Mark Palmer, Staff Writer @RevWrestling.com
mark@revwrestling.com

When you need to find a restaurant, a doctor or a phone number, you call “411″ — the universal number for information.

Likewise, when you’re seeking the latest information on college wrestling, you call up Wrestling411.

Wrestling411, launched in the fall of 2008, provides coverage of college wrestling in various forms — through their Web site www.wrestling411.tv, via a twice-weekly radio show, and, eventually, a weekly highlights TV show. It’s a product of Media Sports Productions, which, according to the Wrestling411 website, is “a Minneapolis-based organization whose sole mission is the marketing and promotion of the sport of wrestling. Specifically, we have a team of highly motivated and talented individuals whose sole job is to produce sports highlight shows that educate and entertain the community. These shows will be distributed by way of satellite and cable broadcasts, streamed over the Internet, and heard on radio. Our goal is to make wrestling a front-page sport.”

Kyle Klingman and Jason Bryant

Two members of the Wrestling411 team are award-winning journalists who are well-known and well-respected within the wrestling community: Jason Bryant, and Kyle Klingman. Before coming to Wrestling411, Bryant was arguably best known for his writing and operating the popular InterMat wrestling Web site; Klingman writes a column for WIN (Wrestling Insider Newsmagazine).

Augsburg College has been one of the most successful wrestling programs on the Division III level. Now the school will be at the center of wrestling promotion as KAUG, the student-run campus radio station, will be the host studio for Wrestling 411’s twice weekly radio program beginning November 11.

Wrestling 411, the brand operating under the wrestling marketing and promotions company Media Sports Production, is launching its first full season of its made for television wrestling highlights show. The made for television show, Wrestling 411, will be complimented by a timely twice weekly show airing on Tuesdays and Thursdays during the season.

“We’re excited about having KAUG as our studio host,” said Jason Bryant, Production Manager and Writer for the Wrestling 411 television show. “KAUG offers the flexibility we desire and the ability to stream and archive our shows for a nationwide audience. We also felt Augsburg was a natural fit because the school’s strong presence within the sport of wrestling. It just makes perfect sense.”

Tom Brands, the head coach of the defending Division I NCAA team champion Iowa Hawkeyes, will be the show’s first guest on Nov. 11.