I started going to the practices and I wasn’t too thrilled by it all but it seemed like I was doing pretty good at first so I thought wrestling would start to look up for me. After a few weeks of practice I made the varsity team there was one other kid in my weight class so we had to wrestle and, the winner would be on the varsity team and, the loser would be on the junior varsity “J.V.” team. The other kid in my 80lb weight class was even smaller and scrawnier then I was so it wasn’t a very hard earned win but I was happy with it either way because I made the varsity team. My dad was a lot more excited about it then I was of course especially because he didn’t know the circumstances of my win he just knew his son had made the varsity …show more content…
teams lined up along the other. We were in the order of our weight class; highest to lowest and the matches went in the same order. Watching all the matches before mine made me nervous. One wrestling match is three rounds that are three minutes each; during a round you get points for certain things such as, taking your opponent down, or getting out of a hold. To win the round you have to take your opponent down and pin his back on the mat for three seconds however if nobody is pinned within the three minutes of the round then the person with the most points wins the