Mr. Headlock and the Coach are joined by MSUM grad assistant Blake Bosch and NDSU assistant Jarrod Garnett. Bosch is competing in the senior US Open in Las Vegas this weekend, while Garnett will coach the members of the Bison Wrestling Club. Kayle and I discuss the potential matchups for Jared Franek, Jesse Shearer, and…
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…
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…
Team North Dakota Prime 9-10 finished the weekend with a 4-4 record at AAU National Duals, good enough for second place in the tournament’s Silver bracket (fifth overall). Individually, Parker Larson of Valley City was the lone undefeated wrestler from prime. Larson was dominant throughout the course of the two days, scoring seven pins and…
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…
Mary’s Jared Reis is a match from Division II All American status. The Napoleon native was dominant in his first match of the day, scoring a 10-1 major decision victory over Shawn Beiriger of West State (Colorado). Reis scored a takedown midway through the first period on an ankle pick and took a 2-1 advantage…
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…
Dickinson State 133 Gresh Jones is a NAIA All American, and a national title is still there for the taking entering Saturday Morning’s semifinal round. Jones is the last Blue Hawk still competing, as 197 Cody Johnson was knocked off in the Blood Round by Montana State-Northern’s Isaac Bartel 12-6. Jones, a four time state…
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…
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…
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