WIwrestle presents Mizzou vs Northern Iowa

[JacobRaschka]

Super excited to host Mizzou vs UNI on November 26th at Arrowhead HS. Going to be an awesome atmosphere with lots of Wisconsin natives taking the mat. Limited amount of seats are available so make sure to get your tickets soon.

For more info on the dual check out our article on Rokfin: https://rokfin.com/article/18060/WIwrestle-Presents-Missouri-vs-Northern-Iowa-

Ticket link: https://mizzouvsunitickets.eventbrite.com

[CityGuy]

This looks awesome and hats off to all that made it happen. I love you can buy tickets in team sections. Any chance we see O'Toole bump up and battle Keck? That would blow the roof off the place and have all eyes on WIwrestling and fight pass!

[PAUL]

I get that this is America and it's a free country, it's great for the community and the fans and the athletes on the mat and in the stands.  And I wish them good luck on this event for sure. 

That being said, if I am being honest, this really rubs me the wrong way and frankly it pi**es me off. I guess the message it sends (to me, at least) is that the Wisconsin program is weak and irrelevant.  There is another topic on the state of the WI program, and to me this is a pretty powerful answer to that - it ain't good. 

I am sorry if I am a whiny b*tch about this, and once again good luck to the organizers and the athletes!   

[CityGuy]

LOL pissed off about better D1 wrestling coming to WI? Better not let Parkside or Lacrosse dual in state then. There powerful lineups might anger the Badger faithful. The more quality wrestling we get in state the better, compete or be left behind!

[downtown]

I get that this is America and it's a free country, it's great for the community and the fans and the athletes on the mat and in the stands.  And I wish them good luck on this event for sure. 

That being said, if I am being honest, this really rubs me the wrong way and frankly it pi**es me off. I guess the message it sends (to me, at least) is that the Wisconsin program is weak and irrelevant.  There is another topic on the state of the WI program, and to me this is a pretty powerful answer to that - it ain't good. 

I am sorry if I am a whiny b*tch about this, and once again good luck to the organizers and the athletes!   

Look around, the Wisconsin wrestling program is in bad shape.  Top athletes are leaving, fans are feed up and not attending dual meets and frankly have given up on the program.  This dual will most likely be the top attendance in the state this season.  Other than the Iowa dual which will be 90% Iowa fans.  There are two national champions on these squads that wrestled their entire high school career in Wisconsin.  Wisconsin got neither of them to travel 60 miles to go to college.  Wisconsin hasn't had a home grown national champion since Andy Rein.  That was 42 years ago!  Off the top of my head I can come up with 7 guys that have traveled out of state and won 12 national titles since then.  The amount of talent that has come through the high school program in the state the past 20 years and the fact that bucky hasn't gotten much of it is a major problem.  The problem isn't the academics, nor it is the room.  It is the leadership and culture of the program.  A team gets its identity from the coach, the coach gets his identity from the athletic director, the athletic director gets his identity from the chancellor.  It's pretty obvious that the wrestling program isn't cared about from the highest level all the way down.  If the university ever has to cut a program it will be an easy cut to eliminate the wrestling program.  Chancellor doesn't care, athletic director doesn't care, coach just seems to be in it for a paycheck, fans have left the program, the best in state kids won't go to school there.  I know that I will be watching this dual this year either in person or streaming.  It will have a lot of buzz about it leading up to it.  Wisconsin dual against any team will have little to no buzz.  Think about that.  A storied proud program like Wisconsin has fallen so far that a Missouri-Northen Iowa dual in a high school gym will have more buzz about it than any dual Wisconsin has this year.

[PAUL]

Yeah, you are both right and I get it for sure.  I suppose that to me it's just totally sad how a once pretty good (maybe close to great) program has fallen so far. 

As I said above, I hope that the dual is a great success, and I'm sure that it will be. 

[JacobRaschka]

we are 50% sold out! make sure to get your tickets if you are planning on attending.

https://mizzouvsunitickets.eventbrite.com