Going to the Mat is a 2004 American sports drama film released as a Disney Channel Original Movie.

Thinking that his way to fit in is through playing the drums, he shows off in class only to find out that his band teacher, Mr. Wyatt, is also blind.

Jace has trouble winning matches at first, but slowly starts improving after receiving lessons from Mary Beth, whose father is the coach of the wrestling team.

Throughout the course of the season he slowly starts to fit in with some of the students that gave him a hard time at the beginning of his year at the school.

[1][2][3] Laura Fries of Variety wrote, "Although a bit heavy on the slo-mo sports sequence, Gillard otherwise nicely balances action with drama, touching on universal teen themes of alienation and the undo [sic] pressures of high school sports.