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Pat D'Aliso RIP Septmeber 5, 1987 - May 19, 2004 Pat D'Aliso was a Monroe-Woodbury freshman, Dave Mills the senior defending champion, when they met for the Section 9 wrestling championship last year. D'Aliso upset Mills in double overtime that night, and Mills has never forgotten it. "He beat me in double overtime and he wasn't bragging," Mills said yesterday. "Pat was a gentleman on and off the mat. "I thought he was going to be amazing." People who knew D'Aliso describe him as just that, amazing, as an athlete, as a person. Those, and so many others, are trying to cope with D'Aliso's death Wednesday. The son of long-time Monroe-Woodbury football coach Pat D'Aliso, he was 16. "The thing about Pat is that there's not one thing that you couldn't like about him,'' Monroe-Woodbury wrestling coach Steve Fischbein said. "He was one of the most liked kids that I've come around in wrestling. "I think this has been the toughest 24 hours of my life." The American flag at Monroe-Woodbury High School was at half-staff yesterday. Students were crying all day in the hallways of Monroe-Woodbury and Minisink Valley, D'Aliso's old school district. Ken Brown, D'Aliso's practice partner, inscribed the initials "PD" on his arm in permanent marker. Many of his teammates did too. D'Aliso, an honor roll student and class treasurer, had a way of making everyone on the team better on the mat and in the weight room. He pounded Brown in practice and then told jokes to him afterward. "He beat me up like crazy," Brown said. "He kept telling me, 'Don't give up. You've got this.' He kept pushing me. Then I finally took him down. "He didn't want us to quit. He kept pushing us. He took the not-as-good kids and wrestled them to get them better." D'Aliso's work ethic was contagious. It was second to none. He was the first one to and last one out of the weight room. "His work ethic was insane,' said Minisink Valley senior Bryan Welsh, who was in youth wrestling with D'Aliso. "He was the nose-to-the-grindstone type. "A lot of people are very upset." Visitation will be from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. today at Smith, Seaman & Quackenbush Inc., Funeral Home in Monroe. A funeral Mass will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at Sacred Heart Church in Monroe.