Strandberg Shines For Team ND Women at Heartland Duals

Minot’s Morgan Strandberg finished 6-1 at Heartland Duals as leader of a group of young women representing USA Wrestling North Dakota at the Heartland Duals over the weekend.  This was the first year that USA Wrestling of North Dakota has sent a women’s team to the event.  Overall, the team finished 1-6 in dual matches…

NDSU Select Team Camp June 24-28

North Dakota State University is again offering a summer team camp for wrestlers grades 7-12.  The Select Team Camp runs June 24-28, and will allow individual wrestlers to perfect technique while also competing together as a team.  The camp will be limited to the first sixteen teams that enter.  The five-day format features conditioning, technique…

Path To The Podium: NDSU’s Clay Ream

Every year media outlets put out a list of four time NCAA qualifiers that haven’t achieved All American status.  A list of seniors that the collective wrestling public should be rooting for no matter team allegiances.  This year, NDSU 157 pound RS senior Clay Ream fits that bill.  Ream has qualified for the big dance…

Ryan Blees Finishes Runner-Up at ACC Championships

It took some time, but Ryan Blees seems to have found his place in NCAA Division I college wrestling.  The 4X state championship from Bismarck went 2-1 against a strong field at the ACC tournament to bring homed second place at 149 pounds.  Blees’s efforts also helped to propel the Hokies to a team championship…

Podcast Episode 317: Eull and Reis Headed To D2 Nationals

Mr. Headlock and the Coach breakdown the Division 2 Super Region Central tournament including interviews from Minot State head coach Evan Forde and Mary head coach Adam Aho.  Both coaches scored their first national qualifier over the weekend.  We also discuss Ryan Blees’s path at the ACC Tournament, NDSU at Big 12’s, and make some…

D2 Bracket Breakdown: Minot State’s Mitch Eull

Minot State’s Mitch Eull was Super Region Central Champion at 285 pounds last weekend, and now his path to a national championship is known.  As a Super Region  champion, Eull draws the fourth seed from another region and would not wrestle another super region champ until the semifinals.  In the first round, the redshirt senior…