Wrestling - SDPB State Championship Coverage

As another year nears an end, it's fun to look back at some of the great sports and activities moments that surrounded our high schools in South Dakota during 2023.Here's SDPB's Top-10 moments from the year, along with honorable mentions and other great moments as well.

For the Slykhuis family, wrestling is very much a part of life, but not in the same way it is for most. You see, they’re officials, which means they have the best seat in the house when it comes to prep wrestling in South Dakota.

The state tournament format for high school wrestling in South Dakota will be undergoing another revamp. Team duals returned to the prep wrestling scene for the 2019-20 season, and since it’s resurgence, the state team duals portion of the sport has taken place during the same weekend, at the same location, as the traditional individual state wrestling tournament. Moving forward, however, this will not be the case.

He never won a state wrestling title in South Dakota but later became a national wrestling champ and wound up being an Olympic bronze medalist in the '88 Seoul Olympics and a silver medalist in the '92 Barcelona Olympics. Dennis Koslowski joins Craig Mattick on this edition of In Play.