Read this sentence from the story:
"Behind him, he could hear the colonists at their work--the endless work of making a new home in a wild place. Austin's
colony, the grown-ups called it--the 300 families for whom Stephen F. Austin had wrangled permission from the
Mexican government to settle in Texas."
Which BEST states the connotations of wrangled in this sentence?
A)obtained by persistence
B)argued strongly for
C)requested in a humble manner
D)received as payment for