The Pella Wrestling team is young, but continuing to improve. Coach Joe Burch says he’s happy with the way upperclassmen like Brent Smith and A.J. Arendahl are wrestling but also notes he’s excited about the progression some of the younger guys are making as well. He says freshmen Houston Naakpeboren at heavyweight and Lane Whitaker at 160 have both wrestled very well during the first half of the season and he’s excited to see what they can do in the second half of the season. He also says Dan Wylie, Zac Stough and Kyle Langstraat are improving every match as well. Pella will be very busy coming out of the holiday break as they will have three matches in the first week including their make up match with South Tama from earlier in the season.