Event features the best of the bestPowell High School senior Trevor Donarski spent much of his high school career dominating the competition. Two state titles placed him head and shoulders above most of his opponents. Until last weekend. Donarski was one of a handful of Wyoming high school seniors who traveled to Virginia Beach, Va., last week for the High School Senior Nationals wrestling tournament sponsored by the National High School Coaches Association. The competition represents the pinnacle event for high school wrestling. “It truly is a best of the best tournament,” said Powell High School wrestling coach Nate Urbach. “There's no other way to say it. It's just a really tough tournament.”How tough? Just to be eligible to enter the tournament, participants must have been either a state champion or a state runner-up at some point during their four-year high school careers. Of the 60 competitors in Donarski's 152-pound division, 28 were crowned state champions this past winter. Sixteen of them, like Donarski, were multiple state title holders. Two captured gold during all four years of their high school wrestling careers. “Every round is pretty much a state championship match,” Urbach said. Donarski's tournament began on a good note as the Powell native captured a 10-6 decision over Virginia's Cameron Vaughne, a two-time top five finisher. That win advanced him on the bracket to a match against Pennsylvania's Jimmy Volrath. Donarski lost that match via technical fall, 16-1. Volrath went on to earn All-American status by finishing seventh in the 152-pound division. Relegated to the elimination side of the bracket, Donarski dropped a narrow 3-1 decision to North Carolina's Davis DiLillo, a 2009 state champion.“Trevor had a good tournament,” said Urbach. “We wrestled him up a weight class this year at 152 because we thought it helped our team, but it probably hurt him at this event. He said he was one of the smallest 152's there. In another state he probably would have wrestled at 145 this year.”“I'm proud of him. He has tons of potential,” said Urbach. “He's the first person from Powell to go to senior nationals in a long, long time.”

Event features the best of the best

Powell High School senior Trevor Donarski spent much of his high school career dominating the competition. Two state titles placed him head and shoulders above most of his opponents.

Until last weekend.

Donarski was one of a handful of Wyoming high school seniors who traveled to Virginia Beach, Va., last week for the High School Senior Nationals wrestling tournament sponsored by the National High School Coaches Association. The competition represents the pinnacle event for high school wrestling.

“It truly is a best of the best tournament,” said Powell High School wrestling coach Nate Urbach. “There's no other way to say it. It's just a really tough tournament.”

How tough? Just to be eligible to enter the tournament, participants must have been either a state champion or a state runner-up at some point during their four-year high school careers.

Of the 60 competitors in Donarski's 152-pound division, 28 were crowned state champions this past winter. Sixteen of them, like Donarski, were multiple state title holders. Two captured gold during all four years of their high school wrestling careers.

“Every round is pretty much a state championship match,” Urbach said.

Donarski's tournament began on a good note as the Powell native captured a 10-6 decision over Virginia's Cameron Vaughne, a two-time top five finisher. That win advanced him on the bracket to a match against Pennsylvania's Jimmy Volrath.

Donarski lost that match via technical fall, 16-1. Volrath went on to earn All-American status by finishing seventh in the 152-pound division.

Relegated to the elimination side of the bracket, Donarski dropped a narrow 3-1 decision to North Carolina's Davis DiLillo, a 2009 state champion.

“Trevor had a good tournament,” said Urbach. “We wrestled him up a weight class this year at 152 because we thought it helped our team, but it probably hurt him at this event. He said he was one of the smallest 152's there. In another state he probably would have wrestled at 145 this year.”

“I'm proud of him. He has tons of potential,” said Urbach. “He's the first person from Powell to go to senior nationals in a long, long time.”