Short on senior leadership, the Barnegat High School wrestling team headed into the winter season mostly hoping to grab some victories so that many of its younger wrestlers could gain solid experience for when February’s NJSIAA District 32 tournament rolled around. So far, the Bengals have been competitive against comparable teams.

At 5-8, and with eight contests left to the regular season, the Bengals won a pair of bouts during a busy Martin Luther King Day weekend, in which they wrestled six…