George Ferguson Column: Success in 2018 is added fuel for the Light's bright future

Last month, the Montana State University-Northern wrestling team came home from Ashland, Oregon, with a fourth-place finish in the Cascade Conference Tournament. Sure, the Lights were within three points of winning the whole thing, but it was still fourth place in the end.

And for that reason alone, few pundits, and probably few coaches at the NAIA national tournament probably gave much thought to the Lights making a serious run this weekend in Des Moines, Iowa.

The Lights themselves, however, they clearly didn’t care what anyone else thought. They knew how well they wrestled in Oregon, they k...