INSIDE WRESTLING
BY RYAN EVANS
@Badger_Wrestle
SCHEDULE (7-8, 4-4)
Coming Up
Mar. 9-10 Big Ten
Championships
Mar. 21-23 NCAA
Championships
Big test awaits Badgers at
Big Ten championships
Two-time champ Brandvold knows what it takes
F
ew tournaments in collegiate wrestling are as
deep as the Big Ten championships. In a conference
where each 12-man bracket could be made up of 10
ranked wrestlers, it���s always
a heated battle to reach the
top of the podium.
For the Badgers, maybe
no one knows that better
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than assistant coach and
two-time Big Ten champion Trevor Brandvold. He is
helping Wisconsin���s wrestlers prepare for the 2013 Big
Ten Championships, which
are just over a week away.
���The Big Ten championships are unlike any other
tournament you can wrestle
in,��� Brandvold said. ���There���s
All Day
All Day
not an easy match.
���You have to be ready every single
match, and be ready to take it one
match at a time.���
Brandvold was a Big Ten champion at 197 lbs. at both the 2010 and
2011 conference tournaments, and
said the best thing a wrestler can do
to have a chance to succeed at the
Big Ten tournament is have the right
mindset going in.
���You need to have the confidence
and the mentality that you���re going to
win that tournament,��� he said. ���You
belong as the champ ��� you have to
have that mentality going in.���
Succeeding in the Big Ten means
you are one of the premier collegiate
wrestlers in the country, Brandvold
says.
���To be able to win that tournament
says a lot about the kind of wrestler
you are,��� he said. ���I���m almost more
proud of being a two-time Big Ten
champion than I am of being a twotime All-American.���
Badgers on BTN
�� The 2013 Big Ten Championships
will be held at Assembly Hall in
Champaign, Ill., March 9-10. The
tournament���s second day will be
broadcast live on Big Ten Network,
beginning at 1:30 p.m. (CT).
