Hilton (Section 5) dominated the 2014 Pete Rao Wrestling Tournament coming in first place with 244.5 points and six champions. Battling for second place was Lockport and Lew-Port with the Lions taking second. Click here for the complete brackets. Photos can be seen at the allsportswny.com site.
Inspite if the weather and school closings, the 33rd annual Niagara Frontier Wrestling Official Tournament took place the weekend on Friday January 3rd, and Saturday January 4th at NCCC. Please click here for full brackets and final team standings.
Wrestling recently beat out Baseball/Softball and Squash to return to the 2020 Olympics. The majority of votes went to wrestling with 49 followed by baseball and softball with 24 and squash with 22. “Wrestling has shown great passion and resilience in the last few months,” IOC president Jacques Rogge said. “They have taken a number …
The quest to save wrestling in the Olympics reached center stage this week. Or should we say Grand Central stage? World class wrestlers came together this past Wednesday (May 15th) to put on a charity exhibition at New York’s Grand Central Terminal. More than 700 fans packed the terminal’s Vanderbilt Hall to see greats from the U.S., …
Among other changes unveiled last week, beginning in the 2013-14 season, forfeits will no longer count toward the a wrestlers five match daily limit. This change in Rule 1-4-2 was one of five rules changes made by the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) Wrestling Rules Committee at its April 8-10 meeting in Indianapolis. …