Wisconsin wrestling, bracket by bracket.
The Wisconsin Wrestler covers the state’s high school wrestling scene from tournament weekends to Team State. Teague Fenwick and Steve trade bracket reads, rankings notes, school-by-school context, and the kind of local color that only regulars notice.
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The Wisconsin Wrestler is a deeply local show about Wisconsin high school wrestling, built around the brackets, gyms, schools, and tournament weekends that define the sport in the state. It has the pace of two people who have been watching results pile up all week. Teague Fenwick and Steve move from major events to small notes without treating either as filler. Individual State gets the emotional weight it deserves. Team State gets its own energy, complete with start times, parking talk, quarterfinal structure, and a case for why more fans should stay locked in after the individual tournament. The show is at its best when the details are dense. A D1 sectional preview can turn into team-state trivia, returning starter counts, regional points, ranked wrestlers, and speculation about which program has enough depth to survive. Girls wrestling receives similarly granular attention, from two-person brackets with rubber matches to title runs and bio-sheet jokes that land in the middle of a match. The humor is informal but never detached from the sport. A beard, a blurry camera, or a live chat comment might open the door, then the conversation snaps back to names, weights, scores, and schools. The hosts sound like fans, teachers, historians, and schedule-watchers all at once. They care about the champions. They also care about the wrestlers who came one point short, the seniors riding home after state, and the teams trying to build toward the next weekend. That gives the recaps more texture than a results sheet. The show does not smooth out the local texture for outsiders. It leans into Holmen, Kashkanong, La Crosse, Auburndale, Wausau, Kenosha Indian Trail, Hartford Union, Milton, Oak Creek, and the many other places that make the state scene feel mapped by memory. Longtime fans get the references. Newer followers get a practical education in how Wisconsin wrestling people talk when the brackets are fresh. The result is highly specific, occasionally goofy, and serious where it counts. It is coverage for people who know that a sectional draw, a returning starter, or a tournament weekend can change the whole feeling of the season.
Made for: For Wisconsin high school wrestling fans who want detailed previews, recaps, rankings talk, and local-school context. It especially suits followers who already track Team State, Individual State, sectionals, and girls tournament results.
What sets it apart: The show combines statewide bracket knowledge with a relaxed, hyper-local fan conversation. It gives as much room to sectional depth, school histories, live chat notes, and near-misses as it does to champions.
The Wisconsin Wrestler is a podcast dedicated to all things involving Wisconsin high school wrestling. Made by the Wisconsin wrestling fan, for the Wisconsin wrestling fan, we try to hit on all corners of the sport at the high school level, from season previews, to recaps, to interviews with guests throughout the offseason.
Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A state-tournament recap where bracket detail, team scoring, local humor, and near-miss reflection all share the mat.
The Wisconsin Wrestler's individual state recap works best as a lively post-tournament walk through brackets, standout moments, Division 1 team scoring, and the final stretch of the season.
A southeast Wisconsin sectional preview where rankings, trivia, and team-state history share the mat.
The Wisconsin Wrestler's D1 Sectional G preview frames southeast Wisconsin as a crowded, high-interest wrestling landscape, using Grappler rankings and the rankings bisectional to set the board before moving into team and individual context.
A crowded Wisconsin wrestling recap balances bracket detail, local color, and a clear look ahead to Auburndale and Wausau.
Wisconsin Wrestler turns week five into a busy mat-side tour of tournament results, with Teague Fenwick and Steve Lerquin moving from the Cutler Classic's deep 145 bracket to the thinner two-person brackets at 107 and 100.
Teague Fenwick and Steve Lurkwin preview Division I Sectional G in Wisconsin high school wrestling, covering 16 teams from the southeast corner of the state.
Co-hosts Teague Fenwick and Steve Lerquin recap a busy Week 5 of the Wisconsin high school wrestling season.
Teague Fenwick and Steve Lerchlin preview the Division 1 Sectional B with Zach Pearson of Wisconsin Grappler, who says the field has 47 ranked wrestlers and seven weight classes with four ranked wrestlers each.
Co-hosts Teague and Steve discuss wrestling news, upcoming guests, and banter about beards.
Teague Fenwick and Steve Lerquin preview Wisconsin Team State in La Crosse, outlining a 5:30 opening, six simultaneous matches, 7:30 quarterfinal rounds, 10 o'clock semifinals, and a 3 p.m.
The Wisconsin Wrestler team recaps individual state from the Kohl Center, with Teague Fenwick and Steve Lerchman moving weight class by weight class through girls and boys brackets.
The Wisconsin Wrestler’s “Girls' Regional Recap/Mini-Sectional Preview” reviews girls’ regional team races and previews sectional contenders across Wisconsin.
Teague Fenwick and Steve Lurkwin preview Wisconsin boys’ individual sectional team races using preseason Division I, Division II, and Division III predictions.
Teague Fenwick and Steve Lurkwin preview 32 Wisconsin girls wrestling regionals and explain that regional advancement now sends the top two teams to sectionals.