North Dakota Blue finished Day 2 of Freestyle Junior Duals 2-1, good enough for 6-2 overall and thirteenth place. To start the morning, North Dakota scored a 34-34 tiebreaker victory over Nebraska Red. North Dakota was awarded the win as they won eight matches to Nebraska’s seven. Next, North Dakota fell to a strong Georgia…
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…
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.…
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…
Jesse Shearer is the 2017 winner of the dave Schultz High School Excellence Award for the state of North Dakota. The award recognizes not only talent on the mat, but also “scholastic achievement, citizenship, and community service.” Jesse is the second Shearer to bring home this prestigious honor, as brother Jordan brought won in 2015.…
INDIANAPOLIS, IN (May 2, 2017) — An alternate two-piece uniform consisting of compression shorts or shorts designed for wrestling and a form-fitted compression shirt has been approved for the 2017-18 season in high school wrestling. Wrestlers will have the option of the new two-piece uniform or the traditional one-piece singlet. This revision to Rule 4-1-1…
Schools, Clubs, and Coaches: Starting today, promote your camp on the ND Headlock webpage using any of the following three options: $25: List your camp on the ND Headlock Camp Central webpage. ND Headlock’s Camp Central page is a calendar of area camps that will include a jpeg image of your camp or school logo, basic…
SMLXL Two teams of 9/10 graders represented the state of North Dakota at the AAU 9-10 duals in Des Moines, Iowa on Saturday and Sunday, with Team Prime winning the Silver pool for ninth place overall, and Team Nature Boys taking fifth in the Silver Pool. Team Prime was led by Travis…
SMLXL 3X North Dakota state champion Jared Franek, who won a USA Wrestling Folkstyle national title last spring, chose the FloNationals route this season and was upended in the finals by #8 ranked Jaden Mattox of Ohio. The West Fargo product navigated through four matches to make the finals, including a convincing 11-4 decision in…
With the North Dakota State tournament now over a month in the rearview, a lot of North Dakota’s best prep wrestlers are taking to the mat in national competition all over the country. Last weekend, it was West Fargo 3X state champion Jesse Shearer competing in Virginia Beach, VA at the NHSCA Senior nationals. This…
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