch at the 119 position after some wrestle-offs this week.

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