When Bobby Green heard a wrestling program was coming to St. Mary Academy in Manahawkin this winter, he couldn’t wait to get started.

“I played basketball for All Saints last year just to keep busy,” said the sixth-grader from Little Egg Harbor. “My little brother’s friend is the coach’s son and they were talking about it, so I knew before the school year started we were going to have a team, and I was really excited about it. Wrestling’s my favorite sport.”

The young man who broke the news to the Green boys was Mark Carucci’s son, and it was true a wrestling program was in…