Playing Not To Lose And The Art Of The Scramble

Mark Modesti
4 min readJul 10, 2019

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I had a rather uneventful Junior College wrestling career. Uneventful in terms of my record, but not the experience. Our team was second in the nation, and one of my teammates, Tom, was a national champ. Most practice sessions with him were an education in humility for me, but one lesson endured, and I’m still learning it. The scramble.

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