Fargo 2019, otherwise known as the 2019 USMC Junior and 16U (Cadet) Nationals, is now completed and here are noteworthy highlights of the weeklong event that held six championships, July 14-19, in North Dakota. You will also find these stories and other highlights from the 49thannual event in the ne...

Photo: Billy Sullivan enjoyed his 2019 Junior Greco-Roman tournament experience when the native of Nevada won the 113-pound championship and earned Outstanding Wrestler honors. (G. Wyatt Schultz photo) FARGO, N.D. — Three wrestlers — Andre Gonzales (106) of California, Anthony Echemendia (145) of Ar...

FARGO, N.D. — Three wrestlers — Jore Volk at 100 pounds, John Wiley at 138 pounds and Seth Shumate at 182 pounds — all became double winners at the 2019 USMC 16U (Cadet) Nationals when the trio collected Greco-Roman championships Thursday afternoon at the Fargodome. In the team race, Illinois led al...

Photo: Emily Shilson become the second woman to capture six Fargo championships when the 2018 Cadet World champ won the 106-pound title by a technical fall. (Photo by G. Wyatt Schultz) FARGO, N.D. — Four women who will represent the United States in age-group national championships later this summer...

Photo: Braxton Amos, ranked No. 1 at 195 pounds this season, scored a technical fall over Dorian Crosby for the 220-pound Junior Nationals freestyle championship. (G. Wyatt Schultz photo) FARGO, N.D. — Braxton Amos, the nation’s top-ranked wrestler from Mineral Wells High School in West Virginia, re...

Photo: Jordan Williams (right) of Oklahoma scored a last-second takedown to beat Zeke Seltzer of Indiana for 120-pound championship of the 2019 U.S. Marines 16U freestyle national tournament Monday in Fargo, N.D. FARGO, N.D. — Hayden Copass of Georgetown, Ill., and Jordan Williams of Tulsa, Okla,  w...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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 ...

WIN Magazine has spent the past week previewing the 13 matches that will take place at Final X Rutgers this Saturday in Piscataway, N.J. … and here are the final two previews of a best-of-3 Greco-Roman match-up between Joe Rau and Ben Provisor and a similar women’s freestyle meeting between Alyvia F...

Even before Gable Steveson ended his Minnesota prep career, which led to four state titles at Apple Valley, and began his college career at the University of Minnesota in 2018-19, the three-time Cadet/Junior World champion had bigger international goals on the Senior level. Now at the age of 19, the...

Bo Nickal, the former three-time NCAA champion from Penn State, who also captured WIN’s Dan Hodge Trophy and Schalles Award for pinning, was considered the best college wrestler this past year. Will the former Nittany Lion be good enough to beat a World champ and three-time World/Olympic medalist in...

Kyle Dake announced today (June 4) he has requested a future wrestle-off date, because of injury, and would not be able to compete in Final X Rutgers this Saturday in Piscataway, N.J. This also cuts down the number of men’s freestyle matches to three at Final X Rutgers, the first of two Final X even...

For the second straight year, USA Wrestling and FloWrestling have created “Final X” events to determine the 30 USA wrestlers who will wrestle in men’s freestyle, women’s freestyle and Greco-Roman at the 2019 UWW World Championships, Sept. 14-22, in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan. Over the next two weeks, WI...

Photo: Madison Tung, who will study as a Rhodes Scholar in Oxford, England, attended the Air Force Academy. Note: This column appeared in the April 11, 2019 issue (V25, I6) of WIN Magazine. Click here to subscribe to WIN Magazine or call 888-305-0606. By Sandy Stevens Madison “Maddy” Tung joined the...

Scott Goodale, the head coach at Rutgers University, who saw two Scarlet Knights capture the school’s first individual championshipd and lead the New Jersey school to its first Top-10 NCAA team finish in 2019, headlines five individuals who earned WIN Magazine’s Special Awards. Meanwhile, Ohio State...

When one examines the Top 10 NCAA Division I wrestling programs, in terms of average home dual-meet attendance, it is no surprise that the top four schools — Iowa, Penn State, Ohio State and Oklahoma State — have all won national team titles in the 21stcentury. But there is something unique about th...

In meeting the photographer who created the “The Fire Inside” project — an extremely up-close and intense group of portraits of at least 1,800 people who are currently associated with the sport of wrestling — one might think Justin Hoch was an angry person. But when countless people actually meet th...

Greg Kerkvliet, named the winner of this year’s Junior Schalles Award as the nation’s best high school pinner, was so effective at flattening his foes this past winter that fans hardly got a chance to watch him wrestle at Simley High School in Inver Grove Heights, Minn. After an off-season ACL injur...

Bo Nickal may be the most famous “Bo” since Bo Jackson, the former multi-professional sport athlete of the 1980s, who capitalized on his fame with the “Bo Knows” commercials. But there are a lot of differences between these men with the same first name and not just because Bo is Nickal’s given name,...

Rutgers wrestling has more accolades coming their way after this historic season. Head coach Scott Goodale has been named WIN’s 2019 Dan Gable Coach of the Year. Since the summer of 2007 when he took over the New Jersey program, Goodale has always believed the Scarlet Knights would produce their fir...

By Mike Finn Winning four state championships in Colorado and many other national honors was not as easy as it looked for Andrew Alirez the past four years. After all, the nation’s top-ranked wrestler, who pinned 98 foes in compiling a 160-1 record — and flattened 29 of 37 foes in an undefeated seni...

By Bryan Van Kley, WIN Magazine Publisher NEWTON, Iowa — Penn State’s Bo Nickal has won the 2019 WIN Magazine/Culture House Dan Hodge Trophy, presented by ASICS. The Nittany Lion won his third NCAA championship on March 23, defeating Kollin Moore of Ohio State. The 5-1 finals victory at 197 pounds w...

Fan voting for the 2019 WIN Magazine/Culture House Dan Hodge Trophy has begun. The Hodge Trophy is the top award in college wrestling and has been presented annually since 1994 to the nation’s most dominant collegiate wrestler. The award is named after Dan Hodge, the former three-time (1955-57) NCAA...

By Mike Finn PITTSBURGH, Pa. — The 2019 NCAA Division I Championships will be know as the tournament of repeat champions — highlighted by Penn State’s fourth straight team title and three-peats by Nittany Lions Jason Nolf (157) and Bo Nickal (174) as well as back-to-back championships by Iowa’s Spen...

Photo: Northwestern’s Sebastian Rivera (top) had to rally to beat Cornell’s Vitali Arujau for this place at 125 pounds. (Ashley DeJager photo) PITTSBURGH, PA. — Someone in wrestling once say, “If you can’t get what you want, get what you can get,” and that’s what several Division I wrest...

By Mike Finn PITTSBURGH, Pa. — The Penn State wrestling team put itself in great position to claim a fourth-straight NCAA championship by doing something the Nittany Lions did in winning the past three nationals: sending five wrestlers to Saturday night’s finals for a fourth straight year. Holding a...

By Mike Finn PITTSBURGH, Pa. — NCAA wrestling fans will definitely get a chance to witness the top wrestlers … and plenty of rematches …  in Friday night’s semifinals after 29 wrestlers, seeded in the top four of their ten respective weight classes, won quarterfinal bouts Friday morning in the PPG P...

Photo: North Carolina’s Chip Ness put Penn State’s Shakur Rasheed in trouble during their second-round bout. The Tar Heel, seeded 15th, clinched the 8-5 upset of the No. 2 seed, but the Nittany Lions remain the number one team in the standings before Friday’s quarterfinals. (Ashley...

Photo: Anthony Cassar (top) prepared to pin Antonio Pelusi of Franklin & Marshall during this first-round heavyweight bout in Pittsburgh’s PPG Paints Arena. (Photo by Ginger Robinson) By Mike Finn PITTSBURGH, Pa. — Penn State made a strong opening statement in its goal to win a fourth stra...

By Mike Finn Once upon a time, the heaviest weight class was called unlimited. Now the heavyweight class is limited to 285 pounds, but few big men competing in the 2019 NCAAs in Pittsburgh come close to that weight limit. The average weight among the 33 competitors is 249.5 pounds. According to the ...

Photo: Left, Myles Martin of Ohio State did not pin Penn State’s Bo Nickal in the 2016 NCAA final at 174 pounds, but did secure an upset victory. Right, Nickal avenged that moment when he rolled off his back and pinned the Buckeye in the 184-pound NCAA championship last March in Cleveland. By ...

Photo: Shortly after head coach John Smith (left) and his Oklahoma State assistant coach Zach Esposito were watching the Cowboys capture another Big 12 team championship on March 10, the head coach learned that his father Lee Roy had passed away during the finals. By Mike Finn Now in his 28thyear at...

Fan voting for the 2019 WIN Magazine/Culture House Dan Hodge Trophy has begun. The Hodge Trophy is the top award in college wrestling and has been presented annually since 1994 to the nation’s most dominant collegiate wrestler. The award is named after Dan Hodge, the former three-time (1955-57) NCAA...

This year’s Missouri Border Brawl is poised to be full of highlight moments and memorable match ups. Along with many of Missouri’s finest high school wrestlers, the AWL has partnered with David Mirikitani’s Missouri Border Brawl event to support Randy Couture’s XCGIF. The Missouri Border Brawl consi...

This marks the 25th straight year that WIN Magazine will cover the NCAA Division I National Championships, which will be held March 21-23 at PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh, Pa. 2019_ncaa_d1_brackets

Photo: The 2017 WIN Magazine Memorabilia Show and NCAA Fan Festival in St. Louis drew over 24,000 fans over three days. By Mike Chapman, Special to W.I.N. It’s hard to believe this year will mark the 29th year of the WIN Memorabilia Show. How long ago was that? George H.W. Bush was President of the ...

NEWTON, Iowa — The 2019 NCAA Division I National Championships are about a week a way and three wrestlers have taken over the top spots in their individual weights, according to WIN Magazine’s final 2018-19 Tournament Power Index and Rankings, presented by Cliff Keen Athletic. Following the eight na...

The following is a list of the eight different conference tournaments that served as qualifiers and will eventually send 330 wrestlers to the 2019 NCAA Division I Championships, March 21-23, in Pittsburgh, Pa. Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) – March 9 Big Ten Conference – March 9-10 Big ...

WIN’s March 1 High School Rankings High School, Hometown Last 1 Blairstown Township, N.J. Blair Academy 1 2 Kingston, Pa. Wyoming Seminary 2 3 Orlando, Fla. Lake Highland Preparatory 3 4 Oradell, N.J. Bergen Catholic 4 5 Lakewood, Ohio St. Edward 5 6 Bethlehem, Pa. Catholic 6 7 Tuttle, Okla. 7...

Photo: Oklahoma State’s Nick Piccininni declared himself a strong candidate to win the 125-pound NCAA championship next month when the Cowboy pinned Iowa’s defending national champion on Feb. 24 in Stillwater, Okla. (Jeremy Cook photo) NEWTON, Iowa — Oklahoma State put an exclamation mar...

By Mike Finn “The first edition of ‘Wrestling Tough,’ published in 2005, was designed to take the reader inside the world of wrestling so that he or she can learn what it takes to be successful on the mat. Many qualities are called upon to make a person a winner in this demanding sport, and […...

NEWTON, Iowa — Missouri’s Nick Mauller and Cornell’s Max Dean scored big victories last weekend to make big jumps at 149 and 184 pounds, respectively, in WIN Magazine’s Feb. 18, 2019 NCAA Division I Rankings, presented by Cliff Keen Athletic. Both ranked ninth a week ago, each wrestler upset a highe...

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 wrestling camps. When Schadwinkel’s Grand Island High School teams ruled Class A in Nebraska, they benefi...

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 championship lifestyle.  With nine separate camps spanning roughly a month from mid-June to early July, you...

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 WIN Magazine. To subscribe, go to WIN-Magazine.com or call 1-888-305-0606. By Kyle Klingman How long ...

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 Magazine’s Feb. 11 rankings, presented by Cliff Keen Athletic. Not all highly-ranked wrestlers, who los...

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 Keen Athletic — travels to No. 2 Ohio State. The Buckeyes’ No. 1 Myles Martin, the 2016 NCAA […]

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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 girls beating a lot of boys! The opportunities for girls in wrestling as well as in […]

(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 Ashnault prevailed and both earned All-American honors. Nearly two years later, the wrestlers from New...

(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 one year have helped 1,000s of coaches, parents, and wrestlers around the country, and we are proud...

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 this year’s nationals, set for March 21-23. The NCAA will announce future Top 33s as well as a...

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. 21 Rankings, presented by Cliff Keen Athletic. Phillipi, a redshirt freshman, defeated Oklahoma St...

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’s Daton Fix. (Juan Garcia photo) NEWTON, Iowa — Stevan Micic, a national runner-up at 133 pou...

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 December. NEWTON, Iowa — The calendar has changed to January and there are three new top-ranked individual...

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 wrestlers who cashed in with a nice payday when the American Wrestling League made its debut on [&#823...

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 leaders, we want you. I have a path that will strengthen your bodies and souls. Join me and become a ...

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 “Final X” World Team Trials in 2019.   Final X: Rutgers will be hosted at the Rutgers Athlet...

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 at Northern Colorado.   “Fine silver is defined by its purity. Any silver used for investment or tr...

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 Nittany Lions. (Penn State photo) NEWTON, Iowa — Tis the season for holiday tournaments to begin and...

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 Lion as they prepare to wrestle this Friday in State College, Pa. Hall is also a former national champi...

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 earned the top rating in WIN Magazine’s first dual team rankings of the season and remain No. 1 in WIN...

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 night at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Overall, the Buckeyes placed seven wrestlers and won the team ...

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 Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational. (John Sachs photo) LAS VEGAS — Eight top-seeded wrestlers — incl...

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 Finn LAS VEGAS — Chase Singletary may never be a Kyle Snyder, Ohio State’s former three-time NCAA champ...

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, 2018 The Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational will be held for the 37thtime this weekend and at least 105 ...

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 is an important initiative to get wrestling into the marketplace and grow the sport. “This is a game...

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 following column appeared in the November 1, 2018 issue of Wrestling Insider Newsmagazine. Click here t...

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 following includes where each school finished in last year’s WIN rankings and notes about this year...

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 among their seven ranked wrestlers. Anthony Cassar, fresh off an individual championship at the Keys...

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 quarter of a century later, this magazine — changed to Wrestling Insider Newsmagazine in 2009 — is using t...

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 Francisco 49ers was the MVP of the National Football League. The nation was rocked by the brutal murders of...

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 NWCA All-Star Classic Results The 53rd annual National Wrestling Coaches Association All-Star Class...

(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.) NEWTON, Iowa — The 2018-19 NCAA Division I regular season has started and 14 newcomers are ranked in WIN...

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 for toppling decorated opponents. The two-time All-Americans will tangle on Nov. 2 at 141 pounds at...

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 2018 UWW World Championships in Budapest, Hungary. Before Coon, the native of Fowlerville, Mich., l...

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’s event, which will be held Nov. 2, are under hosts RMN Events and NUWAY and it gets a new location ...

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 afternoon in Budapest, Hungary. Click here to subscribe to WIN Magazine and receive the upcoming issue t...

(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 people called the 2018 USA Men’s World Freestyle team a “Dream Team” and an historic number of the ten wr...

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, the former NCAA champion from Cornell, suffered an injury during his recent training, and will not b...

 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 and NUWAY, who will infuse over $150,000 in production and promotion that will rival any professiona...

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 for their coach Chris Hixon, who was among 17 killed in a  shooting at the Florida high school. (Thi...

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 Kyle Klingman. (This column appeared in the Sept. 18, 2018 issue of Wrestling Insider Newsmagazine. Th...

(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 a second straight Dan Hodge Trophy before over 110,000 fans at the Penn State-Ohio State football g...

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 through my mind: If you’re always ready, you never have to get ready! What does this mean? It’s simple....

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 change occurs. That is the feeling that I am left with when I realize […]

(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 current Boilermaker coach asked for patience before he made any promises. “I presented a five-year plan,” ...

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 practice. Practice makes what? If you answered perfect, then unfortunately you and I disagree. Think abou...

(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 the native of Somerset, N.J., made sure the United States left Trnava, Slovakia, with a gold medal wh...

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 is the same Smith family of 10 children who most wrestling people know quite well. The family [&#82...

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 freestyle and Greco-Roman teams that will compete in Budapest, Hungary, Oct. 20-28. In the latest issue o...

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 coach Bobby Douglas is just getting started talking about his (our) sport,” said Barron. “After 75 ...

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 finals are one week after the RMN National Championships … so no excuses to miss this event! On Fri...

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 Index and Rankings, presented by Cliff Keen Athletic. WIN’s Tournament Power Index (TPI) awards team poi...

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 the UWW World Championships this October in Budapest. WIN will once again be there to cover all the ...

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’s that time of year again when high school students are returning from summer vacation. And one [&#...

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 and age group in WIN’s next issue that will be printed on Aug. 7. Click here to receive that issue ...

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 Camdyn Ingram of Louisiana and become the 16th all-time Cadet to win freestyle and Greco in consecut...

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 of her own in the Fargodome Wednesday afternoon when she scored a big upset over Junior World Team me...

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 (Editor’s Note: WIN Magazine is in Fargo, N.D., all week for the 48th Annual U.S. Marines Cadet/Junio...

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. Photo by G. Wyatt Schultz (Editor’s Note: WIN Magazine is in Fargo, N.D., all week for the 48th Annua...

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 Nationals. By Rob Sherrill Editor’s Note: Rob Sherrill, a national high school columnist for the past 20 y...

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 WIN in print or digitally, click here.)    By Zach Even-Esh Things that come easy and fast will ...

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 stars in August when they launch a new professional league. The American Wrestling League is scheduled...

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 Wide World of Sports near Orlando has become a popular summer destination for some of the country’s b...

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 this Saturday in Bethlehem, Pa. Among those competing at Lehigh University’s Grace Hall will be three ...

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 wrestlers who will represent the United States in the 2018 UWW World Championships, which will be held ...

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, including each wrestler’s honors, can be found at May 30, 2018 issue of Wrestling Insider Newsmagazine ...

(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 Mountain National events in the U.S.) In Portuguese, Alavanca means “leverage.” The Alavanca Wrestling Pro...

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 Magazine in print or digitally, click here Since virtually all of the nation’s elite recruits finalize the...

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 Minnesota state champion Gable Steveson has captured the Junior Dan Hodge Trophy, presented by AAU, and hea...