After qualifying for the championship pool Friday by finishing second in their Pool D, North Dakota struggled against the best freestyle teams in the country a day later. Team North Dakota wen 0-4 Saturday with losses to tournament champion Ohio, along with Oklahoma, Washington, and Nebraska. Simply finding wins was a challenge Saturday, as the…
Team North Dakota advanced to the Gold/Silver pool after finishing 2-1 during day one of Freestyle Junior Duals in Tulsa, OK. The eight teams in the Gold/Silver group, all of which finished in the top two of their preliminary pool, will wrestle a round robin format starting tomorrow. A champion will then be crowned tomorrow…
Team North Dakota 1 finished the Greco Roman portion of Junior Duals third place in the Bronze/Copper pool, which was good enough for eleventh overall. North Dakota 1’s lone loss of the day came to Pennsylvania 37-30. Pennsylvania went on the Bronze/Copper Pool. North Dakota 2 found a victory in the Green/Yellow Pool, 33-31 over…
Team North Dakota 1 finished 3-1 in their pool Wednesday, good enough for third place in Pool C and a trip to the Bronze/Copper division tomorrow. The winner of the Bronze/Copper division finishes in ninth place overall. North Dakota started with a strong victory over North Carolina before being upended in the pool semifinals by…
Mr. Headlock is joined by North Dakota Junior and Cadet Director Luke Mellmer to discuss last weekend’s Junior Duals, as well as the upcoming National Team Camp
Next season, North Dakota will sorely miss the upper weight run of Jesse Shearer, Sam Grove, Jordan Will, and Brandon Metz. All four are high school graduates that will compete at the college level next season, and Shearer, Grove, and Metz are taking their talents to Division 1 institutions. Though this group is irreplaceable, a…
North Dakota Blue finished 4-1 on the first day of the Freestyle portion of Junior Duals. Seeded third in Pool A, ND Blue won its first match handily over Kansas Red before taking its lone loss of the day in the semifinals to Missouri 36-33. In the consolation bracket, North Dakota defeated Colorado and then…
Team North Dakota Blue and Red have received their draws for the Freestyle portion of Junior Duals, beginning at 8:00 AM tomorrow (Friday morning and continuing through Saturday. North Dakota Blue was given the third seed in Pool A, and will receive a first round bye before a quarterfinals matchup with Kansas Red. The second…
North Dakota Blue battled to a fourth place finish in the Bronze/Copper pool at Junior Duals; good enough for 12th place overall. On the final day of competition, North Dakota scored victories over Florida and Minnesota Red, but fell to Iowa Blue and Washington. Both Sam Grove (6-0) and Brandon Metz (8-0) went undefeated for…
Team North Dakota Blue finished day 1 of the Greco portion of Junior Duals with a 3-1 record, good enough for a third place finish in Pool B and advancement into the Bronze/Copper pool tomorrow. The winner of the Bronze/Copper pool is the overall ninth place finisher in the tournament. North Dakota Blue’s only loss…
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