Sports Editor

Every year Coach Hutsell has three goals for his wrestling team: Win the South Metro Invitational, win

the area meet and win the state championship. Coach Hutsell and the Chiefs have now completed the first

two goals. The Chiefs hosted the 4-AAAA area meet on Saturday and won with an overall score of 211.5

points. The Fayette County Tigers finished in second place with an overall score of 143 points. The Chiefs had

six champions and qualified 12 wrestlers for the state meet this weekend.

The Chiefs six champions were

Carlos Dinkins at 103

Daniel Graham at 112

Josh Rickards at 125

Eddie Smith at 135

Lukas Smith at 189, and

Matt Waters at 275.

While pleased that his team won the area meet, Coach Hutsell was disappointed with their level of

intensity in the finals. "We were too far ahead, I think," Hutsell said. "They knew they had it won and were kind

of lackadaisical."

Fayette County's champion was Jared Bailey at 130. Second place finishers were Brandon Phillips at

119, Brad West at 135, Nick Salters at 145 and Jonathan Bailey at 160. "With the injuries and recent problems

we had, I expected to finish in second place," said Coach Jim Bailey." We took 13 guys to the area meet and

we're bringing 11 of them to the state meet.

Both teams will work on conditioning and some problem areas that popped up on Saturday, as they

prepare to face some of the toughest programs in the state, Friday and Saturday at McEachern.

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