An injury during football season limited Bishop Chatard wrestler Mike Dum to just 12 matches, but by no means is the 189-pounder well rested.

Dum said it sometimes feels like the exact opposite.

"I had been running even when I couldn't practice, but running shape is not the same as wrestling shape," said Dum, who won the Pendleton Heights Regional last weekend to earn a first-round bye in today's New Castle Semistate. "I'm not where I need to be with that just yet."

Dum (11-1) gutted out a 2-0 win against Lawrence North's B.J. Grimes in the regional final and now stands just one win from a return trip to the state meet.

"That was definitely big, and not only physically," he said. "Mentally it was big to win a match like that. You're going to have low-scoring matches like that from this point on. It was big to come out on top in one of those."

Chatard also sends Anthony Bill (32-7), who took second in the regional at 152 pounds.