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• Partners: Tsali Lough wrestles against former teammate P.J. Montgomery late Monday afternoon in the Terre Haute South wrestling room. Montgomery is helping Lough prepare for his Friday night match in Indianapolis in the state wrestling finals. (Tribune-Star/Jim Avelis)

  

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February 17, 2012

Last chance, best chance?: South’s Lough, Northview’s See — both seniors — head to state finals

Andy Amey The Tribune-Star The Tribune Star Fri Feb 17, 2012, 06:23 AM EST

TERRE HAUTE — Tsali Lough and Aaron See will be wrestling unfamiliar opponents today in Bankers Life Fieldhouse at Indianapolis — and considering the high school wrestlers they got through last week to get to this point, maybe that’s a good thing.

Lough, Terre Haute South’s 160-pounder, meets Damian Gomez of Hammond Noll and See, a 220-pounder from Northview, will battle Austin Gearlds of Greenfield-Central in the state finals. Carter Lewis, a 170-pounder from Greencastle, also wrestles today against Darryl Peppers of Merrillville.

Today’s winners earn the right to wrestle three more rounds on Saturday to determine places one through eight. Today’s losers are through for the season.

Whether today or Saturday, this weekend will be the last high school wrestling for both Lough and See — the last wrestling of any kind for Lough, who will be attending Indiana State as a football player. See’s options are still “up in the air,” he said this week, with either college wrestling or college football still possible.

“I’m just trying to finish strong,” Lough said this week. “I want to go up there and wrestle the best wrestling I’ve ever done in my life.”

“I’m pretty excited,” said See. “I’ve been training pretty hard. I’m just ready for the time for me to wrestle.”

Lough finished first at last weekend’s Evansville Semistate, in a bracket that included four wrestlers ranked higher than he was. See was third last week, beating an opponent with 52 victories for the season in the third-place match after losing to one of the two 220-pounders who took unbeaten records into the championship match at that weight.

“I look for all four of those kids [at 220 pounds] from last week to win their first-round matches [today],” coach Dan Mikesell of Northview predicted.

Lough’s semistate championship means he’s wrestling a fourth-place semistate wrestler in today’s match, and if he wins would wrestle either a semistate runner-up (Isaac Steury, 36-2, of Leo) or a third-place finisher from last week (Connor Robinson, 36-8, of New Palestine).

Two victories would put Lough in the semifinals, possibly against second-ranked Kirk Johnson, 43-2, of Perry Meridian. The weight-class favorite, unbeaten Brian Harvey of Indianapolis Cathedral, is in the bottom bracket. Harvey was state runner-up last year and has handed Johnson both his losses.

“It’s one match at a time,” pointed out coach Gabe Cook of South. “We’re going to focus on how Tsali wrestles best and try to simulate some different styles [in practice] in expectation of anybody he might face.”

P.J. Montgomery, South’s state runner-up a year ago, has been Lough’s practice partner.

“It’s really wide open,” Cook predicted, “and with Tsali you don’t have to worry about him being pumped, about him working hard in the room and about his effort. He’s got an opportunity.”

“I just want to beat everybody,” Lough said, “and prove to everybody that the rankings are wrong. That’s why I come up here [to the wrestling room] to practice every day.”

See, who has practiced this week against a smaller opponent in teammate Jesse Miller (Northview’s 195-pounder) and a bigger one in teammate Justin Sampson (the Knights’ 285-pounder), will be sorry to see his Northview career end.

“I’m real sad about that,” he said. “I’m going to miss our program and all our coaches, and I’m going to miss being the big guy on campus … but I plan to come back to help [coach] next year if I can, because I think Jesse and Justin will be going to state then.”

If See is a winner tonight, he’ll probably see unbeaten Seth Biberstine of Southern Wells in his first match Saturday. But the Knights aren’t looking ahead.

“I’ve never seen [Gearlds],” See said, “but I hear he does a lot of upper-body [wrestling]. That helps me, because I like getting on [my opponent’s] legs … I’ll just wrestle my game and not let him get in on me — wait for a mistake and capitalize.”

“[This weekend] caps off his career,” Mikesell said. “He set our school record for pins in a season [26 and counting this year, after 24 during his junior season] and pins in a career [80 so far].

“[Tonight] he’s got to control the [tie-ups] and take control of the match,” the coach continued, “but if he wrestles like he did at the semistate, he’ll be in good shape.”

• Time: First matches (106 pounds) at 6 p.m. today. Second-round matches begin 9:30 a.m. Saturday, followed immediately by third round. Consolation matches at 5 p.m. Saturday, championship matches at 7:30.

• Place: Bankers Life Fieldhouse

• Broadcast: www.broadcastsport.net will stream live video both today and Saturday; www.ihsaatv.org will broadcast the championship matches at 7:30 p.m. Saturday.



 

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