With a year of state wrestling tournament experience under their belts, Isaac Anderson and Curtis Lilly are hoping for bigger and better things the second time around.

The Sterling wrestlers, as well as Dixon's Kylian Lally, will head to Champaign for the Class 2A portion of the tournament that begins today at Assembly Hall in Champaign.

First-year state wrestlers, as Anderson and Lilly were a year ago, sometimes struggle with the unfamiliar, if not overwhelming, atmosphere in the cavernous Assembly Hall. There is simultaneous action on six mats. Multiple referees' whistles are blowing. Locating the scoreboard that goes with each mat is sometimes an issue. So is finding your coaches for guidance.