According to the US Center for Catastrophic Injury Research, which monitors high school and collegiate athletics, there were 62 catastrophic injuries (brain or spinal cord) in high school wrestling from 1982 to 2011. Of those, two were fatal. There were 38 that were nonfatal, with the athlete sustaining permanent severe functional disability, and 22 that were severe, but with no permanent functional disability.
By comparison, US high school football reported 769 catastrophic injuries for the same period — 115 fatal, 341 nonfatal and 313 severe.
Over that period, the number of catastrophic injuries per 100,000 participants was significantly less for wrestling (0.03, 0.54, 0.31) than for football (0.29, 0.87, 0.80)
Hunter's injury happened Dec.  2013, in a wrestler tournament, an awkward landing while grappling with an opponent and a dislocation of the C-6 vertebra at the base of the neck. Nobody’s fault. Instant realization of a problem. Paralysis from the neck down..

He received one year intensive rehabilitationstherapie in the best US-Centers, without leg function improvement. It was no brain controlled leg  muscle activity.  The US therapy costs are huge. Just inpatient stay at Shepherd has been $ 2500 a day.                          

After our therapies he start to move his legs and he was able to walk in pool with parallel bars.

2017 update:  Hunter make his high school degree and will go into psychology.  He always wanted to be a marine biologist, but the events of the past four years have convinced him to go into psychology. Counseling has helped him through this. And he has provided it – to families in similar situations who have sought out the his family, and to new patients at Shepherd when he returns for physical therapy.
“To help people, I think it’s my calling,” he said.