Grading The Week: Northern Colorado’s Andrew Alirez Proves There’s No Place Like Home

Matt Schubert, Denver Post: Sports
Sat, 03/25/2023 - 7:30am

Find someone who loves you like Andrew Alirez loves Greeley. A world-class wrestler who had the eye of several college wrestling powerhouses after winning his fourth state title for Greeley Central in 2019, Alirez instead opted to stay home and help build something at Northern Colorado. Four years later, after claiming the 141-pound national title last Saturday night in Tulsa — the program’s first since the 1960s — Alirez has taken the UNC Bears to a level they haven’t seen in decades. The Grading the Week staff can’t help but stand up and applaud. Andrew Alirez — A+ The way Alirez did it, with a six-point move in the second period that came just as he appeared to be on the brink of disaster, would’ve been good enough for us.

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Grading The Week: Northern Colorado’s Andrew Alirez Proves There’s No Place Like Home

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