Triton 7th-grader had to convince parents she should wrestle, now she's among the state's best

Triton 7th-grader had to convince parents she should wrestle, now she's among the state's best

PINE ISLAND — Like many former wrestlers turned fathers, David Kunz was hesitant when his daughter Adriana as a kindergartner said she wanted to hit the wrestling mat. After all, at that time, girls wrestling still was very much in its early days. "Girls wrestling wasn't quite as big a thing," Kunz said. "It was starting to grow, but it wasn't quite the big thing. When I grew up wrestling, you didn't see a lot of girls." But like many of the ori…