Category Amateur Wrestling

Bengals Sign Former Michigan HS State Champ Ghiaciuc

CINCINNATI – The Cincinnati Bengals signed fourth-round pick Eric Ghiaciuc, a center from Central Michigan, to a four-year contract on Saturday. Ghiaciuc, 6-foot-4 and 302 pounds, started the final 35 games of his Central Michigan career and blocked for a…

Rupp Rule Redefines NCAA Out-Of-Bounds

One of the new rules adopted by the NCAA Wrestling Rules Committee will change what consititutes a wrestler being out of bounds. The new rule will make the two-inch line which circles the mat and defines the wrestling area part…

Grappling and Rafting: Vikings Build Team Spirit on Mats, River

BY CHARLIE BERGMANN: Staff Writer Members of the Union Pines wrestling team that attended last week’s team camp at Bloomsburg University in central Pennsylvania learned moves and techniques that will help them individually during the coming season. But the second…

New College Conference All But Official

By Jeff Kolpack, The Forum The conference room in the upper level of the Fargodome had more than one meaning Thursday night. Representatives from seven Division I wrestling schools agreed they would like a league up and running this season.…

MU Wrestlers Headline Show-Me State Games

Columbia, Mo. -Wrestling in the 2005 Show-Me State Games July 23 in the Hearnes Center, five Missouri athletes walked away with a finish in the top three, and four Tigers grappled their way to the top of the podium by…

At Montclair State, Outrage Over Hiring Decision

BY M.A. MEHTA Star-Ledger Staff The news tiptoed along the electronic superhighway, a few paragraphs lost on the Montclair State University Web site 11 days ago. Three months after the second largest university in New Jersey reinstated its wrestling program…

Wrestling Uniform Alert from Nat Fed of State HS Associations

It has come to the attention of the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) that erroneous information regarding wrestling uniforms is being distributed by individuals not associated with the NFHS. The NFHS Wrestling Rules Committee has not approved…

This judge will take you down

Doug Meisenhelter, at 55, decided to join his son on the Keystone Games wrestling mat. By DAVE SOTTILE Daily Record/Sunday News Doug Meisenhelter and his wife, Sue, criss-crossed Pennsylvania for nearly 10 years, driving each summer from their Red Lion…

Hingham wrestlers becoming absolutely fit

There are many life lessons and lessons about one’s self that sports can teach kids. The Hingham wrestling team had a disappointing season last year winning fewer than half their matches. However, the wrestlers learned a great deal about themselves…