The Luke Geske Colby Monnington match was a very good match. The first period ended with the score 0-0. The second period Geske chose down and Monnington held him down the entire period. Going into the third score remained 0-0. Monnington chose down then within the first 5 seconds of the period scored an escape to make the score 1-0 in favor of monnington. with about 30 seconds remaining in the match Geske had a good double leg had Monnington up over his head but Monnington figure four leg locked Geske's head. The ref then awarded Geske a penalty point to make the score deadlocked at 1-1. The final 30 seconds of the period were very interesting both wrestlers looked exausted and both showed a termendous amount of heart neither wrestler wanted it to go to overtime you could tell that because neither wrestler backed off both traded shots after shot after shot and neither could take the other one down. The final 5 seconds the two wrestlers were locked up and Geske tried to throw what looked to be a lateral drop which Monnington countered and Geske fell to his back with Monnington on top of him to score the take down with a second or less to make the final score 3-1 Monnington. The call was then reviewed by Brady of Manhattan I believe and Phil a ref from Clay Center. The two wrestlers then met and Brady raised Monnington's hand for the Championship Victory to keep him undefeated on the season at 13-0. It was a hard fought match being really the first matches for both wrestlers since christmas break ended and it was Luke Geske's 3rd of the season. The match could have easliy gone either way. But from the information i have read on here, Colby Monnington is not ranked in the state at 125lbs 3 2 1A. Luke Geske is the number 1 ranked kid in 4A state at 125lbs. This victory should give Monnington a little bit of respect. I seem to read a lot about the western kansas kids and how the are so tough i know for fact Monnington will meet up with Matt Warta from Ellsworth i believe at the Hoisington Inv. It should be a good match. I do remember two years ago at state Monnington wrestled Matt Gilland of Hoxie. As I recall Gilland won the match by pin but went into the second losing 5-2. Monnington had the returning state champ on his back in the first 15 seconds of the match. There are some kids out west at the norton regional maybe not the kids but people whinning that 5 ranked kids are in that regional. According to Coach Lamar, he ranked 15 kids that were either state qualifiers of placers last year at weights that are in 125lb weight class which makes it the most stacked weight in 321A maybe all classes. Yet these people are critizing the other regionals. Easton regional has 4 of the top 10 from his picks also and the south regions are weaker but still have 2 or three in them also. Its to bad one of those 5 top ranked kids wrestle there one of them isn't going to get to go to state but all those kids are young so they will have another chance. its just to bad but teams or kids hearts get broken in every sport every year a top ranked team has to go against another top ranked team in substate or regional and they dont make it to state either thats just apart of the sports world . So just get over it and you'll have to make yourself better. Life sucks. Good luck to all wrestlers north east south and west

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