+Wrestlers are Listed Based on the NDwrestle Ranking and not Tournament Seed #1 Lisbon vs. Bishop Ryan 220: #2 Sam Rieger (Lisbon) vs. HM Hunter Swegarden (Bishop Ryan) 285: #3 Ethan Lyons (Lisbon) vs. #1 Keegan Henjum (Bishop Ryan) 132: #6 Brody Aberle (Lisbon vs. HM Connor Harvey (Bishop Ryan) #4 New Salem vs. #5…
106: Cody Meehl (Oakes) vs. #8 Tysen Landeis (Larimore) 113: Bransen Larson (Larimore) vs. #6 Connor Bosch (Beulah/Hazen) 120: Riley Doll (New Salem) vs. #5 Chance Burns (Grafton) 120: Octavio Alvarez (Bishop Ryan) vs. #3 Gus Bombach (Killdeer) 138: Jayden Ybarra (Alexander) vs. #4 Brock Roesler (Kindred) 145: Trey Jacob (Linton/HMB) vs. #5 Ezra Weichmann…
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…
106: Beating Cole Gerhardt is going to be a tall task. The bigger question is who comes out of the bottom half of the bracket. That half is loaded with talented seeded wrestlers all at similar talent level including #2 Colin Dean (VELVA), #3 Carter Wallner (LISBON), #6 Jaron Frank (Hettinger), and #7 Tristan Lepp…
+UPDATE 2/18 10:00: Lisbon has removed 182 Avery Dick from the tournament due to an injury sustained in the Region 1 final. NDwrestle wishes Avery the best on his road to recovery. The team race projections have been adjusted to show a drop of 14.5 (a fourth place seed) from Lisbon’s projected team total, though…
