Since then, Floyd has rolled off 99 straight victories, the longest current streak in Kansas, and has won back-to-back state championships. This winter, Floyd is No. 1-ranked at 140 pounds with a 32-0 mark. He hasn't permitted a takedown and went 4-0 at regionals with three falls and an 8-3 decision. Four wins at state would tie Floyd with heavyweight Larry Grieve (1981-83) as the lone Bulldogs with three state titles. Floyd is one of six undefeated wrestlers in the field.

"Whoever knocks him off, if they can, if that is even possible, is going to have to wrestle one heck of a match to beat him," Goodland head coach Joe Sramek said. "He is pretty impressive. He is real good on his feet and he is comfortable there."

Floyd (32-0) and senior 145-pounder Trevor Oliver (28-1), are the lone Osborne wrestlers that qualified. Oliver, 124-17 in his career, is 64-2 the last two seasons. He finished third in 2009, is ranked No. 2 in his weight class this winter and will try for his first state title.

"That would be cool," Oliver said of a state crown. "That's what I want. I don't ever care about wins and losses. I could have lost 100 times before the regionals as long as I come on in and give it my all at the end."

Floyd, whose closest match all season was an exhibition against Oliver, has competed against his longtime friend for many years. Floyd was born in Honduras and moved to Kansas City when he was three years old. Two years later, Floyd was adopted by Jim and Kiley Floyd in Osborne.

"They give me a lot of support throughout everything and I just really appreciate that," Danny Floyd said. "Definitely want to make them proud."

Oliver, who started wrestling in preschool in Lebanon, eventually moved to Osborne. The two have far different hairstyles (Oliver has long red hair, while Floyd has a mop of curly black hair), but are two inches apart and have always been within 10 pounds of each other. Floyd started wrestling in first grade and lost often to Oliver and other competitors.

"It was the worst thing ever," Floyd said. "I know my dad wanted me to try it. At first, I thought it was a game and everybody would flip me over and pin me real fast. I would be the kid that everybody wanted to wrestle. I get torched. I didn't like it."

In middle school, though, Floyd finished fourth at the junior Mid-Continent League Championships and decided "he didn't really like losing." As a freshman, he earned fifth place and suffered the last loss of his high school career. Since then, Floyd has focused on winning every match.

"I have had my share of losses before. It's one of the worst feelings," Floyd said. "I can't put words to it. It's not OK. It feels like a slap in the face. It's an insult. I don't like it."

As a sophomore, Floyd suffered the first of two injuries that limited his ability. In 2008, he broke his leg in football, missed most of football and spent much of wrestling season riding a bike. However, Floyd who said "it could be two broken legs and two broken arms and I would still go out for wrestling," returned to Hays and won his first title. Grieve, who lives in Littleton, Colo., came back in 2008 to watch Floyd, Oliver and Aaron Geist, a former medalist who graduated last May. After Floyd won the crown, he ran off the mat, jumped up and gave Grieve a hug.

"He is a ball of fire, lots of energy," Grieve said. "He was very thrilled, which he had every right to be thrilled."

Grieve told Floyd, "welcome to the elite," a saying that Floyd remembered three years later.

"That meant a lot to me," Floyd said.

Grieve, though, believed Floyd could win two more titles.

"He was ready and he was just confident and sure of himself. That goes a long way especially when you are in the sport of wrestling," Grieve said.

Floyd, though, re-injured himself as a junior. He and Oliver are known for pushing limits -- "everything that is legal, just barely over the boundary," Floyd said -- and Floyd got into a fight in Hays a week and a half before the MCL tournament. Floyd suffered a hand injury and wore a brace the final few weeks of the season. Even with the injury, Floyd won his four matches at state by a combined score of 60-27, including a 6-3 championship win against Beloit's Cade Hewitt.

"It was hard grabbing onto fingers and little things, but I kind of thought of it as I can't get every move just as neat as I want it to," Floyd said.

This season has yielded another dominant run for the duo. Becker, a former all-state wrestler for Plainville who commutes the 70 miles from Plainville to Osborne during wrestling season for the last eight years, has counted down each match throughout the winter and said "it's going to hard to see them wrestle the last bit of the season."

Oliver's lone loss is against Norton senior Kaenon Keiswetter, but Oliver defeated Keiswetter late in the regular season and then won by default in the regional final. Oliver has improved this season, especially at reversing and taking down opponents.

"Everything just seems to fit a lot better, I know what to do and when to do it instead of being all frustrated at times going out to the mat nervous," he said.

Floyd, called a "monkey" by Oliver for his ability to slip in and out of holds, has avoided a takedown all season. Even in practice, Floyd doesn't like to be taken down.

"Even when we were just in practice and messing around, we are joking and somebody throws you or something, I flip out, I don't like being overpowered by somebody," he said.

Floyd was tested one time all season, his exhibition against Oliver at a home triangular in mid-January.

At the end of the dual, Becker asked for the match. Oliver took down Floyd early and the two wrestled hard for a full match.

"I applaud a lot of these guys for doing it because there is not a lot of people that would do that with a lot of pride at stake," Becker said. "They wrestled hard. I was shocked. I figured these guys would goof around."

Floyd refocused and eventually regained the lead and won 6-5, another victory in an historic run.

"Time to get down to business," Floyd said with a smile. "Get your head on straight. ... Losing is unacceptable."