“He never misses practice and he works hard on the technique we show him. I always tell him we're marketing you as the type of wrestler we want. If you listen then good things will happen like this.”
“Your sitting there going, 'No, no, no, then yeah, yeah, yeah. I find myself doing that a lot with him. He reaches back, which you tell wrestlers not to do, and he pins his guy.”
“We knew Eric had the ability. We could see it in the training room. But for a kid to come here who's never been in this tournament and come in and win it, that's outstanding.”