NBH 8th grader at elite wrestling tournament in Wisconsin this week

PANAMA CITY, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) -North Bay Haven eighth grader Bear Siegal is getting the prospect this week to compete in a prestigious nationwide wrestling match often known as the BonoBilt Massive 8 Invitational. That’s going down on the College of Wisconsin-Madison, and it invitations what it views because the 8 high center faculty wrestlers, in every weight class, from throughout the nation. Bear Siegal, a 14 yr outdated, 150 pounder, amongst these invitees. And we’re informed, he’s the one wrestler from your complete state of Florida to get one. So that provides you an thought of simply how unique that is. This some video of certainly one of Bear’s exhibitions from Thursday in Wisconsin. Bear and his household touring north a few days in the past. Right here’s dad speaking about how all this took place.

“Properly he wrestled highschool this yr, he didn’t wrestler center faculty.” Andy Siegal informed me. “However it’s simply based mostly off what he’s carried out in tournaments and the off season. And I assume what he’s carried out in the highschool season, I’m not likely a hundred percent certain. They form of went off Observe Wrestling and despatched off an invitations. And I answered it again for him and didn’t assume I’d hear one other factor after which we did.”

And so the household went up early within the week, and that gave coach Siegal time to arrange some vital preparations for Bear.

“As a result of I knew he was going to need to ratchet issues up I got here as much as Illinois earlier than we go up there, use a few of my contacts. So he’s educated with Austin Gomez, the NCAA champion. Hector Gomez who’s his dad, is a world class coach. Haley Arroyo who’s on the Olympic staff for girls’s wrestling. He simply bought carried out with a exercise with Mike Poeta, the pinnacle coach at Illinois. And Zach Brunson who’s a two time All-American at Illinois. I feel he simply wrestled a Russian child a few minutes in the past.”

Irrespective of occurs this weekend, coach Siegal is aware of his son can be higher for this expertise.

”He’s attending to see the highest competitors within the nation. And he’s additionally attending to work with a few of the high coaches within the nation. So that is nice exposing him to this. Getting somewhat style of what faculty wrestling is like, so if that’s the route he desires to go, he will get to do it. If not not less than he bought to expertise it.”

Bear begins the competitors at 10 Saturday morning on the College Wisconsin-Madison.

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