"Our staff is very pleased with the group of wrestlers we've signed," Smith said. "Each athlete brings something different to the mat and I think that these three individuals will work in nicely to our TigerStyle program over the next few years."
A two-time Wisconsin state champion and first team all-state honoree, Hucke attends Arrowhead High School, the same high school as Tiger standouts Ben and Maxwell Askren, and enters his senior season with a 121-28 career record. Among Hucke's 121 victories are the 50 consecutive wins he strung together throughout his perfect junior campaign. Hucke earned All-America honors after taking fifth at Nationals in Fargo, N.D. and is expected to wrestle at 141 pounds for the Tigers.
Haynes, expected to wrestle at 184 pounds in college, attends Oak Park High School. Ranked second in the nation at 189 pounds by Wrestling USA and fourth by W.I.N. Magazine, Haynes finished first in the state of Missouri his junior season, collecting a second place finish as a sophomore and third place medal as a freshman. Haynes is a 2004 cadet national Greco runner-up, 2005 cadet Greco third-place finisher and fourth place freestyler. In 2006, Haynes' junior season, he earned fifth place honors in Greco competition. As a junior in 2007, Haynes finished sixth in junior Greco and fourth in freestyle while competing in Fargo, N.D.
The third McCormick set to wrestle under Smith, Nathan was crowned the 2007 Kansas 6A State Champion at 119 pounds his junior campaign, capturing the Regional title on his way to states. A member of the Blue Valley North wrestling squad, McCormick recorded back-to-back 37-win seasons his sophomore and junior campaigns and was named to the East Kansas League (EKL) and All-Sun country first team as a junior (2007). McCormick received FILA Cadet All-America honors after placing fifth in the Freestyle Competition in Akron, Ohio, April 21, 2007, and is an eight-time Freestyle and Greco Kansas State Champion.
"With the talent we currently have in our room are need for a large recruiting class wasn't the focus," Smith said. "Instead, the focus was on bringing in a high quality student-athlete and we feel like we
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