The Gladstone High School wrestling team is ready to go on Friday in the Michigan High School Athletic Association Division Three state finals, being held at Wings Stadium in Kalamazoo. Click the above headline to hear how the Braves are preparing. (Chiste Terrien photos)
The Iron Mountain High School wrestling team will face a powerhouse in the Division Four state quarterfinals on Friday at Kalamazoo's Wings Stadium. The Mountaineers will battle the defending state champion Hudson Tigers in the first quarterfinal of the day at 11 a.m. CT/noon ET. Click the above headline for more.
The Upper Peninsula will be well-represented next month at the Michigan High School Athletic Association's Individual state finals at Ford Field in Detroit. The results from the individual regional tournaments on Saturday around northern Michigan ended with 28 UP Wrestlers qualifying. Click the above headline for details, photos.
The Gladstone Braves are the MHSAA Division Three regional wrestling champions after an unusual ending in Wednesday's championship match. Click the above headline for details.
Two Escanaba High School wrestlers and three from Marquette kept their state finals dreams alive by advancing out of the MHSAA Division Two individual district tournament on Saturday in Gaylord. Click the above headline for details.
Fifteen high school wrestling teams from across the Upper Peninsula and northern lower peninsula met in Manistique on Saturday for the Michigan High School Athletic Association's Division Four Individual District Tournament. Click the above headline for details.
The Bark River-Harris Broncos wrestling team hosted a quad meet Monday night inside the “other” half of the program's co-op: North Central High School. The match was moved from the original site, Menominee, which has not had any classes or sporting events in its school all year long due to mold damage. Click the above headline for photos and videos.
The Gladstone High School wrestling team turned in a strong third place showing out of 40 teams at the Northern Michigan Championships in Gaylord on Saturday. The Braves were among nine Upper Peninsula teams that joined 31 downstate teams at the all-day event. CLick the above headline for details, and photos taken by Christe Terrien.
The Gladstone High School wrestling team won the Upper Peninsula championship on Saturday in Marquette, with three boys winning U.P. Championships and four others finishing as runners-up. Iron Mountain was second on the team scoreboard, winning five individual titles. Click the above headline for all of the results, and to see photos.
The three Delta County high school wrestling teams got together for a triangular Thursday night in Bark River. The Gladstone Braves easily won the event, beating Escanaba, 70-12, and topping Bark River-Harris, 60-18. The Broncos beat the Eskymos in the other match, 42-37. Click the above headline to see photos and videos, and listen to interviews.
The Gladstone High School wrestling team took the long nine-hour trip downstate on Friday, and came home with a second place trophy from the 16-team invitational hosted by Montague High School. Click the above headline for details and see photos tajen by Christe Terrien.
The Escanaba High School wrestling team hosted its only home match of the season Tuesday night, and picked up victories over the Iron Mountain Mountaineers and Marquette Redmen in a quad meet. Iron Mountain topped Kingsford, while the Flivvers beat Marquette in the other matches. Click the above headline for photos, videos, and interviews.
The No.18 ranked Northern Michigan women's wrestling team competed at Albion College on Sunday, seeing three individual victories and finishing in third place of 13 competing teams. Click the above headline for details. (NMU Photo)
Northern Michigan University National Training Site Greco-Roman wrestler Benji Peak topped the podium at the Senior Open this weekend in Las Vegas. The NMU squad had five other athletes make podium finishes as well. Click the above headline for details.
The Upper Peninsula is home to three high school wrestling state champions, as well as two state runners-up. Drew Allgeyer of Bark River-Harris, and Parker Stroud and Shawn McGuire of Iron Mountain, all won titles Saturday at Ford Field in Detroit. BR-H’s Dillon Raab and Iron Mountain’s Tyler Winch were runners-up. Click the above headline for details
The MHSAA individual wrestling state finals began on Friday at Ford Field in Detroit, and when the dust settled, five U.P. boys advanced to the championship round of their brackets. And two of them will face each other for the state title. Click the above headline for details.
The Gladstone Braves and Iron Mountain Mountaineers both lost in the MHSAA Team State Finals on Friday in Kalamazoo. The Braves lost to Clinton in Division Three, 51-24, while the Mountaineers fell to New Lothrop in Division Four, 36-35. Click the above headline for details. (Lewis Berry photo)
The Gladstone Braves won their first title since 2016 by beating Cheboygan, 80-0, in the semifinals before taking a nailbiter from the Kinglsey Stags, 46-34, in the championship. Click the above headline to see photos and videos, and listen to interviews.
The Escanaba High School wrestling dominated in the lower weight classes and beat a shorthanded Bark River-Harris Broncos team, 48-33, to wrap up a triangular meet in Escanaba. Click the above headline for details, photos, and video highlights.
The Bark River-Harris Broncos wrestling team eeked out a 45-36 win over the Marinette Marines in a dual meet Wednesday night in Escanaba. It was part of a triangular with the host Eskymos. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos.
The Escanaba High School wrestling team opened a triangular meet Wednesday night with a 48-34 win over the Marinette Marines from Wisconsin. Click the above headline for details, and for photos and video highlights from those seven matches.
The Bark River-Harris wrestling team won twice at a quad meet on their home mat Thursday, beating Munising, 60-24, and Kingsford 59-24. Kingsford defeated Gwinn 39-0 and Munising defeated Gwinn 42-6 in the other matches. Click the above headline for photos, videos.
The Gladstone Braves won the Upper Peninsula wrestling championship on Saturday, taking six individual first place finishes in outdistancing second place Iron Mountain, 212-175. Escanaba was third with 155 points, and Bark River-Harris was fourth with 144. Click the above headline to see the results.
The Escanaba High School wrestling team won a pair of dual meets Thursday night as they prepared for this Saturday's Upper Peninsula Finals. Escanaba beat Negaunee, 46-30, and then turned back Westwood, 60-12. Click the above headline to see photos and videos.
The Gladstone High School wrestling team won a pair of matches from their Delta County rivals Thursday night, turning back Bark River-Harris, 51-26, and Escanaba, 46-36. The Broncos topped Escanaba in the other triangular match, 50-27. Click the above headline for details, photos, video highlights, and player/coach interviews.
The Iron Mountain Mountaineers had five individual champions and edged the Escanaba Eskymos to win the annual Elks Wrestling Invitational on Saturday in Escanaba. Click the above headline for details, photos, video clips.
Northern Michigan University National Training Site Greco-Roman wrestlers David Stepanian and Benji Peak placed second at the Senior World Team Trials this weekend in Lincoln, Nebraska. Click the above headline for details. (NMU-NTS photo)
Northern Michigan University National Training Site Greco-Roman wrestlers Benji Peak, Alston Nutter and David Stepanian topped the podium at the U23 Nationals yesterday in Lincoln, Nebraska. All three earned a spot on USA Wrestling's U23 World Team and will compete in Belgrade, Serbia this November. Click the above headline for details.
The addition of a girls division to the Individual Wrestling Tournament series and approval of a common start date for all Fall sports highlighted actions taken by the Representative Council of the Michigan High School Athletic Association during its annual Spring Meeting. Click the above headline for details.
The 2021 high school wrestling season came to an end Saturday with the MHSAA Division Four state individual finals in Grand Rapids. The Bark River-Harris Broncos had five wrestlers reach the podium, with Iron Mountain placing three and Rudyard two. Click the above headline for all of Saturday's results. (BR-H Wrestling photo; Dennis Stachewicz)
