Bismarck’s Matt Kaylor, who will enter his seniors season at Legacy this fall and won the school’s first wrestling state championship last March, finished 3-0 in today’s opening rounds of the Junior Greco-Roman national championships in Fargo. Kaylor was dominant in all three bouts at 220 pounds, scoring a fall and two technical falls on…
Three Cadet North Dakotans remain alive after the first day of the USA Wrestling Freestyle and Greco-Roman National Championships in Fargo. New competitors will enter the fray when the Junior Division begins Sunday morning at 9:00 A.M. Bismarck’s Clay Radenz advanced the farthest on the topside of the bracket, scoring three wins at 120 pounds…
Coming off a strong performance at Junior Duals last month, the North Dakota Junior National Team enters competition Sunday at the Fargodome featuring a stable of veterans prepared to make a run at All American status. West Fargo four-time state champion Jared Franek enters his final Fargo as one of the most decorated North Dakotans…
Bismarck’s Ryan Ripplinger came one win short of a Greco national championship Friday afternoon, falling to Oklahoma’s Reece Witcraft 15-4. Ripplinger got behind 4-0 early, but responded with a beautiful hip toss to knot the score at 4. From there it was all Witcraft. Witcraft worked another takedown and and upshot to make the…
Ryan Ripplinger and Sophie Smith will both leave the Fargodome with two All American plaques. Ripplinger, a two time North Dakota state champion and soon-to-be Junior at Bismarck High School, was seventh in the Freestyle tournament earlier this week and now sits in the Greco-Roman semifinals set for Friday morning. Sophie Smith is competing in…
Team North Dakota’s lone win Tuesday came when Sophia Smith defeated Hannah Strauss of Illinois in one of the first bouts of the morning. In doing so, Smith advanced to the 117 pound Cadet national championship match and a chance at her first Fargo stop sign. After the day was done, neither Smith, nor the…
With All American status achieved, all that remained was one match to determine final placing for Bismarck’s Chase Dockter and Ryan Ripplinger. Ripplinger won a fireworks-filled seventh place match with Minnesota’s Charlie Pickell 24-13. Ripplinger dug himself an early 6 point hole, but scored those points right back-plus some-with a takedown and multiple trap arm…
Championship Semifinals 152 Jared Franek Harwood, ND (North Dakota) VPO1 Markus Hartman Barrington, IL (Illinois), 7-3 285 Brandon Metz West Fargo, ND (North Dakota) VSU Zach Muller Woodridge, IL (Illinois), 10-0 0:39 Championship Quarterfinals 152 Jared Franek Harwood, ND (North Dakota) VSU Tyler Eischens Andover, MN (Minnesota), 10-0 3:22 285 Brandon Metz West Fargo, ND (North Dakota) VPO1 Jon…
It was a good day for Fargo area wrestling. Two of West Fargo’s finest; graduated senior Brandon Metz and incoming senior Jared Franek, both who will attend NDSU at the college level, have gone through two days of freestyle competition unblemished and will wrestle for Junior Freestyle national titles tomorrow afternoon at the Fargdome. Franek…
Though neither made it through the day unscathed, Bismarck High teammates Ryan Ripplinger and Chase Dockter have garnered Freestyle Cadet All American status. Coming into today, both Ripplinger and Dockter boasted undefeated records and slots in the morning’s quarterfinal round. Ripplinger lost that quarterfinal bout to Ohio’s Gus Sutton 14-8 and fell to the wrestlebacks…
