Southern Wrestling Tournaments 2011-12 Alabama Dec. 2-3 – Gardendale Invitational (Gardendale HS) Dec. 9-10 – Fultondale Invitational (Fultondale HS, Birmingham) Dec. 9-10 – Swede Umbach Tournament (Auburn HS) Dec. 16-17 – Mountain Brook Invitational (Mountain Brook HS, Birmingham) Dec. 29-30 – Heart of Dixie Classic (Vestavia Hills HS) Jan. 6-7 – Hoover Invitational (Hoover HS) [...]

By Scott Goodpaster A great workout starts with a great warm-up.  At Cincinnati Functional Fitness, we incorporate Spiderman Crawls in a dynamic warm-up.  This is an excellent movement combining a crawling motion with a push-up and will prepare your upper body and core for your upcoming workout. Include Spiderman Crawls as part of your warm-up. [...]

By Willie Saylor, WIN Staff Writer Many wrestling aficionados will tell you that the state that boasts the most consistent crop of high school depth and talent in the country is Pennsylvania, an assertion supported by the Keystone state’s all-time lead of 602 Division I NCAA All-Americans … followed by Oklahoma’s 531 and Iowa’s 463. [...]

By Mike Finn This has been quite a year for Jordan Burroughs, who captured his second NCAA championship this past winter and won the FILA World freestyle championship a couple weeks ago. It was also a great time for Nebraska head coach Mark Manning, who was in Burroughs corner in Philadelphia last March for the [...]

By Steve Fraser As I contemplate our poor performance at the 2011 Greco-Roman World Championships, I struggle with what we need to do over the next 10 months to reach our Olympic goals for London. The two things that stand out in my mind are: on the feet, the wrestlers who win are true “fighters” [...]

By Rob Sherrill With another off-season now officially over, I’ve spent the better part of the last couple of weeks (prior to deadline) compiling the new set of preseason individual rankings you can find on page 35 in this issue. (Hold all applause until the end, please.) The volume of results I used resembled a [...]

By Jamie Moffatt Let’s set this scene, which could happen any day now, in any town in the USA, of a meeting between an athletic director and the wrestling coach in a mythical Lincoln High School. Athletic Director: Thanks for coming by, coach. There have been some recent developments where our school district is being [...]

Editor’s Note: Dan Gable made his name by setting college records as an Iowa State wrestler and University of Iowa coach. He also dominated on the World and Olympic stage by winning championships as both a wrestler and coach. Recently, Gable reflected on the United States’ successful World Championships in Istanbul, Turkeym with WIN editor [...]

NEWTON, Iowa — Blair Academy in New Jersey and St. Johns High School in Michigan each feature two top-ranked wrestlers in WIN’s 2011-12 Preseason High School rankings, which were released on Sept. 20. Leading the way for Blair Academy, located in Blairstown Township, N.J., is senior Mark Grey at 132 pounds and junior heavyweight Brooks [...]

By WIN Staff Writer, Willie Saylor Wouldn’t it be great to look back through historical wrestling statistics and reflect on a 200-plus takedown season for John Smith, or to know, accurately, how many nearfall points J.P. O’Connor put up in his championship season for Harvard in 2010? A large portion of the romanticism Americans have [...]