Kendell Cummings did not think he would fight a bear on a weekend and live to tell the story. But when a grizzly bear attacked his wrestling teammate Brady Lowry, Cummings leaped in to save him.

On the afternoon of Oct. 15, the two sophomores at Northwest College in Powell, Wyo., were wrapping up a day of hunting for antlers with wrestling teammates, August Harrison and Orrin Jackson, in Shoshone National Forest in Wyoming.