By Craig Sesker During his program’s run of five consecutive state championships, Coach Mike Schadwinkel knew exactly where his wrestlers would be headed every summer. The University of Nebraska wrest...

By Tristan Warner For over 60 years, the United States Naval Academy Wrestling Camps have been offering young wrestlers nationwide the opportunity to enhance wrestling skills while mastering a champio...

Photo: John Peterson (left) and Lee Kemp first excelled in the state of Wisconsin before excelling on the World/Olympic stage in freetyle. Note: The following column appeared in the Feb. 15 issue of W...

NEWTON, Iowa — Daniel Lewis of Missouri, fresh off his pin against Arizona State’s defending national champion Zahid Valencia this past Friday, has moved up to No. 2 at 174 pounds to highlight WIN Mag...

NEWTON, Iowa — The top two spots at 184 and 197 pounds will be up for grabs this Friday when top-ranked Penn State — according to WIN’s Feb. 4 Tournament Power Index and Rankings presented by Cliff Ke...

WIN Magazine is pleased to provide a landing page for a number of different wrestling companies, state organizations, camps and organizations in the sport. AAU – https://aauwrestling.net/ USA Wr...

WIN Magazine is pleased to provide a landing page for a number of different wrestling companies, state organizations, camps and organizations in the sport. AAU – https://aauwrestling.net/ USA Wrestlin...

WIN Magazine is pleased to provide a landing page for a number of different wrestling companies, state organizations, camps and organizations in the sport. AAU – https://aauwrestling.net/ USA Wr...

WIN Magazine is pleased to provide a landing page for a number of different wrestling companies, state organizations, camps and organizations in the sport. AAU – https://aauwrestling.net/ USA Wr...

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By Zach Even-Esh It is awesome to see girls wrestling picking up major steam. In New Jersey, there are high school teams with full line-ups of girls! I was just at a youth tournament and saw a lot of ...

(Photo: The last time Princeton’s Matt Kolodzik (right) and Rutgers’ Anthony Ashnault met in a college match was during the 141-pound quarterfinals of the 2017 NCAA Championships, where As...

(Photo: ALL IN Wrestling with #6 NC State’s Senior-Level Club Athletes – Levi and his company have now crafted his last 25 years experience into two life-changing wrestling products that in just...

The 2019 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships in Pittsburgh, Pa., are two months away and the NCAA has announced its first Top 33 at each weight class. Click below to see who could be competing in ...

NEWTON, Iowa — Coming off big upsets last weekend, Pitt’s Micky Phillippi and Iowa’s Austin DeSanto continue to make the 133-pound weight class the most competitive as each made big jumps in WIN’s Jan...

Photo: A hands-to-the-face penalty point against Rutgers’ Nick Suriano (left) ended an overtime match at 133 pounds this past Sunday in Piscataway, N.J., and provided a victory by Oklahoma State...

Photo: Northwestern’s Sebastian Rivera is ranked No. 1 in WIN’s Jan. 7 rankings at 125 pounds after beating Iowa’s defending national champ Spencer Lee at the 2018 Midlands in Decemb...

By Craig Sesker Kyven Gadson planned to use part of his prize money to buy diapers for his new baby daughter. James Green was going to use his winnings to pay bills. Gadson and Green were among the wr...

By Adeline Gray (The following column appeared in the December issue of WIN Magazine. Click here to subscribe or call 888-305-0606.) Calling all females, those who will become the next generation of l...

AUSTIN, Texas –USA Wrestling, the national governing body for wrestling in the United States, and FloSports, the innovator in live digital sports and original content, announced the two sites for &#82...

Photo: Now grown up, the Finesilver siblings from Greenwood Village, Colo. — from left Josh, Felicia, Mary, Matt, Mitch, Rebecca and Zach — had a chance to all be together last year when Duke wrestled...

Photo: Mark Hall (right) avenged a 2018 NCAA finals loss to top-ranked Zahid Valencia, 4-0, on Dec. 14 in State College, Pa.  Hall, a 2017 NCAA champ, is now one of four No. 1-rated wrestlers for the ...

Photo: Arizona State’s Zahid Valencia (top), who defeated Penn State’s Mark Hall for the 2018 NCAA championship at 174 pounds last March, remained top-ranked ahead of the No. 2 Nittany Lio...

NEWTON, Iowa — College wrestling moves into the month of December and defending NCAA champion Penn State remains the team-to-beat in both tournament and dual competition. The Nittany Lions have now ea...

LAS VEGAS — Ohio State capped off a successful Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational as three Buckeyes — Joey McKenna (141), Myles Martin (184) and Kollin Moore (197) — all won championships Saturday nigh...

Photo: Northwestern’s Sebastian Rivera (left) gave up an opening takedown to North Dakota State’s Brent Fleetwood but rallied to win and advance to Saturday afternoon’s finals of the...

Photo: Ohio State’s Kollin Moore won four matches Friday at 197 pounds and is one of six Buckeyes to qualify for Saturday’s semifinals of the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational. By Mike Fin...

Photos: Cornell’s Yianni Diakomihalis and Ohio State’s Myles Martin are top-ranked wrestlers who will face plenty of challenges at this weekend’s Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational.   Nov. 26, 201...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa – The American Wrestling League has created a professional league for America’s college and international wrestlers to continue their wrestling careers after graduation. The league ...

Photo: Pictured is the Bay wrestling family of the 1960s with Rick in the center (Michigan jersey); brother Mike on his right and brother Steve on his left; kneeling is their father Ott. Note: The fol...

Blair Academy, which won the Walsh Jesuit Ironman for a xxth time last December, was picked the nation’s top-ranked high school teaming WIN Magazine’s 2018-19 Preseason Rankings. The follo...

Nov. 19, 2018 NEWTON, Iowa — Penn State remained the top-ranked team in WIN’s Nov. 19, 2018 Tournament Power Index, presented by Cliff Keen Athletic, but the Nittany Lions feature a different athlete ...

By the time the first issue of WIN — then called Wrestling Institute Newsmagazine — was published in November of 1994, many notable moments have occurred in the sport of wrestling. Now nearly a quarte...

By Mike Chapman What kind of a year was 1994? Well, try this: Bill Clinton was President of the United States, “Schindler’s List” won the Academy Award for best film and Steve Young of the San Francis...

Photo: Ohio State’s Joey McKenna (top) scored the final eight points to defeat Oklahoma State’s Kaid Brock at 141 pounds at the All-Star Classic in Denver, presented by RMN Events, NUWAY and UNC. 2018...

(Photo: Daton Fix (left) of Oklahoma State and Gable Steveson of Minnesota are beginning their first season as varsity wrestlers. Fix is No. 8 at 133 and Steveson is ranked No. 4 at heavyweight.) NEWT...

By Andy Hamilton, TrackWrestling, NWCA Press Release Manheim, PA – Joey McKenna has been one of college wrestling’s most consistent winners throughout his career. Kaid Brock has developed a reputation...

Adam Coon did not win a World Championship, but the former NCAA All-American from Michigan personally salvaged an otherwise very tough four days of Greco-Roman competition for the United States at the...

Sponsored by the National Wrestling Coaches Association, the annual All-Star Classic matches the top-ranked returning NCAA wrestlers. This event ushers in the 2018-19 season in style! This year’...

Adeline Gray finally rediscovered the smile that came with capturing a fourth UWW World Championship when she dominated 2017 World champion Yasemin Adar of Turkey, 13-1, at 76 kilograms Wednesday afte...

(Photo: David Taylor expresses his appreciation after he dominated the 86-kilogram final and won his first UWW World championship this past week in Budapest, Hungary. Photo by Justin Hoch.) Many peopl...

The 2018 UWW World Championships are less than 10 days away and three wrestlers, who qualified for the Oct. 20-28 Worlds in Budapest, Hungary, were forced to withdraw from competing. Nahshon Garrett, ...

 By Bill X. Barron – RMN Events Writer The National Wrestling Coaches Association’s 53rd Annual All-Star Classic is coming to Denver Colo., on November 2 at 6:30 pm.  This year’s hosts are RMN Events ...

By Sandy Stevens Photo: Jason Wolk (center) spoke to teammates of the Majory Stoneman Douglas High School team prior to the team’s district tournament last February. This was shortly after a memorial ...

By Kyle Klingman Photo: In addition to winning both a third NCAA title and second Hodge Trophy, Penn State’s Zain Retherford dominated foes with a 17.2 point differential according to WIN columnist Ky...

(Photo: Zain Retherford of Penn State was honored last Saturday in State College, where WIN Magazine’s Mike Finn and ASICS Neil Duncan (left of Rutherford) presented the three-time NCAA champion...

The following appeared in the latest issue of Wrestling Insider Newsmagazine. To subscribe to WIN, go to WIN-Magazine.com or call 888-305-0606. By Zach Even-Esh I have a quote that constantly runs thr...

By Mike Chapman In all walks of life, people come and people go. That is the way of the world. And yet, there are times that it is hard to imagine what the “new order” will look like once a certain ch...

(This column appeared in the latest issue of WIN Magazine. To subscribe, go to WIN-Magazine.com or call 888-305-0606.) By Mike Finn, WIN Editor When Tony Ersland applied for the Purdue job, the curren...

By Jordan Burroughs (The following column by the World/Olympic champion appeared in the latest issue of WIN Magazine. Click here to subscribe or call 888-305-0606.) Practice. We’re talking about pract...

(Editor’s Note: TheMat.com provided Quotes for this story.) Mehki Lewis was perhaps the least experienced of young Americans who competed in the 2018 UWW Junior World Championships, Sept. 17-23, but t...

By Bryan Van Kley, WIN Publisher Somehow, one of the best athletes to come out of Oklahoma’s famous Smith family quit the sport of wrestling to go out for basketball … and lived to tell about it. This...

The 2018 UWW Senior World Championships, which are set to start a month from now, could be historic and the latest issue of WIN Magazine provides an in-depth look at the men’s freestyle, women’s frees...

Editor’s Note: Bobby Douglas, the former coach at UC Santa Barbara, Arizona State and Iowa State, recently did an interview with Bill Barron of Rocky Mountain Nationals Events. “Legendary wrestler and...

By Bill X. Barron Every third weekend in March, 2,500 individuals and teams from more than 30 states descend upon Denver, Colo., for three great days of all-out wrestling. For the first time, the NCAA...

Sept. 6, 2018 NEWTON, Iowa — Penn State, winners of the last three NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships, is ranked the preseason No. 1 team in WIN Magazine’s 2018-19 Preseason Tournament Power Inde...

The next few months will be historic for Wrestling Insider Newsmagazine (WIN), which begins its 25th publishing season in November, and USA Wrestling, which could produce its best-ever performance at ...

By Mike Finn (Note: The following is an excerpt of a story that ran in the current issue of WIN magazine. To view the rest of the story, click here to subscribe to WIN or call 888-305-0606.)   It...

WIN Magazine was in Fargo, N.D., last week for the 48th Annual U.S. Marines USA Wrestling Cadet and Junior Nationals and is now preparing to provide comprehensive coverage of the many different styles...

Photo: Mason Gehloff (left) scored the deciding takedown in the final 10 seconds to beat Kai Owen for the 94-pound Cadet Greco-Roman title, while Mason Manville (right) moved up to 152 pounds to beat ...

By Mike Finn FARGO, N.D. — Abnelis Yambo was forced to leave her native Puerto Rico last September when Hurricane Maria practically destroyed the U.S. Territory. But it was Yambo who created a storm o...

Photo: Anthony Cassioppi applied the finishing touches to his pin against Nash Hutmacher for the Junior National Freestyle championships Tuesday afternoon in the Fargodome. Photo by G. Wyatt Schultz (...

Photo: Jakason Burks (top) scored a technical fall over Daniel Cardenas to win the 113-pound Cadet Nationals freestyle championship and Outstanding Wrestler honors Monday afternoon in the Fargodome. P...

Photo: Carson Manville (bottom), who won both a Cadet freestyle and Greco-Roman championship at 132 pounds last summer, is expected to do the same in Fargo, N.D., this month at the Cadet/Junior Nation...

Editor’s Note: In every monthly issue of WIN, there is a wrestling-specific training feature like this as well as two technique pages where expert coaches break down a specific move. To subscribe to W...

By Andy Hamilton, TrackWrestling Andy Barth and Wayne Boyd have a big vision and a big purse of prize money and the co-founders of Titan Mercury Wrestling Club plan to have a lineup filled with big st...

By Craig Sesker, WIN Magazine Olympic gold medalist Kyle Snyder has wrestled in it. So have NCAA champions Ed Ruth, Jordan Oliver and Dustin Kilgore. The annual AAU Scholastic Duals at ESPN’s Disney W...

Two-thirds of the United States World Championships men’s and women’s teams, which will compete in, Budapest, Hungary Oct. 22-28, has been determined and the Final X series will make its final stop th...

Are you ready for Final X? For three straight Saturdays in June and at three different locations, USA Wrestling will determine the final 10 men’s freestyle wrestlers and final 10 women’s freestyle wre...

The following high school athletes were named the top in their respective states that offer interscholastic wrestling by WIN’s high school columnist Rob Sherrill. An expanded version of this list, inc...

(Editor’s Note: Ali Bryan, the team leader of the Alavanca wrestling program, writes about this club in Canada and introduces two wrestlers from that club who have enjoyed the benefits of Rocky Mounta...

By Rob Sherrill Is it quality or quantity? That’s always the key question in recruiting and both played a role in determining the winner of this year’s WIN recruiting derby. To subscribe to WIN Magazi...

Photo: This is the latest cover of Wrestling Insider Newsmagazine (WIN), which features all of the magazine’s award winners from the past 12 months. May 24, 2018 NEWTON, Iowa — Four-time Minneso...