When the high school wrestling season ends in February, some wrestlers continue training. Unlike the folkstyle they’ve been enduring since November, they’ll choose to do either Olympic styles of freestyle or Greco-Roman during spring and summer.
Mount Horeb/Barneveld junior Eli Leonard competes in the WIAA Individual Wrestling State Tournament at the Kohl Center in Madison, Wis., Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024. Leonard competes in freestyle wrestling during the offseason and is ranked second in Division 1 at 175 pounds by Wisconsin Grappler.
Oregon's Cade Aaberg looks to lock in a cradle on Hudson's Noah Moltzan during their Division 1 126-pound third-place match on Day 3 of the WIAA individual state wrestling tournament at the Kohl Center on Feb. 24, 2024. Aaberg wrestles in offseason competition to improve his craft for Folkstyle wrestling in the winter.
Braedon and Owen Dorshorst are brothers on the Lodi wrestling team, finding their own paths at state wrestling.
Mount Horeb/Barneveld junior Eli Leonard competes in the WIAA Individual Wrestling State Tournament at the Kohl Center in Madison, Wis., Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024. Leonard competes in freestyle wrestling during the offseason and is ranked second in Division 1 at 175 pounds by Wisconsin Grappler.
Oregon's Cade Aaberg looks to lock in a cradle on Hudson's Noah Moltzan during their Division 1 126-pound third-place match on Day 3 of the WIAA individual state wrestling tournament at the Kohl Center on Feb. 24, 2024. Aaberg wrestles in offseason competition to improve his craft for Folkstyle wrestling in the winter.