Webb City’s home wrestling match with Frontenac, Kan., was rescheduled as a matinee Thursday so that the entire high school student body could watch.

From the introductions at 1 p.m. until the buses came, the wrestlers had the largest crowd of home fans they’ve ever had.

The special event was the idea of the Nest Crew, a group of students who run a coffee shop to get business and marketing experience. Besides giving the wrestlers a boost, they wanted to increase their profit with concession sales.

The Frontenac team was agreeable. In fact, Tim Workman, director of finance and data management, recalls when Webb City played a matinee basketball game at Frontenac before the entire K-12 student body.

Frontenac won the match Thursday 39-27. Cardinals Colton Taylor and Aidan Rose won by fall, and Dominic Boles won a 12-6 decision.