Wrestling prepares for home dual and Oklahoma tournament

Kyerra Snyder, Reporter

Madi Hay
Junior Devin Gomez at practice before the season started. He is in his first year at Maize and has gone 6-0.

The Maize wrestling team has two big events coming up: A dual at Maize tonight at 6 p.m. and a tournament this weekend in Oklahoma.

Today will be their first dual at home and Devin Gomez [a transfer from Valley] said he is pretty excited.

¨I have been excited to go out in the gym for the first time since I have transferred,¨ Gomez said. ¨I am excited to go out and show everyone what I can do.¨

Kyle Haas also said he is really excited to dual at home tonight.

¨I can not wait especially because they are the only team that beat us last year in our league,¨ Haas said.

The Eagles have high expectations this year after placing third last year at state.

¨Our team has been performing very well, we have little things here and there but overall we are doing better,¨ Haas said.

Gomez is determined to win no matter what the match or who he is competing against.

¨You have to go out there and treat every person and every match like they are the same,¨ Gomez said.

Gomez said it’s important for the team to match different teams like Oklahoma.

¨The exposure that you get, it prepares you for future matches down the road,¨ Gomez said.

Haas also thinks it is important to wrestle in Oklahoma, but for another reason.

¨It kinda gets our team name out their,¨ Haas said.

Although they think they are a good team, and have high expectations for this year they still have things they need to work on.

¨We have been doing what we need to but we need to not be so uptight.¨ Gomez said.