A Midland Park wrestler and US Navy sailor has died in combat.

Kevin Yali, 27, was killed last week by a mortar round in Afghanistan.
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Congrats to Roxbury High School senior wrestlers Scott Jarosz and Evan Vazquez for signing with Sacred Heart and Rider University, respectively!
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The 3rd Annual Gateway vs. West Deptford alumni wrestling match raised $6,000!

The funds will be split evenly between the two programs for s...

What? Final X-Rutgers

When? Saturday, June 8, 2019

Where? Rutgers Athletics Center, Piscataway

Watch live @ https://www....

New Jersey represented very well at this year's NCAA DI Championships in Pittsburgh, PA.

Four out of the ten 2019 NCAA champions hailed from...

The Jersey wrestling community lost a legend yesterday.

WWF Legend King Kong Bundy, real name Christopher Alan Pallies, died at the age of 6...

Congratulations to all 2019 New Jersey state medalists!

http://www.jerseywrestling.com/state_placewinners.php?year=2019

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Congratulations to the medalists from all 8 Regions!

Region 1
http://www.jerseywrestling.com/regions.php?region=1

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Congratulations to the medalists from all 32 Districts!

District 1
http://www.jerseywrestling.com/districts.php?district=1

Di...

The first-ever New Jersey Girls Wrestling Regional Tournament will be held on Sunday, Feb. 17 at Red Bank Regional High School!

There will b...

Congratulations to the seven New Jersey Group champions!

GROUP 5
No. 9 Southern 34, No. 6 Hunterdon Central 27

GROUP 4
N...

TEAM PLAYOFFS, SECTIONAL FINALS

North 2, Group 3
3-West Essex 36, 1-Mendham 27

http://www.jerseywrestling.com/team_profile.ph...

TEAM PLAYOFFS STATE SECTIONAL SEMIFINALS

Central, Group 4
2-Colts Neck 34, 3-Brick Memorial 33

North 1, Group 5
1-Passa...

Anthony Ashnault is the new #1 @ 149 pounds after his major decision win over Princeton's Matt Kolodzik!

The Rutgers senior, who was a 4x st...

Kyle Epperly of Jackson suffered a serious ankle injury that kept him off the mat for five months.

Now he's having the best season of his ca...

This weekend was a huge weekend for New Jersey wrestling fans. The two best New Jersey programs at both the high school and college levels faced off a...

Isaac Redman of Paulsboro and John Barcelo of Pitman, both New Jersey state champion wrestlers, are being recognized during the 39th annual induction ...

Undefeated senior Gianni Manginelli became the most winningest wrestler in Dumont history with his win by fall over West Essex's Mike Ruane last weeke...

The NJSIAA team tournament is approaching!

The first round is Feb. 4 at the top four seeds in each section.

The sectional semifin...

Ashley Iliff, daughter of two-time state champion Andy Ilif, became the first girl to wrestle for four years in the Newton program in 2012.

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It's been a HUGE weekend already for Jersey Wrestling including Conference and County tournament action, some big team and individual wins at the high...

No. 10 Pope John won eight matches against No. 15 High Point to secure a 30-27 victory.

Here is the boxscore.

170 - Connor Fritsch...

Twenty-three wrestlers from New Jersey received recognition in national rankings according to NJ Advance Media.

Here are those wrestlers, th...

South Plainfield, a team with six returning state qualifiers anchoring a balanced lineup, was too much for Southern as the Tigers jumped out to an ear...

Princeton head coach Chris Ayre's, a New Jersey state medalist for Newton, is shaping the pride of Princeton wrestling. And one of the people helping ...

Nine wrestlers will be representing New Jersey in the semifinals of Council Rock's Escape the Rock tournament.

Here are the matchups for the...

Lindenwood head wrestling coach Jimmy Rollins, a two-time New Jersey state medalist for West Deptford, is leading his wrestlers both on and off the ma...

Toms River North beat Southern 30-26 last night at the RWJ Barnabas Health Arena.

The win, which puts the Mariner's one victory away from wi...

Stevens Institute of Technology junior Troy Stanich was named Centennial Conference Wrestler of the Week Monday for the second time this season.
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In one of the biggest wins in school history, the West Morris Central wrestling team upset No. 17 Hanover Park on Saturday night 35-29.

It a...

An all-New Jersey final took place last night at the Hampton Coliseum in Hampton, Va.

South Plainfield topped St. Augustine 37-17 to win the...

Rider won seven out of ten matches Friday night against Drexel in a 21-13 victory.

Five of the seven Rider wins were New Jersey natives - Jo...

Wayne Hills jumped out to an early lead, but Wayne Valley proved to be too much winning the match 36-21.

Danny Murphy's 10-7 win at 195 poun...

Rutgers split matches with Wisconsin on Friday night and won on criteria over top ten Wisconsin 17-16.

Nick Suriano won by major decision an...

Former Queen of Peace head wrestling coach Scot Weaver, who once spent 13 years of his life (1988 through 2001) as the head wrestling coach at Lyndhur...

Newton bested its area rival Kittatiny on Tuesday night 37-28.

Newton's Ryan Fischer held off Kittatinny's Jacob Mafaro with a 5-0 decision ...

Returning region finalist Connor O'Neill won the 160-pound weight class at the Powerade tournament in Canonsburg, Pa., one of the top high school wres...

Jersey Wrestling's 2019 NJSIAA Pick'em Contest is now up-and-running!

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Paulsboro downed South Plainfield in the finals of the Henry Boresch Duals 37-17.

Paulsboro won nine bouts and closed out the match with six...

Pope John was the overall team champion of the 2nd Annual Sam Cali Invitational with 161.5 points while St. Peter's Prep (140), Seton Hall Prep (136.5...

New Milford edged Hasbrouck Heights on the 'first points' tiebreaker 39-39.

Hunter Freschi (132) and Ian Rinke (160) won by fall for the Avi...

In a battle of two top-twenty teams, Toms River North edged Jackson 32-28 last night.

Jack Oleske's defensive pin at 182 pounds helped switc...

Carlos Padua, a Junior at Pennsauken, is off to a strong start this season.

The Junior is ranked honorable mention at 106 pounds and is curr...

Reid Colella of Wayne Valley was named North Jersey Record Athlete of the Week after capturing the 170-pound title and leading the Indians to a team t...

On the second day of 2019, we take a look back at last year's New Jersey state medalists and NCAA DI All-Americans.

Here are all 112 NJ stat...

Alex Sebahie, a two-time state medalist at Paramus, was killed early New Year's day in a single-vehicle accident on the Garden State Parkway, accordin...

Sebastian Rivera, a New Jersey state champion at CBA and an NCAA All-American at Northwestern in 2018, had the biggest win of his career Sunday night ...

The two just wrestled a couple weeks ago at the Kingsway Duals, but the outcome was different this time around.

In an NJAC American Division...

St. Joseph finished ahead of Emerson and Don Bosco Prep to win the BCCA Holiday Tournament.

Here is the boxscore of the finals.

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There were no team scores kept at Thursday's Hunterdon Central Invitational, but it was Southern that ran off with most of the hardware.

The...

A New Jersey state medalist at DePaul in 2016, Spencer Carey is now making news on the college level.

Carey, a sophomore at the United State...

Junior state qualifier Zane Coles of Pitman is off to a strong start.

The junior began his 2018-19 season 5-0 heading into the holiday break...

Blair's seven champions and two second place finishes were enough to win the Beast of the East.

Bergen Catholic had one winner and one seco...

Returning state champion Lewis Fernandes of Voorhees may have set some state and national records last night with his three-second pin over Nick DiLeo...

The Princeton Tigers edged the Rider Broncs 23-21 on Thursday at Dillon Gymnasium.

The win snapped an 18-match losing streak against the Bro...

In light of the recent news where a referee forced a Buena wrestler to cut off his dreadlocks mat-side or forfeit the match, Jersey Wrestling would li...

Two New Jersey duals ended with walk-off pins last night!

Rahway gave Cranford, a team with four state medalists in 2017, all they could han...

The University of Delaware will host the 26th annual Beast of the East wrestling tournament this weekend.

There will be twenty-two team from...

Some elite teams in New Jersey squared off over this weekend.

#4 Howell collected seven titles to the #2 Red Raiders' three at the Betty Vog...

Two-time New Jersey state champion Doug Frey of Newton passed away on December 10th after battling Alzheimer's disease. He was 87 years old.

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Rutgers dominated Rider at the RAC yesterday winning 28-6.

125: Jonathon Tropea (RID) over Shane Metzler (RU) (Dec 5-3)
133: No. 3/2/4 ...

An all-New Jersey dual will take place today at 1PM as Rider takes on the Scarlet Knights at the Rutgers Athletics Center in Piscataway.

Tic...

Shane Reitsma, a junior at Howell, isn't just the #1 ranked wrestler in New Jersey at 170 pounds.

He's also now the owner of an initiative e...

#2 Paulsboro will take on #1 Bergen Catholic at the Palestra on February 2nd in between the Penn vs Brown dual at 1PM and the Penn vs Harvard dual at ...

For the first time in the Garden State, a dual meet will feature only female wrestlers, according to New Jersey 101.5 FM Radio.

Jackson will...

Twenty-one wrestlers from New Jersey receive recognition in national rankings, according to Bill Evans of NJ Advance Media.

Here are those w...

There are thirty-three wrestlers in New Jersey this year who are ranked in the national preseason rankings by InterMat and/or FloWrestling, according ...

The National Wrestling Coaches Association released its third set of rankings for the 2018-19 season last week and The College of New Jersey moved up ...

NJ.com released its Preseason Wrestling Top 20 today!

Here is how they rank the top teams along with each team's Jersey Wrestling profile. C...

Check out NorthJersey.com's season previews of local teams Nutley, Bloomfield, DePaul, Wayne Valley, and Glen Ridge!

Nutley wrestling team s...

Bill Evans of NJ Advance Media reports there are several hundreds of girls wrestling in New Jersey this season. The assistant director of the NJSIAA, ...

Two-time New Jersey state medalist Troy Stanich of Roxbury had a big week this week wrestling for Stevens Institute of Technology.

Stanich k...

Director of Athletics Jamie Joss has announced the addition of wrestling as the 24th varsity sport offering at Davis & Elkins College on last Monday, ...

The American Wrestling League (AWL) held their inaugural event in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, last Saturday. Before the matches started the crowd honored the ...

Here are the 51 best wrestlers in New Jersey ordered by state medals!

http://www.jerseywrestling.com/pound_for_pound.php

Check out...

Six wrestlers from New Jersey made it to the finals of the 2018 Cliff Keen Las Vegas Collegiate Wrestling Invitational, and five of them brought home ...

Princeton beat #8 Lehigh on the road for the first time since they first started wrestling in 1968.

The Tigers won the meet by a score of 21...

Two-time New Jersey state medalist Ryan Burkert of St. Peter's Prep will be one of four captains of the Hostra wrestling team this season, according t...

The American Family Insurance All-USA Preseason Wrestling Team was announced yesterday.

In all, Earl Smith of OpenMat made thirty-three sele...

The #3 ranked heavyweight wrestler in New Jersey, Kevin Cerruti, helped lift Long Branch over Brick in the Central Group IV football final last weeken...

John Starcevich, a region champion a decade ago at 171 pounds, has been named the new head wrestling coach at Pennsville Memorial High School, accordi...

Joe Nisivoccia, the #2 wrestler in J.P. Stevens' history, was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame, according to Andy Mendlowitz of the B...

The first American Wrestling League event AWL I: The Beginning will be held Friday November 30th at the U.S. Cellular Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, an...

New Jersey's James Green (Team Taylor) will take on Brandon Sorensen (Team Taylor) this Friday night at 70kg at the first American Wrestling League Dr...

New Jersey state qualifier Roy Forys of Becton and Wesleyan University was named the New England Wrestling Association (NEWA) Co-Wrestler of the Week ...

Oregon State head wrestling coach Jim Zalesky announced the signing of New Jersey state medalist Robbie Garcia of Pope John last Wednesday, according ...

State medalist Quinn Melofchik of Belvidere committed to wrestle for Air Force over the weekend, according to Brad Wilson of LehighValleyLive.
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Two New Jersey wrestlers won the Keystone Classic tournament this weekend.

State champion Anthony Cassar of Montgomery won a title at 285 po...

The 2018-2019 New Jersey high school wrestling season begins tomorrow with its first official practice.

Ten-month-old Charlotte, daughter of...

A state finalist at St. Joseph - Hammonton and an NCAA qualifier last year at Brown, CJ LaFragola got off to a good start this weekend when he won th...

Fall Signing Day 2018 was yesterday, and New Jersey wrestling has not disappointed.

Twenty-four wrestlers from the class of 2019 have commit...

Three-time New Jersey state champion and two-time NCAA champion Damion Hahn will make his debut home opener as head coach this weekend.

Hahn...

The 52nd Annual East Stroudsburg University Open took place over the weekend.

There were two finalists from New Jersey:

125 - Rich...

New Jersey state champion Rick LaForge of Indian Hills has been hired as the head wrestling coach at Don Bosco Prep.

LaForge, who grew up in...

Athletic Director Pat Murphy confirmed that Gloucester Catholic has dropped its wrestling program, according to Bill Evans of NJ Advance Media.
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Two-time New Jersey state champion and four-time finalist Patrick Glory of Delbarton won his first collegiate tournament in dominating fashion.
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Returning All-American Troy Stanich was one of four wrestlers from Stevens Institute of Technology to place this weekend at the Princeton Open.
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The National Wrestling Hall of Fame announced on Monday that the Class of 2019 will include Newton's Rich Lorenzo.

Lorenzo was a state final...

Jacob Cardenas, a state champion at Bergen Catholic last season, won the Super 32 wrestling tournament over the weekend.

Also winning a tit...

State-champion Matt Correnti of Holy Cross was an NCAA qualifier and placed sixth at the Big Ten tournament as a true freshman.

Correnti's ...

The United States produced three gold medals and seven medals overall to finish second in the world championships, behind Russia.

Two-time N...

The United States produced four medals, including one first place, taking the lead in the team race after two days of wrestling.

Burroughs b...

Two wrestlers will be honored tonight at Randolph's Athletic Hall of Fame's 5th annual induction banquet.

State champion Bill Cuff and state...

A three-time NJ state medalist at Toms River East, a two-time NCAA qualifier at Rutgers, and a U23 World Champion, Richie Lewis will make his amateur ...

Olympic gold medalist Jordan Burroughs is aiming for his sixth world or Olympic title this weekend, which would tie him for most all-time among Americ...

Another five New Jersey wrestlers have been added to Jersey Wrestling's College Commitments:

Nick Addison from Rumson Fair Haven to Stanford...

New Jersey state champion Robert Howard of Bergen Catholic is now a Summer Youth Olympics champion after he outlasted Hernan David Almendra, a host-co...

New Jersey will be the 12th state and the first in the northeast to have a girls state wrestling tournament!

The girls state tournament, whi...