Daniel Lewis smiled at a particular question last Monday, one where he was asked if the Missouri wrestling team could surprise people this weekend in St. Louis at the NCAA wrestling championships.
His response?
“Yeah, for sure,” said Lewis, a sophomore 165-pounder and Blue Springs native. “We’ve got a crazy tough tournament team, and I think we’re just going to go out there and prove it.”
On Thursday, Missouri did just that, sending five of eight Tiger wrestlers that initially made the national tournament into the quarterfinals that will begin at 10 a.m. on Friday.
Missouri senior 197-pounder J’den Cox — who is striving to become the first wrestler in Missouri program history to win three individual national championships — is one of the five.