*Image Courtesy Nic Ryder IAwrestle Bison Brent Fleetwood and Andrew Fogarty scored first round wins at the NCAA Wrestling Championships Thursday afternoon in Pittsburgh, PA. Both will wrestle in teh round of sixteen tonight at 7:00 PM Eastern on ESPN. Cam Sykora and Lorenzo De La Riva lost their bouts, and will continue in the…
Andrew Fogart gave up the first takedown of the bout, but it was all Fogarty from there. The #13 seed from Jordan, MN advanced to tonight’s round of sixteen with a dominant 17-2 technical fall of Tyler Marinelli of Gardner Webb. racked up loads of points from the top position including a nasty bow and…
Virginia Tech redhsirt senior Ryan Blees scored an opening round upset of #7 Kaden Gfeller of Oklahoma State 3-2 in the first round of the NCAA championships Thursday morning in Pittsburgh. Blees, 16-14 and seeded twenty-sixth entering the tournament, controlled the first period with heavy hands but neither wrestler was able to score and the…
*Images courtesy Nic Ryder IAwrestle NDSU #21 seed Cam Sykora came close, but wasn’t able to score an upset victory over Wyoming’s Montorie Bridges in the first round of the NCAA championships. Bridges edged Sykora 3-2 on the strength of a first period takedown. Sykora defended Bridges’s initial takedown attempt shortly after the opening whistle…
Bison redshirt senior Brent Fleetwood won his first match at the NCAA championships and as a result has advanced to Thursday night’s round of 16. Fleetwood scored a 2-0 decision over over Penn’s Carmen Ferrante. Ferrante got to a leg attack early in the first period but Fleetwood was able to defend for a stalemate. From…
NCAA SEED: 26 RECORD: 16-14 RELEVANT RESULTS: #5 Matthew Kolodzik dec. Ryan Blees 8-2 #17 Christian Monserrat dec. Ryan Blees 4-1 #3 Mitch Finesilver dec. Ryan Blees 3-1 #3 Mitch Finesilver dec. Ryan Blees 4-0 #6 Austin O’Connor dec. Ryan Blees 2-1 The Weight Class 149 is probably the most wide open weight class in the entire…
*Images Courtesy Nolan Schmidt NCAA SEED: 24 RECORD: 26-9 RELEVANT RESULTS: #13 Brit Wilson (Northern Illinois) md. Lorenzo De La Riva 15-4 #25 Hayden Hastings dec. Lorenzo De La Riva 5-4 #25 Hayden Hastings dec. Lorenzo De La Riva 7-3 Lorenzo De La Riva dec. #25 Hayden Hastings 4-3 Lorenzo De La Riva dec. #13 Kimball Bastian…
(Images courtesy Nolan Schmidt) NCAA SEED: 13 RECORD: 20-4 RELEVANT RESULTS: #10 Branson Ashworth (Wyoming) dec. Andrew Fogarty 6-0 Andrew Fogarty dec. #10 Branson Ashworth 3-2 #9 Demetrius Romero (Utah Valley) dec. Andrew Fogarty 8-6 (OT) The Weight Class 165 is my favorite bracket in the tournament, and cracking into the top eight is going to…
A pancake breakfast for Shelly Knowlen is set for April 14 from (9 AM – 1 PM) at the Mandan Eagles Club. Shelly is the lovely wife of longtime Bismarck High head coach Scott Knowlen and is battling against a rare form of cancer called Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma. North Dakota wrestling community, please rally around…
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