Jet Brown needed less than five minutes of mat time to announce himself in Fargo. The Missouri junior opened the 157-pound freestyle bracket with four straight technical falls. Braxten Antuna of Oklahoma went in 1:39, Paxon Legatt of Georgia in 1:06, then Donald Jackson of Kansas and James Whitbred of Pennsylvania. None of them made […]
Maddie Kubicki had the most dominant high school girls career in Missouri. At Park Hill South High School, she finished with a 158-0 loss and won four consecutive state championships to cap off a perfect career. The momentum she gained in high school carried over at the college level as she has had a successful […]
As a senior at Washington High School, Annelise Obermark finished just one win short of her ultimate goal at the time. She made it to the championship match of the 140-pound weight class in the Class 2 Missouri State High School Girls Wrestling Championships but fell to three-time state champion Sevi Aumua 6-3 in the […]
By Michael Smith Francis Howell North senior Wyatt Dannegger is establishing himself as one of the best pound-for-pound high school wrestlers in Missouri. Not only has he won two Class 4 state championships as a sophomore and junior, he proved himself on the national stage at the U.S. Open Championships last April in Las Vegas. […]
WESTFIELD, Ind. Missouri brought 76 wrestlers to the 2026 USA Wrestling Women’s National Duals at Grand Park Events Center, fielding teams across the 14U, 16U and Junior divisions in both freestyle and Greco-Roman. Ten of them finished the week unbeaten, five in freestyle and five in Greco-Roman, and the 14U freestyle squad came home with […]
MILWAUKEE — Missouri’s Junior boys squads closed out the 2026 USA Wrestling Junior National Duals at the Baird Center this week with one of the most dominant individual runs of the entire event and four All-Tournament Team selections in men’s freestyle. The headliner was Carter Brown at 215 pounds, who did not lose a single […]
Chandni Banks walked onto the mat at the Missouri state tournament last season as a finalist. A few months later she was competing in Romania for Great Britain. For a wrestler who only started a few years ago, that trajectory is remarkable — and according to the people closest to her, it is just the […]
The 2026 USA Wrestling Southern Plains Regional Championships took place May 15-17 at the Oklahoma City Convention Center. The event served as a qualifier for the 52nd Annual Junior and 16U National Championships in Fargo, ND (July 10-18, 2026) and offered competition in both Freestyle and Greco-Roman across 8U, 10U, 12U, 14U, 16U and Junior […]
Day 2 of the 2026 Missouri USA Freestyle and Greco State Tournament wrapped up Sunday at Wilson Logistics Arena in Springfield, completing the weekend with girls freestyle and boys Greco competition across all age groups. The headline of the day belonged to Jayden Keller, who closed out her high school career with a Junior Freestyle […]
Day 1 of the 2026 Missouri USA Freestyle and Greco State Tournament is in the books. More than 1,300 wrestlers competed Saturday at Wilson Logistics Arena in Springfield across boys freestyle and girls Greco divisions, ranging from 8U through Junior age groups. On the girls side, four clubs tied for the most gold medals in […]