NDUSA Wrestling Heartland Duals Teams Announced

For the first time, North Dakota USA Wrestling is sending five teams to the Heartland Duals.  In the past, four teams- two in the elementary division and two in the middle schools division- represented ND in Council Bluffs, IA.  This year, NDUSA Wrestling is also sponsoring a girls dual team.  Over 300 wrestlers competed in…

Northland Lands North Dakotans Hermanson and Scheet

Northland Community and Technical College of Thief River Falls, MN has landed two North Dakota seniors for their 2019 recruiting class in Bismarck Legacy’s Thomas Sheet and West Fargo Sheyenne’s Hunter Hermanson. Scheet, a 160 pound Class A third place finisher at Legacy, could be a diamond in the rough for Northland.  He improved dramatically…

Path To The Podium: NDSU’s Clay Ream

Every year media outlets put out a list of four time NCAA qualifiers that haven’t achieved All American status.  A list of seniors that the collective wrestling public should be rooting for no matter team allegiances.  This year, NDSU 157 pound RS senior Clay Ream fits that bill.  Ream has qualified for the big dance…

Path To the Podium: Virginia Tech’s Ryan Blees

Entering the NCAA tournament as the twelve seed essentially means that a wrestler is set up to finish one match from the podium, and that is where Bismarck’s Ryan Blees finds himself entering his first NCAA championships this weekend.  Essentially, Blees needs to win one more match than the seeds predict to become an All…

Minot State’s Mitch Eull Finishes Sixth at NCAA Championships

Minot State’s Mitch Eull capped five years in the Minot State wrestling program with a sixth place finish at the NCAA Championships.  Eull went 3-3 over the course of the two day tournament, finding All American honors Friday evening and then winning one more Saturday morning before dropping the final two bouts of his career.…

Jared Reis Finishes Fifth at DII Nationals

Though Napoleon native Jared Reis didn’t achieve his goal of winning a Division II national championship, Reis did become the first Marauder to grab All American honors since 2012.  Reis finished 3-2 over the course of the two day tournament in Cedar Rapids, IA, winning his first two bouts before falling to Pitt Johnstown’s Cody…