Recruits

[ringthebells]

I noticed that Owen Warren, state champ from Yankton, is on the BV football roster this fall. Between Damion Schunke's 2 titles (9th and 10th), Navarro Schunke's title as an 8th grader, Owen's title last year as a freshman, and Isaac Klinkhammer's title as a freshman, that is a pretty formidable line up. Could be interesting what BV does since Klink and Warren wrestled the same weight last year. There are also a couple of lighter weight wrestling twins (10th grade), the Ohmees(sp). I think one made it to the title match, but not sure which one or what weight. I would love to see them all wearing Yellow and Blue in the future.

[TheWombat]

Cael Swenson, Derrick Cardinal, and Roman Rogotzke all wrestled at the Minnesota "who's number one" event today. Roman got beat up on the feet by Gabe Nagel and didn't look like himself losing 12-6 but Cardinal and Swenson looked very good. Swenson majored returning state champ Payton Handevidt while Cardinal majored Chase Deblare who is a very highly touted 2X state champ from Simley who has been in and out of the national rankings over the past few years. You have to feel good about these two.

[opinionsaremyown]

Bailey Roybal	Waverly-Shell Rock	IA	125	South Dakota State
Cael Swensen	Wayzata	MN	141	South Dakota State
Derrick Cardinal	Forest Lake	MN	149	South Dakota State
Trenton Wachter	Rockford	MI	149	South Dakota State
Connor Gaynor	Mt. Carmel	IL	149/157	South Dakota State
Alek Martin	Graham	OH	157	South Dakota State
Ashton Barker	Iowa City West	IA	174	South Dakota State
Roman Rogotzke	Stillwater	MN	184/197	South Dakota State

[JackedBeNimble]

This is noteworthy. There are a lot of other very talented wrestlers on that team who would make great additions one day. Tabor and Peterson are already committed, but literally everyone else on the team (Jagger Schack, Braden Basile, Ryder Rogotzke, Logan Swenson, Cole Glazier and Tyler Wells) all have the potential to be DI recruits one day and could be viable targets for the Jackrabbits at some point. I don't think that I've ever seen this before.

They will be back together again at some point, especially if MN government and MSHSL halts or severly limits the MN wrestling season. The team shows that it took fifth, but it really was a championship caliber team. The Jacked Rabbits and Missouri United wrestled the best dual of the tourney in first round of Gold pool to a 21-21 tie. Went to the 8th or 9th tiebreaker to decide Missouri won on most accrued Backpoints for dual 10-7. They both stomped every other team and all the kids really worked well and got along well together. Really good wrestling across the board from these kids. Max Peterson is not committed as of yet, but his brother Mitchell is to NDSU.

[TheWombat]

It looks as if some of our recruiting class put together an elite team for the Rocky Mountain Nationals for this weekend. The High School dual teams are going on today. They have called themselves the Jacked Rabbits. Cael Swenson, Alek Martin, Derrick Cardinal and Roman Rogotzke to name a few.. it is streaming on FloWrestling

This is noteworthy. There are a lot of other very talented wrestlers on that team who would make great additions one day. Tabor and Peterson are already committed, but literally everyone else on the team (Jagger Schack, Braden Basile, Ryder Rogotzke, Logan Swenson, Cole Glazier and Tyler Wells) all have the potential to be DI recruits one day and could be viable targets for the Jackrabbits at some point. I don't think that I've ever seen this before.

[witness]

2021 Ashton Barker from Iowa is the commit
https://twitter.com/ashton25052941/s...581882370?s=21

[rabbits64]

It looks as if some of our recruiting class put together an elite team for the Rocky Mountain Nationals for this weekend. The High School dual teams are going on today. They have called themselves the Jacked Rabbits. Cael Swenson, Alek Martin, Derrick Cardinal and Roman Rogotzke to name a few.. it is streaming on FloWrestling

[rabbits64]

It looks as if some of our recruiting class put together an elite team for the Rocky Mountain Nationals for this weekend. The High School dual teams are going on today. They have called themselves the Jacked Rabbits. Cael Swenson, Alek Martin, Derrick Cardinal and Roman Rogotzke to name a few..

[witness]

Looks like they got another commit
https://twitter.com/caldwell_cody/st...017531913?s=21

[TheWombat]

He is a great addition. Almost impossible to ride him and doesn't tire out. He is widely known as a pinning machine and will bring a lot of Bonus points to the Jacks.

I could see him going either way at the next level. He tends to dominate low-level guys, but he's always struggled when you put him out there against another talented wrestler who is comfortable in his funky positions. Some people are able to really hone these skills to the point where they can use them on everybody and some aren't. I think, for Rogotzke, a good match with a coach is important. He needs coaches that will let him be him and work with him on his positions. The staff has proven now that they can work with unorthodox wrestlers like Tanner Cook and Zack Price. If he showed up at place like Iowa or Michigan, he might not be able to grow in the same way that he can in Brookings.

[JackedBeNimble]

Pretty good call by you there

He is a great addition. Almost impossible to ride him and doesn't tire out. He is widely known as a pinning machine and will bring a lot of Bonus points to the Jacks.

[witness]

And to think, I used to wonder if the coaching staff was listening. This is big for recruiting but he's a good wrestler in his own right (41 pins last year). If you remember Scott Joll from West Virginia (he beat Cade King last year) he's a lot like him in his style. He gets in a lot of strange positions where he's able to put people on their backs. It's very fun to watch but I do wonder how it will translate to the next level.

Pretty good call by you there

[opinionsaremyown]

2021 class is fire.

[slosho]

And to think, I used to wonder if the coaching staff was listening. This is big for recruiting but he's a good wrestler in his own right (41 pins last year). If you remember Scott Joll from West Virginia (he beat Cade King last year) he's a lot like him in his style. He gets in a lot of strange positions where he's able to put people on their backs. It's very fun to watch but I do wonder how it will translate to the next level.

Certainly does his best work on the Bottom IMO.

[TheWombat]

The Rogotzke brothers Lyden and Ballantyne are all good DI level recruits. I haven't looked to deeply into any of them but, if you're trying to start a pipeline, Roman Rogotzke would seem like a good start. I put the name Rogotzke into the trackwrestling search engine and came up with eight different profiles with ties to Stillwater. Ryder specifically is going to be very good

And to think, I used to wonder if the coaching staff was listening. This is big for recruiting but he's a good wrestler in his own right (41 pins last year). If you remember Scott Joll from West Virginia (he beat Cade King last year) he's a lot like him in his style. He gets in a lot of strange positions where he's able to put people on their backs. It's very fun to watch but I do wonder how it will translate to the next level.