Three years ago Wrestling was just a dream that three fathers (Jeff Larson, Rob Fortin, and Doug Braun) had hoped that one day their Sons would take part in at the High School level.  However, due to Northwestern giving up on their program and Warner never having it at all, this was merely just a dream.  That is until fate had somehow brought these three together and the idea of AAU Club Wrestling had begun.  September of 2007 flyers went out to both the Warner and Northwestern Communities in hopes that it would spark some parents interests.  Northwestern had a rich tradition at one time so we felt that it would be possible to get some students from that school, however Warner with never having a wrestling program we weren't sure if they even new what wrestling was, so we really were unsure what to expect, beside this we didn't know if it was even do able since we had nothing for equipment such as a mat or a place to even hold the practices, this was a big gamble and we had hoped it would pay off.  The meeting was set and held at the new restaurant in Warner (Big D's) and numbers were fairly good but not exactly what we had hoped for, I believe we were somewhere in the area of ten possible Wrestler's.  Being the die hard fathers we continue to push on as it was only October and we had until January until Wrestling began.  The families that were there were very supportive and the hard work of fund raising began.  Little by little we chipped away raising money with a gun raffle and approaching local businesses for help.  We found a home for practice (Warner Community Center), I opened a Club Checking Account, and Rob found a cool Wrestling site that made singlets.  Now we needed to hold another meeting so we could get sizes of the kids and order the singlets.  This meeting was held at the community center and was a screaming success as we were now up to twenty wrestlers and all had signed up that night.  Votes were also held that night to select the colors and a name for the club.  This went back and forth a little as we debated over the details until the kids attending the meeting chimed in and suggested that since we had the Wild Cats from Northwestern and the Monarchs from Warner, we should just be called "the Wild Monarchs", conversation had stopped at that point and the name was settled, after all it was for the kids why shouldn't they name it.  Isn't it funny how the kids don't complicate things like us adults.  At this point things were moving fast, however still no mats.  Finally as luck would have it a mat had been located in Parkston for sale and it was in the nick of time as it was middle of December and Wrestling would start as I said in January.  One small problem though, the mat was $1500 and we had only $600 in the bank account.  Now normally this would only work in the government, but with a little charm and a whole lot of support from the Warner school we were able to borrow money from the coaching fund and buy the mat. We were in business!  The Practice would prove that we had our work really cut out for us as almost all of our wrestlers  were very new to the sport.  We took some early beatings and still managed to have a lot of fun doing it.  At the end of the year our little team had caught the eyes of the coaches who had known that we were new to the program and every tournament a comment had been made of how we were progressing.  We were on the right track!  We decided as a team that we would hold our own tournament as this is were the big money was made.  86 Wrestlers attended and every thing went smooth as can be,  we were very thankful for the wrestling community who all pitched in and gave a hand to move this club along.  Especially to the NSU Wrestlers who gave their time so that these kids who came not only had a good time wrestling, but as so received a lot of great teaching that they provided.   It was great to see the College kids being such a positive role model to these kids.  By the time the tounament had ended we were all exhausted, but raised enough money to pay everything off and be debt free. Yeah!  As districts rolled around we were not sure of how this was going to work out, we knew that our little wrestlers had worked hard all year and had so much wanted them to leave the year on a positive note so we took 14 Wrestlers to Milbank and stayed the night at the super 8 motel and showed them what a family of wrestlers were all about.  It was a good time for all.  The next day would be a long one, however at the end of the day we qualified 13 wrestlers for the Region Tournament in Brookings.  This was truly a dream!  While Brookings came two week later and from there we would only qualify four Wrestlers to State, our kids wrestled their hearts out and we definitely left an impression to everyone we met in the tournament.  Only two Wrestlers decided to go down to the State Tournament (Joey Nash and Andrew Mitchell) as it was down in Rapid City, a long drive for most people.  However, this was a year that would be remembered as one heck of a way to start a Wrestling Tradition!  We Thank all of you who gave a lot of time and effort to make these dreams happen.  Everything fell right in place or should I say the right parents fell in place to make all this happen.