Amateur Wrestling news, gear and photos from the side of the mat.
Amateur Wrestling news, gear and photos from the side of the mat.
Among several Vikings and other football prospects working out for seven NFL scouts Wednesday at the Gophers’ indoor facility was Kole Conrad, a two-time NCAA heavyweight wrestling champion for the Gophers. Conrad, 24, who has received interest from the New…
INDIANAPOLIS— The NCAA announced the 52 at-large selections for the 2009 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships. These wrestlers, listed in alphabetical order by weight class, join the other 278 student-athletes that qualified automatically through their conference and regional qualifying tournaments.…
Marcus LeVesseur went where no other Division III college wrestler has ever gone before. From 2002-2007, the Minneapolis native compiled a perfect 155-0 record at Augsburg College and won four NCAA Division III titles, which had never been accomplished. In…
Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association Five new members will be inducted into the EIWA Hall of Fame in a ceremony before the final round of the EIWA Championships on March 8 at the University of Pennsylvania. The announcement was made by…
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…
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…
As a number of athletic departments prepare to cut some men’s teams to trim budgets, NCAA president Myles Brand has put out a call for schools to leave Title IX out of it. He has pre-emptively asked schools with shrinking…