A distraught Daton Fix exited the mat at the BOK Center.
Accompanied by his father, Derek, the two walked toward the entrance tunnels, not uttering a word. Anguish Daton's mind, a familiar feeling. It just hadn’t been this bad.
A 2-1 loss to Arizona State’s Michael McGee in the third-place match at 133 pounds put Daton at fourth place in the final standings. It marked his worst ever postseason finish.
“It wasn’t easy, really at all,” Daton said. “Realizing you came up short, that’s never easy. I had obviously planned on making the finals and wasn’t able to do that.