Mike DePalma and coach Jim Andrassy knew what the former had to do in order to be successful in his final year as a Kent State wrestler. They had been preaching it since day one.
“It’s mostly mental stuff,” DePalma said on Nov. 3, days before Kent State made its season debut at the Eastern Michigan University duals. “The training didn’t really need to change. The way I view things in situations, or handle situations, is what I needed to change in certain aspects.”
DePalma won all of his matches at the Eastern Michigan duals, including one over Rider’s 2015 All-American B.