Wrestling or Brad Paisley? . . .

Great day at the Memorial Coliseum on Friday watching the high school state wrestling championships. Of the three kids from FG that qualified two are still in

contention. Our 103lb'r will wrestle tonight in the championship match and our 285lb'r is advancing in consolation today towards third place. Not often do you see the floor of the coliseum completely covered in wrestling mats. I like that they moved the state championship back to Portland from the Salem fairgrounds venue. They had to split the different divisions into two separate locations in Salem and here they are all in the same place 1A, 2A, 3A, 4A, 5A & 6A. There are 12 matches going on at the same time so there is lots to watch. Our 103lb'r was featured on this video that OregonLive recorded (hard to believe that Andy was that weight or less as a sophomore dripping wet).

Josh Johnson defeats Farmer at 103 pounds

There was a brief break between sessions yesterday afternoon. Since hubby was going out to eat with his score table buddies, I hopped the MAXX train to Lloyd Center for a little shopping. On the return to the coliseum a number of coaches, parents and wrestlers unloaded off the train and headed back towards the coliseum passing the Rose Garden on the way. "You have any tickets?" "Hey, you need any tickets?" It was a mob. For country singer Brad Paisley was in town Friday night as well and the scalpers were out in high numbers. I heard lot's of the kids and coaches say, "Yeah, we have tickets to the state wrestling championships, do you want those?" To the dismay of the scalpers who thought they were going to be making some big sales deals. I won't say I wasn't tempted . . hmmmmm . . watch more wrestling or checking out Dierks Bentley (the opening act) and Brad Paisley's show . . well, wrestling won out.