After coming back from a five-point deficit, Parrish earns his pin against Mounds View’s Rowan Morgan in overtime.
Parrish’s up-class pin highlights victory
With under a minute to go in his match at 182 pounds on Feb. 2, Forest Lake’s Grant Parrish was trailing Mounds View’s Rowan Morgan 9-4. He then pulled off an aggressive sequence against his opponent, forcing him to the mat and nearly pinning him. The Mustang was saved because the action took the wrestlers out of bounds, but Parrish earned five points, sending the match into a one-minute overtime period in which he finally pinned Morgan.broadstreet.zone(48036);
That result is remarkable for two reasons: Morgan is rated as the state’s third-best wrestler at 182, and Parrish is actually a 170-pounder – he wrestled up 12 pounds to get a match with Morgan.
“Those guys are rivals, they wrestled a great match,” head coach Joe Kunshier said. “We talk to Grant about
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