ND STATE FINALISTS SET

106 Finals: #1 Laken Boese (Bismarck) vs. #2  Reece Barnhardt (St. Mary’s) #1  Clay Gerhardt (New Salem) vs.  #2  Kersey Harris (Bishop Ryan) 113 Finals: #5 Coy Awender (Oakes) vs.  #2  Jeremy Leintz (Beulah-Hazen)  #1  JJ Harms vs. #3  Will Kleinknecht (Mandan) 120 Finals: #1  Ryan Ripplinger (Bismarck) vs. #3  Drew Steidler (St. Mary’s) #1…

Bismarck Demons Make A Statement Day One in Fargo

Though the effort wasn’t enough to land the top spot in the team race after day one of the North Dakota State Wrestling Tournament Thursday at the Fargodome, the Bismarck Demons showed up firing on all cylinders after two rounds of championship-side wrestling, and appear ready to battle crosstown rival Century, as well as Minot, to…

Podcast 217: State Tournament Preview

The longest Podcast we have done!  Breakdowns of all four tournaments, and all 28 brackets! *Two errors from the podcast have come to my attention from the Class B results:  Grueneich and Helseth have wrestled to a 5-1 Grueneich victory, and Soren McDaniel has a major decision victory over PCN’s Carter Brown. Both results are…

Lisbon the Strong B Individual Favorite

With 147.5 projected team points, the Lisbon Broncos are favored to win the North Dakota Class B state tournament by 21 over Hettinger-Scranton.  To achieve each team’s projected point output, seeded wrestlers were given a point value based on the average number of points that seed scored at the state tournament last season.  For top seeded…

Patriots Separate Themselves With Strong WDA

The numbers are in, and what seemed to be a tight North Dakota Class A Individual Tournament team race now has a Century route as the most likely scenario based on the release of yesterday’s brackets.  The Patriots have six wrestlers seeded first or second in the tournament starting Thursday morning and thirteen of fourteen…

Class B First Round Matches to Watch

Last season, six seeded wresters were defeated in the first round of the Class B Individual State Tournament.  That is six of a possible 112 matches, or 5.3 percent.  The following is the list of the closest on-paper matches of the first round in the year’s tournament:   106 Andrew Hoff (LaMoure) vs #4 Kyle…

Class A First Round Matches to Watch

 Finding a Class A upset in the first round of the North Dakota State Individual Tournament is like trying to find a needle in a haystack.  Luckily, you have Mr. Headlock here to give you the list of the most likely competitive matches in Round 1. 106 Preston Fettig (Bismarck) vs. #3 Karsen Mosbrucker (Mandan) 120 Quade Slater…

Carrington Edges PCN in Region 2

In what became a two team race to the finish, Carrington edged Pembina Conty North 219-204 to grab the Region 2 Individual Team Championship Saturday in Mayville.  After an up and down season, the Carrington Cardinals seem to be peaking at the right time.  Head Coach Josh Kerbaugh’s squad won the Region 2 dual title…