A 19-6 won-loss record and WPIAL Class AAA section wrestling championship weren't enough for Mike Rossetti.

At least, the Seneca Valley junior didn't feel like he was getting enough.

"High school wrestling was OK, but Greco-Roman suits my abilities better and I enjoy it a lot more,"Rossetti said.

He didn't get involved in any kind of wrestling until seventh grade and became exposed to the Greco-Roman style through the Angry Fish Club, a summer wrestling organization originally based at Seneca Valley five years ago.

"I was looking for ways to get better and summer wrestling was part of the solution for me,"Rossetti said. "The club was based at Seneca Valley, so I had easy access to it."

He's been intrigued by Greco-Roman wrestling — which emphasizes upper body skills — ever since, so much so that he left Seneca Valley this past year to concentrate on his Greco-Roman training.

Rossetti finished his prep schooling and graduated through the Pennsylvania Distance Learning Charter School, an on-line public school. He participated in his commencement ceremony in Hershey, then won the 189-pound Pennsylvania State Junior Greco-Roman Wrestling Championship in Clarion the next day.

"It wasn't a hard decision at all,"his father, David Rossetti, said of allowing his son to leave Seneca Valley. "He was never really into high school scholastic wrestling.

"For Mike to intensify his training and get where he wants to be, this was the right move for him."

Three years ago, Rossetti went to a Big Brother Camp at Northern Michigan University with Kerry Regner, then a senior at Blackhawk. Northern Michigan University is home to the United States Olympic Education Center, one of the top Greco-Roman wrestling training centers in the country.

The program hosts 22 wrestlers — all full-time students at Northern Michigan — and Rossetti will be enrolled there in the fall.

"The coaching there is outstanding,"Rossetti said. "I've been going up there ever since that camp. By doing my schoolwork online, I was free to go up there a lot more.

"This past school year, I spent one or two weeks each month working with the coaches up there."

Northern Michigan's head coach is Ivan Ivanov, a silver medalist in the 1994 Greco-Roman World Championships and a fifth-place finisher in the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. He is a six-time Bulgaria national champion.

Rossetti won the 215-pound weight class at the Rocky Mountain Junior &Senior Regional Championships in Laramie, Wy., March 24, then won in the same weight class at the Northwest Cadet &Junior Regional Championships in Battle Ground, Wash., April 2.

He finished second in the Northeast Junior &Senior Regional Championships in Brockport, N.Y., April 23.

Sporting a 14-3 record this year, Rossetti is headed to Fargo, N.D., July 22-29 for the Junior National Wrestling Championships.

"I fell one match short of placing in the top eight nationally last year,"Rossetti said. "I know I'm a lot better now ... I'd better be, given all the training I've had.

"My goal this year is to win the whole thing."

Among Rossetti's workout partners at Northern Michigan have been 2004 Junior Nationals champion Chas. Betts and national contender Adam Wheeler, among others.

"Those guys have shown me where I need to be,"Rossetti said.

Rossetti's goals at Northern Michigan are to be ranked among the top Greco-Roman wrestlers nationally, make the world team and the Olympic Games — a far cry from the 3-11 record he posted as a freshman wrestler at Seneca Valley.

As for missing his senior year of high school, he insists he didn't miss much.

"I went to the prom my junior year and I went to homecoming last fall,"Rossetti said. "Yeah, it was different, but I'll take the trade-off."