Bandits Club Wrestling

08/29/2026

Mat washing day!!!
Thanks to Coty Milligan for finding these on marketplace. The wrestling room will look different this winter.
More mat space and wall mats for more safety measures.
Thanks to Coaches Jason, Justin, and Jesse for going and getting them.
And thanks to David Weisman for use of a trailer.

03/31/2026

My Cousin Andy Wollner taken 2nd in Iowa State High School Wrestling back in 1996.

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1996 Iowa HS State Wrestling 1A 119
1 Tim Backer, Sr., Clarksville
2 Andy Wollner, Sr., Mason City Newman
3 Chris Goodwin, Jr., Lisbon
4 Rick Schweitzberger, Sr., Kingsley-Pierson
5 Jacob Peterman, So., Belle Plaine
6 Zeb Sullivan, Jr., Woodbine

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03/30/2026

One of the greats !!!

Another tough loss for the wrestling community as J Robinson passed away at 79 years old over the weekend.

A competitor at Oklahoma State, Robinson qualified for the 1972 Olympic Greco team before beginning a legendary coaching career.

He was part of the powerhouse years at Iowa, coaching under Gary Kurdelmeier and Dan Gable from 1972 to 1984.

At the University of Minnesota, Robinson led the Gophers to NCAA team titles in 2001, 2002, and 2007, becoming the first program outside of Iowa or Oklahoma to win multiple DI national championships.

During his 30-year tenure from 1986 to 2016, Minnesota not only won those three national championships but six Big Ten championships (1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007), and had 14 individual national champions.

RIP to an absolute legend of the sport.

03/22/2026

WOW!!! What a day.
Where do I start?? Ok, Congratulations to the “Lucky 7” that qualified for state today at Tomah.

Harvey Hildebrandt-73lbs 🥉
Caleb Jopp-100lbs 🥉
Leo Long-51lbs🥉
Alexander Vicente Ramirez-75lbs🥉
Jesse Merfeld-100lbs 🥉
Logan Powell-145lbs 🥈
Calvin Zuehlke-79lbs 🥇

7 ties the club record for sending kids to STATE. That is amazing.

Now to Leopold, Charlie, Logan, Vilas, Austin, Rhett, Weston, Zoey.
You guys have nothing to be sad about. You all wrestled your butts off all season and just came up short today. Don’t let today define you. Your hard work and determination will pay off in time. Just put your nose to the grind stone and keep kicking butt.

From Coaches
Jesse, Jason, Justin, Jesse and Mitch

03/01/2026

Another Bandits Cllub Wrestling Tournament setup and ready to rumble tomorrow morning. Weigh ins from 7:30am to 8:30am. Wrestling to start around 9am. See you in the morning.

02/26/2026

Tournament is FULL as of 8am. Thursday, February 26, 2026

02/04/2026

Who’s Ready To Wrestle!!!
Less than 30days away.
New this year is a Champ Ring for 1st place. And let me tell you they just came in. They are Huge, Heavy and Beautiful looking. (Hint: they are red with diamonds)