INSIDE
WRESTLING
BY ANNA POULTER-HENDRICKSON
@BADGERWRESTLING
SCHEDULE
COMING UP
Nov. 21 at American
7:30 p.m.
Nov. 23 at Navy Classic
All Day
Nov. 30 at Northern Iowa 7:30 p.m.
Dec. 6Illinois
7 p.m.
Tyler Schmidt at heavyweight.
"I think every kid knows how to wrestle, (how to) compete at a high level, understands the sport at a high level, too,
and we couldn't be more excited about
that."
The Badgers protected their borders
with the signing of Schmidt, Scharenbrock
and Lantz. Together the trio combined to
go 133-2 in their junior seasons and have
five state titles among them, with Lantz
vying to become Ellsworth High School's
first four-time state champion.
Signing day yields big
gains for Badgers
Wisconsin to welcome six in fall of 2014
he Wisconsin wrestling
team signed six studentathletes to National Letters of Intent this week, including three Wisconin state
champions.
Ryan Christensen (Woodinville, Wash.), Johnny Jimenez
(St. Charles, Ill.), Luke Rowh
(Hastings, Minn.), Jens Lantz
(Ellsworth, Wis.), Jared Scharenbrock (Sun Prairie, Wis.)
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and Tyler Schmidt (Merrill,
Wis.) will join the Badgers in
the fall of 2014.
"We as a staff are very excited about the kids that committed to us already," said head
coach Barry Davis. "We were
6-for-6 in kids that we wanted.
There is a wide base of kids,
what I mean by that is different weight classes, from Johnny Jimenez being at 125 and
HOT START
● Three Badgers have started the season with a 7-0 record. No. 2 Tyler Graff
(133lbs.) and No. 6 Connor Medbery
(Hwt.) are joined by freshman No. 6
Isaac Jordan (157 lbs.) in the field of
unbeatens. The Jordan name is synonymous with UW wrestling as his father Jim, uncle Jeff and brother Ben all
earned All-America honors at UW.
BADGERS IN THE POLLS
● UW fell one spot to No. 24 in the USA
Today/NWCA/AWN Division I Coaches
Poll. Big Ten teams occupy five of the
top 10 spots and 10 of the top 25. Five
Badgers earned a place in the InterMat
College Rankings. Tyler Graff continues to be ranked No. 2 at 133 lbs. Jesse
Thielke fell from No. 17 to No. 18 at
141 lbs., Isaac Jordan moved up to No.
6 at 157 lbs., Jackson Hein moved up a
spot to No. 11 at 184 lbs. and Connor
Medbery stayed at No. 6 at Hwt.
