Nebraska Girls Wrestling was well represented at the USA Girls Folkstyle Nationals last weekend at the Xtream Arena in Coralville, IA. Out of 13 wrestlers, 8 brought home medals from the event. Jaelyn Anderson and Mara Vanderpool of Nebraska Wrestling Academy brought home individual titles! Congrats to all who competed and represented NE! Great job…
HUGE get for the Nebraska program as Tervel Dlagnev will be the head freestyle coach of the Nebraska Wrestling Training Center. After starting wrestling late in life, Tervel caught on quickly in high school, finishing 3rd and 4th at the Texas State Tournament and caught the eye of coach Marc Bauer and the UNK Lopers.…
Alex Thomsen after winning the 2020 Senior Greco Nationals at 60kg. Photo Credit: Alex Thomsen @Alex_Thomsen1 A large group of wrestlers with Nebraska ties will be competing this weekend (March 26-27 in Fort Worth) at the Last Chance Qualifier for the Olympic Trials. The top two at each weight will advance to the Olympic…
Good News: The Huskers have 8 or 9 guys alive in the tournament. Bad News: Only two of those wrestlers are in the quarterfinals, and the rest will have to battle through the consolations. The two quarterfinalists for Nebraska, Mikey Labriola (174) and Taylor Venz (184), each just need one more win to All-American. #4…
Tuesday night, MWC held their wrestleoff’s for the Olympic duals in Pennsylvania on April 16-18th. Results Logan Edwards defeated Cole Kunz 8-7 Jesse Loges defeated Brayden Canoyer by fall Brandon Baustert defeated Presden Sanchez 10-0 Joel Adams defeated Aiden Robertson by fall Scott Robertson defeated Ian Rudner 18-8 Jackson Dewald defeated Alex Morris by fall…
It’s been ten years to the day since AD Trev Alberts and the Board of Regents put the darkest eye on the once respected institution. On March 12th, 2011 the University of Nebraska-Omaha, led by Alberts, dropped the storied wrestling program (along with football) to “cut costs and to better align with the sports sponsored…
Photo Credit: NCAA.com The NEwrestle crew will be putting together a NCAA Wrestling Tournament Pool this year. It’s completely free to enter and open to everyone. Results and standings will be posted at the completion of Day 1, 2 and at the end of the tournament. Password for the pool is huskers1 JOIN OUR WRESTLESTAT POOL TODAY…
Huge weekend ahead for several Nebraska Colleges. Last weekend we got to see all five Nebraska NAIA men’s teams get at least one All-American. We will hope for more of the same this weekend as we watch DII, DIII and women’s NAIA National Tournamnts all go down. The Nebraska-Kearney wrestling team is in St. Louis…
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Big Ten Tournament Preview State College, PA is the host site for the 2021 Big Ten Wrestling Tournament Saturday, March 6th and Sunday, March 7th. The Big Ten Conference has earned 76 automatic bids to the National tournament March 18th-20th in St. Louis Missouri. The automatic bids are the division 1 level are a lot…
Nebraska colleges and alumni are slated compete at the NAIA National Tournament this weekend! Good luck everyone! Concordia Mario Ybarra (Scottsbluff) Gabrial Crawford Jacob Telles Doane Daniel Vargas Baterdene Boldmaa Tristan Zamilpa Michael Scarponi Bradley Antesberger Brandon Antesberger Hastings Edrich Nortje Taygen Smith Thomas Stevenson Midland Tyson Beauperthy York John Fox Other wrestlers with Nebraska…
Eric Schultz picks up a #1 seed for Nebraska at 197. The Huskers had a few weights where we weren’t 100% certain who would get the nod, as there have been multiple wrestlers in the lineup at 133 and 149. Tucker Sjomeling will be at 133 and Ridge Lovett will be at 149. Mikey Labriola…
For many wrestlers, last week’s state championships were the end of the wrestling season for eight months. For MWC in Papillion, The last three months were a warmup. FRECO represents a mixture of Freestyle and Greco, the two different style of wrestling held in the Olympics. So training is a year-round process, outside of when…
There are some prestigious awards/accomplisments that wrestlers can achieve. Gold medals, State Qualifier, State Medalist, Team Titles, Academic All-State, NEwrestle All-Grade teams, etc. However, one seems to rise above them all. The title of being named to the NEwrestle All-Mullet Team. We’ve used several scientific methods to determine who makes the list. Background: An extremely…
The top four teams here return all of their state point scorers from the state tournament. Plainview sits in 5th and will presumably get back Will Gunning for next season, which would boost them up big time – probably into the second spot. If you factor in Elkhorn Valley’s non-scoring entries that puts them in…
2021 State Champion team Gering remains in the top five. Beatrice holds strong at the second spot. Omaha Skutt could make a return to the top five in Class B if they get a few others to step in and provide some depth to their three returning medalists. Bennington is returning all of their state…
Central City holds a slim margin over Aquinas. Will we be in for another fantastic battle between the two next season? O’Neill may have something to say about that. Will there be any classification changes? Stay tuned. 1. Central City – 80Drew Garfield (Jr) – Champion @ 106Cole Kunz (Jr) – Champion @ 113Tristan Burbach…
