It was tough to determine which one was Southern Regional senior Collin French’s toughest opponent, Lenape’s Jackson Wheeler or his own sweatshirt, which had him all tangled and twisted as he tried to put it on for the podium ceremony Feb. 24.
“The sweatshirt gave me all kinds of problems, I’m not going to lie,” said a smiling French, just minutes after he stepped off the mat following a 42-second pin of Wheeler to capture the NJSIAA Region 7 championship at 215 pounds. “I was panicking.”
The issue wasn’t how quickly French pinned Wheeler, but how much faster Toms River East heavyweight James Lynch decked…
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