Happy New Year to everybody in the wrestling community. The 2008 year has reached its final day, and in a tradition that we have continued for many years on TheMat.com, I will present my top 10 wrestling stories of the…
The lowering of shoulder straps while on the mat is considered an act of unsportsmanlike conduct. The only time it would not be penalized is if the wrestler received permission from the official to do so. Should this infraction occur…
By Bob Sherwin Seattle Times staff reporter It’s never going to leave, that painful image of defeat. Not in Dan Gable’s mind, not in this lifetime. He won’t allow it. He clings to it like a drowning man trying to…
Before The Midlands, there was The Wilkes (and still is, though it is mostly for JV wrestlers now). Many of you fellow old-timers on the Forum surely remember ‘The Wilkes’ , the Rose Bowl of Wrestling, from back-in-the-day. Going thru…
125 1st – #2 Brandon Precin (Northwestern) dec. #4 Tyler Clark (Iowa State), 3-2 3rd – #3 James Nicholson (Old Dominion) dec. Scott Sentes (Central Michigan), 3-2 5th – Ben Ashmore (Unat.) dec. #8 Jay Ivanco (Clarion), 2-1 7th –…
By Philip Hersh | Tribune reporter Jake Herbert continues to take nothing for granted in his prolonged career as a Northwestern student-athlete. Herbert may not have lost a college wrestling match since 2006 ” and just one of 81 matches…
By Roger Moore STILLWATER, Okla. – On the mat Peter Steele Blair was as tough and intimidating as anybody who’s ever put on a wrestling singlet. Off the mat he put forth the same effort in regards to his fellow…
By Roger Moore Even if Edward Eichelberger had never wrestled a match for Lehigh University he’d be remembered as one of the great individuals to ever set foot on the Pennsylvania campus. “He was a real inspiration to me, a…
By Gary Abbott Along with his twin brother Duane, a teenage boy named Dennis Koslowski was exposed to wrestling during physical education class in Webster, S.D. Who would know that this would eventually lead the twins to an international wrestling…
At the age of seven, he discovered that his father Les Gutches, Sr. had wrestled by finding some photos and medals in a storage box in their Oregon home. “When dad came home, he shook the sawdust out of his…
