NLS Wrestling

03/23/2026

Congratulations to our NLS wrestlers who qualified for the NYWA State Championship this past weekend at the Region 4 qualifier held at NLS!Best of luck to everyone at State in Rochester this upcoming weekend!!

State Qualifiers:
Rowan Aus
Griffen Steffensen
Barrett Johnson
Lucas Contreras
Collin Quam
Easton Schneider
Henry Hoffman
Ryan Quam
Keagen Korsmo
Bryce Mead

Invitational Qualifiers:
Garrett Bendickson
Ryder Hoffman
Grady Bendickson
Hunter Lucas
Caleb Walz

03/14/2026

Your NLS K-6 Dual team is State Bound!!!! Congratulations to the entire team for fighting hard and putting in the work. Help us wish the team good luck down at Rochester in 2 weeks.
GO CATS!!!!!!

03/09/2026

This past weekend the NLS Wildcat youth wrestlers K-8 took to Benson and Belgrade for the District 4 qualifiers. NLS had just over 30 wrestlers trying to qualify for Regionals which will be held March 21st at NLS. Everyone wrestled their hearts out and we ended up with around 27 qualifiers! Wow!! Congrats to you all. We still have one more chance to get qualified at Pierz. Best of luck to all NLS wrestlers still looking to qualify! We are proud of everyone's amazing effort this season! (Below are just a few action shots taken by the amazing Leah Melges )

03/01/2026

Some of the NLS youth wrestlers headed up to Superior Wisconsin for a Pick 10 team tournament this past weekend. They were awarded 3rd place with 92 teams in attendance. Great job guys!!! What a fun day of wrestling then taking on the water park in Duluth. Great day for team building!

02/26/2026

Congratulations to Holton Hanson!!! Let's wish him luck at the Minnesota State Wrestling tournament which starts tomorrow at Grand Casino Arena.

02/15/2026

Congrats to our NLS youth wrestlers taking 1st place team honors at the Sartell tournament today!!! Thank you to everyone who came out and wrestled on Valentines day. (Quite a few wrestlers not pictured)

02/12/2026

Here is the link to the livestream for those who can not make it. Please be aware there is a scam link. Do not pay as these live streams are free.

Located in Dawson, MN. Watch live events, past livestreams and recent highlights.

02/08/2026

Congrats to everyone who came out and wrestled our last club paid open of the season in Osakis!!! Great turnout and some tough wrestling! Our next club paid individual events are districts in Benson, Belgrade, and Pierz. Special thanks to Leah Melges for the amazing photos!

01/23/2026

NLS Wrestling Families - We are in the planning stages of hosting the NYWA Regional Tournament March 20 & 21 and we need your help! Please sign up for admission and concession volunteer opportunities here. If you help at the scoring tables, you will be contacted soon! If you are a middle school or a high school wrestler we need your help as well, please be available!

We are hosting the NYWA Region Tournament on March 20 & 21, 2026! We can't run this tournament without your help! There are two categories we need volunteers to sign up for, concessions and admissions. Volunteers need to be at least high school age or older. Please review the available slots below a...

01/18/2026

Congrats to the NLS Wildcats youth Dual team finishing up tied for 3rd yesterday in Kimball! They secured victories over Monticello, Kimball, and tied with Becker. This was the Cats first Dual tournament of the season. Strong start for the boys, next weekend is the BRAWL!

01/17/2026

Congrats to the NLS Varsity wrestling team finishing up 2nd place overall at the home Invitational! Congrats guys, keep up the hard work!!!
NLS had 12 podium finishers!
Holton Hanson 1st
Caleb Nelson 2nd
Garret Leenstra 2nd
Kellon Hanson 2nd
Jeremiah Nelson 2nd
Luke Hannig 2nd
Andrew Sandau 3rd
Mathew Gehrke 3rd
Connor Hauptli-Pomplin 3rd
Grant McCain 5th
Rylan Plumley Champagne 6th
Gaige Knisley 6th

01/11/2026

Today the Wildcat youth wrestlers took to the Paynesville Open tournament. We had over 30 wrestlers in attendance. Everyone wrestled very hard, and wrestled very well! Individually everyone did great, but even better we finished 2nd place overall in team points narrowly missing the overall win out of over 20 teams!!! Great day to be a CAT!!!! Special thanks to Leah Melges for the amazing photos taken today!