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That is a program award. All of our assistant coaches, our wrestlers, our wrestling club, our alumni, our parents, everyone that helped mold these young men into who they are. This is recognition for all of you!
Watertown-Mayer’s Bill McDonald and Kurt Becker were named Class AA Coach of The Year. HLWW’s Joe Puncochar is the Section 4A Coach of The Year.
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What a battle! I don’t think we could be more proud of this group of young men! They left it all out on the mat today. 4th in the state!
CLASS AA STATE WRESTLING: Watertown-Mayer finishes in 4th place after a tough 29-28 loss to Becker. What a run by the Royals.
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Congratulations to Watertown/Mayer assistant coach TJ Friederichs being named section 2AA assistant coach of the year! He is a huge part of our success!
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What a job these men on either side of me have done this year with our team. We are so blessed to have these guys on our coaching staff!
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What a weekend for this team. A sixth place finish as a team, a state runner up for Joel, and two state champions Titan and Bryce. It’s a great time to be a Royal Wrestler! We are so proud of this team.
Watertown-Mayer has their second state champion in Bryce Burkett at 172 in Class AA.
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Two more Royals punch their tickets to state with Jonah Hamberger and Jackson Drahos winning their true second matches! Eli Hamberger with a great tournament and a third place finish. The Royals send a team record six individuals to state and place 12 in the top six.
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The State bound Royal Wrestlers stoped in at youth practice tonight so the future Royal Wrestlers could meet their idols.
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The calm before the storm. About to get crazy in three hours!
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Congratulations to Bryce Burkett! 16U Greco-Roman NATIONAL CHAMPION! and freestyle 2nd place. What an accomplishment! Royal proud!
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Our three state place winners. Joel Friederichs 4th, Titan Friederichs 1st, and Bryce Burkett 2nd. Great weekend for these young men.
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This is a very nice honor. But I think it is an even bigger reflection of the assistant coaches we have around us that do so much for our program and give so much to our wrestlers and community!
Mauseth, Becker and McDonald, and Engebretson are MWCA Coaches of the Year
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A little team bonding. Some of the Royal Wrestlers getting their state tourney haircuts! Looking sharp boys. 😳
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After three strait days of wrestling at the X, I am finishing off the weekend at Target Center watching Watertown’s own Monica Czinano and her Iowa Hawkeyes play in the Big Ten Championship game.
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Congrats to Bryce Burkett on being named to the all tournament team!
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So proud of you Austin! What a great tourney! Finished the season 36-2 and second in the state.
Gabbert falls in Championship Match 7-3. Great season Austin!
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Proud papa!
Royals Co-AOW from Girls CC is
Sr. Charlotte Becker. She has made huge strides his season & improved her times by about 6 minutes. She credits this improvement to the summer running that she was able to do. Charlotte has also been a strong leader and role model at practice.
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The Royal Wrestlers had three of our guys wrestling this past weekend. Joel Friederichs top 16, Titan Friederichs 6th, and Bryce Burkett 2nd in the nation! Way to represent guys! Some great photos by Mark and Jeff Beshey!
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Jonah Hamberger won his 75th career match this past weekend at state!
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Congratulations to Watertown/Mayer’s Titan Friederichs for being named to the AA All Tournament Team.
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We are heading back to state! What a group of young men! So proud of them.
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Royal Wrestling tonight with two wins. 46-30 over Park and 47-24 over Egan.
Congrats to Casey Stuntebeck for his first ever win tonight on JV
A huge Congrats to Bryce Burkett on breaking assistant coach Eric Reinert’s school career win record with his 195th career win tonight.
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Thanks for being here tonight Kip. We couldn’t be more proud of this team! They fought till the end. They achieved so much more than anyone thought they would this year. Conference champs. 22-3 dual record. Ranked
#5
in the state. Congrats to New Prague! They earned it tonight
SECTION 2AA WRESTLING FINAL
New Prague 37
Watertown-Mayer 32
Heck of a run by the Royals but comes up just short.
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Huge recognition for Watertown/ Mayer’s Titan Friederichs. He is the 9th ranked wrestler in the nation at 113lbs.
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The Watertown/Mayer wrestling club is honored to help, long time WM teacher/coach, Mr. Dave Nace with his battle with cancer. We are hosting our annual youth wrestling tourney today and having a Conquer Cancer event, with all proceeds going to Coach Nace to help in his battle.
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Big night for Royal Wrestling next Friday night. It is our Take-down cancer and ALS night. All money raised will go to help Coach Bill McDonald with his fight against prostate cancer and wrestling family member Chris Skillings with his fight against ALS.
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Congrats to Jackson and Ashton! 75 Career Wins for Jackson Drahos and 100 career wins for Ashton Congdon.
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Two big wins for the Royal Wrestlers tonight. We defeated
#3
ranked in class A, Kimball 45-13. We defeated Howard Lake Waverly Winsted 48-21. We are now 15-2 on the year and currently ranked 6th in AA.
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Royal wrestlers with another strong win tonight moving to 12-0 on the season with a 40-21 victory over section opponent Hutchinson.
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Great week in the Becker household!
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What an awesome video from a bunch of our alumni! Thank you so much! You have all played a big part in where our team is today!
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@MSHSLjohn
@WMRoyalsAD
My favorite photo. Proud parents of Watertown/Mayer’s Carter Entinger getting his hand raised after his 3rd place match.
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With his win in the semifinals, Bryce Burkett won his 100th career match!
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First round of individuals the Royals go 3-3. Jonah Hamberger, Bryce Burkett, and Ashton Congdon all move on to the quarterfinals.
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What a day for the Royal Wrestlers! Short three starters we still placed 29 points ahead of
#2
in AAA, Waconia. The boys wrestled really tough. Our backups stepped up big with their next man up mentality.
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Good team win today at the Hutch Invite placing ahead of
#3
in AA Becker. Congrats to our individual champions 106 Joel Friederichs, 113 Titan Friederichs, 170 Bryce Burkett, and sealing the team win at Heavy Weight today, Jason Fenske!
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A bunch of the Royal youth wrestlers dyed their hair black in support of their idols on the HS wrestling team.
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Our state entrants stopped by youth practice tonight so our young Royal Wrestlers could meet their idols.
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Big win for the Royal Wrestlers tonight with a 52-11 victory over section opponent St Peter on parent’s night. Thank you parents for all you do for us!
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First week of practice. A little warm up game to remind them why they wrestle!
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220 Ashton Congdon 2nd. HWT Champion Hunter Stein. Team Champion Watertown/Mayer Royals! Over
#3
ranked Becker by 20 pts.
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Our very own Bryce Burkett coming in at number 2 in the sophomore pound for pound rankings. That means he’s ranked as the second best sophomore in the state! But we think he’s number 1!
The Guillotine HS PFP Class of 2025 Rankings – September 2022
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Dominant win over previously unbeaten and
#3
ranked Litchfield!!!
Royals take care of business at HC with a 26-7 VICTORY over the Dragons!
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Congrats to our wrestlers! A very well deserved Conference Championship! But this is only another nice stepping stone along the path. We have bigger goals yet to achieve.
Royal Wrestling Update: With a 54-13 win over Hutchinson, the Royals are Wright County Conference CHAMPIONS!
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Thank you to all of our amazing fans for the gigantic support tonight. Best fans in the state!
SECTION 2AA WRESTLING FINAL
Ian Burau with the pin at 285 seals it for the Royals! W-M beats Scott West 31-23 and will take on New Prague in the section title match.
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Our State Entrants left to right: HWT Ian Burau, 132 Jonah Hamberger, 170 Bryce Burkett, 113 Titan Friederichs, 120 Kaleb Mead, and 106 Joel Friederichs.
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Nice win for the Royal Wrestler tonight with a 58-10 win over Mankato West. Next up is Scott West in the section semi finals at 3:00 on Saturday in Watertown.
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W/M’s Bryce Burkett and Titan Friederichs go undefeated in this weekend’s national Greco and Freestyle duals!
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Our individual champs today. 113 Titan Friederichs, 160 Patrick Duske, 170 Bryce Burkett, and 106 Joel Friederichs.
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Our State Champion Bryce Burkett stopped by youth practice tonight to see the kids. Then they got a chance to try and take down a state champion.
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Senior Ben Baumann with two at the end of the match to earn his first varsity win! Ben has battled injuries over his career and has stuck with it. Couldn’t be more proud and excited for him!
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Our fans were amazing today!
Congrats Royals wrestlers for the 4th place finish at state and an awesome season! 🤼♂️ Good luck to the individual wrestlers the rest of the weekend!
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Couldn’t be more proud of how hard these two fine young men wrestled this weekend!
Way to make your community proud!
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Congrats to junior Tanner Burmeister on winning his 100th career match last night!!!
Also earlier this season, juniors Ashton Congdon and Hunter Stein have won their 50th career matches.
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Joel Friederichs will finish in 4th place in his first state tournament appearance.
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Great night for the Royals! Wrestlers take two, girls bb win, and boys bb win.
Royal Wrestlers over Mankato West 63-11 to wrap up tonight’s action in Mankato! 🤼💪
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We have a Greco finalist at Fargo! Good luck to W/M Wrestler Titan Friederichs! Both Titan and Joel have made us proud this week!
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Great end to the regular season for the Royal Wrestlers with a first place team finish in Howard Lake.
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Congratulations Bryce! Oklahoma is getting a good one!
College Recruiting: state runner-up Burkett to University of Oklahoma
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A couple of nice wins tonight for the Royal Wrestlers. We defeated Orono 66-9 and Mound Westonka 51-15.
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Congrats to our Royals! What a run!
SECTION 2AAA FOOTBALL FINAL
Watertown-Mayer 47
Dassel-Cokato 36
There will be a new Class AAA champion. The Royals are section champions and headed to the Class AAA state tournament. Unreal turnaround by Andrew Phillips and staff with this program.
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@RoyalsWm
@WMRoyalsAD
The new mat is out and ready for action at the state tourney. It looks fantastic! Thank you Royal Boosters!
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So awesome. Congrats girls!
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A nice pair of wins for the Royal Wrestlers tonight. 45-21 over section rival St Peter and 71-11 over NRHEG. A good way to start the season! Glencoe Silver Lake tourney up next on Saturday which has four ranked teams.
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Solid team effort today! With a second place finish behind top ranked JCC. JV wrestlers wrestled tough today as well!
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Thank you seniors! Glad we could get you a win on your senior night!
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Congrats Steve!
Congratulations to
@wmmwgymnastics
Coach Steve Hangartner and retired
@BrainerdGymnas1
Coach Dave Maras on your MN State HS Coaches Hall of Fame Induction!
#ICONS
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End of the year for our JV and Jr High Royal Wrestlers at the JV/Jr High Jam at DC. We celebrate with our annual stop at DQ after.
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@Kovar_HJsports
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For the first time in school history, Watertown/Mayer will have three state finalists. 114 Joel Friederichs, 121 Titan Friederichs, and 172 Bryce Burkett. One more match for each of them to go!
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It feels good! Our alumni laid the foundation for this team!
Congrats Watertown wrestlers for the first state tournament in school history. Couldn’t be more proud as an alum!! It’s about damn time.
@kurtbecker11
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Our state bound High School wrestlers stopped by youth practice tonight with their new Section Championship hardware. We are one K-12 program.
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Royal wrestler Titan Friederichs is in the national rankings.
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The Royals Wrestlers send six individuals to state again this year. 107 Sully Marx, 114 Joel Friederichs, 121 Titan Friederichs, 127 Kaleb Mead, 152 Jack Entinger, and 172 Bryce Burkett. Congrats to all our wrestlers. Team state up at 9am Thursday morning.
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