Gable Steveson (Photo/Mark Beshey, The Guillotine) University of Minnesota wrestlers Gable Steveson and Dylan Martinez were arrested Saturday on suspicion of criminal sexual conduct. Jail records indicate the two Gopher wrestlers were arrested in Minneapolis at different times and different locati...

Jordan Burroughs, the World/Olympic champion, added to his legacy when he qualified for a ninth straight World Championships by beating Isaiah Martinez in three matches Saturday night in Session II of Final X Lincoln. But it was another 30-year-old, Tyler Graff, who made even bigger news when the fo...

SPOKANE, Wash. -- For the second time this week, Minnesota Blue and Illinois advanced to the finals of the 16U National Duals. On Thursday, Minnesota Blue beat Illinois for the Greco-Roman title, 40-33. Today, the two teams advanced within the Gold-Silver Pool again for a rematch with the freestyle ...

Jordan Burroughs with his children Beacon and Ora after winning at Final X: Lincoln (Photo/Mark Lundy, Lutte-Lens.com) LINCOLN, Neb. -- It wasn't easy, but Jordan Burroughs found a way to win on Saturday night and make his ninth straight World or Olympic team at 74 kilograms. The 30-year-old Burro...

  D Pool – Iowa Guaranteed 1st place Match #1 Quarterfinal Iowa received a Bye Match #2 Semifinal Iowa defeated Team Florida 63-15 285 – Ryley Snell (Iowa) over Unknown (Unattached) Forf 88 – Benjamin Guilliam (Team Florida) over J.D. Downs (Iowa) Dec 13-6 94 – Garret Ri...

Photos: Left, Jacarra Winchester turned this heel pick into a winning takedown against Dominque Parrish at 55 kilos in Session I of Final X Lincoln Saturday afternoon. Center, Ryan Mango used to gut to score the deciding points in his second win over Xavier Johnson at 63 kilos in Greco-Roman. Right,...

Alli Ragan gets her hand raised after beating Lauren Louive at Final X (Photo/Mark Lundy, Lutte-Lens.com) LINCOLN, Neb. -- Six more wrestlers earned spots on the 2019 World Team with victories in Saturday's opening session at Final X: Lincoln. Two of the winners came in women's wrestling, while fou...

In the battle of Hawkeye Wrestling Club teammates at 59 kg it was Alli Ragan who proved victorious, as she defeated her fellow club wrestler in two straight matches to claim her sixth World Team bid. Ragan wasted little time in the best-of-three series, winning both matches by the score of 10-0 to r...

It was a rough night for former wrestlers at Bellator 222, as Darrion Caldwell, Chael Sonnen and Aaron Pico all came out on the losing end of their bouts ... while Dillon Danis, who, as a high school wrestler was a New Jersey state championships qualifier, scored a first-round victory. Caldwell los...

Session 2 Final X Athlete Press Conference from Lincoln, Nebraska. Athletes included are Cohlton Schultz, Mallory Velte, Sarah Hildebrandt, Kyle Snyder, Jordan Burroughs, Isaiah Martinez, Kyven Gadson, Katherine Shai, Kayla Miracle, Adam Coon, Joe Colon, Ryan Deakin, Adeline Gray, Daton Fix, Thomas ...

D Pool – Iowa Guaranteed 1st place Match #2 Semifinal Iowa defeated Team Florida 63-15 285 – Ryley Snell (Iowa) over Unknown (Unattached) Forf 88 – Benjamin Guilliam (Team Florida) over J.D. Downs (Iowa) Dec 13-6 94 – Garret Rinken (Iowa) over Vincent Biondoletti (Team Florid...

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Session 1 Final X Athlete Press Conference from Lincoln, Nebraska. Athletes involved were Raymond Bunker, Ryan Mango, G'Angelo Hancock, Lucas Sheridan, Xavier Johnson, Alex Mossing, Leslie “Mike” Fuenffinger, Jacarra Winchester, Alli Ragan, Lauren Louive, Dominique Parrish and Ildar Hafi...

Pool A – Team Iowa Match #1 Champ. Round 1 New Jersey Red defeated Team Iowa 55-23 130 – John Quinonez (New Jersey Red) over Damarion Ross (Team Iowa) Dec 5-1 136 – Austin Quandt (New Jersey Red) over Brent Slade (Team Iowa) Dec 5-4 149 – Jared Schoppe (New Jersey Red) over I...

Gus Garcia, retired high school coach who guided his wrestlers to multiple top-ten finishes at the Kansas state championships on his way to being welcomed into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame 15 years ago, died Wednesday, June 5 at age 80. Gus GarciaSon of Mexican immigrants, Rosalio "Gus" Garc...

Failure Is a Product of Long Term Success This episode Cary Kolat and Matt Dernlan discuss Ch. 4 "Life’s Not Fair. Drive On." from the book Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life...And Maybe the World by Admiral William H. McRaven. This chapter talks about the way you look at life an...

Loaded Iowa Girl’s team ready for Disney Duals

Jonce Blaylock (Photo/Oklahoma State Athletics) Lindenwood wrestling head coach Jimmy Rollins has announced the newest addition to the coaching staff. Jonce Blaylock will join the wrestling program after spending the last five years as a wrestler at Oklahoma State University. "We are very excited...

Add the state known as the Land of Enchantment to the list of states which will have a separate state wrestling championship for girl wrestlers. The New Mexico Activities Association (NMAA) Board of Directors unanimously approved a proposal to sanction a girls' wrestling division that will end wit...

SPOKANE, Wash. -- Led by powerful lightweights, and some clutch performances at the end of the dual meet, Minnesota Blue defeated defending champion Illinois, 40-33 to claim the Greco-Roman team title at the U15 National Duals on Thursday. The drive to victory included Minnesota winning six of the...

Kyle Snyder, Adam Coon and Adeline Gray all appeared in the finals of the 2018 UWW World Championships in men’s freestyle, Greco-Roman and women’s freestyle, respectively, last October in Budapest, Hungary. Those success stories also earned these heavier-weight wrestlers automatic invitations to com...

Iowa’s 16U team got off to a strong start by earning a fourth place finish in Greco-Roman, yesterday in Spokane, Washington. All of Iowa’s losses came to teams that placed directly ahead of them in the competition. Yesterday, the dropped their Pool final to Minnesota Blue, who went on to...

I like to write about wrestling, but I also like to talk about wrestling! Check out my appearance with Andy Hamilton and Kyle Klingman on their podcast "On the Mat." The details are in the conversation, but it's the best I can do to fully explain the issues I have with the effort to overturn the w...

Profiling 100 of the world's top wrestlers as we countdown the days until the 2019 Wrestling World Championships in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan. 100 days out, we feature Russia's Abdulrashid Sadulaev. Full story: https://www.trackwrestling.com/PortalPost.jsp?TIM=1560451503773&twSessionId=puzbppsuyh&...

Profiling 100 of the world's top wrestlers as we countdown the days until the 2019 Wrestling World Championships in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan. 100 days out, we feature Russia's Abdulrashid Sadulaev. Full story: https://www.trackwrestling.com/PortalPost.jsp?TIM=1560451503773&twSessionId=puzbppsuyh&...

UWW's Tim Foley goes On The Mat Tim Foley, an All-American at the University of Virginia, a columnist for InterMat and the current Senior Manager of Media Operations for United World Wrestling joins the show to talk about international wrestling. Join Andy Hamilton and Kyle Klingman as they talk to ...

UWW's Tim Foley goes On The Mat Tim Foley, an All-American at the University of Virginia, a columnist for InterMat and the current Senior Manager of Media Operations for United World Wrestling joins the show to talk about international wrestling. Join Andy Hamilton and Kyle Klingman as they talk to ...

UWW's Tim Foley goes On The Mat Tim Foley, an All-American at the University of Virginia, a columnist for InterMat and the current Senior Manager of Media Operations for United World Wrestling joins the show to talk about international wrestling. Join Andy Hamilton and Kyle Klingman as they talk to...

FERRUM, Va. -- Ferrum College has announced the hiring of Breonnah Neal as its new head women's wrestling coach. Neal comes to Ferrum from West Forsyth High School in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where she served the past two years as Assistant Wrestling Coach. She has also worked as an Assistant...

When Jordan Burroughs finished his college career at the University of Nebraska, not many people would have predicted that the two-time NCAA champion would go on to win seven World/Olympic medals. This Saturday, Burroughs returns to Lincoln, where he hopes to take a step towards a sixth all-time Wor...

George Heebner, long-time Pennsylvania high school wrestling coach and official who was welcomed into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame a decade ago, passed away Sunday, June 2 ... just three days after his wife Brenda. Heebner launched his long-time relationship with wrestling at Shamokin Jr. H...

Panther fans got a sneak peak into their future schedule today, as the head coach himself took to social media to announce a four year scheduling agreement between his team and the University of Wisconsin. It seems fitting that Schwab would announce the agreement with Wisconsin on Twitter when it li...

Results for Pool A today in Spokane, Washington. Guaranteed 2nd place Match #1 Quarterfinal Iowa defeated Indiana 42-30 88 – J.D. Downs (Iowa) over Toby Billerman (Indiana) Fall 2:13 94 – Garret Rinken (Iowa) over Samuel Jemerson (Indiana) TF 10-0 100 – Ryder Block (Iowa) over Evan...

MANHEIM, Pa. -- The National Wrestling Coaches Association (NWCA) has announced that Colorado Mesa University captured the inaugural NCAA Women's Scholar All-American Team Title with a 3.32 GPA, besting Adrian College's 3.12 team GPA. Link: Scholar All-American Teams Link: Individual Scholar All-Am...

Shakur Rasheed wrestling at the Southern Scuffle (Photo/Sam Janicki, SJanickiPhoto.com) Happy Valley wrestling fans are now doubly happy. Shakur Rasheed, who wrestled at 184 pounds last season, announced Tuesday that he will be back wrestling at Penn State next season ... just days after 2019 NCAA ...

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Lincoln, Neb., was once the alma mater of James Green and is just four hours away from Iowa City, Iowa. Green hopes to feed off his old Husker fans to avenge a U.S. Open loss to Ryan Deakin this Saturday at the Devaney Center at 70 kilograms. At the same time, Hawkeye Wrestling Club teammates [&#823...

We wrap up our 2019 National Duals preview with the Junior team, who will head to Tulsa, Oklahoma to compete for a national title. This year’s team has expierenced drastic turnover from the 2018 group, with the only returning wrestler being Spencer Trenary at heavyweight, though Daniel Kimball...

Eric Juergens, mat champ for the University of Iowa two decades ago, is among the seven former Hawkeye athletes named to the Iowa Athletics Hall of Fame Class of 2019. A native of Maquoketa, Iowa, Juergens won back-to-back NCAA Division I titles for Iowa wrestling in 2000 and 2001 at 133 pounds, ha...

Reece Humphrey celebrates with Pat Downey at the U.S. Open (Photo/Tony Rotundo, WrestlersAreWarriors.com) Episode 30 of The MatBoss Podcast with Chad Dennis is with New Jersey Regional Training Center coach and past U.S. World Teamer Reece Humphrey. The Ohio State alum talks about the dynamic of an ...

Episode 30 of The MatBoss Podcast with Chad Dennis is with New Jersey Regional Training Center coach and past U.S. World Teamer Reece Humphrey. The Ohio State alum will talk about the dynamic of an RTC that's based around two Division I schools – Princeton and Rutgers – as well as the re...

Great Competitors, Controversial Call. On this special episode, Matt Dernlan sits down with Ivy League’s all-time winningest wrestling coach, Cornell Head Coach Rob Koll. Along with being the Head Coach at Cornell he also coaches his wrestlers as they pursue Olympic and World Championship dreams in ...

Elevating the Sport On this episode, Ben Askren and Matt Dernlan talk about and recap all of the exciting stories revolving around Final X Rutgers. Dernlan attended Final X Rutgers at the Rutgers Athletic Center (RAC) and speaks about how phenomenal of an event it was. Dernlan’s opinion echos the on...

Darrion Caldwell (Photo/Bellator) Past NCAA champion Darrion Caldwell will look to avenge his most recent loss in MMA on Friday night at Bellator 222 when he faces Kyoji Horiguchi at Madison Square Garden. Horiguchi won by submission (guillotine choke) over Caldwell on Dec. 31 in Japan. Despite the...

Tonight from 6 p.m. ET to 10 p.m. ET, BTN will air four consecutive episodes of Wrestling in 60. The block of wrestling programming will feature 24 of the premier matches from the 2018-19 Big Ten Wrestling season. Wrestling in 60 Night can be streamed on your tablet or mobile device via BTN2Go or ...

FAIRMONT, W.Va. -- Former West Virginia University and University of Nebraska standout Zeke Moisey has been named assistant wrestling coach at Fairmont State University, as announced by head wrestling coach Chris Freije on Monday afternoon. Zeke MoiseyThe former collegiate standout finished nation...

Once upon a time, Joe Colon and Tyler Graff dealt with plenty of NCAA disappointment at Northern Iowa and Wisconsin, respectively, when they were forced to settle for All-American honors after having national-championship aspirations. That included 2014 when Graff upset Colon in the NCAA semifinals....

  Last weekend in New Jersey provided but just a taste of things to come as USA Wrestling World Team qualification process wraps up this weekend in Lincoln, Nebraska with Final X – Lincoln. Hosted by the University of Nebraska this weekend’s field features six wrestles with a tie to...

KENOSHA, WIS. -- Carthage College will broaden its sports offerings in 2020-21 with the revival of men's wrestling, and the addition of women's wrestling and women's bowling. These additions will expand the Carthage athletics department to 27 varsity programs. "I'm thrilled that Carthage is expand...

Today marks a new day for the Big Game Wrestling Club, as head coach Dylan Carew announced the addition of the Tom Lepic Wrestling Complex, coming to the Corridor Area later this summer. The complex boasts a weight room and wrestling area for members of its club, and plans to offer additional amenit...

All official team rosters were checked 6/10/2019 and will be checked twice a week and more often as we get closer to the season starting.   Teams that have fully updated their 2019-20 rosters are listed below. Bucknell   EIWA     https://www.wrestlestat.com/team/11/bucknell/profile Harvard   EI...

The body of a former wrestler whose career spanned middle and high school as well as at Campbell University was recovered from a lake in Raleigh Friday afternoon. Ryan Wayne Hall, 22, had been missing since Thursday evening. The cause of death is unknown. However, police said that foul play is not...

For a third straight year, the University of Nebraska in Lincoln provides a stage to determine the United States World Championships team. After playing hosts to the 2017 World Team Trials in men’s freestyle, Nebraska hosted one of three Final X sites in 2018 to clinch World Team berths in men’s and...

World Team members Richie Figueroa and Aaron Brooks go On The Mat A pair of World Team members in freestyle will go ON THE MAT this week as they prepare for the UWW Cadet and Junior World Championships later this summer. Cadet Richie Figueroa and Junior Aaron Brooks are on the show. Join Andy Hamilt...

World Team members Richie Figueroa and Aaron Brooks go On The Mat A pair of World Team members in freestyle will go ON THE MAT this week as they prepare for the UWW Cadet and Junior World Championships later this summer. Cadet Richie Figueroa and Junior Aaron Brooks are on the show. Join Andy Hamilt...

World Team members Richie Figueroa and Aaron Brooks go On The Mat A pair of World Team members in freestyle will go ON THE MAT this week as they prepare for the UWW Cadet and Junior World Championships later this summer. Cadet Richie Figueroa and Junior Aaron Brooks are on the show. Join Andy Hami...

This is the 74th installment of Seven Minutes. It's a series of interviews with top wrestling coaches and athletes. Most of the question-and-answer sessions last roughly seven minutes. Hence the name. Andy Barth wrestled at Columbia University and received the Outstanding American Award from the Nat...

This is the 74th installment of Seven Minutes. It's a series of interviews with top wrestling coaches and athletes. Most of the question-and-answer sessions last roughly seven minutes. Hence the name. Andy Barth wrestled at Columbia University and received the Outstanding American Award from the Nat...

Henry Cejudo celebrates his victory with two belts (Jeff Bottari, Zuffa LLC/Getty Images) Most people would call it adversity. But not Henry Cejudo. Looking overwhelmed and overmatched early in his UFC title fight against Marlon Moraes on Saturday night in Chicago, Cejudo did what he's done his en...

Call Henry Cejudo "champ-champ." Henry CejudoThe 2008 U.S. Olympic gold medal-winning freestyle wrestler now holds two UFC titles at the same time, adding the bantamweight (135-pound) championship to his existing flyweight (125-pound) title with a third-round TKO of Marlon Moraes at the main event ...

Photo: J’den Cox (top) pushed back on a shot attempt by Bo Nickal and eventually swept both matches at 92 kilos Saturday night at Final X Rutgers. (Justin Hoch photo) PISCATAWAY, N.J. — World champion J’den Cox and World medalist Nick Gwiazdowski were among five of seven wrestlers competing Sa...

Nick Gwiazdowski (Photo/NC State Athletics) PISCATAWAY, N.J. -- Three returning world medalists earned spots on the 2019 U.S. World Team on Saturday at Final X: Rutgers. World champion J'den Cox (92 kilograms), along with world bronze medalists Nick Gwiazdowski (125 kilograms) and Tamyra Mensah-Sto...

Forrest Molinari is headed back to the World Championships. The Hawkeye Wrestling Club team member took two out of three matches from Maya Nelson to claim the 65 kg World team spot on the Women’s freestyle team. Having dropped the first match in the best-of-three series, Molinari needed two po...

Profiling 100 of the world's top wrestlers as we countdown the days until the 2019 Wrestling World Championships in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan. 98 days out, Trackwrestling.com features Japan's Mayu Mukaida. Full story: https://www.trackwrestling.com/PortalPost.jsp?TIM=1560457047218&twSessionId=puzb...

Profiling 100 of the world's top wrestlers as we countdown the days until the 2019 Wrestling World Championships in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan. 98 days out, Trackwrestling.com features Japan's Mayu Mukaida. Full story: https://www.trackwrestling.com/PortalPost.jsp?TIM=1560457047218&twSessionId=puzb...

PISCATAWAY, N. J. — Victoria Francis, Jenna Burkert and John Stefanowicz all avenged this past April U.S. Open losses and earned spots on the 2019 USA World Teams in women’s freestyle and Greco-Roman by sweeping a pair of matches Saturday in the first Session of Final X Rutgers. They were among six ...

Ellis Coleman lifts Jamel Johnson (Photo/Juan Garcia) PISCATAWAY, N.J. -- Six wrestlers secured spots on the 2019 U.S. World Team with victories in Saturday's first session at Final X: Rutgers. All six wrestlers needed just two matches to claim their best-of-three victories. The opening session saw...

The state of Iowa will pull double duty next week as the 16U team begins their run for a National Duals title in Spokane, Washington. The tournament will be held within the same time frame of the 14U tournament taking place in Indiana. Iowa’s 16U squad definitely has their work cut out if they...

Ed Ruth, three-time NCAA champ for Penn State who is making a name for himself in mixed martial arts, will have his next pro MMA bout at Bellator 224 next month. The 28-year-old Ruth will be facing veteran Kiichi Kunimoto of Japan in a welterweight (175-pound) match at WinStar Casino and Resort in ...

Nikola Dinev, a heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestler from Bulgaria who won two world and five European titles for a dozen years beginning in the mid-1970s, died Saturday, June 1, according to the Bulgarian Wrestling Federation. He was 65. Born in Nova Zagora, Bulgaria in October 1953, Nikola Dinev Nik...

Anthony Cassar gets interviewed by ESPN at the NCAAs (Photo/Tony Rotundo, WrestlersAreWarriors.com) The Penn State wrestling program -- and its fans -- got some doubly big news Friday afternoon. Current NCAA heavyweight champ Anthony Cassar will be returning to the Nittany Lions this fall to contin...

GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala -- The men's freestyle team help complete a team title sweep at the 2019 Junior Pan American Championships, winning eight gold medals on Friday night in Guatemala City. An outstanding day for Team USA, the squad went 32-2 on the day and earned the tournament's Outstanding ...

Manheim, PA – The National Wrestling Coaches Association (NWCA) is proud to announce the 2019 winners of the Scholastic Coach of the Year awards for the State, Region, and National levels. This year’s National Coach of the Year is Jason Christenson from Southeast Polk High School (IA) and the Nation...

MANHEIM, Pa. -- The National Wrestling Coaches Association (NWCA) is proud to announce the 2019 winners of the Scholastic Coach of the Year awards for the State, Region, and National levels. Jason ChristensonThis year's National Coach of the Year is Jason Christenson from Southeast Polk High School...

Profiling 100 of the world's top wrestlers as we countdown the days until the 2019 Wrestling World Championships in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan. 99 days out, Trackwrestling.com features Georgia's Avtandil Kentchadze. Full story: https://www.trackwrestling.com/PortalPost.jsp?TIM=1560451867364&twSessi...