Ryland Wagner Quotations

This is a great birthday present. This is a great turnout here tonight. This is what we want as far as the fans and the support and the enthusiasm of everyone because we want this to be a top tournament for everyone.

Every one of those matches was a state-caliber match. That's what helps you get better. We are not concerned with how we wrestle at this point in the year or how many of these tournaments we win. Our eyes are on the state tournament at the end of the year. We just want to wrestle as tough of competition as we can.

We made our schedule really, really hard this year. We kind of didn't care about what our record was. We just wanted to get the toughest competition we (could) so that we'd be ready for this weekend.

What an accomplishment. I told my entire team that, 'When you advance to the second day, you are one of the top 12 wrestlers in the state.' I couldn't be happier.

We said from the start that we wanted to finish in the top two at state. In 10 years, that is what people are going to remember, not who won the Lake Weir tournament.

I knew he had the ability to be a state champion. It was a switch turned on in him just before the state tournament and he just went for it.

In my mind, this is a once in a lifetime opportunity for us. This is 13 years I've been here and we've never come close to having a team like we have right now.