08/11/2026
SIX YEARS LATER… IT’S TIME TO GIVE BACK. (Even More)
Six years ago, The Best Wrestler started in McClelland, Iowa, with private lessons, a wrestling mat, and a belief that wrestling could be used to develop people.
Today, we have 14 locations and growing around the world. We’ve been blessed to impact more than 1,200 kids annually and work with Olympians, World Champions, Pan-Am Champions, National Champions, State Champions—and, more importantly, thousands of young men and women trying to become better versions of themselves.
We are grateful.
Grateful for every family who trusted us.
Every coach who poured into a kid.
Every athlete who walked through our doors.
Every partner who believed in the mission.
Every person who challenged us and forced us to grow.
And after six years, we’ve been asking ourselves:
How do we give more back?
Especially here at home.
Watching the performances coming out of Nebraska and Southwest Iowa, including what we saw at Fargo, reminded us just how much talent exists in this area.
But talent needs opportunity.
It needs great training partners. Great coaching. Great rooms. We still believe deeply in buying into a system and being consistent. For the athletes who choose to fully buy into our system, we will pour everything we have into them. But for the ones who choose a different path, we still want them to have access to our room, our coaches, and our resources in whatever way can help them grow. And most importantly, it takes people willing to put their egos aside for the kids.
So we are making one of the biggest changes we have ever made.
Effective immediately, our Future Olympian high school program will be FREE.
Any high school wrestler in the country can apply and, if accepted, train completely FREE at our headquarters at Iowa West Field House in Council Bluffs, Mount Michael in Omaha, or Lincoln Northwest in Lincoln.
No contracts.
No required number of practices.
No requirement to represent The Best Wrestler in competition.
You can wrestle for whatever high school, club, coach, or organization you choose.
Come once. Come occasionally. Come every week. Use us as another resource in your journey.
The only requirements are simple:
Apply. Be accepted. Work hard. Respect the room. Respect our coaches, athletes, culture, and system.
That’s it.
And we want to make something else very clear.
This invitation includes everyone.
It includes athletes and coaches from programs we compete against.
It includes programs we’ve had disagreements with.
It includes coaches we may not have always seen eye-to-eye with.
It includes our rivals.
Because at some point, leadership requires you to put the past down and ask a bigger question:
What is best for the kids? What is best for wrestling? What is best for our community?
We don’t need your athletes to wear our singlet.
We don’t need credit.
We don’t need ownership of their success.
If our room, our coaches, our training partners, or the Olympic system we have spent years developing can help another young person reach a goal—we want to help.
And to our current Future Olympian families who have faithfully paid membership dues and supported us:
Your memberships will be paused. Your training is now free, too.
You helped build this.
You believed in us before there were 14 locations. Before the international recognition. Before any of this became what it is today.
Thank you.
This is our six-year anniversary gift to the wrestling community.
Not a marketing campaign.
Not a recruiting war.
A commitment to serve.
Our mission has always been:
To Serve and Develop People, So That We Can Live in a Better World.
Now it’s time for us to live that mission at an even higher level.
Our doors are open.
Bring your singlet. Bring your goals. Bring your work ethic.
Leave the politics and egos at the door.
Let’s make Nebraska, Southwest Iowa, and American wrestling stronger—together.
Six years down.
We’re just getting started.
BE THE BEST.
Apply Here Now: https://thebestwrestler.com/location-home/location-council-bluffs-ia/
