Gage's First Wrestling Medal

So this past weekend the Holiday Tournament. Well here is how it went, Giuseppe and Mason placed 4th and both received medals. They both did their best. Now Gage was in a slightly different part of the tournament. While Giuseppe and Mason were in a regular 8 man bracket style tournament, Gage was part of what is called a Round Robin where they pair up 4 kids of similar age, weight, and ability and they wrestle each kid once. Gage has done this a couple times now and for some reason he seems to get the similar weight part but almost never ability and age. I suspect it is because since his big brothers have been around for a while they assume that since Gage has the same last name he must be better than average. Well as it turns out he's not. He is just quite simply a 5 year old with a couple of months experience. So he always is paired with kids with a couple of years experience. So he hasn't even scored a point all season. So we were a little bit bummed when we found out that Gage was wrestling 7 year olds. But Gage always seems to have fun so we drove on as usual. He ended up losing all of his matches but he felt like he was king of the world. In his 2nd match he scored 2 points, his first points ever, then he got pinned. For his third match I think he remembered how much fun scoring was so he decided to do it some more. He scored 8 points and almost pinned the other kid. In the end the other boy won by just a couple of points. His coaches were so proud of him that they gave him a special star patch. One of Chili's friends saw how excited Gage was and even bought him a shirt. So yeah... all the kids at the tournament received a medal and really Gage got 4th out of 4... but isn't it the little victories that count?!!! GO GAGER!!