TRI-CITY UNITED TITAN WRESTLING

February 05, 2020

The Tri-City United wrestling team found itself surrounded by high-ranking teams at the St. Peter quad on Tuesday, Feb. 4, but the Titans still 

February 03, 2020

The Tri-City United wrestling team had a triumphant day on Friday, Jan. 31. The team collected a resounding 62-9 win over the opposition. Read More

January 31, 2020

he Tri-City United wrestling team turned a tight match into a resounding victory on Thursday, Jan. 30. In the last quarter of the meet against Watertown Mayer, the Titans collected a string of four pins to rack up a final score of 44-18.

From the opening match

January 27, 2020

With a flurry of first-place finishes, the Tri-City United wrestling team earned a well-deserved second place at the Minnesota River Conference tournament on Saturday, Jan. 25 at Belle Plaine. The team went up against four other schools and all of the Titans performed

January 15, 2020

The Tri-City United wrestling team had an adept night Tuesday, Jan. 14. At the Hutchinson wrestling triangular the Titans defeated Delano 49-24 and came close to an additional victory, losing to Hutchinson by only 32-30.

In the competition with Delano, the Titans 

January 09, 2020

The Tri-City United wrestling team continued its accomplished season Jan. 7 at the Maple River quad. The Titans triumphed over Westfield and Saint Clair-Mankato Loyola while falling to Maple River.

The meet began with a close battle between 

January 09, 2020

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January 05, 2020

Over eight hours, 10 schools and 109 wrestlers fought for their chance at victory at the Tri-City United wrestling invite Saturday, Jan. 4. Amid the fray, the Titans emerged as third-place victors with 161 points and 13 wrestlers placing in the top five of their weight class.

“I feel like the team was really successful today,” said TCU wrestler Jose Reyes. “I d

January 05, 2020

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Over eight hours, 10 schools and 109 wrestlers fought for their chance at victory at the Tri-City United wrestling invite Saturday, Jan. 4. Amid the fray, the Titans emerged as third-place victors with 161 points and 13 wrestlers placing in the top five of their weight class.

“I feel like the team was really successful today,” said TCU wrestler Jose Reyes. Read More

January 03, 2020

It was win after win after win for the Titans wrestling team Jan. 2. Tri-City United faced off against Hastings, East Ridge and Hudson in a New Richland quad and won all three meets.

Though the Titans came out on top, the path to victory wasn’t easy. The team was nearly overcome by Hastings in the Titans’ first match of the tournament, but TCU managed a 29-28 victory. TCU triumphed again over East Ridge with a resounding 64-15 victory.

December 14, 2019

The Tri-City United wrestling team ended their home triangular with two victories Thursday. The Titans won both their matches, besting Medford 60-12 and St. Clair-Mankato Loyola 79-0.

The Titans enjoyed strong performances from all of the team’s wrestlers. In the 106 weight class, Zach Balma earned two victories, defeating Medford’s

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December 09, 2019

The Tri-City United wrestling team’s latest matchup didn’t go the way the team would have liked. The Titans fell 54-18 in their dual meet against New Prague Thursday, Dec. 5.

Despite the loss, the Titans pulled off some strong performances. In the 145 weight class, Caden O’Malley was the first to put

December 08, 2019

The Tri-City United wrestling captains — seniors Brandon Balma, Jose Reyes and Adam Frederickson and junior Riley O’Malley — are feeling the weight of their leadership roles for the upcoming wrestling season.

“It feels pretty good,” said Reyes on being a team captain. “I think we earned every title that we were given. At the same time, it can be taken away at any point so we have to work hard to keep up.”

November 24, 2019

“Last year our team finished 20-4 overall in dual meets,” said Stimmerman. “We made the final four in team sections. We finished second in our conference tournament, losing to Scott West.”

“This season we are looking at a wide range schedule from Class A to Class AAA teams. This will be the last year of our individual conference tournament and loo

The Tri-City United wrestling team celebrated its best season in recent years with the team’s annual banquet on Thursday, March 14. The team finished with an impressive 20-5 record, only rivaled by the 2007-08 record of

February 21, 2020

After winning two matches, the Tri-City United wrestling team fell to Waconia in the semi-finals of the class 2AA regional tournament held in Delano on Saturday. Tri-City United was seeded 6th in the tournament and faced Glencoe-Lester Prairie in its first matchup of the day. Tri-City United came away with a commanding 61-9 victory over

January 27, 2019

 Scott West edged Tri-City United to claim the Minnesota River Conference wrestling championship Saturday in Arlington. The perennial power Scott West -- a cooperative team comprised of Jordan, Belle Plaine and Holy Family Academy -- edged the Titans by just a four-point margin, 132 to 128

January 06, 2019

Tri-City United hosted its annual wrestling invite Saturday, and the Titans finished third place with most wrestlers seeing the podium.

The Titans racked up 202 points with 14 wrestlers reaching fifth place or better. They were only beat out by New Prague with 238 points and Plainview-Elgin-Millville with 215. Mankato East took fourth overall with 106 points and Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted came in fifth with 92.5. TCU had one first-place winner and four second-place 

January 02, 2019

Several wrestlers scored victories at the Redwood River Riot on December 21 and 22. Nick Johnson at 120 pounds, Sam Miller at 195 pounds and Jose Reyes did well at the tournament.

December 26, 2018

The Tri-City United wrestling team came out of its two-day holiday tournament with four wrestlers reaching the podium.

On Dec. 21-22 the Titans participated in the Redwood River Riot tournament and Caleb Whipps, Nick Johnson, Sam Miller and Jose Reyes came home with some hardware.

December 17, 2018

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The Tri-City United wrestling team saw great results on Friday in Glencoe, finishing 3-0.

To start the night off, the Titans saw a very tough match against Becker High School as they only defeated the Bulldogs by one point 31-30.

The Titans started the match off well, winning the first four classes to gain a 16-point lead over Becker. But the Bulldogs started closing in during the middle weights and with Logan Turek’s (152 pounds) 7-1 decision over Adam Fredrickson, the Bulldogs took the lead.

December 06, 2018

106 -- Zach Balma (TC) pinned Tor Lindell 0:20. 113 -- Cole Franek (TC) pinned Evan Hanson 3:01. 120 -- Nick Johnson (TC) pinned Davonte Jones 3:15. 126 -- Caleb Whipps (TC) pinned Noah Eggebraaten 0:36. 132 -- Caden O'Malley pinned Ben Thorson 3:30. 138 -- Connor Higgins (JM) maj. dec. Marco Reyes 11-0. 145 -- Tyler Bertschinger (JM) pinned Kody Glende 3:47. 152 -- Justin Higgins (JM) maj. dec. Brandon Balma 10-2. 160 -- Riley O'Malley (TC) won by forfeit. 170 -- Steve Miller (TC) pinned Amrhohomed Omrahi 0:35. 182 -- Tyler Schroer (TC) won by forfeit. 195 -- Sam Miller (TC) pinned Ronaldo DeJesus 1:47. 220 -- Jose Reyes (TC) pinned Alexander Carlin 0:56. 285 -- Tanner Gliem (JM) pinned Robert Bastyr 0:58. 

November 21, 2018

Three of the seniors on the Tri-City United wrestling team this year are looking to improve individually as well as make sure all of their teammates are having fun, especially the younger kids.

“One of our goals is just to have fun and make sure that the younger kids are having fun so that they keep coming back,” Sam Miller said.

Sam and his twin brother Steve have been wrestling for five 

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July 18, 2018

Though wrestling and golf are two very different sports, wrestlers turned out in droves for the fourth annual Wrestling Golf Tournament fundraiser. There were 29 teams signed up to participate in the event which is almost at capacity for the Montgomery National Golf Course. "It's about as

March 18, 2018

The Tri-City United wrestling team had a successful season and its awards banquet reflected that success.

On Sunday night seven Titan wrestlers were honored with All-Conference awards. Zach Mikel (160 pounds) and Tyler Schroer (182) achieved All-Conference Honorable Mention and Brandon Balma (138), Nick Johnson (113), Justin Kopet (145), Jose Reyes (170) and Caleb Whipps (106) all received All-Conference medals.

There were also 18 wrestlers who

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February 16, 2018

Tri-City United wrestlers beat another top team in the Section 2AA tournament.

After the Titans upset No. 7-ranked Delano in a dual, the wrestlers were still on the upswing heading into the section. That momentum carried into their first match against No. 8 state-ranked Watertown-Mayer/Mayer Lutheran Thursday and brought them to a 38-16 victory.

“The kids battled hard and picked up some big points,” coach Brian

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February 08, 2018

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February 01, 2018

The Tri-City United wrestling team pulled off two wins against Medford and St. Clair, but they couldn’t defeat Mankato West at the Medford quad on Tuesday. “We were a little lethargic against Mankato West,” coach Brian Mikel said. “We were tired from the weekend and we’re trying to cut weights. Things like that tend to catch up with you. Hopefully we can learn from it.” The Titans started off against

January 28, 2018

The Tri-City United wrestling team faced some tough competition in its Minnesota River Conference tournament, but five of the wrestlers still came out at the top of their bracket to gain All-Conference honors.

"The kids wrestled really well," Mikel said. "They've all been working hard in practice the last couple of weeks and it

January 21, 2018

Even though the matches were tough, the Tri-City United wrestlers fought their way to a solid finish.

TCU traveled to East Ridge Saturday for the East Ridge Ruckus tournament where the Titans met up with 19 other teams. Though 

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January 18, 2018

It was a close dual and the Titans eventually came out on top. The Tri-City United wrestling team traveled to St. Peter Thursday night for a one-on-one dual that got pretty close, but the Titans came out with a win in the end 36-27. “I thought we wrestled really well tonight,” head coach Brian Mikel said. “It was a fun dual. It was close pretty much all the way through.

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January 08, 2018

Tri-City United wrestlers struggled at home over the weekend. TCU held its wrestling invitational Saturday, and the Titans took home fifth place out of seven teams with 160 points. After the first round of wrestling, things were looking good for the Titans as they held second place with 53 points, but the day took a turn when the wrestlers started facing tougher competition and lost matches. But each wrestler kept...

December 26, 2017

Tri-City United wrestlers faced off against Le Sueur-Henderson and Norwood Young America on Friday, Dec. 22. TCU came out on top of both matches for the team’s first two conference wins. Neither of the matches seemed to be too tough for the Titans as the scores were both almost five times their opponents’ and every TCU wrestler won at least one of their matches. TCU took the first match against Norwood 61-12 and the second match against Le Sueur-Henderson 69-10.

December 18, 2017

The Tri-City United wrestling team traveled to Redwood for a two-day tournament Friday and Saturday and came out in 13th place out of 33 with 88 total points. “This two-day tournament is one of the tougher tournaments in the state,” head coach Brian Mikel said. “Overall our guys did very well. We showed a lot of improvement over the weekend, but still have work to do.” Four Titans placed in the top eight within their class including...

December 11, 2017

Tri-City United wrestlers took second place overall at Saturday’s Shakopee invite with eight wrestlers placing third or higher in their class. “Overall a pretty good day,” head coach Brian Mikel said. “We still have some improving to do in certain areas.” The Titans had an overall score of 162.5 

December 08, 2022

The Tri-City United wrestling team had a rough night at the New Prague Triangular. TCU wrestled New Prague and Watertown Mayer/Mayer Lutheran on Thursday, and lost to both teams. New Prague is a Section 2AAA team, a whole class above TCU’s Section 

December 27, 2017

The Tri-City United wrestling team has a lot of younger talent coming up in the lighter weights, so the seniors are hoping to capitalize on their own experience on the varsity team and have a good year. TCU’s wrestling team has four seniors: Justin Kopet (145 pounds), Zach Mikel (160/170), Ezra Medellin (220) and Dylan Borchardt (160).

All four of the boys have been on varsity for at least a year – Mikel is...

November 15, 2017

Tri-City United Wrestling COACHES

Head coach: Brian Mikel, 27th year coaching; 8th year as head, 19 years as assistant

Assistant coaches: Corey Block, 7th year; Jay Frederickson, 3rd year

Managers: Isabel Figueroa, Amy Meger, Olivia Schoenbauer and Leah Powers

Volunteer Assistants: Mason Brownlee, Paul Norgren and Josh Selly

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