In a 54 KG weight bracket filled with elite level talent, Hettinger’s Kyle Burwick finished 2-2, two matches short of All American status. Burwick showed impressive grit in his first bout of the tournament, scoring a takedown in the final ten seconds to upend Dylan Shawver of Ohio 8-4. Burwick showed impressive freestyle awareness early…
West Fargo 3X state champion Jared Franek finished fourth in a bracket of fifty wrestlers at the United World Wrestling Cadet Nationals in Akron Ohio Saturday and Sunday. Franek was competing in the 69 KG (152 pound) weight bracket. The soon to be Packer senior from Harwood navigated through to the semifinals with four straight…
West Fargo’s Jared Franek and Hettinger’s Kyle Burwick, each with three North Dakota state wrestling titles to their name, will represent the state this weekend at the UWW Cadet championships in Akron, OH. Both wrestlers will compete in the freestyle part of the Cadet competition that starts Friday, June 2. Franek, who is currently ranked…
Minot High head coach Justin Racine has been named the National Wrestling Coaches Association Coach of the Year for the state of North Dakota. Racine led the Minot High Magicians, his alma-mater, to the 2017 North Dakota State individual team championship in the Fargodome this past February. The title was Minot’s first on the mat since 1993.…
North Dakota State has added another name to the already impressive list of commitments for the class of 2017. Sawyer Degen, four time state champion from Belgrade High School in Belgrade, MT, will join the Bison this fall. Degen won his final title this past February at 138 pounds with a 4-0 victory over Polson’s Parker…
For the last 18 months, ND Headlock has brought more original wrestling content to North Dakota wrestling fans than any media source before it. ND Headlock was launched in November of 2015 as a way for me to stay connected to North Dakota wrestling while following Mrs. Headlock’s career in Illinois. It has been a great joy to…
Mr. Headlock looks back at Northern Plains Regional results, as well as results from the last chance qualifier that also took place in Rochester over the weekend. Hayden Zillmer joins me to discuss his last year of Greco competition, deciding to jump into the last chance Freestyle bracket, and preparing to compete for a World…
Former NDSU All American Hayden Zillmer, competing for the Minnesota Storm, has qualified for the World Team Trials at 97 KG. Zillmer, who finished second in the US Open (and World Team Qualifier) at 98 KG Greco Roman a month ago, entered the freestyle last chance bracket along with a few other Storm wrestlers that…
Twenty wrestlers represented North Dakota on Friday and Saturday at the USA Wrestling Northern Plains Regional Championship in Rochester, MN. West Fargo 3X state champion Jesse Shearer finished the 3-1 in the Junior 182 pound bracket, falling only to eventual champion Jack Jessen of Illinois 6-4 in the semifinal round. Jessen is an Illinois 3A (big…
West Fargo senior Jesse Shearer was second at the USA Northern Plains Regional wrestling championships on Saturday in Rochester, MN. Shearer strung together three wins in a row to make the final, including a 9-5 victory over Illinois state runner-up Cody Baldridge. Shearer was defeated by Jack Jessen (IL) in the final 11-0. Jessen also gave…
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