W-1 Bismarck defeated E-4 West Fargo 60-19 220 – Ben Anderson (E-4 West Fargo) over Jordan Schumacher (W-1 Bismarck) Fall 3:08 285 – KC Ortiz (E-4 West Fargo) over Brayden Moran (W-1 Bismarck) Fall 2:55 106 – LJ Araujo (W-1 Bismarck) over Lindsey Anderson (E-4 West Fargo) Fall 2:36 113 – Christian Tanefeu (W-1 Bismarck) over Sierra Ramberg (E-4 West Fargo) Fall 1:47 120 – Wilfried Tanefeu (W-1 Bismarck) over Unknown (Unattached) Forf 126 – Tyler Porter (E-4 West Fargo) over Juan Flores (W-1…

+Listed individual ranking based on current NDwrestle rank and not tournament seed #1W Bismarck High vs. #4 E West Fargo 120:  #1 Wilfried Tanefeu (Bismarck) vs. #6 Cole Irwin (West Fargo) 138:  #2 Preston Fettig (Bismarck) vs. #6 132 Kaleb Porter (West Fargo) 145:  HM Ben Nagel (Bismarck) vs. HM Declan Genova (West Fargo) 152: …

Individual first round upsets are hard to come by on the Class A side.  There were just eight last year.  The following are the most evenly matched first round matches based on head to head matchups/common opponents etc.: 106:  Carter Zink (Sheyenne) vs. #8 Malachi Werremeyer (Davies) 106:  Evan Fleck (Mandan) vs. #7 Pete Rasmussen…

Weight Class Contender Notes 106:  #1 LJ Araujo of Bismarck defeated #2 Koye Grebel of Valley City in overtime 4-2 at the Valley City tournament back in December.  This was Araujo’s first varsity action of the year, and he seems to have improved dramatically since then.  Araujo was Rotary champion via 6-2 decision over Jack…

  Team Race: PROJECTED TEAM POINTS BASED ON SEED Points assigned to seed:  1: 27, 2: 22, 3: 18, 4: 14.5, 5: 13, 6: 9.5, 7: 8, 8: 6 Bismarck: 233.5 Century:  156 Minot:  143.5 Jamestown: 115.5 Valley City: 114 Devils Lake:  97.5 Team Race Breakdown The only question in this team race is going…

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…

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…

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,…

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…