Listen to the latest episode of the Minnesota Wrestling Round Table Podcast brought to you by KNUJ Radio out of New Ulm, Minn. Join Jim Bartels, and his guests, Larry ‘The Sodbuster’ Baumgardt, Chad Johnson, Cathy Koob, and Adam Bartels.
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Action Photos from the ANML Lightning K-6 Team Duals
Action Photos from the 2023 ANML Lightning K-6 Team Duals results. Sunday, January 29, at Maple Lake HS.
The Al and Josh Show Podcast – Duals from Youth to College
Al and Josh have a fun one and give a sneak peek at the first-ever MSHSL girls team rankings and cover everything from college National Duals, The Clash, and the upcoming The Brawl youth tournament, as well as The Rumble, The Cheesehead, and the upcoming super quad/tri!
Minnesota Wrestling Round Table
Listen to the latest episode of the Minnesota Wrestling Round Table Podcast brought to you by KNUJ Radio out of New Ulm, Minn. Join Jim Bartels, and his guests, Larry ‘The Sodbuster’ Baumgardt, Chad Johnson, Cathy Koob, and Adam Bartels.
Youth teams to dual prior to Gophers vs. Hawkeyes match
NYWA, Maple River Youth Wrestling, and Centennial Youth Wrestling are excited to announce the 1st Annual King of the North vs. King of the South youth team competition. The qualifying K-6th grade team tournaments will be held in Maple River HS (South) on January 14th, 2023, and Centennial HS (North) on January 15th, 2023. The top team from each event qualifies to wrestle each other before the Minnesota Gopher and Iowa Hawkeye dual on February 3rd, 2023, at Maturi Pavillion in Minneapolis.
Brandon Paulson goes On The Mat
Anoka, Minnesota native Brandon Paulson is a wrestling-lifer. One of the brains behind one of the most successful youth and high school wrestling clubs in the country (PINnacle Wrestling School) along with Jared Lawrence, Paulson hasn’t spent much time away from wrestling mats during his life. An All-American at Minnesota and a 1996 Olympic silver medalist in Greco-Roman wrestling, Paulson is versed in every aspect of wrestling. He’s also watching his own kids excel on the football field and on the college gymnastics world.
Rogotzke wins Super 32 title
Buesgens, Hanson, Han-Lindemyer, Novak, and Robideau place
Stillwater wrestler Ryder Rogotzke won a title at the Super 32 Challenge held on October 15-16 in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Rogotzke, who also won this prestigious tournament at 182-pounds a year ago, entered the tournament ranked #7 in the nation at 182 pounds by Flowrestling. He won the 182-pound bracket with a 6-4 decision over #6 Tate Naaktgeboren of Iowa in the finals. To reach the finals, Rogotzke had wins over #19 CJ Walrath in the quarterfinals and #5 AJ Heeg in the semifinals.
Greg Schwartz Wrestling Camp a success
63 wrestlers attended the 31st Annual Greg Schwartz Memorial Wrestling Camp in Paynesville, Minn., on June 13-15.
Wrestlers came from the communities of Paynesville, Brooten, Belgrade, Elrosa, Osakis, New London-Spicer, Starbuck, Pennock, Forest Lake, Sauk Centre, Beardsley, Graceville, Kensington, and Dallas, TX.
Camp Clinicians were Hunter Burnett, Roger Kish, Kris Nelson, and Cam Sykora.