article about wrestling recruit

Here's an article on incoming frosh Seth Easter, expected to win his 4th straight West Virginia state wrestling championship in February. (via [wrestlingreport.com])


His brother Matt wrestled for the Big Red after a similarly stellar high school career and graduated* from Cornell last year. I'm sure he was a very good wrestler, but he found himself at Ithaca on a very deep team, stuck behind Jordan Leen.

Middle brother Anthony is wrestling at 133 at The Citadel after wrestling at 125 as a frosh. I don't know if Cornell showed any interest, but if I were him, I don't think I'd have come to a school with Nickerson and Frey on the roster either.

* I asssume; his eligibility is used up in any event.

Must be tough to be the No. 2 wrestler at a weight class. In hockey, the fourth line still gets shifts, and the last couple guys on a basketball team get in at the end when there margin is 20. In tennis, you can slide down from first to second singles and still help your team.