The Wisconsin Wrestler

Send us Fan Mail We are joined by Wausau West coach Troy Fabry for our first sectional preview of the year! We discuss if this is the year River Falls can dethrone Hudson in the regional battle, the three team race that will take place in Marshfield regional, and Teague and Steve choose their first sectional champs of the year! We also preview every team in the sectional, Steve throws trivia at Te...

Send us Fan Mail We are joined by the Godfather of the Cheesehead himself Scott Kluever, who gives a great recap on the 37 All-American performances from the boys' side at Fargo! We go in order of the tournaments, from 16U and Junior Freestyle to 16U and Junior Greco discussing the highlights of the Wisconsin Fargo placewinners and the tournament experience in general. Scott also talks about...

Send us Fan Mail Teague and Steve are joined by WWF Growth and Development Coordinator Gabby Lord-Klein  to discuss the Girls' 16U and Junior Freestyle Nationals experience last week! First, Gabby talks about her Fargo experience and the atmosphere of the Fargodome, and the entire community for the whole week. We then talk about the results of the tournament, with a more in-depth recap on how...

Send us Fan Mail WWF State Coach Coordinator Scott Kluever joins us on the show to talk all things Fargo! Scott answers all of our questions related to the midsummer national Freestyle/Greco tournaments, ranging from how one can try out to get on the team to any questions a potential spectator may have. We also discuss the Fargo experience, and all the benefits that come with being on/trying out f...

Send us Fan Mail 4-Time State champion and  3rd place finisher at D1 Nationals Keegan O'Toole joins us on the show! Keegan tells us about his wrestling career leading up to high school, and at what point he set the goal to win a state title every year of his high school career. Keegan does a great job giving us a runthrough of his high school career, from his most memorable (for better or wor...

Send us Fan Mail Freedom coach Brad Baker joins us to talk about the women's youth program in Freedom! The program is three years old and has already its fair share of success when it comes to culture, number of wrestlers, and results! Brad fills us in on how it began, steps taken to evolve the program along the way, and what the vision is for the program heading forward. Building the youth p...

Send us Fan Mail No podcasts planned for two weeks? No problem, that's what filler episodes are for! Fortunately for us, we have plenty of good material to present to our listeners and this week we are releasing a compilation of our 2020 State Champion Coach Interviews where they talk about their philosophies and advice they would give their younger selves/new coaches. In this episode you get...

Send us Fan Mail Teague and Steve are joined by North Fond Du Lac/St. Mary's Springs coach Doug Forsythe to talk about the recently released regional and sectional assignments for next year! We go through each sectional and talk about the most impactful changes from the year prior along with discussing the chain reactions that cause so many teams to change from year to year.  Support the show

Send us Fan Mail We jump right into another hot topic on the direct continuation from part 1 when we talk about the 7/7 rule and what event/match limits can look like in the future. We also talk about seeding the Individual State tournament and all the ways that that can be a possibility, along with unforeseen consequences and pros/cons of seeding the state tournament in different ways. We then ha...

Send us Fan Mail Teague and Steve are joined by WWCA Secretary and Fort Atkinson coach Ryan Gerber and Arrowhead coach and WWCA Former President Randy Ferrell to discuss the Wisconsin Wrestling Coaches Association! Randy and Ryan start off the podcast with their wrestling stories, and then provide a lot of quality insight on the role of the WWCA, the process of going through rules and policy chang...

Send us Fan Mail Teague and Steve are joined by 4 time State Champions Matty Bianchi of Two Rivers and Brian Slater of New Lisbon!  We start with the two guests talking about their journeys to becoming 4-time champions along with Brian's post high-school wrestling career. We then have discussions on their favorite matches, matches that gave them the biggest scare during their state runs, diff...

Send us Fan Mail The conversation continues with Kaukauna Head Coach Jeff Matczak and after a brief discussion in food in the Fox Valley Area, Jeff talks about the motivational quotes that are up in the wrestling room and the intention/meaning behind those. Steve then hits Teague with some trivia, and then Teague returns the favor which then leads into a look back at some duals from Kaukauna'...

Send us Fan Mail Teague and Steve are joined by Kaukauna Head Coach Jeff Matczak to talk about his wrestling story and the journey that this year's team took en route to the 2021 Team State title. In this first segment, Jeff tells his wrestling story and the twist of fate that got him into the sport in the place. We then talk some Kaukauna wrestling history, and get into discussions on the po...

Send us Fan Mail We continue our conversation with Curtis Fiedler as we start the second part of his interview with the latter half of his team's Individual State recap. Steve then hits Teague with some trivia before moving onto the Team State recap. Curtis does an amazing analysis on Team State, even going match by match for the final against Coleman and breaking down all the moves that him...

Send us Fan Mail Curtis Fiedler is back on the Wisconsin Wrestler to talk about Mineral Point's season which ended up with them being Team State Champions! We have a discussion about how his team handled a year as unique as this one, and how the leadership and culture of the community positively influenced the program to handle a year like this. We also walk through the postseason tournaments...

Send us Fan Mail We start the episode with a small recap of Part 1 of our conversation with Mike Kelly (yes Teague's voice cracks right at the start) and give a small preview of Part 2 for those who didn't tune in to the first episode!  Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Mike Kelly from Amery joins us for the first part of this year's Team State Champion Coaches' interviews. He gave us so much quality material that we had to split our conversation up into two parts! In this first part, Mike talks about his wrestling story and how his life journey eventually lead him to coaching Amery and we talk about this year's team and their jour...

Send us Fan Mail Teague and Steve are joined by Wrightstown coach Matt Verbeten and LAW Coach Cory Scanlan to talk Youth State results for Boys and Girls born 2006-2007. After results, we have a great discussion on club wrestling and how people can benefit from it as well! Teague also suffers his most embarrassing trivia defeat against Steve to date, you won't want to miss it. Support the sho...

Send us Fan Mail Teague and Steve are joined by WWF Women's Director Laura Bartoszek, Growth and Development Coordinator Gabby Lord-Klein, and North Central All-American Mateah Roehl to talk all things women's wrestling in Wisconsin! We go over some results for Women's Folkstyle State, talk college wrestling opportunities for girls, what colleges look for in a person, and how each i...

Send us Fan Mail Teague and Steve discuss every dual that took place on Team State Saturday! We discuss big matches that took place in every dual, coaching moves that affected certain outcomes, and how some teams will be looking going into next year! Chapter markers below: Division 1: 7:15 Division 2: 32:50 Division 3: 44:48 Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Teague and Steve talk about every bracket from Individual State and along with giving a shoutout to each champion, talk about tough brackets and exciting matches as well as wrestlers who weren't champions but still did something to catch our attention. We then give our picks for our wrestler of the year from each division. At the end of the podcast, Teague reads a post from B...

Send us Fan Mail Teague and Steve preview the Team State tournament and give their picks for who they think will be the 2021 Team State champions in each division! We give a breakdown of potentially huge matches in each dual, possible moves that teams can make to give themselves an edge, Steve of course throws some trivia at Teague,  and they close out the show with a little show of appreciation f...

Send us Fan Mail Teague and Steve start the podcast off by discussing their experiences at their respective sectionals this weekend and review their Team State qualifier picks. We then jump into our look at ever Individual State bracket weight by weight and make all 42 picks for our champions on air as well! Chapter markers will be provided below, happy Individual State week! Sectional Reflection:...

Send us Fan Mail Happy Sectional Weekend! Teague and Steve start the show off by talking about the new sectional bracket format and break down the scoring system before jumping into the preview of every sectional! They take a look at most of the brackets in each sectional, highlight potential big matches, and make their predictions for the Team State qualifiers to come out of every sectional!  Cha...

Send us Fan Mail One hour podcast, forty eight regionals, we somehow manage to talk about all of them. We start the podcast off by giving an explanation of how the regional/sectional series will work in terms of determining the individuals. We then look at the numbers of returning state qualifiers, placewinners, and champions in each regional and discuss some of the team battles that we will be lo...