Intermediate – 60 Guaranteed Places 1st Place – Mason Turner of Thoroughbred Wrestling Academy 2nd Place – Simon Sperry of Team Grind House 3rd Place – Silas Sperry of Team Grind House 4th Place – Ryitt Schell of Terminators Wrestling Academy Round 1 Silas Sperry (Team Grind House) won by tech fall over Ryitt Schell […]
14 min read By Michael Smith For 29 years, the Metro Classic wrestling dual has been a much-anticipated event amongst Kansas City wrestling fans. It’s an event that has featured some of the best high school senior wrestlers from the Kansas and Missouri side of the city, which usually features some intriguing matches between Team […]
7 min read By Michael Smith If you ask Blue Springs graduate Dom Bradley when most amateur wrestlers retire, its around age 28 or 29. But even at 32 years old, Bradley isn’t giving up on his dream of wrestling in the Olympics. He will compete in the U.S. Olympic Trials starting this Friday at Dickies […]
9 min read By Michael Smith The Air Force wrestling team is on the rise and associate coach Joe Johnston said he feels good about his team’s chances of getting its first All-American wrestler since 2003 next season. This year, the Falcons did not have anyone finish in the top eight of their weight division to […]
By Michael Smith Check out all the photos from Mark Lundy. Park Hill senior Chris Bizzle may not have gotten the desired result at the Class 4 Missouri State High School Wrestling Championships earlier this month, but he still finished his high school career with a win. At the state tournament, the Trojan senior fell […]
9 min read By Michael Smith Before his wrestling matches, Fort Osage grad Elias Vaoifi tried to get himself angry. When he wrestled at Fort Osage and during his redshirt freshman year at Missouri Valley College, he said he often listened to rap music before he matches. In high school, Vaoifi was a state medalist and […]
By Michael Smith Before the third- and fifth-place match started at the Class 4 Missouri State High School Wrestling Championships, Liberty already had the state championship wrapped up. Going into that round the Blue Jays were already 100-plus points ahead of second-place Christian Brothers College, which made it mathematically impossible for anyone to catch them. […]
By Michael Smith INDEPENDENCE — Whitfield has been the gold standard of excellence when it comes to high school wrestling in Missouri in recent years The Warriors had won four consecutive Class 1 state championships coming into the 2020-21 season and won nine since 2008. However, this season they were bumped up to Class 3, […]
By Michael Smith Pleasant Hill head coach Jeff Wyatt made a checklist with his team and the most important item on it was winning a Class 2 state title. After Thursday’s Class 2 Missouri State High School Wrestling Championships, the Roosters can check off the last item on their list. The Roosters finished with 137 […]
By Michael Smith Independence, MO — On the Twitter page for the Mid-Buchanan wrestling team most tweets are followed with the hashtag #outworkem. That is a motto that head coach Daniel Kountz’s Dragons have followed throughout the 2020-21 campaign. At Wednesday’s Class 1 Missouri State High School Wrestling Championships, Mid-Buchanan outworked 54 other teams to […]