Photo: Nic Ryder The Husker wrestling team will enter the season ranked 3rd by Trackwrestling, their highest ranking out of all of the wrestling publications. They are a distant third behind Penn State and Iowa who are the clear cut top-two teams entering the season. There are also six teams within ten ranking points of…
The senior from Grand Island Northwest has put together a solid career. He is already the school career pins leader with 120, and the Nebraska all class record holder with 51 pins in a season. Griess has put together a 145-16 record in high school, and is close to topping Grayson Fries for the GI…
One of the top wrestlers from Nebraska will be taking his official visit to Nebraska this weekend. Maxx Mayfield, a Senior from Lincoln East will be checking out what the university has to offer. Mayfield is currently the #9 wrestler at 145 pounds. He also checks in as the #90 wrestler on Flo Wrestling’s 2020…
Husker football will not be the only sport with a big recruiting weekend. It has been well advertised Nebraska has a lot going on this weekend. This afternoon the university announced a monster $155 million dollar facility that will be used across all Nebraska athletics. It will include a new training table and academic center…
2019-2020 Wrestling District Assignments via NSAA District A-1: Dates: Feb 14, Feb 15, 2020 Site: Papillion LaVista South Host School: Papillion-La Vista South Director: Jeremy VanAckeren/Brent Gehring Schools Assigned: Bellevue East Bellevue West Creighton Preparatory School Elkhorn Lincoln Northeast Millard South Omaha Benson Omaha Westside Papillion-LaVista South District A-2: Dates: Feb 15, 2020 Site: Grand…
Photo Credit: Tony Rotundo Excerpt from the FULL PRESS RELEASE via lopers.com: Tervel Dlagnev is one of the best stories in UNK Athletics history, going from a walk on to an Olympic medal winner. Born in Bulgaria and picking up wrestling in high school, Dlagnev not only was a two-time national champion but also one of…
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Photo Credit Huskers.com — Earlier today, Nebraska head coach Mark Manning announced the hiring of two former wrestlers to the coaching staff. Robert Kokesh has been hired as an assistant coach while Tyler Berger will be a volunteer assistant. Kokesh, a Wagner, South Dakota native, wrestled for the Huskers from 2011-2015. He was the Big…
Matt Atwood was promoted this season to head coach of the Midland woman’s wrestling program. He spent last season as the assistant coach before being promoted. He also has prior stints at Colby Community College in Kansas and Concordia University in Seward. Atwood’s college career saw him start out at Fort Hays State in Hays,…
Nebraska will be sending a loaded roster of talent to Fargo for Junior and 16U nationals on July 12th through July 19th. Today, Themat.com released the tentative Nebraska roster heading to Fargo. Junior Freestyle 106 Caleb Coyle 113 Nate Rubino, Nate Hartman 120 Jackson Nielsen, Jakason Burks, Dyson Kunz, Shaemon Erb 126 Ethan Batterton, Camden…
A little over a month ago, on May 17th, Midland University announced Larry Nugent as the new coach to lead the Midland wrestling program. Nugent will step in after former coach Dana Vote took the same position at Doane College in March. Nugent comes in to Midland with tons of wrestling and coaching experience. He…
