After a one year absence the Wisconsin Rapids Lincoln Red Raider wrestling team makes their way back to Madison for this weekends team-state tournament.
Coming off a successful individual state tournament, where they crowned two state champions, two runners up, a third, fifth and sixth place finisher, the Wisconsin Rapids wrestlers will take on Muskego this Friday at 7:00 pm. But first, lets congratulate this past weekends individual wrestlers.
Congratulations goes out to Ben Best and Vance Grube for their first state championships! They now belong to a pretty prestigious group of Lincoln wrestlers.
It’s nice to see both Ben and Vance stand on top of the podium this year. Ben came into the program as a very well talked about freshmen. I hope this championship is the exclamation point on a career that has seemed to have as many ups as downs.
I still remember seeing Vance and Vaughn Grube’s names on wrestling championship’s back when they were still wrestling in Nekoosa. At that time I was a student teacher in the middle school and I remember assuming they had to be twins with their similar first names…
Devin Petersen capped off a successful freshmen year by placing 2nd. What’s even more impressive is doing it at a weight that is usually reserved for upperclassmen.
Doug Fuller lost his championship match to Jackson Hein from WausauWest 3-1. Hopefully, the silver lining for Doug is another chance at Jackson in the finals this weekend…
A few years back, I’m remembering a match (maybe a Vanevenhoven (sp) from Kaukauna) who was coming of a state championship the weekend before, and ended up getting stuck by a Rapids wrestler…
I’m at Lincoln every morning and the wrestlers and students are excited about bringing the championship back to Wisconsin Rapids.
Wrestling starts Friday night at 7:00 pm and continues Saturday. Tickets went on sale starting today. Plus, the weather sounds like it will be a lot easier getting to Madison this week compared to last.
Obviously you can listen to the matches on WFHR, but you’ll also be able to see results at WIwrestling.com as well. Also, updates will be found at Justin Tritz’s brainchild, TrackWrestling.com.
For fun you can watch the previous Rapids-West dual at BadgerWrestling.com.
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