This is, I guess, an unsettlable argument, and frankly it should be; neither side is really wrong.
However, at no point did I say that summer wrestling is unimportant, or that good wrestlers don't take it seriously. I've been at this for 26 years and I know better.
But, while freestyle and Greco are excellent disiplines of the sport, it is your high school folkstyle results and talents that move you up the levels of the sport (kids to high school to college). No one ever got a full ride to Iowa, Minnesota or Okie State based on their kids wrestling results.
On the other hand, that very same kids wrestling -- folkstyle or Olympic styles --was probably a big factor in making you a better high school wrestler. Pyle and Drennen may not go to Fargo, but so far it doesn't seem to have hurt them any. I would guess they've both been working pretty hard this summer, wouldn't you?
