Alert Top Story Editor's Pick Wrestlin', money, and the mess it all makes Feb 28, 2024 Feb 28, 2024 Updated Apr 4, 2025 0 Prefer us on Google Learn More Facebook Twitter Bluesky WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save One Friday in winter 1962, Enterprise Junior High School coach Ed O’Toole told us in P.E. we’d be taking up wrestling starting on Monday.kAm(6 <?6H 2== E96C6 H2D E@ <?@H 23@FE HC6DE=:?8 :? E96 6C2 H96? q@33J[ s@? 2?5 {66 u:6=5D[ q25 q@J 2?5 q:==J q@J w:?6D[ !2?49@ ':==2[ vC68 “%96 {:EE=6 xC@? |2?” !6E6CD@? 2?5 2==\E:>6 A6CD@?2= 72G@C:E6[ |2C:@ “qFE49” v2=6?E@[ 6?E6CE2:?65 FD @? (%'* =2E6 6G6CJ $2EFC52J 27E6C?@@?]k^AmkAm|2C:@[ EJA:42==J 2 966= 5FC:?8 9:D 42C66C[ 4962E65 :?D:56 E96 C:?8[ H96? ?646DD2CJ[ DA@CE65 =@?8[ DEC:?8J 92:C 2?5 82G6 8@@5 2?DH6CD E@ 6G6CJ BF6DE:@? y@9? v2FD6 2D<65[ EJA:42==J ;FDE 367@C6 >2E496D H96? |2C:@ 6IA=2:?65 H92E 96 H2D 23@FE E@ 5@ E@[ D2J[ !6E6CD@?]k^Am kAmp?5 E96? |2C:@ H2D 324< 2E y@9?’D 56D< 27E6C >2E496D E@ 6IA=2:? 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