It’s tough to wrestle. It’s tough to train.
It’s tough to win one match. It’s tough to win a league championship.
It’s tough to win a state championship. It’s tough to wrestle in college.
It’s tough to win a match in college. It’s tough to qualify for the national college meet. It’s tough to win a match at nationals.
It’s NEVER easy, and that’s exactly the reason wrestlers wrestle. They thrive on the many challenges.
Kysen Terukina, the poster boy these days for wrestlers from Hawaii, competed for the Iowa State Cyclones in the NCAA Division I championships in Detroit yesterday and today.
Hawaii’s Kysen Terukina. (Image credit: CycloneFanatic.com).
And of course, he found the going tough.
So tough, in fact, that he lost both matches. But, also as expected, he came very close to pulling both matches out.
In the preliminaries, Terukina dropped a 4-2 contest to Oklahoma State’s Trevor Mastrogiovanni. Then, in the consolation round, the former Kamehameha standout fell 6-4 to Rutgers’ Dylan Shawyer.
Terukina (15-10) won four state championships with the Warriors — 132 pounds in 2020, 126 in 2019, 120 in 2018, and 113 in 2017.
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