Okay last one for today and thanks for humoring me so far -
We are facing a local rival and a teammate of mine (our 145 lber) forgot his wrestling shoes for the dual. Luckily we are the same size shoe, I was the 125 lber, and we were starting the dual at 145, which gave us enough time to switch up.
Unfortunately, what I had not foreseen, was that this particular teammate, who had wrestled since he was a kid, was about to complete his last ever match.
He was a hot tempered kid - down a point in the third period, and could not get off bottom. Got ridden like a pony and the coach let him have it and yelled at him "you gave up" - the kid says "f*ck you - I quit" and storms out of the gym".
Problem was, he was still wearing my shoes. I ran out of the gym to half give him consolation, but mostly to get my shoes back (these were Adidas Mat Wizards in white black and gold).
Got them back and then won via spladle