New Prague would travel to Greenfield WI. to wrestle in the Zelinski Memorial Duals for the third straight year. This tournament features some of the top teams in the state from Wisconsin.

New Prague would go 5-0 on the day and keep their record perfect for the season at an impressive 24-0.

New Prague wins over:

Brookfield Central 51-13

Franklin 68-6

#2 Stoughton 41-21

#14 West Bend East 51-21

#1 Mukwonago 40-28

There were plenty of great matches with Stoughton having 7 ranked wrestlers and Mukwonago having 11.

Colton Bornholdt, Dunkel, Trachte and Busch all beat 2 ranked opponents.

Individual records:

Buesgens 5-0
Nick Novak 5-0
Skogerboe 5-0
Trachte 5-0
Busch 5-0
Colton Bornholdt 4-0
Dunkel 4-0
Wagner 3-2
Carter Bornholdt 3-2
Max Scheffler 3-2
Noah Block 2-1
Joey Novak 1-1
Alex Scheffler 1-0
Luke Dorweiler 1-0
Matt Geisen 1-0
Gregory 1-3
Tikalsky 1-3
Anderson 1-3
Bittner 0-1

Fantastic Tournament Guys!
 

Thursday night was Alumni night and there were plenty of former New Prague wrestlers in attendance for what was a great night of wrestling. New Prague would defeat rival ScottWest by the score of 44-21.New Prague would win 10 of the 14 matches. The biggest match of the night was #4AAA Colby Dunkel against #3AA Zach Tracy at 113. Dunkel would come away with a hard fought 2-0 win.

Trojans improved to 19-0 with the win!

The Wrestlers are grinding impressive wins this year and we saw another one last night. The Trojans were victorious over conference rival #20AAA Waconia. The win now has the team at 18-0 on the year.

The final score was 44-20, the team looked good winning 10 of 14 matches. The biggest match of the night was #4AAA Will Busch vs. #5AAA Bram Fitzsimonds at 195lbs. Busch would come away with a 3-2 victory.

The Trojans will be back in action next Thursday night, where they host #9AA ScottWest. It will also be Alumni Night, so we ask all former Trojan  wrestlers to attend and be recognized!

Go Trojans!

The wresters continue their dominance this year and improve to 17-0 with 3 wins at the Kiffmeyer Duals at St Cloud Tech.

The #4AAA Trojans would come in as the #1 seed followed by #5AA Foley, #15AAA Hastings and #16AAA Willmar. Other teams attending were section foes, Apple Valley and Lakeville South. St. Cloud Tech and Sauk Rapids/Rice would round out the filed.

The Trojans would face Sauk Rapids/Rice in the first round and win easily 61-12. The only concerning news coming out of this match is Evan Anderson got injured in the match with an Elbow injury. Hopefully he will be on the mat soon.

New Prague would then face Willmar in the semis and really have their way with them too, winning 48-21. The match of this dual was #4AAA Will Busch defeating #7AAA Kaden Streed 11-2. Also tip your hat to Luke Dorweiler who wrestled up at 145 to face #9AAA Josh Miley. Luke would only lose by a decision.

New Prague would move on to the championship match against Foley. Foley was short handed and forfeited the first three matches and the 220 weight class and the Trojans would role 56-18. Again tip your hat to Luke Dorweiler for wrestling up at 145 going up another ranked wrestler in #4AA Logan Thorsten and only giving up a loss by decision 12-6.

Congratulations to the team for another great effort!

Congratulations to Colby Dunkel on recording his 125th Win and to Ethan Gregory for getting his 50th win!

Keep it rolling boys!

New Prague will be back in action Thursday night where they will be traveling to Waconia to face the #20AAA Wildcats.

The Trojan wrestlers are turning some heads this year with big wins and it is showing in the rankings. The mat men moved up one spot to #4AAA.

We have seven individuals ranked and a few that are probably just outside the top 10.

106 lbs. Koy Buesgens #3AAA

113 lbs. Colby Dunkel #4AAA

120 lbs. Colton Bornholdt #8AAA

126 lbs. Joey Novak #6AAA

138 lbs. Nick Novak #3AAA

195 lbs. Will Busch #4AAA

285 lbs. Evan Anderson #9AAA

The Trojans improved to 14-0 on the year with big victories over Lakeville North 66-7, Rosemount 73-6 and Hutchinson 51-9.

Big matches of the night included:

#1AAA Jore Volk over #8AAA  Colton Bornholdt 7-1

#2AAA Zach Hanson over #4AAA Colby Dunkel 16-4

#8AAA Bornholdt over #8AA Grant Pierce 12-4

#4AAA Will Busch over #9AA Alex Nelson  7-4

Badgerland Nationals is the 2nd leg of 4 in the Midwest Wrestling tour.  With ~650 Wrestlers from all over the Midwest competing the brackets are big and the level of competition is high.  Coach Wagner says "I applaud their efforts and willingness to go compete in tournaments that draw in the best of the best".

New Prague Wrestlers competing:

Pre-K-K  60#
Bo Westall 0-5 6th Place

3rd-4th Grade 90#
Zach Weeman 1-3 6th Place

5th-6th Grade 82#
Vincent LaBelle 0-2 DNP

7th-8th Grade 80#
Lawson Eller 2-1 2nd Place

7th-8th Grade 100#
Brady Westall 2-1 2nd Place
Wyatt Pauly 0-2 DNP

The wrestlers were in action on Saturday at TCU HS in Montgomery competing in the Individual TCU tourney.

The #5AAA Trojans finished in 1st Place as a team with 246.5 points followed by #3AA Fairmont/Martin County West with 235.5 points and #15AA TCU with 160.0 points.

We had 3 Champions in Koy Buesgens at 106, Colton Bornholdt at 113 and Jake Trachte at 182. 2nd Place finishers were Colby Dunkel at 120, Nick Novak at 138, Jay Skogerboe at 160 and WIll Busch at 195.

3rd place went to Joey Novak at 126, Ryan Wagner at 132, Ethan Gregory at 170, Jarek Tikalsky at 220 and Evan Anderson at 285.

Max Scheffler place 4th losing to #2AA  Anderson from FMCW and #3AAA Talamantes from Alber Lea.

Other notable matches were; UR Colton Bornholdt over #2A Derek Steele at  113, #2AAA Dunkel losing to #2AA Jagodzinske at 120,  #4AAA Nick Novak losing a close 2-0 to #3AA Simmonds of FMCW at 138. UR Jake Trachte would beat #8A Avery Northquest from LCWM. 

We had 4 wrestlers that were getting varsity action but their scores would not count for the team, but they all wrestled well.

Freshman, Evan Farley knocked off #8AAA Aivan Wasmoen from Albert Lea in the first round. Evan would make it to the finals against Buesgens. Unfortunately Evan would break a finger in the match and the match was stopped.

Luke Dorweiler finished 5th at 132, Alex Scheffler placed 6th and Carson Bittmer placed 2nd at 220.

Great Tournament guys!  The Mat men will be back in action on Thursday night where they will hosting Lakeville North, Rosemount and Hutch.

It was a program wide wrestling day at Prior Lake on Friday in the HWY 13 Rumble. The Varsity winner takes home the coveted HWY 13 Sign.

Middle School Wrestlers kicked things off at 4:30 followed by the Traveling youth, JV and then Varsity at 7:30.

The JV team looked impressive with all pins expect for the last match where Carson Bittner had an impressive come from behind win over an over sized opponent.

The Varsity, ranked #5AAA jumped out in front with what was the match of the night at 106. Koy Buesgens ranked #5AAA going up against #6AAA Alan Keohler with a 5-1 decision. The Trojans would not look back with pins at 113 and 126 by Colton Bornholdt and Joey Novak. Coby Dunkel would get a forfeit at 120. Ryan Wagner had an impressive win at 132 against Cory St. Martin. Martin would get injured late in the 3rd and make the team score 27-0. Nick Novak would get the pin at 138 to continue his outstanding year. Prior Lake would make a run of victories at 145, 152, 160 and 170 bringing the team score to 33-15. Jake Trachte and Will Busch would right the ship and pick up victories, Prior Lake would get a win a 220 and Evan Anderson would get a forfeit at 285 making the final score 46-18.

The Trojans improved to 11-0 on the season. 

What a fantastic weekend of wrestling for the mat men in Fargo at the tough Rumble On The Red! I'm not sure how many teams have won both the Varsity and the JV portion as a team but I am sure it is very few.

The Varsity team, ranked #5AAA won the tournament with a score of 146.0, followed by #6AAA Northfield at 124.0, #14AAA Farmington at 117.0, #5AA Perham at 112.5 and #7AA Foley at 112.0.

There were 58 teams in the tournament.

Individual place winners were:
106 Koy Buesgens (CHAMPION)
113 Colton Bornholdt (5th)
120 Colby Dunkel (7th)
126 Joey Novak (3rd)
138 Nick Novak (2nd)
195 Will Busch (4th)

Junior Varsity also won the team portion of the tournament with only 10 scoring wrestlers. There were 56 teams in this tournament. Individual place winners were:

106 Evan Farley (CHAMPION)
120 Cole Herrmann (7th)
132 Luke Dorweiler (3rd)
138 Alex Scheffler (CHAMPION)
195 Matt Giesen (3rd)
195 Carson Bittner (CHAMPION)

The Wrestlers will be back in action on Friday Night when they travel to Prior Lake for the HWY 13 Battle. Wrestling will include the youth and Middle School programs. Wrestling will begin around 4PM.

Go Trojans!

After the New Prague Varsity and JV won the Rumble on the Red it was the Youth Traveling Wrestlers turn to take the Mats!  With almost 700 wrestlers competing in the Youth Individual Tournament the competition was fierce!  Coach Wagner says "I'm impressed with all of the kids who put themselves out there against some of the best competition in the midwest."

New Prague Youth results:

8U 50#
Asher Theis 2-3 8th Place

8U 55#
Graham Lofton 0-2 DNP

10U 55#
Azalea Kallal 0-2 DNP

10U 60#
Henry Langeberg 3-3 8th Place

10U 60#
Connor Hoffman 0-2 DNP

10U 75#
Forester Lofton 2-2 DNP

10U 75#
Charley Kallal 2-2 DNP

10U 106#
Patrick Sullivan 0-2 DNP

12U 75#
Elijah Lofton 0-2 DNP

 

The Wrestlers were in action on Friday and Saturday at the Minnesota Christmas Tournament in Rochester, in what is believed to be one of the toughest tournaments in Minnesota. This is the first time since 2016  the Trojans were wrestling in the Minnesota Christmas Tournament.

The Trojans  as a team wrestled really well in what was a true grind at most of the weight classes. New Prague would finish in 6th place with 127.5 points. Tournament Champion Simley had 232, followed by Stillwater at 230, Shakopee 167, STMA 161 and Kasson/Mantroville 142.

Individually we had 5 Place Winners. 

Koy Buesgens #5AAA wrestled a fantastic tournament placing 3rd with his only loss in the Semi's to eventual Champion, #1 AAA Jore Volk of Lakeville North. Koy went 4-1 beating Zach Silvas #4AAA and Zach Tracy #4AA  twice to take 3rd.

Colby Dunkel suffered an early round loss to Evillard of Owatonna but would avenge that loss in the consolation semi's, catching Evillard in a spladle for the pin. Colby would beat Carter Ban #9AAA  and Teagan Block #7AAA, his other losses were to the #2 ranked wrestler from Wisconsin and the #4 ranked wrestler from Illinois. Colby went 5-3 and placed 6th.

Joey Novak had a grind of a tournament going 6-3 and placing 6th. He lost to Pierson Manville #2AAA of Shakopee, #1AA Chase DeBlaere of Simley and #5AAA Kyler Wong of Wayzata. Joey had wins over #6AAA Brendan Howes of Anoka and #9AAA Jed Wester of STMA.

Nick Novak knocked off  #3AAA Keiler Carlson in the Quarters on a last second take down to win 2-1. Nick would go up against #1AA  Ryan Sokol in semi's. Sokol would beat Nick and go on and win the Championship at 138. Nick had another nice win over #2 Div 2 ranked wrestler in Wisconsin, Joniaux.  Novak would go 4-2 and place 4th.

Evan Anderson had a great tournament at 285, Evan went 4-3 for the tournament and all three losses were to ranked opponents. Evan would lose to #1AA Logan Wingert of PEM and 2 close loses to #9AAA Diego Villeda of Eagan. Anderson would have 2 wins over ranked guys in #5A Dylan Nirk of Westfield  and #10AA Chris Celis of Simley. Anderson would finish in 6th place.

We had 4 wrestlers lose in the blood round, meaning if they win that match, they would have placed.

Colton Bornholdt, Max Scheffler, Jake Trachte and WIll Busch all lost in the blood round and went 3-2. Ryan Wagner and Jay Skogerboe went 2-2- and Jarek Tikalsky and Carter Bornholdt went 0-2. 

Great showing at the Christmas tournament and good luck at the Rumble On The Red in Fargo this coming Friday!

The Trojan's traveled to Orono to face Orono, #8A Frazee and Mound Westonka.

The mat men would have no problems beating Orono 69-6 , Frazee 55-15 and Mound/Westonka 71-11.

Five Wrestlers reached Milestones with Joey Novak picking up his 50th win. Nick Novak gets his 100th win, Carter Bornholdt 50th win, Jake Trachte gets his 75th win and Will Busch notches his 50th win. Congrats guys, keep it going!

The Trojans will be competing in probably the toughest individual tournament, the Christmas Tournament in Rochester. Wrestling starts at 2PM!

Good Luck Trojans!

The Matmen continue to impress with 3 big wins this weekend. New Prague started out with a hard fought win over host PEM 44-22. They would have no problem with Zumbrota/Mazeppa winning 52-12 and Rochester Mayo would go down 65-15.

The Trojans record for the day was 31-11 and 3 of those loses were by forfeit at 160, Ethan Gregory plans to start wrestling this week.

Congratulations to Max Scheffler for recording his 100th Win!

We have 7 undefeated wrestlers all at 7-0 and look very impressive.

Koy Buesgens 106

Colton Bornholdt 113

Colby Dunkle 120

Joey Novak 126

Nick Novak  138

Jake Trachte 182

Will Busch 195

Keep it going guys!

Yellow Jacket Nationals is the 1st of 4 legs in the Midwest Wrestling tour.  All wrestlers competing for a chance place in the top 6 at each Tournament and an eventual opportunity to win the "belt".  The Midwest Wrestling tour belt will be awarded to wrestlers that place 1st-4th in 3 of the 4 events.  New Prague Wrestling had 11 wrestlers in attendance and all 11 represented well!  Wrestlers competing were:

Pre-K-K Grade 60#
Bo Westall 0-3 4th Place

1st-2nd Grade 50#
Asher Theis 1-2 DNP

3rd-4th Grade 60#
Henry Langeberg 0-2 DNP

3rd-4th Grade 69#
Beck Swanepoel 0-2 DNP

5th-6th Grade 70#
Grady Connelly 2-1 2nd Place

5th-6th Grade 74#
Mason Deutsch 0-2 DNP

5th-6th Grade 82#
Vinnie LaBelle 1-2 DNP
Isaac Pumper 0-2 DNP

5th-6th Grade 130#
Owen Johnson 2-3 6th Place

7th-8th Grade 80#
Lawson Eller 3-0 CHAMPION

7th-8th Grade 100#
Brady Westall 3-1 3rd Place

The Trojan Matmen continued their dominance the early part of the season. They hosted the Eagan Wildcats, Medford Tigers and the St. Francis Saints. The Trojans showed their #5AAA ranking by having no problems on Saturday.

The Trojans would pick up victories over:

Eagan 67-6

Medford 64-12

St, Francis 66-4

The wrestlers improved their season record to 4-0.

A few individual notes, Colby Dunkel recorded his 100th Varsity win and Jay Skogerboe notched his 50th Varsity win. Congratulations guys and keep it going.

The New Prague Youth Team Hosted the Doc Berg Classic on Sunday at the High School. There were over 300 wrestlers at the event from communities around Minnesota. New Prague had 90 wrestlers competing in the tournament. That is the largest number of wrestlers we have had at this tournament. The youth program is strong for New Prague.

Go Trojans!

The updated rankings are out but really to early to move the needle one way or the other but here are a few minor changes. The team remains ranked 5th in AAA.

We still have 5 individuals ranked and Colby Dunkel went up one spot to #2AAA at 113lbs. Joey Novak slipped a spot to #6AAA at 120lbs, Nick Novak stays at #3AAA 138. Max Scheffler is ranked #7AAA at 152 and Jake Trachte dops one spot to #9AAA at 195.

We are expecting a few more to crack the top 10 as the season moves.

Go Trojans!

The wrestlers came out firing on Thursday with an impressive win over TCU. The #5AAA Trojans started the night out with four straight pins and never looked back, winning 54-18.

Koy Buesgen wrestled his first varsity match at 106 and was impressive, getting a first period pin over Zach Balma.

Colton Bornholdt,  #3AAA Colby Dunkel and #5AAA Joey Novak all scored  2nd period pins bringing the score to 24-0. Ryan Wagner won a close match at 132 . 

The best match up of the night was wrestled at 138 with #3AAA Nick Novak pairing up against Caleb Whipps.  Novak would prevail with a nice 7-3 win making it 30-0.

TCU would get on the board with a pin from Caleb O'Malley over Carter Bornholdt. #7AAA Max Scheffler would get a major decison at 152. TCU would get another pin at 160 where Thomas Ott a freshman was asked to fill in for Ethan Gregory, who should be ready to start his season next week. Team score is now 34-12.

Jay Skogerboe came out fighting and earned a Major Decison at 170, as did #8AAA Jake Trachte at 182.  Will Busch electrified the crowd with a lateral drop which turned into a pin at 195.

Jarek Tikalsky a senior wrestled his first varsity match in 3 years and was pinned but look for better outcomes this year. Evan Anderson finished off the night with a pin at 285 making it a final score of 54-18.

Trojans will be back in action on Saturday in New Prague. Wrestling starts at 9:00AM  with matches against Eagan, Medford and St. Francis.

The New Prague Trojans look to have a great year and the 1st rankings of the season are out. The Trojans are ranked 5th in AAA behind #1 Shakopee #2 Stillwater #3 St. Michael/Albertville and #4 Forest Lake.

New Prague has 5 wrestlers ranked in the top 10 and we expect a few more to be added the next time the rankings come out Dec 5th.

Colby Dunkel    113lbs       3rd

Joey Novak         120lbs      5th

Nick Novak          138lbs     3rd

Max Scheffler     152lbs     7th

Jake Trachte        195lbs     8th

The Trojans open up against TCU tomorrow night in Montgomery with Varsity starting around 7PM.

You can watch the match on Facebook by searching for the New Prague Minnesota Wrestling Page.

Go Trojans!     

The Pound for Pound rankings are out and we have two New Prague Wrestlers being recognized. The Pound for Pound rankings are the top wrestlers in each grade across all weight classes.

Junior Nick Novak is ranked 15th in the state. Novak is coming off a Sophomore season where he went 48-4 and a 4th place finish at State.

Freshman Koy Buesgens is entering his first season at the varsity level and he is ranked 6th for all Freshman in the state. Look for these two young men play a key role in the success of the program this year.

Girls Preseason rankings are out and New Prague has two wrestlers in the top 10.

Destiny Lofton is ranked #2 at 102lbs and Ava Bruegger is ranked #6 at 110lbs. Both  Destiny and Ava will be wrestling for the Middle School Program this year along with Various Girl only tournaments.

Looking forward to a great year across all New Prague Wrestling programs.

The wrestling season is a little over a month away but look for the New Prague Trojans to make some noise this year. They will be looking to improve on the 21-4 season from a year ago. They did finish the season ranked at #9AAA.

The mat men will return a heavy senior lineup with 7 returning starters from a year ago and a bunch of underclassmen that will be highly ranked in state. Preseason rankings will come out on November 21st. We should expect the Trojans to be ranked in the top 10 and could be as high as  4th in state before the season starts.

The Trojans will have a pretty tough schedule this year as we will be wrestling in the Rumble on the Red in Fargo ND, The Christmas Tournament in Rochester and the Zelinski Memorial in Greenfield Wisconsin. Dual matches of note are Prior Lake on Jan. 2nd, Waconia on Jan. 16th, Scottwest on Jan.23rd and St. Michael/Albertville on Feb 6th.

We will be streaming the Dual matches on Facebook live again this year!

Go Trojans!

Track Preason Nationals attracted 761 wrestlers from the Midwest to La Crosse, Wi.  This is another high caliber tournament in the area and a great way for our Youth Wrestlers to compete at a great venue.  Traveling Wrestlers competing were:

8U 50#
Asher Theis 1-2
Ryan Conelly 3-3 6th Place
8U 55#
Charlie Wagner 3-2
10U 60#
Henry Langeberg 1-2
10U 70#
Grady Connelly 4-3 6th Place
10U 87#
Andrew Bauer 0-2
12U 75#
Mason Deutsch 2-2

USAW Preseason Nationals is arguably one of the toughest Tournaments of the season.  This year ~2700 wrestlers representing 36 different states made the trip to Des Moines, IA.  New Prague Wrestling had 7 Wrestlers compete with some of the toughest wrestlers in the country!

grades 5/6 85#
Vinnie LaBelle 0-2
grades 5/6 90#
Cody Thompson 0-2
 

H.S grades 9/10 106#
Koy Buesgens 3-2
H.S grades 9/10 113#
Evan Farley 0-2
Colton Bornholdt 2-2
H.S grades 9/10 126#
Joey Novak 3-2
H.S grades 11/12 138#
Nick Novak 4-2

Registration for Traveling Wrestling is now open! Click on the Registration tab at  the top of the page and select Traveling.

Let's get the season started!

There will be an information night for anyone interested in the Community Ed Wrestling Program. The meeting will be held at the High School on Wednesday, September 18th at 6:30PM in the Lecture Hall  Room 265.

To register for wrestling go the Registration tab at the top of the page an click on Community Education.

Thank You to ALL of our Sponsors, Businesses, Wrestling families and Golfers who donated to the 9th Annual Golf Tournament on June 22nd.  Your support & commitment to the New Prague Wrestling program is invaluable!  Through you commitment, we are able to offer developmental programs and Competition opportunities at the Local, State and National levels for all Pre-K- 12th Grade New Prague Wrestlers.

Sincerely,

           The New Prague Wrestling Golf Tournament Golf Committee

$1000 Cash Grand Prize - Matt Miller
1/2 Hog Fully Processed - Sue O'Leary
Deluxe Smoker - Art Trachte

10 - $100 Cash drawings
Craig Woods
Danielle Doherty
Deanna Logelin
Deb Kargos
Jenny Buus
John Dunkel
Kurt Ruehling
Marlon Kronick
Rob Hanes
Sherrie Capitola
 

THE FUTURE IS LOOKING BRIGHT!