2020 and 2021 Recruiting

[Big Bird]

Kellyn March and Ryan Henningson already committed as part of the 2020 recruiting class, but it has been pretty quiet outside of that.

Most of the top Minnesota kids have already committed elsewhere, but I'd imagine we'll see NDSU pick up a few of the top uncommitted guys. Bad news is MN and ND don't have a ton of available top recruits the next two years.

Isaiah Thompson is a great athlete out of DL, who tore his ACL during football. I've heard he wants to do both football and Wrestling in college, but that rarely happens, especially outside of D3. To be fair, Fresno State RB/197/HWT Josh Hokit was an All American last year and has been the short yardage back for their football team the past couple years. Assuming a full recovery, Thompson has the athleticism to wrestle at the D1 level. He is a 2 time state champ in wrestling.

Looking at 2021 and beyond, NDSU had an in house visit with the #HWT recruit, Hayden Coppas (Illinois), before he committed to Wisconsin. Like to get the next heavyweight in one of the next two classes.

The Tanefeu twins appeared to be on a visit at the last football game too. They haven't been wrestling long but they are two lightweight recruits out of Bismarck who have enormous potential. They've both won national championships and are very sought after (with Wilfried likely the bigger recruit on account of his slightly higher weight and freestyle national title). They were at the big house for a game a couple weeks ago.

[harleycowboy]

Seems like we should be recruiting better since we lose a lot of wrestlers after this year such as Fogerty, Eaton, Stibral, De la Riva, and Sykora. I think March is a good recruit but Henningson is more questionable. We did recruit a lot of guys last year but did not lose much, Moser, Gamet, Habisch, Ripplinger, Weber and Wokojance are pretty good recruits. However not 1 of these wrestlers are on Flo's top 100 for the 2019 class.

[Big Bird]

Michael Peterson of Byron (141) has committed to NDSU. He has one state championship and a runner up finish.

[Tony Almeida]

Kellyn March and Ryan Henningson already committed as part of the 2020 recruiting class, but it has been pretty quiet outside of that.

Most of the top Minnesota kids have already committed elsewhere, but I'd imagine we'll see NDSU pick up a few of the top uncommitted guys. Bad news is MN and ND don't have a ton of available top recruits the next two years.

Isaiah Thompson is a great athlete out of DL, who tore his ACL during football. I've heard he wants to do both football and Wrestling in college, but that rarely happens, especially outside of D3. To be fair, Fresno State RB/197/HWT Josh Hokit was an All American last year and has been the short yardage back for their football team the past couple years. Assuming a full recovery, Thompson has the athleticism to wrestle at the D1 level. He is a 2 time state champ in wrestling.

Looking at 2021 and beyond, NDSU had an in house visit with the #HWT recruit, Hayden Coppas (Illinois), before he committed to Wisconsin. Like to get the next heavyweight in one of the next two classes.

The Tanefeu twins appeared to be on a visit at the last football game too. They haven't been wrestling long but they are two lightweight recruits out of Bismarck who have enormous potential. They've both won national championships and are very sought after (with Wilfried likely the bigger recruit on account of his slightly higher weight and freestyle national title). They were at the big house for a game a couple weeks ago.

These two should be the main focus right now IMO. The ceiling for these two is very high considering how new to the sport they are and the immediate success they have had.

[Big Bird]

Looks like coach Blanc paid a visit to Connor Knopik from Nebraska. He's a class of 2021 recruit and US Cadet Greco World Team member

[Big Bird]

The Guillotine (MN amateur wrestling source) came out with their pound for pound class rankings.
For the 2020 class:
Mitchell Petersen (Byron, NDSU verbal commit) is #6.
Ryan Henningson (Winona, NDSU signee) is #16.

For the uncommitted 2020 guys:
Tim Stapleton (Waconia) is the highest ranked uncommitted at #7.
Isaiah Thompson (Detroit Lakes) is #8. I'd really like to see him at NDSU. It appears he visited SDSU for football last spring. He is also coming off a torn ACL this past fall.

For 2021, the state of MN has a bunch of high quality recruits:
Derrick Cardinal is #4
Jaxson Rohman is #5
Quayin Short is #8. He would be my #1 target and could be a great get.
Cael Berg is #10, and another guy I'd be thrilled with NDSU getting.
Blake West is #11.

https://theguillotine.com/2019/11/th...november-2019/

[Big Bird]

NDSU signed Gavan Sax out of Missouri today. I have never seen him wrestle but he projects as a 157/165 and is ranked #20 in the country at 152 by InterMat. He hasn't won a state title but recently won preseason nationals over some big names. He knocked off Maxx Mayfield for the title, who is committed to Northwestern and is currently ranked #9 in the country at 152.

I still haven't seen anything official from NDSU on Peterson signing, but I was told he did indeed sign.

With only signing Sax, Peterson, Henningson, and March, and graduating Stibral, Fogarty, Sykora, De La Riva, and Eaton, I would expect us to be active on the transfer portal.

NDSU had Caleb Coyle in for a visit recently. Lightweight recruit out of Nebraska who has been making the rounds at the B12 schools.

[PaBizon]

Maybe it’s been covered on here and I missed it but why is Corey Gamet no longer on the roster?

[larson311]

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[Big Bird]

A poster on the Guillotine said NDSU received a commitment from Dominik Vacura. Vacura is a MN state champ at 220 from Greenbush and is a class of 2021 HWT prospect.

He was ranked very high in multiple national rankings earlier in the year, but has dropped out of the top 100 lists.

If true, I'm happy with the signing. If they have the national tournaments in Fargo this summer, he'll be one to watch and could see his stock rise quite a bit.

I don't know how much more room he has to add muscle, but he'll be an athletic option at HWT after Metz graduates.