Carrington and Pembina County North Split Region 2 Crown

Carrington and Pembina County North tied for the Region 2 crown with 218.5 team points each.  Carrington outpaced the field with seven champions, but PCN made up the difference with three champions of their own, plus eleven total qualifiers.  The Cardinals champions were Treston Lura (113), Matthew Duchscherer (120), Brecken Lura (132), Tate Hoggarth (160),…

Valley City Edges Devils Lake for EDC Crown

Two of the smallest EDC Schools battled back and forth Saturday afternoon in Wahpeton before Valley City ultimately distanced themselves from Devils Lake to be crowned EDC champion.  Entering the finals, Devils Lake held a razor thin .5 point lead on Valley City, but Valley City held the edge on finalists 6-3.  The Hi-Liners took…

Demons Roll To WDA Title

Bismarck High crowned seven WDA champions Saturday afternoon in Watford City and in doing so, ran away with the Regional team championship by an eighty point margin over second place Bismarck Century.  The Demon finals party got started at 106, where #1 ranked eighth grader L.J. Araujo scored a third period fall over Legacy’s Jesse…

What to Watch For: Class A WDA

Location:  Watford City   Team Race: The WDA tournament is always more fun when someone has a legit chance of knocking off the Bismarck Demons, but this ain’t the year.  This team has the potential to go down as one of the great Demon teams of all time.   The race for second should be interesting,…

Class A Dual Bracket

The Bismarck Demons are as big a favorite as I can remember entering this season’s Class A state dual tournament.  the Demons have four returning state champions from a team that finished second last season.  Bismarck will wrestle East #4  est Fargo in their first match Friday afternoon.  EDC #1 Valley City will begin their…

What to Watch For: Class A EDC

Location:  Wahpeton Team Race: Valley City, Fargo Davies, West Fargo, and Grand Forks Central are the four teams that have a full 17 wrestlers entered in the regional.  Throw in Devils Lake and their sixteen entries and you have the five teams with a chance to make some noise in Wahpeton on Saturday.  The most…

What to Watch For: Class B Region 4

What To Watch For: Class B Region 1 Location:  Killdeer Team Race: After winning the Region dual championship from the three seed last weekend, New Salem/Almont is primed to win the individual portion over contenders Bowman County and Hettinger. The Holsteins are in good position as they have thirteen entries, along with more high end…

What To Watch For: Class B Region 3

Location:  Tioga High School Team Race:  Bishop Ryan and Velva have battled for this region rather intensely in recent memory, with Velva coming out on top in each of the last three seasons.  For me, the last three Velva titles have been a buildup to this season, where I believe Velva has its strongest team…