What's not to love?
Any day you spend becoming a four-time tournament champion and two-time winner of that tournament's Outstanding Wrestler Award is a good day.
"I love this tournament," said Wheaton North senior Nate Fitzenreider, after pulling off the above feat at Fenton's eight-team, 28th annual Steve Weiss Bison Invite.
Fitzenreider posted two pins and a title-match technical fall at 125 pounds to lead his squad to its fourth consecutive tournament title in Bensenville. Schaumburg's Evan Hafner battled well through two periods before Fitzenreider broke it open in the third.
"That kid is a goer, for six minutes," Schaumburg coach Matt Gruzska said of Fitzenreider. "He deserves the outstanding wrestler award."
Schaumburg got second-place finishes from Hafner (125 pounds) and P.J. Starnes (145), with Starnes battling to a 1-0 decision loss for the title against Illinois' third-place finisher at 145, Wheaton North's Eric Terrazas.
Starnes won a 3-2 decision over Milton's (Wis.) Shaun O'Neill in his semifinal match, and Hafner won a pair of decisions over Lake Park's Marco Sanchez and DeKalb's Jake Lemay in reaching the finals against Fitzenreider.
"It was great for Evan to experience that. That's why we come here to wrestle with a team like Wheaton North," Gruszka said. "Evan stayed with him for two periods, and he'll learn from that match."
The Falcons had six individual titlists and two runners-up in outpointing second-place DeKalb 172.5-117.5, with Milton, Wis., third, Lake Park fourth and host Fenton fifth.
Falcons champs included Jake Denhof (130), Ryan Early (140), Terrazas (145), Dominick Schmit (160) and Mark Hane (189), with Hane limping through his semifinal and finals match on one trick knee, which interrupted both matches as a trainer tended to it.
"Mark risks a little bit of injury with that knee, but he's willing to take that risk because he loves the sport," said Falcons coach Steve Holland. "He and (Schmit) did a real nice job today."
Schmit posted three pins for his title, reversing Milton's James Miller late in a tied third period and burying him.
"I just knew I had to find a way to get out, and I did," Schmit said. "We work on getting rode like that all the time in practice."
Lake Park had a trio of champs in Mike DeSario (112), Dan Kowalski (152) and Mike Dziedzic (215), with Dziedzic avenging last year's sectional loss to Fenton's Alex Mroz with a first-period pin for the title.
"I couldn't let that go," Dziedzic said of his extra motivation against Mroz.
Fenton got a pair of titles from Kevin Larsen (119) and Josh Castellano (135) and seconds from Mroz and heavyweight Francisco Ochoa, as Fenton showed well with only eight wrestlers entered.
Castellano earned the only takedown in a 3-2 semifinal win over Wheaton North's Bobby Munro, and then beat Proviso East's Darius Rutledge 8-0 for the title.
"It was a good match," Castellano said of his win over Munro. "I had one takedown, and then we just got in a lot of good tie-ups."