“There's a lot of demons, there's a lot of stuff that happened last year running through my mind. It's one of those things, a pressure situation and I had to step up. I made some mistakes, but kept my head in it and pulled it out. Any tournament you've got with guys going toe-to-toe like this is going to be tough. You could wrestle these same matches the next two days and the outcomes could be different. That's the type of talent we have in the area.”
“I can't complain. It was as good as it could have been. It's been a good last few weeks. Been a good season. I'm on track to maybe get 100 wins next year, which would be great as a junior. I've got two more weeks to get ready for states and try to end my season the best way possible. I'm definitely pleased, but I can never be satisfied.”
“This (gold medal) is redemption. This proves to everybody, not only in this building, but everybody everywhere that said Shuster choked last year, he screwed up, he didn't really have what we thought he had. I just came back and the last two weeks proved that I do have it. And I think that things are only going to get better from here.”
