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Wow. These girls are pretty tough.

A pair of wrestling sisters used their grappling skills to take down an alleged hit-and-run driver in Oklahoma.

Brittany and Brienna Delgado, members of the Oklahoma City University wrestling team, then held the suspect until police arrived.

“My sister and I are very proficient wrestlers and also played football in high school, so we know about tackling,” Brittany Delgado told The Oklahoman.

The two sisters were driving with their grandmother Saturday night when they collided with another car at N Pennsylvania and NW 26. The girls got out of the car and were helping their grandmother out when the other driver got out of his car and started running away. Both Delgados pursued him with Brienna in the lead.

“When I was chasing him I was still yelling, ‘You need to come back,’” Brienna told The Oklahoman. “I wasn’t wearing the proper footwear. I got a little road rash when I tackled him.”

Brienna said the man had his hands beneath him when she tackled him. Then, in case he had a weapon, she concentrated on securing his hands and brought them behind his back with a wrestling move (hammerlock or chicken wing, depending on your terminology).

“If Brienna wouldn’t have tackled him, I’m pretty sure he would have gotten away,” Brittany told The Oklahoman.

The sisters are originally from South Carolina. Brittany, 21, is going to be a senior and is a starter on her college team. Brienna, 19, is an incoming freshman and will also start for the team.

“They’re typical young women wrestlers,” Oklahoma City coach Archie Randall told The Oklahoman.

” They’re very aggressive and determined with what they’re going to do.”

He also said the Delgados are shooting for the Olympics, which introduced women’s wrestling as an official sport in 2004.

NewsOK.com reports that the girls knew they wanted to wrestle at an early age. Their father competed in high school and it became a family interest.

Brittany said she remembers sitting at a wrestling practice when she was three and asking her mom if she could wrestle.

Eighteen years later, Brittany is a two-time national champion in the Women’s College Wrestling Association and a former offensive lineman for her high school football team.

Following in her sister’s footsteps, Brienna also began wrestling at an early age and played safety on the football team.

Since the girls have a history of competing against men in South Carolina, Randall said he’s not surprised their initial reaction was to run after the man and tackle him.

Randall said Brienna had scratches and cuts on her knees but was more concerned about the damage to the car.

With school starting Monday and the first wrestling match scheduled for October, Randall said he looks forward to working with the siblings.

“I think it’s kind of neat. It amplifies their personalities,” he said. “They’re great students. They’ve got goals to be Olympians. They’re driven, and I think that was a normal reaction for them.”

Maybe after the Olympics, a career in law enforcement?

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