Top Gun wrestling: Young Cardinals learning on the fly this weekend in Alliance

ALLIANCE — It’s a good thing the Mentor wrestling team took a bus to the Top Gun tournament this weekend. If the Cardinals’ wrestlers had to drive themselves to Alliance this weekend — well — let’s just say Coach Ray LaManna wouldn’t have many guys in singlets. That’s because eight of the 14 wrestlers Mentor has competing at Top Gun this weekend are freshmen and sophomores and aren’t yet old enough to own a driver’s license. For more than a dozen years, LaManna has been the head coach of Mentor’s team. It is by far the youngest team he has ever put on the mat for a high-caliber tournament like Top Gun. But it’s also one of the...