Kansas Wrestling Coaches Association

Thirty-nine seasons in all, Thirty-three as head coach, 25 top 10 State finishes, eight State trophies, five State titles. All at Scott City High School. Meet KWCA Hall of Fame inductee, Jon Lippelman. This one is as entertaining as it is educational. I couldn’t make the following quotes up if I tried… “They’d bet their apple pies and their pork loin sandwiches to see who had the toughest kid at that weight… and that’s what made dual wrestling back in the old days.”“Back in those days, it was mop em up and throw em out there and just keep going to see if you could pin em or win by the final bell.”“It’s alright to mess up, but that doesn’t mean anybody forgave you for it.”“You would run into athletes that would make us poor little fat farm boys sit there with our mouth hang open just to watch em streak down the field and the fastest thing we had would only look like a puppy dog in the dirt chasing behind.”“We’d open this book and we’d go to where Joe Seay was telling us how to get ahold of a single leg and put