09/30/2025
Hey everyone. With wrestling season upon us, we thought a post about the Mustang program was in order. 20 years ago, Mustangs began with Cole Mann, his mom and his uncle and coach Pete Benedix. With no team at all, but hope for bringing wrestling back was in our sights. We worked hard, fundraised like crazy and a program developed. At one time, we had over 100 kids between the Falls and Fort Frances. We were a family and there was much success. Eyes were set upon getting it back into the high school. Pete fought hard and with several attempts, the school board passed it and we were allowed to try and get a Bronco wrestling program going.
Unfortunately, and even though we had an excellent feeder program, we didn't have the numbers. We tried to co-op with Northwoods, but it was unsuccessful. The interest and the funding was not there at that level.
We pushed forward and continued on with the program and the numbers continued to decline.
It's with a heavy heart, we have decided to disband the Mustang program. It is now going into the school as a rec program.
Our lease is up in October at Backus. We've donated start up money to the new program and will be leaving the red mats at Backus for the upcoming season.
We wish the program a ton of success going forward. Thank you to Jeremy and Hudson for all the time and effort put in over the years. And to all the previous coaches. Also to Kari Gansch who has been there since day 1. Everyone played a part, and most importantly, the parents!
Thank you and the best of luck!
