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Minnesota High School League Expands Girls Wrestling Competition Limits

BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. — Expanding girls-only team competitions in Girls Wrestling was unanimously approved on Thursday, Oct. 8 when the Minnesota State High School League’s Board of Directors gathered for its second scheduled meeting of the school year at the League Office.

The approval, which will create scheduling flexibility and encourage the continued growth of the activity, is a revised exception to Bylaw 501 on the maximum number of contests for Girls Wrestling. The recommendation for the policy change came through a League working group designed to guide the growth and competition in Girls Wrestling.

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Lincoln Robideau – Getting Big Bro(ed)

Often, wrestling is a generational thing. Many young athletes get started in the sport because they learned about it from their wrestling fathers or grandfathers. To wrestle at a high level, the athlete has to create an internal drive of their own. For St. Michael-Albertville two-time state champion Lincoln Robideau, his passion to get better started with his father, but was fueled by getting ‘big brothered’ by his older brother.

“I would win a lot of youth tournaments like Tulsa Nationals,” Robideau said. “My only goal was to place higher than (older brother) Landon.”

Landon – who last year capped off his freshman season at Oklahoma State with a national championship – didn’t just motivate his younger brother at competitions.

“Landon has had the biggest role in my career,” Lincoln said. “He pushes me and wants the best for me – more than I want for myself.”

Before Lincoln and Landon, or younger brother Lachlan, could push each other, they had to have an introduction to wrestling.

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Bill Hinchley 1941-2026

Bill Hinchley dedicated over four decades to the sport of wrestling, making significant contributions as an official, administrator, and leader. He served as President of the Owatonna Wrestling Association and spent 30 years as the CEO for Minnesota USA Wrestling. A dedicated mat official for over 40 years, Hinchley was widely recognized for his officiating excellence, receiving the US Wrestling Officials Association Lifetime Achievement Award and being named USA Wrestling Official of the Year in 2007. He was inducted into the Minnesota Chapter of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2015 .

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Bob Board 1935-2026

Hall of Famer Bob Board passed away on September 5, 2026. He was 90 years old. Board was a long-time coach at Coon Rapids High School, a University of Minnesota wrestler, and a state champion for Anoka High School. He was inducted into the Minnesota Wrestling Coaches Association Dave Bartelma Wrestling Hall of Fame in 1973 and the Minnesota Chapter of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2008.

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