Speaking of Pyle, I remember the first time I saw big brother Matt wrestle. It was at the Junction City tourney when Pyle was a freshman. I had never heard of him. I checked the bracket. He was wrestling a senior STUD from JC (the kid took third in the state that year) that I knew well. I thought, "poor little freshman. Mike's going to kill this Pyle kid..."

Then the match started. Pyle threw Mike around like a rag doll and then pinned him. Matt calmly helped him up after the pin, shaked his hand and humbly walked off the mat. I was thinking, "man, that Pyle kid is something else!"

Was he an undefeated state champ his freshman year?