By MICHAEL BOYLAN

Sports Editor

It is 1999 and the county duals of wrestling have sprung upon us like a lion on a wildebeast. It seems as if the wrestling season just began and already we get to see three of the four county high schools face off against each other on the mats at McIntosh. McIntosh is the favorite in the meet, as they have never lost the county duals meet.

McIntosh traveled to a two day tournament in Fitzgerald last week. They made the trip with only nine wrestlers and still took third place, scoring 140.5 points. Fitzgerald won the tournament, scoring 170 points. Seven of the nine McIntosh wrestlers placed in the tournament and five of those seven were champions of their weight division. "We would have won the tournament if we had had our full squad," said Coach Hutsell. "We had more champions than any of the other nine teams at the tournament."

Carlos Dinkins won the 103 pound weight division and Josh Rickards won the 125 pound weight division. Johnathan Nieves was the champion of the 130 pound grouping, while Eddie Smith pinned all his opponents and won the 135 pound weight division. Matt Waters won the 275 pound weight division. Michael Lee finished in second place of the 152 pound group and Daniel Graham finished in third place in the 112 pound group.

Coach Hutsell will be without a few wrestlers at the dual meets due to illness and injury on Tuesday and he forsees a permanent switch at the 119 position after some wrestle-offs this week.

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