Really? The Lynnfield-North Reading wrestling team finishes the season at an unprecedented 25-0, wins the Div III North Sectional Championship, is ranked Div III No. 1 statewide by MassWrestling, and doesn't get even a mention in this article? Really?

Hey John - News flash, nobody cares about wrestling. Especially D3 combined schools.

Matt: What about Austin Prep? Boys hockey ranked and they are a local team with local kids.

@Matt - Yah, they are RANKED #1 heading into the State tournament.

@Carlos - Yah, I know, Football, Basketball, and Baseball rule. Just thought some folks cared about the real athletes. My bad.

Hey John - Remember the definition of wrestling? What men do during boys basketball season.

I have spent the past 3 months every weekend at wrestling tournaments and I dare any other sports athletes to hop on the mat and square off against even a middle school wrestler and we will see who the real athletes are. Now it seems that the IOC will be attempting to remove wrestling as an olympic sport. Because we know rhythmic gymnastics, the trampoline, Beach Vollyball and equestrian dressage are so very important.

During boys basketball season MEN wearing leotards grab each other while getting sweaty on mats?!

I also wanted to offer congratulations to the Souhegan Sabers, who were named as the 2012-2013 New Hampshire high school bowling champions last weekend.

I'm looking forward to the day when the Globe does power rankings for the bowling teams, as well as hoping it comes down here to Massachusetts. It's a great way for kids who might not otherwise be part of a high school athletic team to represent their school.

My son has played many sports and there was no harder training or commitment than that of a wrestler. Some of the worlds top MMA athletes are wrestlers, I particularly wouldnt want to tell them they are not athletes.

Whoever decides the Olympic sports are ridiculous. Horse dressing and speedwalking?

Ronaldo you clearly dont know a thing about wrestling. I'd like to see some of these people try wrestling. By far, the hardest training an athlete can get!
Not only that, Most are respectable kids who make good choices.
SMS-I agree with you-Horse dressage??

For all those that enjoy wrestling, the Youth New England's will be held this year at Lowell High School March 9th and 10th. Many kids from all the surrounding patch towns will be competing at this prestigious event. Chelmsford Youth Wrestling will be sending 6 wrestlers to compete, a great feat just getting there. Andrew and Matt this would be a great oppurtunity as I know of many kids from Chelmsford, Westford, Reading, Tewksbury, Wilmington and numerous other towns will be competing there.

It is incredibly vain that you all are arguing over wrestling not getting mentioned in the first time weekly write up by Matt. Our kids pursue sports they enjoy, and work hard at whatever they choose.

Let's be honest, a distance track runner is the hardest working athlete. A good percentage of our population can't even run a mile. I respect the commitment and integrity everyone has for their particular sport, but in my opinion, you have to be extremely strong mentally to push your body past its breaking point and keep on going. See you all on the road.

Why is it always the parents that create the issues in youth sports? My childs sport is better/harder than your childs sport, blah blah blah. I have a novel idea why don't you just sit back and enjoy the moment. Once they have graduated from high school, 99% will never play on another school sponsored team. It's not about you it's about them, having fun, enjoying their teammates and the friendships they build.

Anyone who gets into an argument about which high school athletes are more athletic, harder-working, masculine, worthy of attention, worthy of ranking, etc. is a freaking idiot. Some kids wrestle, some play basketball, some do track, some swim or dive, some cheerlead, etc. Some play in band competitions or do DECA or Academic Decathlon or Junior Classical League. They all work hard, they represent their schools and towns as best they can, they try to help their teams win. You 40-year-olds still wearing letterman jackets and swearing at refs from the stands should just let today's students do their thing without your foolishness getting in the way.

totally agree. i enjoy reading about local teams and kids in sports, drama, science team etc. let them do their thing and we can all enjoy reading about it. nothing to argue about.

I completely agree, my comment was directed towards the "MEN wearing leotards grab each other while getting sweaty on mats?!".But I also agree that you cant comment or give trophies to everyone. Have fun, work hard and do what you love!

For ALL of those sports you mention (Baseball, Basketball, Hockey, Track, Football etc.) there is some great dream to strive for (NBA, MLB, Marathons, NFL). For wrestling, all it ever had was the Olympics and that's been taken away. When you are a child, competing in a sport (and none of this mamby pamby everyone gets a trophy competition. I mean the REAL competitors) it's that dream of making it big that drives every kid.

Wrestlers never had that. Instead, they have to endure stupid homophobic comments about their uniform, stupid misguided comparisons to WWE, and suggestions of striving towards MMA which is insane.

Maybe if half of you had a clue, you'd realize that your cherishing of the sports mentioned above leaves your children with role models like Ray Lewis, Alex Rodriguez, Latrell Sprewell, toothless NHL players, and a guy from South Africa that just murdered his wife. I'm not saying wrestling is a perfect sport (though damn close), I'm saying that it is, unequivocally, indisputably, the most difficult endeavor both mentally and physically that a child can endure.

So please, when they're successful, put their name in the freakin paper.

Wrong again! Wrestling is the most popular sport that does not have a professional league. It's hard to gain popularity when you can't watch something on TV. Nonethless, it still outpaces both tennis and golf at the HS level.

Just because YOU don't like it, likely because YOU couldn't hack it, doesn't mean the world agrees.

Oh, and yeah I'll take ringworm over concussionball any day of the week.

Not going to get into this argument here, but just wanted to congratulate the North Reading boys' basketball team, which completed its 20-0 season Tuesday with a win over Shawsheen Tech. First undefeated season for the Hornets since 1977. On to the state tournament.