GSL takes three titles. NC makes top 10 leaderboard, Finishes 7th

...But Rogers wasn’t the only area guy feeling pretty good. Take North Central coach Luke Leifer, for instance.

Anytime Leifer looked up at the big scoreboards in the Tacoma Dome, his team’s name stared back at him as part of the Class 3A top 10. The Indians finished seventh overall.

“To be on the leaderboard is a pretty exciting thing,” said Leifer, who wrestled at NC in the early 1990s and is in his second season back at the school as the coach. “We’ve got these young guys working hard and believing in themselves.”

Among those young guys are two juniors who made the 3A championship finals, Nathan Brown and Ben Carter. Though neither won a title, they represented the Indians’ successful weekend.

“We’ve got a lot of those young guys,” Leifer said. “But we knew we could do great if everything worked out for us. This place can usually get you down. But I’m excited.”