Colorado HS wrestler forfeits state tournament match rather than wrestle girl

[LowSpeed_HighDrag]

I applaud the kid for standing up for what he believes in. I think he's wrong, but my opinion doesn't matter on this topic.

If you want to wrestle in a league that allows girls to wrestle boys, then you need to abide by the rules.

[OH58D]

Not trying to start a fight, but you just hit the nail on the head. That is why our country is going down the sh!t tube. The ability to control urges is what separates evolved humans from animals........ and what keeps whinny assed liberals alive, controlling those primal urges to rid the gene pool of them.

So true. Having spent the first half of my working years in the Army, I found the best pilots, and the most aggressive operators we interacted with had an edge to them. They weren't amoral or lacking in ethics, they were just able to separate the two. It's hard to describe.

I consider myself a devout Christian, yet the business of killing and morals are constantly at war with each other. My teenage response to wrestling a female on the mat is the animal - the realization that it probably isn't a good thing is the alternative reality in morality. I read somewhere in the New Testament by the Apostle Paul that he sinned daily, and asked for forgiveness daily. Trying to live a good, ethical and moral life requires work - sometimes it's easier to be lazy.

[Hmac]

This is really just getting out of hand.
Even if they are matched in weight, there is no possible way they are close to even in bone and muscle, it's just a real good way to get a girl physically injured for life. I'm not sure how much further this needs to go because essentially his forfeit propelled her even further up the ranks and increases her odds of getting hurt.
I'm not sure how many of you guys have seen some High School Football players lately, but they pretty much are the same size Professionals were in the 1960's.

Jaslyn Gallegos was 23-3 going into that state tournament. She's been wrestling for a long time. If she was in danger of getting hurt by some hulking brute (in her weight class), it would have happened by now. Sounds to me like her male opponents are in more danger than she is.

[SteyrAUG]

Did anyone actually read his reason why? This kid has class and that is it. He will be a winner at life.

More importantly, he can't win.

If he wins, he's that guy who had to beat up the girl even though she did her best.

If he loses, he's the loser who can't even win against a girl.

It really was the only play.

[26 Inf]

I echo what docsherm was the first to post - good for him, he did what was right for him.

I didn't follow wrestling closely, now my grandson is a freshman and wrestles on the JV, so I'm learning more about it. That being said, is Kansas an anomaly? We have girls high school wrestling matches:

https://www.usawks.org/page/show/926513-women

I believe there is a move in the KSHSAA (Kansas State High School Activities Association) to make girl's wrestling a varsity sport with a sanctioned state tournament.

[Hmac]

I didn't follow wrestling closely, now my grandson is a freshman and wrestles on the JV, so I'm learning more about it. That being said, is Kansas an anomaly? We have girls high school wrestling matches.

A lot of state do have girls wrestling...Colorado apparently does not. I think this particular woman went on to take 5th place in the state tournament, and I think the other girl took 3rd.

[docsherm]

More importantly, he can't win.

If he wins, he's that guy who had to beat up the girl even though she did her best.

If he loses, he's the loser who can't even win against a girl.

It really was the only play.

Winner, winner chicken dinner.

[Firefly]

Nah nah nah....

I would have done it as a work. I would have come out with my NWO shirt on and beat her ass and humiliated her and then a surprise tag team runs in of two of the blondest, big boobsest cheerleaders in the school who hit me with a chair and pull my pants down to reveal that I am wearing silk butterfly panties.

And when they do their run in Britney Spears Hit me baby one more time plays full volume and we have a protracted feud.

Might as well have fun with it.

[TomMcC]

The young man seems to possess a serious Christian mind. I hope he doesn't fall prey to the wasteland of "popular" Christianity.

[grizzman]

More importantly, he can't win.

If he wins, he's that guy who had to beat up the girl even though she did her best.

If he loses, he's the loser who can't even win against a girl.

It really was the only play.

This is the way I see it also.

I've been aware of girls playing football, but this is the first time I've heard of them wrestling. We sure are entering into strange times. Not once have I ever heard a girl (even second handed) say she wanted to try wrestling.

I wrestled in HS, and would not have gone up against a girl.