As the season officially starts to wind down, it’s gut check time for Iowa high school wrestling teams as they prepare for the postseason.

For the ADM Tiger wrestling team, that means a quick turnaround after the Ed Winger classic on Saturday to a four team dual meet in Boone tonight. It will be a rematch from last season taking on Boone and Perry high schools with an addition this year in Woodward-Granger high school. Last season the Tigers marched into Boone on the heels of a 12-7 dual meet record and split the night victors against the Blue Jays while faltering against the Toreadors.

This season, ADM enters with a 9-11 dual meet mark but still just as hungry and as talented to take a sweep tonight. The big glue that has held this Tiger team together as arguably their biggest strength is the team chemistry and the sense of family within the team. That sentiment was shared by ADM’s own Hogan Hopewell as Raccoon Valley Radio spoke with the sophomore about his thought’s on the 2016-17 edition of Tiger wrestling.

“We’re a young team. Like friends it’s a team because we’ve all been with each other forever. It’s satisfying to be with your brothers that you’ve been with like I’ve been wrestling with some of these kids for ten years. It’s pretty exciting, you bond and you get to know how each other wrestles, you can teach each other how to get better and then in practice you help them, they help you. It’s a great feeling,” explained Hopewell.

The Tigers will be participating in their final event before they hit the Raccoon River Conference meet held at ADM high school on Saturday. The meet tonight will kick off from Boone beginning at 5:30 pm.