Cutter's final tourney

I just wanted to give everyone the final update on Cutter and his wrestling career. Ha! He wrestled last weekend in Dumas. If you remember, the last tournament he wrestled in, we had to move him up a weight division. If you also remember, he won the thing. Saturday in Dumas was a good day. Cutter wrestled for the championship again. He was wrestling a boy from Liberal Kansas. These two kids are as evenly matched as anyone Cutter wrestled this year. Cut had him down 9-5 in points going into last few seconds in the second round. They tumbled off the mat and as they were getting up, Cutter took a foot right in the eye. Oh man it hurt. We took a timeout to get him gathered and all. Looking back now, I don't think he was really ready to continue. I should have given him more time. By the time the round was over he was behind 10-9. He ended up losing 13-10. He was upset as you can imagine. Mostly because he got hurt. I hate to see my son get beat, but I also understand losing sometimes is good also. Cutter also wrestled a division up in Dumas. He wrestled his weight division in the open category. He was competing against 1st and 2nd graders. This was real tough for him. He got beat 12-0 his first match. Lost 12-7 his second match, and won by forfeit his third match. It was good experience for him. We were able to get him some more mat time. There is a final tournament this weekend, but Cutter decided he was done for the year and didn't want to wrestle. I thought that was a good idea too. Cutter ended up winning 11 matches, and losing 7. Two first place wins, a second, two thirds, a fifth, and a ninth. All in all a pretty good record, considering he only started wrestling in late October.

Cutter and I were having one of our many conversations about very important things the other day. I can't exactly remember what brought this up, but he was wondering something about God. Somehow the conversation ended up me telling him the story about Jacob wrestling with God. He was totally amazed by the story. He finally said he thought that was cool that God wrestles too, like him.

Cutter is now playing basketball. (I think some of the reason he was ready to stop wrestling for a while.) I will have more about basketball later.