3 Trojan wrestlers hit milestones the last few weeks. Colton Bornholdt got his 100th win during The Clash tournament in LaCrosse, Koy Buesgens picked up his 100th victory this week and Evan Anderson won for the 75th time on varsity.

Congrats guys...keep it going!

The wresters had another good showing with winning the Kiffmeyer Duals in St. Cloud on Saturday.

The Trojans would defeat #16AAA Cambridge/Isanti 40-28, Sauk Rapids 72-10 and the in the Championship match, they defeated #7AAA Willmar 41-23.

Individual records:

Eller 3-0
McCarthy 1-2
Michel 2-1
Westall 2-1
Pauly 0-2
Dorweiler 3-0
Buesgens 3-0
Bornholdt 3-0
Farley 3-0
Johnson 2-0
Giesen 1-2
Novak 3-0
Anderson 3-0
Elgren 1-2

Next Up the Trojans will be at Orono on Thursday!

Go Trojans!

The New Prague Trojans Hosted the Prior Lake Lakers in the annual Highway 13 Battle. This event features all levels of wrestlers to compete. The Middle School wrestlers started the competition around 4:30, followed by the K-6 wrestlers, JV and then capped off with the Varsity under the lamp at 7:30.

The Trojans came out firing at 106 with a Pin by Kyle McCarthy to earn his first win wrestling at the varsity level. Lawson Eller bumped up to 113 to face Finn Bloomquist and Lawson would not disappoint, coming away with a Major decision victory.

Brandon Michel would step on the mat at 120 and after going down 2-0 in the first, came back with a dominating 2nd and 3rd period scoring near fall twice and going on to win 6-2.

New Prague would forfeit at 126 bringing the team score to 13-6. Brady Westall and Luke Dorweiler scored pins at 132 and 138 and Koy Buesgens gets a Major Decision at 145. Evan Farley continued the winning streak with a tech fall as did Colton Bornholdt at 160 making the score 39-6. 
We would forfeit at 170 and Frank Giesen would get pinned by #2AAA Cole Edwards at 182. Up next in his season debut coming off a football injury was Joey Novak, ranked #2AA. He would get a 2nd period pin, welcome back Joey! Evan Anderson would get a major decision victory at 220 and Payton Elgren would lose by pin bringing the final score, New Prague 49 Prior Lake 24. 

A nice team effort to retain the Hwy 13 sign.

Up next the Trojans travel to St. Cloud on Saturday to compete in the Kiffmeyer Duals.

Go Trojans!

The updated rankings came out on Thursday and the Trojans as a team dropped one spot to #10AA. The only real change in the top 10 outside of us dropping one spot was Watertown/Mayer which moved up 4 spots to #7AA. Watertown is in our section and we do have them on the schedule in a makeup dual on Feb 8th.

AA Top 10

1 Simley
2 Kasson/Mantorville
3 Becker
4Pequot Lakes/Pine River-Backus
5 Big Lake
6 Thief River Falls
7 Watertown/Mayer
8 Dassel/ Cokato-Litchfield
9 Fairmont County West
10 New Prague

5 Individuals are in the rankings:

Eller #4 at 106
Buesgens #1 at 138
Bornholdt #3 at 145 
Novak #2 at 182
Anderson #4 at 195

The Trojans have not been healthy and have been without Joey Novak all year, he is back in the lineup and look for New Prague to be a much better team with him in the lineup.

Go Trojans!

The wrestlers traveled to LaCrosse Wi this past weekend to battle in an extremely tough tournament, The Clash! The Trojans would have a first round match up with the #1 team in Alabama, Thompson HS. The matmen were outmatched in this one suffering their first loss of the season 48-15. They would come back with 2 wins over Stewartville 54-18  and a nice win over #13AAA Wayzata 43-27. 

That 5th place finish in the opening round would have them in a pretty tough bracket with #5 Holmen WI, #10AAA Northfield and #6 North Scott IA. The Trojans would battle hard but go 0-3 on the second day to finish in 20th place out of 32 teams. Scores of the matches were:

Holmen 41-26
Northfield 35-33
North Scott 37-28

The Trojans are back in action on Thursday when they will host the Hwy 13 Battle with Prior Lake, this is a k-12 event with all levels battling it out for the coveted HWY 13 Sign.

Go Trojans!
 

Both the Varsity and the JV battled over the last two days at one of the bigger and tougher tournaments during Christmas break, the Rumble On The Red in Fargo, ND.
 

The Varsity won this event the last time it was held in 2019. This year they would go in a little short handed and only have 10 wrestlers for the event. The Trojans were open at 113 and 285 because of injury; 160, 170 and 182 because those weights wrestled JV.

The Trojans would have some success early and in the end finished in 7th place out of 61 teams.

Junior Koy Buesgens would lead the team in points with a Championship at 138lbs. Junior Colton Bornholdt would have another strong tournament placing 5th at 145lbs. and Lawson Eller continues his good season with a nice 4th place finish! 

Wrestlers results:
Eller 4-2 4th Place
Michel 1-2
Westall 2-2
Hermann 0-2
Buesgens 5-0 Champ
Dorweiler 3-2
Bornholdt 5-2 5th
Farley 3-2
Anderson 3-2
DeGross 2-2

Top Ten Teams

#2A Jackson County Central  156.5
#4AAA Stillwater 145.5
#1AAA Bismark High 111.5
#2AAA Waconia 110.5
#3AA Big Lake 107.0
#4A Royalton/Upsula 96.5
#9AA New Prague 95.5
#4A Rapid City Stevens 79.5
#13AAA Wayzata 76.5
Dawson/Boyd 76.5

Job Well Done Trojans!
 

The JV Squad had 17 wrestlers competing in the tough Rumble On The Red in Fargo, ND. The team would place 13th out of 63 teams.

Payton Elgren placed 2nd and Derrick Schaap placed 6th, here is the list of wrestlers and how they faired:

Farley 0-2
McCarthy 4-2
Lofton 1-2
Feit 2-2
Pauly 2-2
Schmitz 4-2
Schaap 4-3 6th Place
Block 2-2
Conyers 0-2
Tietz 1-2
Johnson 0-2
Connelly 2-2
Prochaska 3-2
Ettlin 3-2
Elgren 4-1 2nd Place
Herder 2-2
Jacobson 1-2

Job Well Done!
 

The Trojans hosted a pair of Conference opponents and a Section rival in New Prague on Tuesday night. The Trojans opened up against Bloomington Kennedy winning 54-25. They would next face Benilde St. Margarets and defeat the Knights, 72-12. They would finish the evening off with Mound Westonka and beat them 60-18. Three good wins for the Trojans to improve their regular season record to 7-0.

Memphis Connelly, Kyle McCarthy and Easton Farley recorded their first varsity victories last night, congrats guys!

Wrestlers going 3-0 last night were:

Lawson Eller
Brady Westall
Luke Dorweiler
Koy Buesgens
Evan Farley
Frank Giesen
Evan Anderson

The Trojans will be back in action next Wednesday when they will be competing in the Rumble On The Red Ind. Tournament in Fargo ND.

Go Trojans!

The Trojan wrestling team wrestled in one of the toughest tournaments around this past weekend in Rochester. The Christmas Tournament; featured 10 of the top 12 teams in AAA and 3 of the top 10 Teams in AA. There was also a nationally ranked team from South Dakota and 5 top 10 teams from Wisconsin. 

The Highlight of the tournament was Koy Buesgens capturing the title at 138lbs with another big win in the finals over Nationally ranked Grayson Clark of Kaukauna WI. 6-5. Koy would also beat the #2 ranked wrestler in Wisconsin, Max Ronsman in the semis 11-2. Great Tourney Koy! 

Colton Bornholdt was the other Trojan that had success going 4-2 for a 5th place finish. Colton, #4AA would beat Cash Raymond #3AA from Simley twice the last victory for 5th place. Nice job Colton.
 

The rest of the team battled hard and got some great experience in this extremely tough tournament. The Trojans did have 4 starters out and Tommy Vaughan did get injured in his first match and had to Medical Forfeit both of his matches with a dislocated elbow. 

The rest of the team and their records:

Eller 3-2
Vaughan 0-2 MFF
Lofton 0-2
Michel 2-2
Westall 1-2
Block 0-2
Connelly 0-2
Giesen 0-2
Gregory 1-2

The Trojans finished in 22nd place out of 38 teams.

The wrestlers will be back in action on Tuesday as they will be hosting a quad with Benilde/St. Margaret's, Mound and Kennedy.

The wrestlers improved their record to 4-0 with a big Section rivalry win over Scott West 42-29. The dual started out with pin at 106 by Lawson Eller to give the Trojans a 6-0 lead. Tommy Vaughan would lose by Tech fall to Caleb Tracy to bring it to a 6-5 lead. At 120lbs, Brandon Michel would give us a very exciting match and come away with victory by decision over Mason Breegemann. Destiney Lofton would lose by fall over #2AA Matt Randolph. Brady Westall would have his hands full with #2AA Zach Tracy, Brady would wrestle a good match and lose 4-0. #1AA Koy Buesgens gets a first period fall to bring the team score to 15-14 New Prague. Colton Bornholdt ranked #4AA at 145 would win by a medical forfeit after Landon Church would go down with an ankle injury. Luke Dorweiler and Evan Farley score back to back pins making it 33-14. Noah Block and Frank Geisen lost by fall and Evan Anderson #4AA would win a close one by the score of 1-0. That would set up a critical match at  220 where Senior, Ian DeGross wrestling in his first match ever would face Hunter Lilleskov. What does Ian do, only scores a 2nd period pin, giving the Trojans a  guaranteed victory. Brady Gregory would lose a close match 3-0 to Carson Schoenbauer. Final score, Trojans 42-Scott West 29. 

The Trojans will be back in action next weekend wrestling in one of the toughest individual tournaments of the year, The Christmas Tournament in Rochester.

The Trojan wrestling team started their season on Saturday with hosting the New Prague Invite. The team wrestled well and came away with the championship.

In the first round they defeated Austin by the score of 69-12, they beat Eastridge 80-0 and they had a closer match with Section 2 rival St. Peter 40-27. All in all a good day of wrestling. 

Trojans going 3-0 on were:

Eller, Vaughan, Michel, Westall, Buesgens, Dorweiler, Bornholdt, Farley and Anderson.

2-1 were Lofton, Geisen and Gregory.

1-2 were Block and Ellgren.

The Trojans will be back in action on Friday night wrestling Watertown/Mayer and Chaska/Chanhassen.

Go Trojans!

The Pre-Season rankings are out and the New Prague Trojans are in the top 10 as a team. Here is the top 12 for AA.

1. Simley (4)
2. Kassson-Mantorville (1)
3. Fairmont County West (3)
4. Princeton (6)
5. Becker (6)
6. Pequot Lakes/Pine River-Backus (8)
7. Big Lake (6)
8. Dassel/Cokato-Litchfield (6)
9. Thief River Falls (8)
10. New Prague (2)
11. Watertown Mayer (2)
12. Foley (6)

Scott West St. Peter and TCU are in the Lean and Mean for section 2AA.

The Trojans have 5 ranked wrestlers and they are:

Lawson Eller #3 at 106lbs
Koy Buesgens #1 at 138lbs
Colton Bornholdt #3 145lbs
Joey Novak #2 at 182lbs
Evan Anderson #4 at 195lbs

Junior's Koy Buesgens and Colton Bornholdt were competing in the Toughest High School tournament in the country this past weekend!

The Super 32 takes place in Greensboro, NC with wrestlers representing 46 states and Canada. This tournament had over 1650 wresters and majority of them are place winners at their individual state tournaments. This years class included 377 State Champions.

Koy Buesgens had a tremendous tournament. He is a State Champ at 126lbs and entered this years Super 32 at 132lbs. He would have the #1 ranked wrestler in Nic Bousakis in his bracket. 

Koy was the 11th seed in a bracket that consisted of 168 wrestlers. Koy would win his opening round match 11-1. He would continue with 3 more wins to get the quarterfinals. He would face a wrestler from Arizona that placed 2nd up in Fargo in July in Emilio Ysaguirre ranked #17 in the country. Koy would continue his great run with a UTB sudden death victory to advance to the Semi Finals.  He would face the #10 seed Mac Church, who just upset the #2 seed in the quarters. Koy's impressive run would continue with a 10-2 victory.  

The only opponent left in the bracket was the #1 ranked wrestler in the country and the #1 seed, Nic Bousakis out of Florida. Koy would wrestle another great match but came up short after getting in on a low single to an ankle. Bousakis would score the take down and win the title 6-4.  Placing 2nd at the Super 32 is a great accomplishment, congratulations Koy!

Colton Bornholdt wrestled well and went 2 and 2 at this extremely tough tournament. Colton had 168 wrestlers in his 138lb bracket. Job well done Colton!

The New Prague Wrestling team will be competing in a different Conference and Section this year. They will be a member of the Metro West conference which includes, Benilde St. Margarets, Bloomington Jefferson, Bloomington Kennedy, Chanhassen, Chaska, Orono, Robbinsdale Cooper, St. Louis Park and Waconia.

We will dropping down to Section 2AA a very familiar section for New Prague, we will be reuniting with the likes of Scott West and TCU. The complete section includes; Delano, Glencoe-Silver Lake, Mankato East, Mankato West, Mound Westonka, Orono, Rockford, St. Peter and Watertown-Mayer.

Below is the link to the youth wrestling parent meeting we held on October 13.  If you were unable to attend or had to jump off, here is a recorded video of it.  If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to any of the coaches.

Trojan Wrestling will be strong again in 2021/22. The season will start on Nov. 22nd with the first practice. The first event will be the New Prague Invite on Dec 4th. A complete schedule is listed below.

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2021/22 Schedule

Dec. 4th New Prague Invite Austin, Eastridge and St. Peter

Dec. 11th @ ScottWest (K-12 event)

Dec 17th-18th MN Christmas Tournament in Rochester

Dec. 21st Bloomington Kennedy/BSM/Mound @ New Prague

Dec. 29th-30th Rumble On The Red Fargo

Jan. 7th-8th The Clash in Rochester

Jan. 8th TCU Invite

Jan. 13th HWY 13 Battle (K-12 Event) in New Prague

Jan. 15th St. Cloud Kiffmeyer Duals

Jan. 20th @ Orono

Jan. 22nd Zelinski Memorial  @ Whitnall HS Wisconsin

Jan. 27th TCU with Robbinsdale Cooper

Jan. 28th Chaska/Chanhassen in New Prague

Jan. 29th Orono Invite

Feb. 4th Waconia in New Prague

Feb. 5th Minnetonka Duals

Feb. 8th WMML 

Feb. 12th JV Tournament Lakeville South

Feb. 17th-19th Team Sections

Feb. 25th-26th Ind. Sections

Mar. 3rd-5th State Tourney Xcel Energy Center

Plenty of good matchups with ranked teams this year. Should be a fun season.

Go Trojans!

Click on the link below to register for New Prague Youth Wrestling.  

Looking forward to another great season!

THE FUTURE IS LOOKING BRIGHT!