A very special young man from Hutchinson is battling for his life. Tyler Graebner, who wrestles for Team Lightning, has been diagnosed with liver and pancreatic cancer, and is currently undergoing treatment in Kansas City.

Tyler is a great little kid, with equally terrific parents. Please keep them in your thoughts and prayers.

Eight year old fighting for his life.

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Situations like this break my heart. I hope that since there are medical bills involved, tournaments and others will take the initiative to take up money at tournaments to send the family. Tyler, Team Lightening know that there are many of us out here praying for you. Is there any place where we can send gifts or greetings to the hospital, let us know. I am also going to post this on the national forum and ask people to send greetings to him.

The address to the hospital is:

Children's Mercy Hospital
4 Henson, Rm 5, Tyler Graebner
2401 Gillham Rd
Kansas City, MO 64108

Your thoughts and prayers will greatly be appreciated!!! I know Tyler would love to hear from as many of you as possible!!

Our thoughts and prayers are with Tyler and his family. May God ease your pain and allow a quick recovery.

Don't give up Tyler, keep fighting. It looks like the prayer chain has been started. The Avallone family and our local church family are praying for you and your family. You are in our thoughts and prayers.
Tony, Tina, Kirsten, Karissa, Brantley, and Stormee Avallone

our thoughts and prayers are with you and your family keep up the fight tyler


the golden family

Tyler please take care and know that the Russell family from Edna, KS' thoughts and prayers are with you. Stay strong!! Lots of love

Tyler the Maize Jr. wrestling club will keep in
our prayers. God bless you and your family.

Tyler We will keep you and your family in our prayers. You have alot of people praying for you. Keep fighting. IF there anything you need please let us know.. God Bless

Wichita East Wrestling Club.

Our prayers are with you all the way here in Alaska Tyler. Keep up the fight. YOU WILL BE VICTORIOUS!!

The Baldwin Family

How is Tyler doing? Does he have the same address as posted earlier? Our thoughts and prayers are with you all.

I am planning on being in Kansas City this weekend for the Dual tournament. I would love to take my son and go by and visit Tyler, does anyone know if he is open to receiving visitors and the times? A reminder to all of the tournaments as well, please consider taking up money to help with the expenses. I really appreciate Hillsboro last week doing this and would hope that all of the tournaments take the lead this weekend. No one has enough insurance and hopefully as a community we can help each other out.

For all of you who are wondering...Tyler is still at the Children's Mercy Hospital in KC and yes, he can have visitors and needs them! Right now his spirits seem to be pretty good! He started chemo this week and if all goes well he may be home some time next week. He'll be home for a couple of weeks then he'll have to go back for his second treatment of chemo. Please continue to keep him in your prayers!

Thanks to everyone at the Hillsboro Takedown for your donations! I know one of the parent's jobs is not working with them at all during this time and no vacation time is left so any kind of donation would greatly be appreciated!!!

Tyler has been fortunate to have Ed Kinnison, #87 from the KC Chiefs, come and visit him and has the OU wrestling team keeping him in their thoughts and prayers. They sent him an autographed tank top and it really brightened his day!! Send him a card and let him know you're thinking about him...a little thing can go a long way!!

I'll keep you updated as the long journey continues!!

Mike Furches...The visiting hours are from 9AM to 9PM. He is in 4 Henson, Rm 5.

I just received a call from Tyler's mom and she wanted me to send out a big thank-you to WWC for the nice plaque you sent. She said he is doing really well. She asked that y'all continue to pray for him!

This weekend Nathan got sick and I wasn't feeling well either so we didn't go by the hospital. I do have a All-American shirt that was signed by all of the wrestlers, Eric Akin and Tom Peterman to give Tyler. If someone could please give an address or give me a call I would appreciate it. Another note, Sooner Mom or someone associated with the club and Tyler give me a call or email. There are some things I want to check with you on. Please do this in the next couple of days if possible. My cell number is 316-841-5814

I received GREAT news today from Tyler himself that he is coming home today. He is so excited and it is fantastic that he'll be home to spend Christmas with his family!! He'll be home for approximately 3 weeks then he'll have to return to KC for round two of chemo.

I'm passing along a "thank you" from Christina, Tyler's mom, to Kaden Rohr and his family from the Russell Wrestling Club for keeping Tyler in your thoughts by sending him his package. You don't realize how much it brightened his day!!!

So far The University of Oklahoma has come through and now I hear that Zac Roberson and Iowa State is going to be sending in a signed shirt for Tyler. This is great, what other colleges are letting this little warrior know that they are with him?

Mike I have talked with my friend Tammy better known to you on themat.com as Fanforlife and I think she might be able to pull something out of her sleeve for this lil warrior. She's got a pretty good OLYMPIC sized boss with a heart of gold.

Did get a email today from Oklahoma State University, they are sending up a signed poster. I am also speaking with the AD at Newman on Monday to discuss possibility of hosting something here in Wichita. Are there others who might be willing to host something, I need a large enough space to fit a minimum of 50 - 100 kids and depending on the event as many as a couple of hundred. What I will say is that I am working right now for something over Christmas Break with some "big" names to attend. Won't say anything much more than that at this point but we need a place to host the event, possibly a place with some seating room.