A pair of Lakeland University wrestlers placed in the top-5 of their respective weight classes at the Dr. Bob Kellogg Open hosted by MacMurray College.
Katelynn Gunderson (130 pounds) finished fourth while Madison Ruckdashel (123) took fifth at Saturday’s event in Jacksonville, Illinois. Continue reading “Wisconsin Women’s Wrestling Roundup: Lakeland duo takes top-5 at Dr. Bob Kellogg Open”
Three Wisconsin freshman claimed individual championships at the Pointer Open Saturday in Stevens Point.
Trey Escobar (141 pounds), Dan Stilling (149), and Josh Otto (165) each kicked off their college careers with titles.
The trio were among five UW wrestlers to stand atop the podium at Saturday’s season-opening event. Continue reading “Redshirt Report: Three freshmen win titles for UW at Pointer Open”
The Twitterverse is never short on opinions. So, earlier this week, I decided to pose some Wisconsin wrestling prop bets to my followers in the form of poll questions. While I won’t even attempt to boast that I collected anything near a proper sample size, there was more than enough feedback for some interesting early-season fodder. Continue reading “The 2019-20 Wisconsin Badgers Wrestling Season Preview (According to Twitter)”
Brooke Thurber put an exclamation point on the first-ever tournament for the UW-Stevens Point women’s wrestling team as she earned an individual title at 116 pounds.
Thurber topped teammate Abby Nelson by technical fall in the finals of the Adrian College Open Saturday in Adrian, Michigan.
It was a short day at the office for Thurber who spent just 4:54 on the mat over the course of her three matches. She cruised to a championship with a pair of technical falls and a pin.
Thurber and Nelson combined for 32 of the Pointers 34.5 team points.
UWSP finished sixth at the seven-team event.
Lakeland University finished seventh in the season-opening tournament. The Muskies were led by Madison Ruckdashel who placed third at 123 pounds.
After being pinned in the semifinals, Ruckdashel rallied for back-to-back wins to capture a spot on the podium.
She pinned Morgan Bethea of UW-Stevens Point 1:34 into their consolation semifinal match. Ruckdashel finished the day by pinning Heavynne Jerez (MacMurray College) in the third-place match in just 1:09.
Lakeland resumes action Nov. 2 at the MacMurray College Open.
UWSP is off until Nov. 13 when it hosts Lakeland in its first-ever dual.
Originally appeared on Wisconsin.Talking10.com 3/24/18
The University of Wisconsin wrestling team has a new head coach.
On Saturday, UW tabbed former South Dakota State front man Chris Bono as the 16th head coach in program history.
The nation-wide coaching search came to a head just hours after Friday night’s application deadline.
Continue reading “Badgers tab Bono new head wrestling coach”
Originally appeared on wiwrestling.com 3/8/18
Both the NCAA Division II and III Wrestling Championships kick off Friday.
Wisconsin will be well represented at both events with UW-Parkside qualifying six wrestlers in DII and seven in-state schools combining for 17 national qualifiers in DIII. Continue reading “First-Round Matchups | Wisconsin’s DII and DIII National Qualifiers”
Originally appeared on Wisconsin.Talking10.com 3/5/18
Originally appeared on WisSports.net 3/4/18
It seems only fitting that, arguably, the most dominant team in the state of Wisconsin had the most decisive victory in the WIAA Team State Wrestling finals.
Top-seeded Stratford won 11 of 14 bouts en route to a 45-13 win over No. 2 Fennimore in the Division 3 state championship match Saturday evening at the UW Field House. Continue reading “Stratford completes dominating season with Division 3 team wrestling title”
Originally appeared on WisSports.net 3/4/18
Over the last two seasons, it has become clear the Luxemburg-Casco and Ellsworth teams are just about as evenly matched as two teams can be.
Ellsworth topped L-C by one point in last year’s Division 2 state championship match.
The two met in another thriller Saturday evening. Continue reading “Luxemburg-Casco avenges last season with narrow victory over Ellsworth for D2 team wrestling title”
Originally appeared on WisSports.net on 3/4/18
A pursuit decades in the making finally came to an end Saturday evening at the UW Field House.
A 31-29 win over Holmen in the Division 1 championship match gave Stoughton its first ever dual meet state title and first team state championship since 1988. Continue reading “50 years after its first team wrestling title, Stoughton is golden once again”
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