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Byline: RYAN T. BLYSTONE The Bakersfield College men's wrestling team finished 10th at the 3C2A State Championship tournament held at Golden Eagle Arena last Friday and Saturday in Lemoore. The [...]

Byline: Mark Altstaetter Dec. 15MIDDLE POINT Due to the postseason success of the football team this fall, Columbus Grove's wrestling program was not up to full strength for Saturday's Lincolnview [...]

Byline: Dave Nichols Dec. 14Roundup of Saturday's high school action from the Greater Spokane League and Eastern Washington. All games nonleague unless otherwise noted. Wrestling Tri-State: Mt. Spokane's Jayson Bonnett [...]

Byline: Tom Miller Dec. 13GRAND FORKS Like clockwork, Jeff Welsh has known what he's doing the second weekend in December since 1985. The former Grand Forks Central boys wrestling coach [...]

Byline: MARCUS HILL Chris Hinojosa remembers two seasons ago when the Widefield girls wrestling team fielded just eight competitors. Now, the Gladiators have 25 wrestlers and will host their own [...]

Byline: Steve Craig Dec. 11Hussein Ali, Portland/South Portland senior: The Class A runner-up at 165 pounds last season in just his second year of wrestling, he'll lead a 38-wrestler program [...]

Byline: Abby Sharpe Dec. 6GRAND FORKS Grand Forks girls wrestler Emily Novak spent the summer working on her grandpa's farm, harvesting and helping out with his cattle. That manual labor [...]

Dec. 4From staff reports The Washington high school wrestling season is underway. Here's a preview of the Greater Spokane League 4A/3A and 2A. Teams in alphabetical order by classification. Records/standing [...]

Byline: Madison McCord Dec. 4When Libby Roberts was 8 years old, she sat in the stands at a wrestling tournament in Oregon to watch her older brother Drew compete. But [...]

Jul. 23AMMAN Jordan is set to host the U-17 World Wrestling Championship, which will include freestyle, Greco-Roman, and women's categories, between the 19 and 25 August at the Princess Sumaya [...]

Byline: MARCUS HILL In 2021 when folks gathered downtown to support Team USA Wrestling, fans required masks and six feet distance due to the pandemic. This year, ahead of the [...]

Byline: Gary Miles Jul. 2Charlie Stamm, 75, formerly of Cheltenham, retired social studies teacher, longtime wrestling and golf coach, mentor, and innovative student activities sponsor at Cheltenham High School, died [...]

Byline: Aaron Carter May 2Third in an occasional series of stories about the inaugural season of PIAA girls' wrestling. Barefoot, frantic, and falling behind, Northeast High School sophomore Samiyah Rahming [...]

Apr. 27GRAND FORKS Three with area ties will be inducted into the Minnesota Wrestling Coaches Association Hall of Fame this summer. Former Crookston coach Ardell Knudsvig and former Plummer High [...]

Byline: Abby Sharpe Apr. 26GRAND FORKS Former Grand Forks Red River wrestling coach Bruce Moe, 66, has wrestled competitively since his sophomore year of high school, and he's gone to [...]

Byline: Aaron Carter Apr. 24Second in an occasional series of stories about the inaugural season of PIAA girls' wrestling. Conwell-Egan sophomore Julia Horger has been battered, bruised, bloodied, and sick. [...]

Byline: Aaron Carter Apr. 18--First in an occasional series of stories about the inaugural season of PIAA girls' wrestling. Inside the Giant Center in Hershey last month, Brooke Zumas noticed [...]

Byline: Roberta Simonson and Alexandra Duggan Apr. 13As 15-year-old Raenah Smith looked around at the thousands of women and girls filling the Podium in Spokane, all there to wrestle in [...]

Byline: Vaughn Johnson Apr. 3If you're visiting Philadelphia for WrestleMania 40 or you're just a local wrestling fan, Suplex Vintage Wrestling is probably a place you want visit. The store, [...]

Byline: Tommy Rowan Mar. 29Before the bingo hall, there was the pawn shop. Before Paul Heyman, there was Tod Gordon. And before ECW could thrive, the Tri-State Wrestling Alliance had [...]

Byline: Steve Deshazo Mar. 19Consistency has been a hallmark of Bruno Alves' college wrestling career, but the Brooke Point High School grad wouldn't mind improving the script just a little [...]

Byline: Gabriela Carroll Mar. 19WrestleMania is coming to Philadelphia, and with it, a whole slate of wrestling events, from those affiliated with WWE to smaller local shows. Whether you're a [...]

Byline: Micah Rice Mar. 16As a talented and ambitious wrestler in middle school, Noah Koyama would drop by the occasional Union High School practice. He would gaze at the plaques [...]

Byline: Micah Rice Mar. 15Faith Tarrant is in exclusive company. Last month, the Prairie junior won her third state wrestling title. She pinned every opponent she faced for the second [...]

Byline: Mark Altstaetter Mar. 10COLUMBUS When St. Marys' Tate Hisey placed fourth at last year's Division II wrestling state tournament in the 113-pound weight class, he immediately started the countdown [...]

Byline: Steve Craig Mar. 9Kylan Berry, Marshwood/Traip freshman, 106 pounds: The Traip Academy student roared through his first high school season, winning the Noble Invitational, Spartan Wrestling Annual Tournament, Class [...]

Byline: Mark Altstaetter Mar. 8COLUMBUS Longtime Allen East wrestling coach Mike Abbey summed it up on Friday, the first day of the Ohio High School Athletic Association Wrestling State Championships [...]

Mar. 7The University of Wyoming wrestling team has enjoyed a great deal of improvement throughout the season. While there have been blips of disappointment and adversity as is the case [...]

Byline: Mark Altstaetter Mar. 5Several area athletes earned the right to compete in the state wrestling tournament this weekend at Ohio State's Jerome Schottenstein Center. Here are some things to [...]

Byline: Mark Altstaetter Mar. 2TROY Allen East's Jordan Neal is a freshman. However, whenever Neal steps onto the wrestling mat, it doesn't matter. The transition from middle school to high [...]

Byline: aedmonds1 Mar. 2Laramie High senior McKenna Barham and freshman Westen Einest earned all-state honors from the Wyoming Coaches Association following last weekend's state wrestling tournament in Casper. Individuals who [...]

Byline: Mark Altstaetter Feb. 25LIMA Allen East lost to Columbus Grove at last Saturday's Northwest Conference tournament. Longtime Allen East wrestling coach Mike Abbey expected this weekend's Division III sectional [...]

Byline: Sean Davis Feb. 25Cole Sarbacker knew the challenge ahead of him. Facing Neenah's Jacob Herm, the top seed and two-time state runner-up, the Stoughton senior had a tall task [...]

Byline: Sean Davis Feb. 25Throughout his short, yet impressive high school wrestling career, Damiano Cappellini has valued his individual effort over how a match turns out. 'If I lose and [...]

Byline: Jeremiah Johnke Feb. 24CASPER Cheyenne East senior Charlie Green warned coach Thad Trujillo he was going to lateral drop him in celebration if he won the 285-pound championship at [...]

Byline: Sean Davis Feb. 23There aren't any easy matches at the WIAA individual state wrestling tournament. The roads to the Kohl Center aren't a walk in the park, either. Landon [...]

Byline: Tim Martinez Feb. 22Skyview wrestler JJ Schoenlein is The Columbian 2023-24 Week 19 high school athlete of the week, sponsored by Killer Burger. Schoenlein received 2,701 of the 5,366 [...]

Byline: Jeremiah Johnke Feb. 22CHEYENNE Trona Bates and Samuel Lucas Smith both got into wrestling reluctantly, despite the fact they come from families with deep wrestling backgrounds. Bates wasn't sure [...]

Byline: Mark Altstaetter Feb. 20This past weekend, area wrestlers wrapped up the regular season at their respective league tournaments. Here is a rundown of who won titles and what lies [...]

Byline: Mark Altstaetter Feb. 17KENTON Wapakoneta went 9-0 in Western Buckeye League duals this season. At Saturday's Western Buckeye League Wrestling Tournament at Kenton High School, the results were the [...]

Feb. 17HUNTSVILLE Decatur's Oliver Howard and Athens' Will Anderson closed out the 2024 AHSAA State Wrestling Championships in grand fashion on Saturday, capturing individual state titles on the final day [...]

Feb. 16FARGO Like she did in 34 of her 35 wins this season, Grand Forks junior Emily Novak repeated as a North Dakota state girls wrestling champion by pinning her [...]

Feb. 16HUNTSVILLE Decatur's Oliver Howard is in good position to win his second straight state wrestling championship after day one of the AHSAA state wrestling meet in Huntsville on Thursday. [...]

Byline: Tom Miller Feb. 13GRAND FORKS A 15-year-old freshman at East Grand Forks, Kyah Wiley wanted to try something different. She thought about trying out for volleyball but the idea [...]

Feb. 11Host Riverbend won five weight classes and finished a close second behind Independence at Saturday's Region 5D wrestling championships. Zachariah Strickland (106), Cameron Rasmussen (144), Carson Main (157), Caison [...]

Byline: Micah Rice Feb. 10WASHOUGAL Jacob McKee and Talan Guerrero wore their battle scars like medals. Both were bloodied but unbeaten at the Class 2A Region 3 Boys Wrestling Championships [...]

Byline: Micah Rice Feb. 10Faith Tarrant and Niah Cassidy pinned their way to titles at the Class 4A/3A Region 3 Girls Wrestling Championships on Saturday. Tarrant, a Prairie junior seeking [...]

Byline: Micah Rice Feb. 10Led by individual champions Jackson Lougen and Luke Webb, Camas won the team title at the 4A Boys Region 3 Wrestling Championships on Saturday at Emerald [...]

Byline: Micah Rice Feb. 10Faith Tarrant and Niah Cassidy pinned their way to titles at the Class 4A/3A Region 3 Girls Wrestling Championships on Saturday. Tarrant, a Prairie junior seeking [...]

Byline: Micah Rice Feb. 10Led by individual champions Jackson Lougen and Luke Webb, Camas won the team title at the 4A Boys Region 3 Wrestling Championships on Saturday at Emerald [...]