2024 Waldorf University Open Photo from Shannon Larson Dickinson State has 3: placers Jenna Gerhardt 5th @110, Birta McCaskill 4th @117, Jumoke Adekoye 2nd @131 Minot State places 1: Nina Sandoval 4th @180 USF places 3: Reianna Ogden 6th @117, Brinley Green's place ...

Bison Open 2024 Click on the link above to see the brackets! North Dakota State's Individual Results 125 | Ezekiel Witt | 1-2 L to Tanner Jordan (South Dakota State), TF 18-2 L to Blake Beissel (Minnesota), MD 12-4 W over Quincy Hulverson (Minnesota), ...

Here are the brackets. DWU Open 2024   Open - 125 Guaranteed Places 1st Place - Carson Dupill of Jackrabbit Wrestling Club 2nd Place - Sloan Johannsen of Northern State 3rd Place - Cryus Bucsit of Iowa Western Community College 4th Place ...

The first T-shirt order should be here within the next few days...  

Monday Motivation: The Countdown to Greatness Starts Now by Jon Gums - Dakota Grappler Wrestlers, it’s time to take a look at the big picture. In just 14 short weeks, the State Wrestling Tournament will be here. While that may sound far ...

Monday Motivation Take Pride pdf version click here Monday Motivation: Take Pride in Your Preparation By Jon Gums – Dakota Grappler Two weeks out from the start of the 2024-25 North Dakota wrestling season.  Woo Hoo! Today’s message is simple but powerful: ...

Challenge yourself with this 20 question quiz. Here's a 20-question multiple choice quiz on the movie "Vision Quest" based on the information from the video transcript: Key

Monday Motivation Do It and Appreciate pdf Monday Motivation - Do It and Appreciate It: Building the Foundation for a Successful Wrestling Season By Jon Gums – Dakota Grappler We are three weeks out in North Dakota four in South Dakota so ...

Takedown Tuesday Vincent van Gogh as a pdf Takedown Tuesday: Building Greatness One Step at a Time By Jon Gums – Dakota Grappler Do you ever dive deep into a subject and or a person and find inspiration, I did with an ...

Monday Motivation: Taking Action – Make It Happen on the Mat by Jon Gums Dakota Grappler "Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen." — Michael Jordan (Basketball) Sometimes, even a basketball player gets it ...

Again remember these are just speculation... and are for fun.  Many girls will be different weight classes as the year goes!  Enjoy! ND Girls Pre-Season Rankings ND Girls Pre-Season Rankings

ND Class B PreSeason Ranking 24-25

Agility Drills for Wrestlers Wednesday Wrestling Workout – Agility By Jon Gums – Dakota Grappler Here's a Wednesday Wrestling Workout routine focusing solely on agility drills to enhance speed, quickness, and reaction time for both boy and girl wrestlers. The workout is ...

  I truly understand that I don't know how big or how small many wrestlers got since the last time they wrestled so many of the weight classes are speculation... But so fun to rank and debate! ND Class B are currently ...

"Takedown Tuesday" New Rule, No Complaining Rule for Wrestlers by Jon Gums - Dakota Grappler One simple rule can transform your training, your team, and your mindset on and off the mat. It’s called The No Complaining Rule, and while it wasn’t ...

Monday Motivation: The Power of Consistency in Wrestling and Being the Best Teammate by Jon Gums - Dakota Grappler Consistency—it’s a word that gets thrown around a lot in sports, but what does it truly mean, especially in wrestling? In its simplest ...

Workout Wednesday: 5 Leg Exercises to Boost Speed, Mobility, and Flexibility for Wrestlers by Jon Gums - Dakota Grappler Wrestling demands strong, fast, and flexible legs. Whether you're driving through a takedown, sprawling to defend, or staying light on your feet, your ...

Takedown Tuesday: "The Power of Self-Scouting in Wrestling" by Jon Gums - Dakota Grappler Before You Scout Your Opponent, Scout Yourself (and don't forget to journal) In wrestling, we often focus on the opponent—what are their strengths, weaknesses, tendencies? But how often ...

Turning Up the Intensity in Pre-Season Training: A Guide for Wrestlers and Coaches by Jon Gums - Dakota Grappler As the new wrestling season approaches, both wrestlers and coaches have a unique opportunity to elevate performance through pre-season training. This crucial phase ...

One of my poem processes. My thought process for writing the latest poem... I actually came up with three different poems from when I gathering my thoughts... after reading this........ see poem #1 from this... called “The Story My Headgear Tells” on ...

Wrestling Workout Wednesday: Build a Strong Core for Dominance on the Mat by Jon Gums - Dakota Grappler Wrestling demands strength, agility, and balance, and all of that starts with a solid core. Your core is the foundation of almost every movement ...

Takedown Tuesday: The Power of Taking High School Classes Seriously as an Athlete By Jon Gums - Dakota Grappler   In wrestling, we often hear about the importance of strength, speed, and discipline on the mat. But what about off the mat? ...

Motivation Monday Speech: Full Steam Ahead by Jon Gums - Dakota Grappler Wrestlers, athletes, and warriors alike—today is the day we rise, and today is the day we take the world on full steam ahead! When you step onto the mat, into ...

Friday Fun Day: Making Wrestling Fun While Staying One Step Ahead by Jon Gums - Dakota Grappler Wrestling can be grueling, but it’s important to remember that it’s not all sweat and seriousness. Every once in a while, you’ve got to let ...

💪 Workout Wednesday: Maximize Your After-School Training for Wrestling Success By Jon Gums, Dakota Grappler As a high school athlete, time is your most valuable resource. Between school, homework, and other responsibilities, it can feel like there’s never enough time to fit ...

🥇 Takedown Tuesday: Building Champions from the Ground Up By Jon Gums, Dakota Grappler While wrestlers put in the work on the mat, there’s another force driving success from behind the scenes: the coach. A wrestling coach is much more than just ...

Monday Motivation for the Mat: Attack with Purpose and Lead by Example by Jon Gums - Dakota Grappler Wrestling isn't just about what happens on the mat—it's about seeing the big picture, having a clear mind, and attacking your goals with purpose. ...

1999-2000 DG Jon Gums  - Dakota Grappler Wow, it’s hard to believe it’s been 25 years since I started this incredible journey of promoting wrestling. Looking back, I pulled out the very first preview issue from my bookshelf, and I couldn’t help ...

🏋️‍♂️ Wrestling Workout Wednesday: Routine Breaker! 🏋️‍♀️ by Jon Gums - Dakota Grappler Good morning, warriors! It’s time to shake things up and bring some energy to your morning workouts! Here's a killer routine to get you moving, plus a fun twist ...

🥇 Takedown Tuesday: The Path to Wrestling Greatness Starts Within by Jon Gums Dakota Grappler In wrestling, victory on the mat is only a fraction of the battle. The real war is often waged within—the fight to stay motivated, disciplined, and focused ...

Monday Motivation for the Mat Hey Team or Hey Wrestlers! Welcome to a brand new week of wrestling glory! It’s time to lace up those wrestling shoes, tighten those headgear straps, and get ready to crush it! Here’s your Monday mantra to ...

Check it out! here are the coaches and days! SD FCA Staff Finalized - Winter 2024-2025 Sunday Nights - 4:00-5:30 Adam Presler & Kenneth Lenger Tuesday Nights - 6:00-7:30 Chance Stoeser & Zoe Adam Thursday Nights - 6:00-7:30 Kraig Presler & Maizy ...

North Dakota Girls go 1-3 on Day 2 of the 2024 AFSW Junior WN National Duals - FS 95 Anna White of North Dakota went 5-5, 100 Jennifer Verdin of North Dakota went 2-8, 105-110 Alicia Kenfack of North Dakota went 9-1, ...

North Dakota has 2 undefeated wrestlers Nick Enzminger and William Ward in today's Greco competition. North Dakota 3-3 Match #1 Champ. Round 1 North Dakota defeated Missouri 33-32 126 - Zayne Reynolds (Missouri) over Joey Enzminger (North Dakota ) Fall 1:04 132 ...

North Dakota 3-3 Match #1 Champ. Round 1 North Dakota defeated Tennessee 46-22 125 - Marlie Stremick (North Dakota ) over Abby Vanderheyden (Tennessee ) TF 12-1 130 - Aleiya Cullinan (North Dakota ) over Syriana Berrios (Tennessee ) TF 10-0 135 ...

North Dakota and South Dakota both have an undefeated wrestlers over their freestyle duals... Congrats to ND's Tucker Nelson 9-0 and Carter Johnson 8-0 and SD's Gage Lohr. North Dakota Match #1 Champ. Round 1 North Dakota received a Bye Match #2 ...

  ND 1-7 Results Greco SD did not participate in Greco but will be ready for Freestyle North Dakota Guaranteed 6th place Match #1 Quarterfinal Texas Gold defeated North Dakota 48-25 144 - Dominic Wilson (Texas Gold) over Unknown (Unattached) Forf 150 ...

I will be putting a few post now and then during the slow wrestling times... I know there are a ton of wrestling camps out there and the Olympics will be soon.   More wrestling coming soon!   Jon Gums Dakota Grappler

HS Boys Ages 14-18 2024 NDUSAStateFreestyle14-18 2024 NDUSA State Greco 14-18 HS Girls Ages 14-18 2024NDUSAFreestyle14-18Girls 2024 NDUSA State Greco Girls

I was doing some research for North Dakota Wrestling History and came upon some great information that I would love to share with other wrestling fans. High School Wrestling in North Dakota Started in about 1956 but became official in 1958.  State ...

As I reflect on aging, my thoughts often drift to the past, particularly to the old wrestling brackets. I find myself pondering the competitors in each weight class, reliving the matches and outcomes from years gone by. However, as my memory fades, ...

I promised I was doing the North Dakota Girls next, so here they are... ** Remember these are the ranking based on in no-one gained any weight going into next year...  which I know will not happen... I do plan on putting ...

This is also going to be a "barn burner" next year, but opportunity knocks a bit more with a ton of room available at some of the middle weights with many wrestlers graduating and several weights with about 1/2 of the wrestlers ...

I was asked what does next year look like in class B.  I had a simple answer, "It is going to be a barn burner."  Some of the big teams lost some key wrestlers, but overall this is the most returning state ...

South Dakota Wrestling Results SDWCA State Tournament Results for School Boy/Girls through Juniors and High School Divisions.  Brackets and Placings 2024 SDWCA State Tournament 2024 SDWCA State Tournament Placings  

A ton of great wrestlers from North and South Dakota wrestled in the 2024 USA Wrestling 16U & JR FK Nationals this past weekend... Several National Champions and All-Americans Check them out!   2024 USA Wrestling 16U & JR FK Nationals 2024 ...

Some ND High School Wrestlers went to the Montana AAU State Wrestling tournament this past weekend here are their results Montana State AAU 2024 Montana State AAU 2024 Coyote Wrestling Club Novice Boys 85 Abel Haugen's place is unknown and has scored ...

More Photos can be added!  Enjoy looking through them!  I will open up comments and extras soon.  

Lots of wrestling still wrestling in the post season, Good luck at Nationals! updated! 23-24 College Records Update

I have been moving a few videos at a time over from Facebook over to youtube... The progress takes a while if they are not there yet... It is a great history with several hundred videos between the two places.  If you ...

I have been told some of State has not synched to the final stats so I will adjust in a day or two... thanks

Fixed Pin leaders...

The plan is to finish the rest of ND and SD tonight!  Enjoy!

Wow, the girls rankings turn out to be the hardest to figure out yet...Several girls changed weights right before Regions which then common match-ups don't often happen. The rankings were done two weeks before the State Tournament, so DNW means Did Not ...

SD Class A Pre-Season-R1 SD B Preseason-ratings-2024-2025 SD Girls ranking-24-25-pre-season

Wow, this is awesome to look at... I did this one in the rankings format... tell me which format is better between the Class A and Class B in the Facebook Post, so when I have time tonight I will do that ...

It was quite interesting looking through this last night... The Rankings had the top 4 teams correct and 5-7 rotated 6,7,5 Dakota Grappler. vs Final Results Teams Bismarck 228 vs 219 Dickinson 136 vs 151 WF Sheyenne 129 vs 150.5 Century 127 ...

SDHSAA State Girls Final Brackets

SD State Boys Final Brackets

SDHSAA State Girls Day 2 Brackets

SDHSAA State Wrestling Boys A & B Brackets Day 2 Class A Scores Class B Scores

SDHSAA Class A Day 1 Brackets Top two teams put seven into tomorrow's semifinals.  Sturgis and Pierre look like they will battle for the top spot...   A106 Champ. Round 1 - Pierce Hurd (Rapid City Central) 53-3 won by fall over ...

SDHSAA State Class B Brackets Day 1 Day 1 is over and Philip leads taking 7 into the Semi's followed by Canton 5 and Custer with 6 into the semifinals tomorrow evening. B 106 Champ. Round 1 - Rylan Robbins (Winner Area) ...

SDHSAA State Girls Day 1 Brackets Pierre has a great first day, sending 7 into the semi's.  Check out team scores and brackets! 100 - Champ. Round 1 Olivia Anderson (Watertown) 44-1 won by fall over Emery Voelker (Tea Area) 13-12 (Fall ...

SD A Week-12-2023-2024 SD Girls ranking-23-24-week-12 SD B Week-12-Ratings-23-24

This is a fun one to debate: A-B-Combined-2023-2024

This post is 3 of 5, I am continuing with the nominated matches I can find from this years NDHSAA State Wrestling Tournament held at the Fargo Dome February 15-17. This batch is the "Action Packed" matches.  First of the videos for ...

    This post is 2 of 5, I am continuing with the nominated matches I can find from this years NDHSAA State Wrestling Tournament held at the Fargo Dome February 15-17.  Thanks to Flowrestling and Bektv for the video clips.  This ...

The First 5 Vidoes nominated, I will add many more! All Video's and clips are courtesy of Flowrestling and Bektv. Semi-Finals Girls Duals Bismarck Legacy vs Minot Minot down by 3pts 27-30 going into their last match 250 - Jade`ence Fletcher Minot ...

SDHSAA State Girls Brackets WR-Tournament Schedule

SDHSAA Boys A and B Brackets WR-Tournament Schedule  

SDHSAA Region 4B Brackets

SDHSAA Region 3B Brackets

SDHSAA Region 2B Brackets

SDHSAA Region 1B Brackets

SDHSAA Region 4A Brackets

SDHSAA Region 3A Brackets

SDHSAA Region 2A Brackets

SDHSAA Region 1A Brackets

Quarterfinal W1-Minot defeated E4-Napoleon G-S 66-12 250 - Jade`ence Fletcher (W1-Minot) over Ava Moser (E4-Napoleon G-S) Fall 2:19 100 - Ella Brown (W1-Minot) over Bailee Renfro (E4-Napoleon G-S) Fall 0:35 106 - Monica Boakye (W1-Minot) over Brandi Weigel (E4-Napoleon G-S) Fall 1:42 ...

Quarterfinal 4-Northern Lights defeated 5-Killdeer 43-27 285 - Ben Roundy (5-Killdeer) over Brett Tastad (4-Northern Lights) Fall 0:31 107 - Bode Henderson (4-Northern Lights) over Unknown (Unattached) Forf 114 - Keenan Gores (4-Northern Lights) over Lander Rice (5-Killdeer) Maj 14-5 121 - ...

2024 Class A Brackets corrected...     ND Class B Individual Brackets ND State Girls Individual Brackets

NDHSAA Girls Brackets Day 1 NDHSAA Class A Boys Day 1 Brackets NDHSAA Class B Day 1 Brackets

Here are the updated brackets: Changes in the Brackets: Girls 112, 155, 250 Class A Boys 215, 285... and 152 #2 Seed Richter out no passing skin checks, 189 Legacy Skin checks loss Class B 127, 152, 189 NDHSAA Class A State ...

Hall of Fame List and 2024 Entries Courtesy of the NDHSAA

Monday Motivation- A Heartfelt Thank You This is a need to read!  Click the pdf and enjoy! Jon Gums Dakota Grappler

SD B Week-11-Ratings-23-24 SD Class A Week-11-2023-2024   SD Girls Rankings Week 11 thanks to 605sports for use of their wrestling pic.

BOYS ALL STATE ACADEMIC QUALIFIERS It is a great opportunity to highlight their academic achievement as well as their wrestling accomplishment!!! https://ndacademicallstatewrestling24.itemorder.com/ Parents, you can ask your coach if your wrestler has met the 3.4 GPA requirement and you don’t see your ...

NDHSAA State Girls Brackets # of Girls per team qualified  

NDHSAA Class A Brackets Teams and # of Qualifiers    

NDHSAA Class B State Brackets Enjoy! Teams and # of Qualifiers:

Small tournament but mat time is so important for many of these wrestlers going into regions next week. Winning was Bennett Co. followed by Hot Springs. Bennett Co Brackets 24 Bennett Co Girls Invite Brackets24

The battle between the states favorites Canton and Philip/Kadoka Area Wall came and went Saturday.  Canton got on a roll winning the first 4 matches taking a 17-0 lead which ends up being more than enough to win the dual.  Winning 10 ...

Congratulations goes out to Sturgis Brown winning the SDHSAA State Duals with victories over Tea Area 57-13, Aberdeen Central 40-15, and Watertown 55-13. Dual meet results: Round 1 Sturgis vs Tea Brandon Valley vs Aberdeen Central RC Stevens vs Watertown West Central ...

ND Class B West Region Brackets

NDHSAA Class B East Region Brackets

West Fargo Sheyenne wins the east! NDHSAA Class A East Region Brackets

Bismarck High wins the west! NDHSAA Class A West Region Brackets

Grand Forks Girls find a way to the top of the podium in the East Region.  The well rounded effort includes 3 champions and qualifying 13 wrestlers for Fargo next Week.  Grand Forks Champions include: 155 Emily Novak (Grand Forks) 31-1 won ...

Minot wins the West Girls Region behind it's 5 finalist and 3 champions.  Champions include 118 Hallie Nash (Minot) 32-11, Jr. over Keisha Tomac (New Salem-Almont) 21-7, So. (Fall 4:53), 124 Madisyn Racine (Minot) 35-9, 7th. over Amaya Baptiste (Kenmare-Bowbells) 26-2, 7th. ...

2024 Girls ESD Brackets Behind four champions, the Pierre Governors won another Eastern South Dakota girls wrestling title on Thursday. Pierre recorded 150 points, ahead of Harrisburg (125.5) and Watertown (125). Aberdeen Central (120) and Brookings (58) rounded out the top five ...

Not sure why this disappeared last night.. but here it is!  This poll is done by Class A wrestling coaches voting.  These are different then the Dakota Grappler Rankings.  Great to see something different. Final Poll 2023-24

ND Girls Rankings- last 23-24 A couple girls were removed because I did not know wrestling status... injured or not... they had not wrestled in over 3 weeks... sorry ladies... enjoy!

ND Class A Rankings #7

Class A should be out Tuesday... and Girls Wednesday... ND Class B Ranking #7

I wrote an article last year, this is one year later.  Dedicated to all parents especially wrestling moms. Reflecting on the Final Wrestling Event 1 year later  

This might be my best one yet! Monday Motivation #9   If you want to see any of the other Monday Motivations Click here

SD Class A Week-10-2023-2024 SD Class B Week-10-Ratings-23-24 SD Girls ranking-23-24-week-10

WDA Final Placings Minot 7-0 Bismarck High 6-1 Bismarck Legacy 5-2 Dickinson 4-3 EDC Final Placings Central Cass Carrington Fargo Public Napoleon So Match-ups Minot vs Napoleon Bismarck Legacy vs Carrington Central Cass vs Dickinson Bismarck High vs Fargo Public   Good ...

Class A are explained in pdf Class B are still coming... check pdf.  I will update. dual pairings  

Black Hills Classic Brackets 2024 Black Hills Classic girls Brackets 2024

Redfield Invite Brackets

Big East LCC Brackets 2024

Big Dakota Conf Boys Brackets Big Dakota Conference Girls Brackets2024

2024 Yankton Boys Invite Brackets 2024 Yankton Girls Brackets

Pierre Champs Quarterfinal Pierre T.F. Riggs defeated Rapid City Central 54-15 185 - Emalee Larson (Pierre T.F. Riggs) over Unknown (Unattached) Forf 250 - Brylee Pelle (Pierre T.F. Riggs) over Unknown (Unattached) Forf 100 - Shaylee Speck (Pierre T.F. Riggs) over Unknown ...

Black Hills Conf Girls Brackets Black Hills Conf Boys Brackets2024

Quarterfinal Williams County defeated Stanley 37-27 172 - Jud Anderson (Stanley) over Jakob Peterson (Williams County) Dec 4-1 189 - Trey Bohmbach (Stanley) over Ashton Weathersby (Williams County) Fall 1:59 215 - Griffin Wilhemi (Stanley) over Matthew Jacobs (Williams County) Dec 3-2 ...

Region Champs Lisbon Broncos Quarterfinal South Border defeated Northern Cass 40-0 127 - Brody Michaelsohn (South Border) over Unknown (Unattached) Forf 133 - Joseph Keller (South Border) over Reed Volden (Northern Cass) Maj 10-2 139 - Ryker Vetter (South Border) over Unknown ...

#1 Championship Bracket Northern Lights defeated Rugby 24-0 107 - Bode Henderson (Northern Lights) over Braden Brossart (Rugby) Fall 1:40 114 - Double Forfeit 121 - Double Forfeit 127 - Double Forfeit 133 - Alfred Short (Northern Lights) over Nathan Thiel (Rugby) ...

Coach of the Year Sean Elkins, and Senior Gus Bombach Region Champions Killdeer Cowboys Match #1 Quarterfinal Killdeer defeated Linton-HMB 63-12 152 - Blake Ketterling (Linton-HMB) over Riley Kluver (Killdeer) Fall 0:45 160 - Gus Bohmbach (Killdeer) over Noah Alderin (Linton-HMB) Fall ...

Carrington Guaranteed 2nd place Match #1 Championship Bracket Carrington defeated Napoleon G-S 54-24 100 - Jamisyn Schroeder (Carrington) over Bailee Renfro (Napoleon G-S) Fall 0:37 106 - Taya Lura (Carrington) over Brandi Weigel (Napoleon G-S) Fall 0:41 112 - Juliet Davis (Carrington) ...

SD Dual Results week 2-1-24 Wow so many results!

CEB Dupree Invite Brackets

Dual Results from 2-1-24 plus a few from earlier this week on pdf Dual Results 2-1-24  

It has been a few weeks since my last "Monday Motivation" but as I wrote this I felt some of the principles I talked about in the first 7-8 articles are coming to fruition. Monday Motivation 8 Monday Motivation 8 Click on ...

When Girls are done I will add them.  Should not be too long. SD A Week-9-2023-2024 SD B Week-9-Ratings-23-24 SD Girls ranking-23-24-week-9

Well worth the viewing:  Enjoy wrestling SD fans.

There are some close races for the SD Girls, check them out!

North Dakota Boys Wrestling stat leaders as of 1-28-24.  I love looking at these, I hope you do too...

As of 1-28-24 North Dakota Girls Wrestling Stat Leaders, ND boys and SD boys and SD girls will be later today!

Red Cloud Wrestling Tournament Boys Brackets Red Cloud Girls Brackets

Bon Homme put off the Championship by one point over Kimball/White Lake/Platte-Geddes.  Bon Homme had only 2 champions but did have a great team effort to win this very competitive tourney! Wagner Invite Brackets

Groton Wrestling Tournament Boys Brackets Groton Girls Brackets 2024

Tea Area walks away with the Parker Invitational team trophy winning five out the nine they put into the finals.  Champions for Tea Area include: Dawson Eimers, Sam Werdel, Tyler Woodring, Austin Eimers, and Gavin Van Emmerik Parker Invite Boys Brackets

Boys Les Tlustos Brackets Girls Les Tlustos Brooking Brackets

Lee Wolf Boys Brackets Canton Team Champs Lee wolf Girls Brackets

Sturgis rolls to another tournament championship in 2023-24 Bell Fourche Invite Results Girls Results Belle Fourche Girls Brackets  

Devils Lake wins the Larimore invite over Fargo North, placing 11 and having 4 champions. Larimore Invite Results

Bismarck high wins another tournament having five finalists and crowning three champions along with a balance team effort.  Champions for the Demons include: Cambree Anderson, Paige Baumgartner, and Julia Araujo. Your Champs BHS Demons Belle of the Brawl Brackets

2024 East West Brackets East West Champs Lisbon Broncos

Tons of matches across the state... Hopefully, we got them all here.  Click on the pdf it will be free of ads. SD Wrestling Results 1-25-24  

Some Great action from last night... check out the pdf Dickinson beats Century, Minot beats Legacy and so much more both Class A and Class B, lots of girls wrestling results too. Dual Results 1-25-24  

Click on pdf version to eliminate any ads. Article: Montana powerhouse comes to BHS tonight Montana powerhouse comes to BHS tonight. If you have been around wrestling long enough in North Dakota you understand the teams that have traditionally been on top ...

Some Crazy weight classes and several girls still moving weight classes. ND Girls Rankings- #5

Bismarck High stays on top and expands its lead in the individual rankings, while West Fargo Sheyenne moves to the top of the state Dual Rankings! Enjoy! ND Class A Rankings #6

South Border and Lisbon hold on to the top two spots, but steaming forward into the #3 spot is Northern Lights behind nine ranked wrestlers! Some weight switching still happening... enjoy!  Class A will be out either later tonight or tomorrow, then ...

SD Girls ranking-23-24-week-8 SD B Week-8-Ratings-23-24 SD A Week-8-2023-2024  

Grand Forks 155 pounder Emily Novak defeated Minnesota defending state champion Sarah Pulk of Badger-Greenbush-Middle River 10-7 at the Prowler Invite in Thief River Falls. Pulk was undefeated and recently won the Rumble on the Red. Novak is now 20-0 with 19 ...

Governor Girls Brackets 2024 The Pierre girls wrestling team easily captured the team title at Friday’s Governor Girls Wrestling Invitational. Pierre racked up 171 points, well ahead of Harrisburg (101.5) and Rapid City Stevens (83). Bon Homme/Scotland/Avon (80) and Spearfish (68) rounded ...

2024 Dylan Humes Memorial Mixer-Girls Results for Hettinger/Scranton 100 Jennifer Verdin (24-5) placed 1st and scored 24.0 team points. Quarterfinal - Jennifer Verdin (Hettinger/Scranton) 24-5 received a bye () (Bye) Semifinal - Jennifer Verdin (Hettinger/Scranton) 24-5 won by fall over Emmie Trujillo ...

Pather Girls Brackets 2024

2024 Badlands Classic Boys Brackets  

Storhaug Boys Brackets Storhaug Invite Girls Brackets 2024

East Teams dual West teams so I will post Team results enjoy! Highlight of the weekend is WF Sheyenne defeats Bismarck High Round 1 West Fargo Sheyenne defeated Bismarck 33-26. Central Cass defeated West Fargo 41-32. Bismarck Legacy defeated Moorhead 56-15. Round ...

Kingsbury Boys Brackets 2024 Kingsbury County wrestlers who finished second in the team race while having three wrestlers win titles at Saturday’s Kingsbury County Invitational. Gannon Gilligan (126), Conner Giedd (138) and Connor Johnson (215) all won titles for Kingsbury County. Canby, ...

Dakota XII Boys Brackets24 Class B’s second ranked Canton mixed it up with mostly Class A schools at Saturday’s Dakota XII Wrestling Tournament and came out on top. The C-Hawks scored 267 points, ahead of West Central (191.5) and Tea Area (164.5). ...

Three teams go 3-1 spitting close duals between Aberdeen,  Pierre, and Sturgis... Match-ups, Match-ups, Match-ups!  Always makes it interesting! Aberdeen goes 3-1 Brandon Valley 2-2 Harrisburg 2-2 Pierre Rigss 3-1 Sturgis 3-1 RCC 0-4 RCS 3-1 Spearfish 0-4 Complete Results:  Sturgis, 51, ...

River City Boys Brackets 2024 Sioux Falls O’Gorman wrestlers come out on top at River City Rumble CHAMBERLAIN — Sioux Falls O’Gorman racked up 172.5 points, ahead of Milbank (143) and Sisseton (128.5) to win Saturday’s River City Rumble in Chamberlain. Huron ...

Little B Brackets 2024 Miller/Highmore-Harrold wrestlers claim title at Parkston Little B tournament PARKSTON — Behind two individual champions the Miller/Highmore-Harrold wrestlers won the team title at Saturday’s Parkston Little B tournament. Miller/Highmore-Harrold amassed 186.5 points to edge Kimball/White Lake/Platte-Geddes (166) and ...

Winner Brackets 2024 The Warriors scored 229.5 points, ahead of Philip/Kadoka Area/Wall Badlands Brawlers (187.5) and Bon Homme/Avon (171). Custer (167) and Parker (153) rounded out the top-five teams. The Warriors had four champions as Rylan Robbins (106), Maxton Brozik (126), Karson ...

see attachment for all results. ND Results 11-18-24

Varsity, JV and Girls all included...  several teams could not make this tournament, but those that could made the best out of the day... Congrats! 2024 Gadberry Brackets

Class A Ranking week 7 Class B-Week-7-Ratings-23-24 SD Girls ranking-23-24-week-7

I saw Hettinger/Scranton participating... check it out! 14th with 61pts. Cowboy Invite Brackets Hettinger Girls took 9th with 60pts. Cowboy Invite Girls Brackets  

Panther Invite Brackets

Wow, this was harder than I thought... Several weight classes had girls move down into lower weights and some girls have split matches in several locations... So, disclaimer.... there could be a couple of weight classes a bit off... always worth a ...

ND Class B Ranking #5 Wow this ranking was crazy... a bunch of people switched weight classes after the two pound allowance... and that caused some crazy rankings based on no head to head competition yet... This is awesome too... This shows ...

Check it out and compare to the Dakota Grappler Rankings... a ton of similarities.. but some differences too!  Fun Fun! Individual Poll 2023-24 - Media 3rd Poll

Some major moves after a big weekend at the Bismarck Rotary Wrestling Tournament! The ND Class B and Girls Ranking should be up late tonight or early tomorrow... only one change I would make after last nights dual @133 Alexander up one ...

attached.. Results from 1-9-24

As of 1-7-24 South Dakota High School Wrestling Stat Leaders... Both Boys and Girls... Top 6 Enjoy!

Enjoy the list... Both Boys and Girls Stat Leaders for North Dakota high School Wrestling as of 1-7-24

Class B on bottom SD A Week-6-2023-2024 SD Girls ranking-23-24-week-6 SD B Week-6-Ratings-23-24

Jesse James Boys Brackets Jesse James Girls Brackets  

Dan Pansch Boys Final Brackets Dan Pansch Girls Brackets

Bob Lager Final Brackets

2024 Williams Co tourney Final Brackets

Wyatt Turner (Dickinson) 16-5 won by fall over Alijah Piatz (Bismarck Century) check out this short clip... Turner Piatz Mat Return

Mid-Dakota Monster Final Brackets Mid Dakota Bride of the Monster Results 2024 Mid Dakota Bride of the Monster Brackets   Mid Dakota Monster Brackets Day1 Girls Starts tomorrow!

2024 Hettinger Classic Final Brackets 2024 Hettinger Classic Girls Final Brackets   2024 Hettinger Classic Brackets Day 1 Girls Hettinger Classic Girls Brackets Day 1

CC Lettermens Final Brackets 2024 Central Cass Girls Brackets   CC Lettermens Brackets Day 1 Lettermen's Girls Starts tomorrow!    

Rotary Final Boys Brackets 2024 Rotary Girls Final Brackets   Day 1... What a great day of wrestling! Bismarck Rotary Day 1 Brackets Bismarck Rotary Girls Bismarck Rotary Girls Brackets

Attached you will find the results... in the pdf ND wrestling results 1-2-4-24 pdf ND wrestling results 1-2-4-24 word

ND Class B Ranking #4 ND Class A Rankings #4

ND Girls Rankings- #3

Monday Motivation: #7 Title: A Fresh Start on the Mat: New Year and Mastering a Positive Mindset by Jon Gums - Dakota Grappler As we stand on the threshold of a new year, high school wrestlers embark on a journey that transcends ...

Girls added! SD Class B Week-5-Ratings SD A Week-5-2023-2024 SD Girls Rankings Wk 5

Harrisburg places 5th @ 2023 Winnebago Lady Indian Invite Winnebago Lady Brackets Results for Harrisburg and Bon Homme 105 Benazir Wilson (1-8) place is unknown and scored 0.0 team points. Champ. Round 1 - Mara Vanderpool (Omaha Westside) 24-1 won by fall ...

Spearfish Girls Invite Brackets

Floyd Farrand Final Brackets       Floyd Farrand Boys Brackets Day 1 Floyd Farrand Final Girls Brackets

Harding Co Invite Brackets

Webster Area Boys Brackets Webster Area Girls Brackets

Rumble on the Red JV Brackets

Rumble on the Red Girls Brackets

Rumble on the Red Varsity Boys Brackets

Newest Rankings SD Class B Week-4-Ratings SD Class A Week-4-2023-2024 SD Girls ranking-23-24-week-4  

MCM Boys Invite Brackets

Buck and Linda Anderson Classic Brackets Bucky and Linda Anderson Girls Brackets

MCM Girls Brackets

I understand some coaches might not have all their stats of Track wrestling... they probably should. Here are the current stat leaders thru 12-20-23

I am guessing not all teams have all of their stats entered into trackwrestling... if not they probably should... Here are the current stat leaders as of 12-20-23

Some teams might not have trackwrestling up to date... but is what I find as of 12-20-23

SD Wrestling Results 12-18-19-23

ND Wrestling Results 12-19-23

I forgot to publish this yesterday... So, make it a Monday Motivation on Tuesday... lol enjoy. Click on the pdf to avoid ads. Monday Motivation for High School Wrestlers #7 The Power of Being a Great Teammate by Jon Gums Or Read ...

A Couple errors... had to make a change at 112  Some how Vada Hoffman Ranked #4 in my notes so I made a change sorry Miss Boyer NW maybe in the next rankings... ND Girls Rankings- #2

Quite the shake up at a few weight classes!  Enjoy! one quick update... because track was not up to date from the Al Larson... and I missed some results... One big one so I made a ranking change at 127... Noah Anderson ...

ND Class A Rankings #3

SD Class A Week-3-2023-2024 SD B Week-3-Ratings-23-24 SD Girls ranking-23-24-week-3

Holiday Extravaganza Brackets

EPJ Brackets

Kingsbury wins in Volga with 6 individual champions! Cossack Avalanche Brackets

Watertown rolls in Sioux Falls winning 7 weight classes. SF Washington Boys Brackets   SF Washington Girls Brackets

Battle for the Paddle Brackets    

Grafton Wrestling Tournament Brackets

Legacy Boys and Girls wins Dennis Flynn Shootout! Dennis Flynn Boys Brackets Dennis Flynn Girls Brackets  

Border Brawl Brackets 250+ girls compete in Ashley!

State Middle School Brackets

Madison Boys Brackets Madison Girls Brackets

Valley City Holiday Brackets

Bennett Co 1-3 Bennett County Guaranteed 6th place Match #1 Round 1 Lead-Deadwood defeated Bennett Co unty 30-27 138 - Gavin Risse (Bennett County) over Unknown (Unattached) Forf 144 - Mekhi Hayes (Lead-Deadwood) over Tel Gropper (Bennett County) Dec 9-3 150 - ...

Northeast Conference Brackets NE Conference Girls Brackets  

Valley City Holiday Girls Brackets

Linton Final Brackets         Linton Holiday Day 1 Brackets

Pat Weede Final Results North Dakota Teams Dickinson 7-1 Top Wrestlers: Gage Glaser of Dickinson High School went 8-0 Hugh Meyer of Dickinson High School went 8-0   Bismarck Century 2-5 Top Wrestlers Ole Taylor of Bismark Century went 8-0 Brayden Morris ...

2nd Coaches Poll

Lakota Nation Invite Results Lakota Nation Girls Results

SD A Week #2 SD B week #2 SD Girls Week #2

Small List of Motivation articles by Jon Gums – Dakota Grappler Motivation Mondays Thoughts from a first time wrestling mother   Why do wrestlers get nervous?   Seizing Victory Motivation for High School Wrestling Athletes   End of the Season Speech Template ...

Click on the red pdf if you want to escape from the ads... or to print this. Monday Motivation #6 trust the process click here on this link if you like to read the whole article Welcome back to Monday Motivation: Part ...

Sertoma Girls Only tourney Brackets

Boys Team Scores Al Larson Final Brackets Girls final Scores Al Larson Girls Final Brackets

Small tourney but everyone wrestled hard! The Champs Kenmare Final Brackets

Burke Gregory Final Brackets

  Boys Faulkton Final Results 2023 If anyone has the girls results email them to [email protected]  

Final Results Rapid City Girls Final Results Rapid City Girls Brackets

Carrington Duals Results

Sertoma Final Team Results 49th Sertoma Day 1 Dual Results

Rapid City Final Results 2023 Rapid City Day 1 Brackets Rapid City JV Brackets  

ND Results 12-7-23 Old School ND Results 12-7-23 Results w/Pics

I plan on putting this out ever week or every other depending on competition. Enjoy! Click on the pdf for full view ND Class B Ranking #2-2023-2024

ND Girls Rankings- #1 23-24

ND Class A Rankings #2

SD Girls ranking-23-24-week-1

updated... a few errors... towns, spellings, trying to make them better SD B 2023-2024-Rankings-Week-1

updated... some errors trying to fix a few things.... Week-1-2023-2024-rev-2  

Monday Motivation Part 5

Okoboji Girls Brackets

Trying something for the fans who want to see links to just the brackets... no team scores... no frill...  just the tourney brackets Velva Final Brackets 2023 Velva Girls Brackets Hillsboro Duals Individual Results Bismarck Girls Final Brackets 23 Unruh Final Brackets ...

Chamberlain and Todd Co Wrestled at this event: ONeill Invite Brackets

Bill Young Boys Brackets Bill Young Girls Brackets

Canton wrestled in Iowa's Dan Gable Donnybrook! Dan Gable Donnybrook Brackets Here are the Individual Results: Dan Gable Donnybrook Results for Canton 113 Carter Kendrick (7-2) placed 4th and scored 36.0 team points. Champ. Round 1 - Carter Kendrick (Canton) 7-2 won ...

Stanley Co Invite Boys Brackets   Stanley Co Invite Girls Brackets

KWLPG Invite Brackets

Flandreau Booster Boys Brackets Flandreau Girls Brackets

ClarkWillow Lake WBC Invite

Watertown Girls Brackets 2003 No Team Scores  

Top of the Rock Brackets 2023 Top of the Rock Girls Brackets

Rider Invite Brackets 2023   Rider Girls Invite Rider Girls Brackets 23

Individual Results Marv S. Marv S Dual Results

I know some of the brackets are not complete... Because of Trackwrestling going down yesterday... This is what I could get for right now.. If I can get complete results I will put it on here. PCN Girls Brackets 2023

Team Results Grafton Match #1 Round 1 West Fargo defeated Grafton 64-9 107 - Luke Hettenbaugh (West Fargo) over Unknown (Unattached) Forf 114 - Joachim Antonin (West Fargo) over Unknown (Unattached) Forf 121 - Landon Geiger (West Fargo) over Hayden Moore-Hicks (Grafton) ...

Bismarck JV wins the Jamestown KC tourney Jamestown KC Brackets 2023

VelvaBrackets Day 1 Velva Final Brackets 2023 Day 1 Team Score Final Team Score Velva Girls Division Velva Girls Brackets

Final Team Scores Unruh Final Brackets 2023   Day 1 Dan Unruh Day 1

Final Results Sidney Final Brackets 23     SidneyDay1 brackets

Team Results Dickinson Match #1 Champ. Round 1 Williston defeated Dickinson 45-27 103 - Max Glaser (Dickinson) over Ivan Jolley (Williston) Fall 1:31 113 - Jake Glaser (Dickinson) over Reese Olson (Williston) Fall 1:01 120 - Aaron Morris (Williston) over Jonathan Klitzke ...

Final Brackets 23 Final Scores 100 Guaranteed Places 1st Place - Anna White of Central Cass 2nd Place - Jennifer Verdin of Hettinger 3rd Place - Emily Youboty of Legacy 4th Place - Shaylee Speck of T. F. Riggs 5th Place - ...

Mandan Lions Final Brackets 2023 107 Bracket I need 107... if someone has the final results email me Brackets right here. All but 107 too many wrestlers to do on track... Mandan Lions Day 1  

complete brackets here Napoleon Girls Early Bird

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K2XHEJod7U   Also can be watched live on Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/events/1373368886921078

2023-24 South Dakota Wrestling Results November 13 Start of Season November 28 Click on Date for Results Beresford, Canton Howard, Sioux Valley @ Parker November 30 Click here of Complete Results Beresford, Yankton @ Watertown Watertown 70 Beresford AH 3 Bon Homme ...

As the week's results come in I will link the results to this page.  Enjoy! November 28 Results here WF Sheyenne 57, Valley City 18 November 30 Click on Date to get full results Bishop Ryan, Harvey, New Salem-Almont @ Beulah/Hazen Harvey ...

Part 4 of a series... Monday Motivation The Hero's Journey of Wrestling check out Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3

Great article for today, Thanksgiving to avoid ads click on this pdf version Have a Thankful Heart, High School Wrestling

Individual Poll 2023-24 - Media    

Monday Motivation: Part 3 “Why High School Students Wrestle” Click on pdf to avoid ads. Monday Motivation- Part 3 “Why High School Students Wrestle”

Lindenwood Open Results for Iowa Black Division (Fresh/Soph) 149B Koye Grebel's place is 1st and has scored 22.0 team points. Champ. Round 1 - Koye Grebel (Iowa) received a bye () (Bye) Champ. Round 2 - Koye Grebel (Iowa) won by tech ...

MinotEarlyBird2023 Minot Early Bird Girls

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Week 2 of a year long series for wrestlers:  If you have any suggestions on topics you might want me to write on email me. Monday Motivation #2 2023-24

Waldorf University Open WaldorfUOpen23womens Luther College Open. LutherCollegeOpen Minot State at Eagle Madness (Life U)

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Two different schedules SD Master Schedule 23-24 SD Master Tourney Schedule 23-24 Click on both enjoy!

Take a look... every extensive list If you see anything wrong let me know... I will adjust. ND Master Schedule 23-24  

By the week click on the link to get the pdf BTN = Big Ten Network Pink is women's wrestling. Local college wrestling schedule

Now, I want a simple approach when interviewing a coach.  My plan is to interview coaches at wrestling tournament and put out "reels" of these interviews.  One problem, I want to keep them to 3 minutes so I need to simplify my ...

Wednesday Wrestling Wisdom 1-23 Wednesday Wrestling Wisdom: “The Grit and Glory of High School Wrestling” by Jon Gums In the realm of high school sports, few activities demand as much dedication, perseverance, and sheer willpower as wrestling. For those who step onto ...

ND Class B Pre-Season-2023-2024 Check it out!  If I missed anyone or you have someone that should be considered let me know... [email protected]

Monday Motivation Getting off on the right foot by Jon Gums Official Wrestling Practice in North Dakota starts today, so I wrote this Monday Motivation Enjoy! Getting Started on the Right Foot: A Monday Motivation Guide to Achieving Your Goals Monday mornings ...

Where are all the ND and SD wrestlers wrestling in college?  I put a composite list together that you might enjoy! Currently we have Men's 19 DI - 36 DII - 1 DIII - 32 NAIA - 2 NJCAA Currently we have ...

Price $15 for the digital copy… one major benefit is that most pictures are color in the digital version, and you will get it emailed to you.  I am thinking Nov. 1st...  Get yours right away!  176 pages covering ND and SD ...

This is always the toughest rankings to do with wrestlers growing... Figuring out what weight classes wrestlers will wrestle in will change a ton... Let's just have some fun and speculate what might be...  Remember rankings are just for fun... Wrestlers will ...

Seizing Victory: A Monday Motivation for High School Wrestling Athletes Greetings, Champions in the Making! As the sun rises on this glorious Monday morning, it brings with it a fresh opportunity—a canvas upon which you can paint your dreams, your ambitions, and ...

Be in the first mailing of the 2023-24 Dakota Grappler Preview. Today is the first day you can order and get on the first mailing list when it gets here in a little over a week.  Excited to see the hard copy ...

Title: "8 Crucial Steps to Make This Wrestling Season Your Best Yet: A Coach's Ultimate Guide" Greetings, aspiring wrestling champions! As the wrestling season approaches, you might be wondering, "How can I make this season the best one ever?" Well, buckle up ...

I Need Help!!! Parents and Fans your help would be appreciated. I still need some teams information to finish this years Dakota Grappler Preview. If you see your team.... you can help by contacting your coach and ask why it is not ...

Changing What You Can Change: The Wrestler's Journey through Hard Work, Attitude, Mindfulness, Effort, Focus, Fitness, and Emotion - by Jon Gums Dakota Grappler In the intense world of wrestling, where victory and defeat are often separated by the thinnest of margins, ...

I wondered what the individual state chose for the 2023-24 wrestling season.  There was an option to pic from 12, 13 or 14 weight classes.  Here is the flier that gave that information. NFHS_Weight_Class_Options_for_2023-2024_Voting Here is the Map I compiled after several ...

Pre-Season Wrestling Motivation by Jon Gums Motivating yourself and your teammates during the preseason for high school wrestling is essential for building the mental and physical strength required for a successful season. Here are some tips and strategies to help you stay ...

North and SD Individual School Records Wanted!  Girls and Boys! I am trying to put together individual schools records and state records in one place. So I am requesting from all North and South Dakota schools their individual records. Pictures of their ...

Time to get ready for the season ladies!

Several Placers for ND and SD in this past weekends US Open Some of the best wrestling in the Nation competed in this event... I surely enjoyed the coverage on Flowrestling!  Here are ND and SD's results Bruce Moe 70kg (Greco) 3-1 ...

High school wrestling Rules include allowance of six matches in one day of competition By NFHS | April 27, 2023, 10:50 a.m. (ET) INDIANAPOLIS, IN (April 27, 2023) – High school wrestlers will be able to wrestle in six matches in any ...

Bruce Moe places 2nd at 70kg Masters E Greco Brandon Metz is Guaranteed top 8 still wrestling on Thursday Greco Seniors 130kg

Short reaction to Matthew McConaughey's Art of Livin event: Well I watched this yesterday... and got 10 major points... Here they are: 1. Choose trust over division.  Why am I here? 2. Define your “more.” Delusion/Illusion More of what? 3. Close the ...

It is true that a single decision can have the power to change the world. The impact of that decision can create a ripple effect that touches the lives of those around us. This truth is one of the most difficult and ...

It is so much deeper than I will not quit! There are several things I find myself thinking over and over again with this book is: How does this apply to me?  How can I use this?  Do I subscribe to the ...

Honest Abe, "I now understand that forgiveness has value only when it is given away."  What a powerful statement.  Powerful enough it dig deep within ones soul, to ask ones-self:  Do I forgive?  Do I hold on to resentment?  Am I consumed ...

As I continue this read (The Traveler's Gift), my mind sometimes wonders to experiences I have had, or I compare things to either the same or the opposite reactions.  Follow me for a second.  Everyone remembers a teacher that affected their lives, ...

A wise man once said, "A Journey of 1000 miles begins with a single step." We meet Columbus on this part of the journey before he found the new world, I am struck by his conviction, his belief, his mission and his ...

By far the most moving part of the book for me to this point.  Sometimes we all get complacent sit back and watch the crowd instead of not doing.  I know I am guilty of this... I see this carpe diem but ...

Wow, and "The buck stops here."  I control my thoughts.  I control my emotions.  In the future when I am tempted to ask the question "Why me?"  I will immediately counter with the answer: "Why not me?" Challenges are gifts, opportunities to ...

My goal is to Grow... Learn... with like hearted and minded people. I am looking for 5 accountability partners to do this Free event.  Join me and we can have our own small group to bounce things off of... This type of ...

Well, a good friend of mine "Bill Holtan" sent me a book is where this article starts.  Reading is fun, sitting down and giving yourself time to ingest it is another thing.  After reading the first 31-32 pages I decided to give ...

  If this link does not work I can see if I can get the video uploaded here... let me know. https://www.flowrestling.org/events/10272040-2023-us-open-wrestling-championships/videos?playing=10869957  

Wrestlers starting on Saturday are 14U and under wrestlers.... For ND there are many wrestlers taking part in these Nationals... Champ. Round 1 - Leandro (lj) Araujo (ND) won by fall over Jack Newton (MN) (Fall 0:23) Champ. Round 2 - Leandro ...

ND has 7 All-Americans including two finalists  SD has 3 All-Americans and one Finalist. LJ Araujo and Ben DeForest for ND and Navarro Schunke for SD.  Both North and South Dakota had a pretty good day with several others placing top 8 ...

North Dakota Wrestlers and their weights... I put some results on later today as they happen! Junior Boys 120 Benjamin DeForest Junior Boys 138 Caden Everson Junior Boys 145 Augustus Maughan Junior Boys 152 Brendan Winn-Kelley Junior Boys 152 Waylon Cressell Junior ...

#MotivationMonday Here's a Monday motivation statement for our wrestlers: Good morning, wrestlers! As you begin a new week, remember that success in wrestling and in life is not just about talent and physical abilities. It's also about mental toughness, discipline, and hard ...

Bishop Ryan 15 & Under 88 Peyton Seay's place is unknown and has scored 0.0 team points. Champ. Round 1 - Peyton Seay (Bishop Ryan) received a bye () (Bye) Champ. Round 2 - Hunter McGrane (Glendive Mat Devils) won by fall ...

LJ Araujo: Great tournament for the Demon!  Watch the match here...   https://youtu.be/zHPtzDVFqBw   Navarro Schunke SD vs Andre Mcfadden SC Finals 285  2023 NHSCA High School Nationals When it loads on Youtube I will place it here... hopefully about 1:00 CST ...

updated... Sunday Results are in... South Dakota boys roster 109 - Gage Lohr, Watertown 116 - Landon Walker, Brandon Valley 123 - Graham Wilde, Sioux Falls Jefferson 129 - Parker Graveman, Spearfish 135 - Kaleb Johnson, Kingsbury County 141 - Mekhi Hayes, ...

2023 NHSCA High School Nationals Schedule for Sunday Sunday March 26th 7:00am- Doors open at the Virginia Beach Sports Center 8:00am – Wrestling begins for all High School Divisions placement matches and Middle School Division 10:00am – All High School Finals Begin ...

This is awesome... 2023 SDWCA State Program

Here are the Brackets for the 3 Youth State Dual Tournaments 2023 LargeTeamDualBracket Championship dual results MATPAC Blue G1 defeated Bison WC G1 34-30 Group 1 - 55 - Teagan Heid (MATPAC Blue G1) over Bennett Monson (Bison WC G1) Fall 2:17 ...

North Dakota and South Dakota wrestlers are having a great first day! Seniors Boeden Greenly makes quarterfinals going 3-0 defeating Roel Johnson from CT by fall in 1:43, Tucker Vician MA by TF 23-8, and Ivan Smith NM 5-0.  He will be ...

USA Wrestling, FloWrestling and the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum have published its March 2023 rankings for high school girls wrestlers for the 2022-23 season. This national ranking evaluates all girls enrolled in grades 8-12, and athletes from all 50 ...

The best high school wrestlers from around the country are in Virginia Beach to fight it out for a national title! South Dakota does have some wrestlers wrestling at the Nationals.  I will try to keep you up to date on their ...

NHSCA High School Nationals The best high school wrestlers from around the country are in Virginia Beach to fight it out for a national title! The 2023 NHSCA High School Nationals broadcast on FloWrestling. The 2023 NHSCA High School Nationals broadcast starts ...

This was a great competition... the Winner: Peyton Fridrich Beresford Alcester Hudson BAH and Zhoel Irion Sturgis Final vote 118-85 Boys final doc Boys final pdf

Know your Passion. I thought I should write a mini-course on this subject, but I am not sure where to start... Maybe this is it. I will start by trying to define what passion means to me. Passion for promoting a sport ...

Click on this link to vote.  https://www.surveylegend.com/s/4tp0 Ends Tuesday March 21st at 9:00 PM Click on pics to enlarge:

Congrats to Aubrey Jensen of Viborg-Hurley a close battle with a final vote total of 118-88.     final bracket results above!

This was extremely close!  8 great pics down to 4, if someone could email me the names so that when the finals are picked Saturday... I can name the finalists... [email protected] Check out the bracket to see the final vote scores...   ...

Here are your finalists: Aubrey Jensen of Viborg-Hurley. vs. 2. April Peterson from Rapid City Stevens This should be a great battle!  Vote! Now open til Saturday, March 18th, 9:00 PM Vote Here Click on the link https://www.surveylegend.com/s/4tfw   2.

Vote til Wed March 15th, 9:00 PM  This has been a great contest keep the votes coming! I am requesting the name of all the girls in these pics!  email me at [email protected] Vote here   https://www.surveylegend.com/s/4t8p     See Scores on ...

Vote on the Match-ups below... check them out!  Click to zoom in! Vote with this link1 https://www.surveylegend.com/s/4t8l

Available for a short time... please send me a note (true evaluation) of this short book (33 pages) [email protected] Free read and enjoy! Coaches Lessons for Wrestlers After Ch 10... more stories are being written... Maybe I put them out there...

Time to vote in the round of 16... There are some unbelievable match-ups with so many great pics! Vote on the link below here.  Open til Monday March 13th 9:00 P.M. https://www.surveylegend.com/s/4t2c   Here are the match-ups   https://www.surveylegend.com/s/4t2c

There were some great match-ups in Round One with over 100 votes on each of them.  Now here is... Round #2 the Quarter-Final match-ups are here and will be available to vote on til Monday 9:00PM so vote now! Use this link ...

North Dakota and South Dakota All-Americans at the NCAA Div II Championships Minot's 285 Jake Swirple (18-8) placed 8th and scored 4.5 team points. Prelim - Taniela Feliciano-Takafua (Simon Fraser) 27-8 won in sudden victory - 1 over Jake Swirple (Minot State ...

Part 2 is a composite for years 1999-2003, this is not complete yet... I want to confirm profiles and add some pics that I can find.  Any SD wrestling historians can add info or adjust any of these profiles... I surely need ...

Contest fun!  These are the finalists for the top pic for the 2023 State Girls wrestling tournament. Here is the bracket SD Girls Top State Pic Bracket 2023 Vote Round #1 take survey Good til Friday 9:00 P.M. https://www.surveylegend.com/s/4swv    

3 surveys 1 of 3 https://www.surveylegend.com/s/4suh 2 of 3 https://www.surveylegend.com/s/4suj 3 of 3 https://www.surveylegend.com/s/4suk Make your pics for Round #1 this will last for 72 hrs... End Saturday 9:00 PM  

Brackets for NDSU and SDSU wrestlers and their rankings listed on there... 2023-ncaa-di-wrestling-brackets

NDSU and SDSU qualify several wrestlers... 8 and 6 after the wildcards get in!  Congrats! I forgot to publish this and make it not private... making it public... lol.  Better late then never... Here are the final Big 12 Brackets. Final Brackets ...

I marked in the brackets the ND and SD Wrestlers... We have someone to follow in almost every weight class. Check the brackets out! NCAA DII Brackets

Allocations Released For 2023 NCAA Wrestling Championships Team Scores 1 Missouri 135 2 Iowa St. 112 3 OK State 102.5 4 Oklahoma 78 5 S. Dakota State 69.5 6 N. Dakota State 67.5 7 Air Force 57.5 8 N. Iowa 57 9 N. Colorado 42 10 W. Virginia 31.5 ...

I am putting together my top picks for this years Boys SD State Wrestling Tournament... Then making a poll and letting the fans pick the top ten... So look over the pics as I develop a poll or a bracket or something ...

I understand this is early... and this will probably done again next fall... These are SD's spring edition Preseason rankings for Class A, B and Girls.  Enjoy! 13 Weigh Classes A Pre-Season-2023-2024-Rev-1 13 Weight Classes B Wrestling-Ratings-23-24 10 weight classes Girls pre-ranking-23-24-preseason

If you have not seen this...  Some great talking points of where wrestling is going for next season. SDHSAA-Wrestling-Advisory-Committee-Minutes-2023

South Dakota Wrestling Hall of Fame Part 1.  1988 - 1998 Some of these profiles could be wrong as research was done along time ago and if anyone would want to correct or add to any of these profiles it would be ...

ND and SD wrestlers in college 3-1-23  Click on this link for the stats After Big 10's and other Conference tournaments we will update...

Time for the Girls Stat Leaders! 2022-23 SD Girls Wrestling Stat Leaders

Here are the 2022-23 North Dakota Girls Stat Leaders... Awesome to see!

This is good history... enjoy the 2019-20 South Dakota Wrestling Stat Leaders (Top 10)   2019-20 SD Takedowns Leaders 1 Damion Schunke Brandon Valley 192 2 Kaden Keiser Winner 191 3 Cael Larson Rapid City Central 176 4 Trason Oehme Brandon Valley ...

One year after the fact... but here is the Individual Stat Leaders for the year 2021-22... Impressive at least two state records were broken with this crew!  Pictures of these leaders on the bottom of this post. 2021-22 ND Takedowns Leaders State ...

Stats from 2+ years ago.  Remember these wrestling superstars?   2020-2021 2020-21 SD Takedowns Leaders 1 Cael Larson Rapid City Central 174 2 Gabe Skustad Chamberlain 127 3 Kaden Keiser Winner 122 4 Logan Serck Beresford/Alcester-Hudson 108 4 Tanner Meyers Canton 108 ...

So someone asked me if I could do this for years past, I said probably could, so with little sleep I put the 2021-22 South Dakota Stat Leaders together... Enjoy!  If I find more time during this week I will put together ...

South Dakota State Stat Leaders     Escapes     Tech Falls 1 Jackson Remmers McCook Central/Montrose 26 2 Conner Giedd Howard 20 3 Maddix Slykhuis Tea Area 19 4 Tristan Spencer Pierre T.F. Riggs 11 4 Jordon Oehme Brandon Valley 11 ...

I had to Geek out a bit today, I gathered every North Dakota Wrestling teams stats and keep the top two at 2023 ND Team Individual Leaders Stats  Every Team! Other State Leaders Team Points Boeden Greenley 344 Coy Okeson 315 Wins ...

SD B Dual Brackets Canton Guaranteed 1st place Match #1 Championship Bracket Canton defeated Winner Area 50-24 120 - Maxton Brozik (Winner Area) over Unknown (Unattached) Forf 126 - Teague Granum (Canton) over Ash Kaiser (Winner Area) Fall 2:38 132 - Ashton ...

SD A Final Brackets Drama at the Class A state wrestling dual tournament on Saturday. After 14 matches in the Class A state dual tournament finals Pierre and Brandon Valley were tied at 33-33. In the case of a tie tournament officials ...

Several North Dakota and South Dakota Seniors participated in putting this together... I am hoping to make this much bigger and better in the future.  Enjoy! Senior Edition 2023

Team Scores 1 Pierre T.F.Riggs 167 2 Canton 134.5 3 Spearfish 72 4 Lakota Tech 71 5 Rapid City Stevens 64 6 Brookings 63 7 Viborg-Hurley/Irene-Wakonda 57 8 Watertown 53 9 Bon Homme/Scotland/Avon 52 10 Harrisburg 49 11 Aberdeen Central 43 12 ...

Team Scores 1 Canton 163.5 2 Winner Area 126.5 3 Philip Area 126 4 Custer 119 5 McCook Central/Montrose 112.5 6 Kimball/White Lake/Platte-Geddes 97 7 Redfield 75 8 Miller/Highmore-Harrold 73 9 Wagner 58.5 10 Parker 54.5 11 Burke/Gregory 44 12 Parkston 42 ...

Team Scores 1 Brandon Valley 208.5 2 Watertown 184.5 3 Pierre T.F. Riggs 182 4 Sturgis Brown 139 5 Harrisburg 107 6 Tea Area 101 7 West Central 94 8 Rapid City Stevens 93 9 Aberdeen Central 88 10 Brookings 71 11 ...

Team Scores 1 Pierre T.F.Riggs 82 2 Canton 56.5 3 Brookings 43 4 Lakota Tech 42 4 Rapid City Stevens 42 6 Spearfish 37 7 Viborg-Hurley/Irene-Wakonda 29 8 Watertown 28 9 Harrisburg 27 10 Huron 26 11 Aberdeen Central 24 12 Belle ...

Team Scores 1 Canton 87.5 2 Custer 69 3 Philip Area 66 4 McCook Central/Montrose 62.5 5 Winner Area 55.5 6 Kimball/White Lake/Platte-Geddes 52 7 Miller/Highmore-Harrold 41 8 Redfield 36.5 9 Parker 34 10 Wagner 32.5 11 Parkston 25 12 Elk Point-Jefferson ...

Team Scores SD Class A 1 Pierre T.F. Riggs 93.5 2 Brandon Valley 92.5 3 Watertown 90 4 Sturgis Brown 82 5 Aberdeen Central 59 5 Rapid City Stevens 59 7 Harrisburg 55 8 Tea Area 54 9 West Central 52 10 ...

Going into State this week... Last Rankings SD Class A Week-12-2022-2023 SD Class B 2022-2023-Week-12-Rankings SD Girls ranking-23-state-tournament

I did some research a while back about Presidents that wrestled... Here is what I found. Some Presidents have been known to engage in athletic activities during their time in office. Theodore Roosevelt was known for his love of boxing and wrestling, ...

2023 SD Girls Brackets

2023 SD State Brackets A & B

Demons win A Boys and Girls Dual Championships along with Lisbon winning the Class B. ND Class A Duals Final Brackets Bismarck Guaranteed 1st place Match #1 Championship Bracket W2-Bismarck defeated E3-West Fargo 48-13 182 - Kaleb Porter (E3-West Fargo) over Tyrus ...

Sturgis wins Region 4A and will be sending all 14 wrestlers to the state tournament RAPID CITY — Behind nine regional champions and 14 state qualifiers Sturgis claimed Saturday’s Region 4A wrestling title. The Scoopers put up 294.5 points, ahead of Rapid ...

Pierre qualifies 14 and wins Region 3 with Aberdeen right behind them. 3A wrestling title MISSION — Behind six region champions and 14 state qualifiers the Pierre Governors wrestled their way to the Region 2A title on Saturday. PIerre racked up 274.5 ...

Racking up over 300 points Brandon Valley wins Region 2A Behind eight region champions and 13 state qualifiers the Brandon Valley Lynx claimed the Region 2A wrestling title on Friday. The Lynx racked up 303 points ahead of Harrisburg (247.5) and Sioux ...

Watertown looks good while capturing Region 1A wrestling title at MADISON — Five region champions and 13 state qualifiers the Watertown Arrows captured the Region 1A wrestling tournament on Saturday. The Arrows racked up 256 points ahead of West Central (206) and ...

Region 4B - Custer tops Brawlers for Region 4B wrestling title LEAD — Behind four region champions and 12 state qualifiers the Custer wrestling team earned top honors at Saturday’s Region 4B meet. Custer accumulated 271.5 points, ahead of Philip/Kadoka Area/Wall Badlands ...

Winner wins Region 3B holding off Miller/Highmore-Harrold, Kimball and Bon Homme/Avon in a highly contested region tourney.  Winner has three champs Riley Orel (160), Jack Kruger (182) and Derek Fenenga (285). Team Points: 1. Winner Area, 185; 2. Miller/Highmore-Harrold, 168; 3. Kimball/White ...

Region 2B - Canton looks dominant as the C-Hawks claim Region 2B wrestling title SALEM — Behind eight region champions and 12 state qualifiers the Canton wrestling team won Saturday’s Region 2A wrestling title. Canton racked up 265 points, ahead of McCook ...

Region 1B - Redfield holds off Kingsbury County to claim Region 1B wrestling title VOLGA — Behind three region champions and seven state qualifiers the Redfield Pheasants captured Saturday’s Region 1B title in Volga. Redfield scored 165.5 points, ahead of Kingsbury County ...