Twelve-hour day moves Granite Hills wrestler one step closer to wrestling dreams

Twelve-hour day moves Granite Hills wrestler one step closer to wrestling dreams

Editor’s note: Union-Tribune contributor Don Norcross and photographer Kristian Carreon shadowed two-time state qualifier Emilio Escobar of Granite Hills High School at the CIF Division 1 championships on Saturday. What follows is a day in the life of a high school wrestler. Emilio Escobar wakes up on Saturday not to the sound of his cell phone alarm but to his mother knocking on his bedroom door at 5:30 a.m. “Emilio,” his mother said, “aren’t y…