Wrestlers coming home from college and getting a workout in is nothing new. On Episode 37 of The Guillotine Grapevine, we head over to the new home for the PINnacle Wrestling School and visit with Minnesota natives Griffin Parriott and Brady Berge. The two are in town for the holidays and decided to get a workout in before they compete at the Ken Kraft Midlands Championships. Here's the thing -- Parriott's wrestling at Purdue and Berge at Penn State. While Parriott is in the starting lineup this...
Dec 21, 2017•35 min
It's college wrestling season and here in Minnesota, that means one of the first major events is hosted by Augsburg University in Minneapolis. On Episode 36 of The Guillotine Grapevine, we'll chat with Augsburg head wrestling coach Jim Moulsoff about the team, the tournament and the landscape of Division III wrestling and we'll also get a chance to sneak into a back hallway to talk with new Minnesota State assistant coach Ty Eustice. Eustice spent the last several years working for J Robinson Ca...
Nov 19, 2017•21 min
Over the summer, Daniel Kerkvliet's name, and his wrestling, rose to prominence with a gold medal at the 2017 UWW Cadet World Championships in Athens, Greece. On Episode 35 of The Guillotine Grapevine, Kerkvliet talks about his start in wrestling, his teammates at both Simley High School and the PINnacle School of Wrestling and the recruiting process. Earlier in November, Kerkvliet changed his verbal commitment from Minnesota to Oklahoma State. At 16, he's got a lot of high school wrestling left...
Nov 17, 2017•28 min
The college season is here and on Episode 34 of The Guillotine Grapevine, we'll quickly run down Minnesota's 29-6 win over the Air Force Academy on Sunday in Minneapolis. Eight Gophers earned victories including the first home victories for Hunter Marko, Owen Webster and Rylee Streifel. We catch up with Sam Barber, head wrestling coach at Air Force, to start things off. Barber spent a lot of time in his coaching career in Minnesota with the J Robinson Camps as well as with Augsburg. Barber speak...
Nov 13, 2017•23 min
Episode 33 of the Guillotine Grapevine visits with "Canadian Joe" Joseph Dashou, a new wrestler training with the Minnesota Storm in Greco-Roman. Dashou, originally from London, Ontario, was living in British Columbia before deciding to make the move to Minnesota to get Greco-Roman training full-time. Despite only wrestling since his 12th grade year in Canada, Dashou has hopes to represent Canada in what some believe has been a forgotten style. The Canadians have a strong women's freestyle progr...
Oct 31, 2017•50 min
Centennial High junior Emily Shilson is representing Team USA at the Cadet World Championships in Athens, Greece this week. Her father Chad is part of the coaching staff with Team USA and is one of the active people within Wrestle Like A Girl trying to get state high school associations to start sponsoring girls wrestling at the high school level. On Episode 32 of The Guillotine Grapevine, Shilson talks about his own wrestling background, the relationship between Emily and her older brother Tyle...
Sep 06, 2017•33 min
In the 1970s, Minnesota was the center of Greco-Roman wrestling in the United States. With the Minnesota Wrestling Club continually developing talent with the aid of international coaches, athletes and training partners, the club that become the Minnesota Storm always had an international flare. While in Tampere, Finland at the 2017 Junior World Wrestling Championships, Jason Bryant talked with 1979 World champion and 1980 Olympic silver medalist Andrezj Supron about his trips to the United Stat...
Aug 05, 2017•22 min
One of the most dedicated forces to promoting wrestling globally is from Minnesota. No, he doesn't live there now, but LeSueur native Bill May has been steadily churning out news, notes and rankings for nearly four decades. May, who wrestled at St. Thomas and for the Minnesota Wrestling Club, left the U.S. decades ago and has been one of the most knowledgable wrestling journalists in the world. His career has taken him to numerous Olympic Games and World Championships and on Episode 30 of The Gu...
Jun 29, 2017•38 min
Before boarding a plane to Budapest, Hungary, North Dakota State graduate and 2015 NCAA Division I All-American Hayden Zillmer joined The Guillotine Grapevine for Episode 29. Zillmer has the unique distinction of being the first U.S. wrestler to make the National Team in both freestyle and Greco-Roman since Sam Hazewinkel in 2014. Zillmer was second at the U.S World Team Trials in April in Greco-Roman and third at the U.S. World Team Trials in freestyle last week in Lincoln, Nebraska. Zillmer ha...
Jun 17, 2017•28 min
Minneapolis was awarded the 2020 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships on Tuesday. Episode 28 of The Guillotine Grapevine will get an immediate Minnesota-themed reaction about the championships coming to U.S. Bank Stadium in March of 2020. We'll see what went into the bid process with Senior Associate Athletic Director at the University of Minnesota Tom McGinnis, the reaction from head wrestling coach Brandon Eggum, the "what to do's" with Gopher alum and Minneapolis resident Mack Reiter and w...
Apr 18, 2017•38 min
Minnesota Storm Greco-Roman athlete Pat Smith is back in the U.S. after three months studying abroad in Sweden. The U.S. Open champion is gearing up for the U.S. World Team Trials and looking to make his first World Team. But since winning the U.S. Open back in December, Smith decided to study in Sweden while working on his Master's degree at the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management. On Episode 27, Smith opens up his doors to talk about the trip to Sweden, the prep for Vegas, t...
Apr 07, 2017•55 min
It was senior day for a number of Gopher wrestling seniors as Minnesota hosted Ohio State in the final home dual of the year at The Sports Pavilion. On Episode 26 of The Guillotine Grapevine, we'll visit with two of the best Gopher seniors, Michael Kroells and Brett Pfarr after the 24-20 loss to Ohio State on senior day. We'll also catch up with Gopher head coach Brandon Eggum about the team's performance and what he had to say about Ethan Lizak specifically. SUBSCRIBE TO THE GUILLOTINE GRAPEVIN...
Feb 14, 2017•23 min
Episode 25 recaps the Iowa-Minnesota dual at the Sports Pavilion in Minneapolis as Iowa defeated the Gophers 27-11 on Super Bowl Sunday. We'll get the Iowa side of things with coach Tom Brands and polarizing 125-pounder Thomas Gilman and then we'll talk to Brandon Eggum after his first home dual officially as the new man who will lead the Gopher wrestling program. SUBSCRIBE TO THE GUILLOTINE GRAPEVINE iTunes | Stitcher | Spreaker | iHeartRadio | Soundcloud | Google Play Music | RSS JOIN THE TEAM...
Feb 06, 2017•27 min
Episode 24 of The Guillotine Grapevine talks with Gopher alums Mack Reiter and Jayson Ness as they look back on the 2007 Minnesota wrestling team that captured the NCAA Division I Championship. It was bittersweet for Reiter, who failed to place that season. Ness finished fifth as a freshman. Both outlined what made that team of various personalities a cohesive unit. Wrestlers from all over the country populated the lineup with one goal in mind. We'll then wrap up with some recent high school mil...
Jan 23, 2017•29 min
Episode 23 of The Guillotine Grapevine welcomes Jeff Beshey back to the program as he talks a bit about the start of the wrestling season here in the Land of 10,000 Wrestlers. We'll talk briefly about the National Duals where St. Cloud State won the Division II title and Augsburg made it back to the Division III finals. We'll then pause to watch the match and then get post-match comments from Penn State head wrestling coach Cael Sanderson and Minnesota interim head coach Brandon Eggum about the ...
Jan 07, 2017•28 min
Episode 22 of The Guillotine Grapevine visits with Class 3A Rankings Editor John Nalan as we preview the 30th annual Minnesota Christmas Tournament. While 3A teams are set to do some damage in Rochester, there's also nine out-of-state teams coming into this year's Christmas Tournament. Nalan previews the event in the December 9 issue of The Guillotine, but we also break down the fun things about this event, how it can signify the season truly is here in Minnesota and even what some people like t...
Dec 14, 2016•50 min
We'll head over to Augsburg College and talk with Augsburg assistant coach Chad Johnson, Southwest Minnesota State's Jesse Nelson and Rochester's Randy Rager on Episode 21 of The Guillotine Grapevine. We'll also start the show with a quick rundown of the weekend's action at Augsburg and the University of Minnesota, but this episode showcases Division II, Division III and the Junior College wrestling scene in Minnesota. SUBSCRIBE TO THE GUILLOTINE GRAPEVINE iTunes | Stitcher | Spreaker | iHeartRa...
Nov 21, 2016•28 min
Episode 20 of The Guillotine Grapevine was recorded at the Christensen Center at Augsburg College on Saturday, October 22. The night marked the seventh annual Alan and Gloria Rice Greco-Roman Hall of Champions induction ceremonies. Jason Bryant, host of this program, served as the Master of Ceremonies and welcomed Leadership Award winner Joe DeMeo, inductees Lindsey Durlacher and Jim and Dave Hazewinkel and Legacy Award winners, the Minnesota Storm, into the Hall. This episode is that night's pr...
Oct 24, 2016•1 hr 21 min
We kick off the second season of The Guillotine Grapevine by heading down to Apple Valley and talking with two-time Cadet world champion Gable Steveson. Already a two-time state champion and three-time state finalist, Steveson brings an impressive 128-3 record into his junior year for the Eagles. Having clinched a state dual championship with his performance as a freshman, Steveson is fine with pressure and takes every match the same. Steveson talks about settling in Minnesota, why he's striving...
Oct 06, 2016•24 min
In 2012, Chas Betts represented the United States on the Greco-Roman Olympic Team in London. Four years later, Betts, now known professionally as WWE Superstar Chad Gable, is one of the rising stars in the world of professional wrestling. The Albertville, Minn., native was a Greco-Roman specialist, foregoing the traditional college wrestling route to train strictly in Greco at Northern Michigan under Ivan Ivanov at the U.S. Olympic Education Center. From there, it was a World Team in 2009, an Ol...
Aug 07, 2016•54 min
Episode 17 of The Guillotine Grapevine visits with John Thorn, the team leader for the Schoolboy Duals for Team Minnesota. Two teams in each style traveled to Indianapolis and each style would be won by a team from the Land of 10,000 wrestlers. Thorn talks about the formulation of the team, his background in the sport, individual successes and the organizational excellence seen within the Minnesota USA Wrestling chapter that contributed to the strong network able to put together a strong team. T...
Jun 17, 2016•33 min
Episode 16 of The Guillotine Grapevine heads over to Augsburg College as two-time U.S. World Team member Jake Clark ran some visiting German wrestlers through a short practice. There's a tie with the Germans and why they're here in Minnesota training for a week and it's not necessarily what you might think. The Germans also had an opportunity to talk with Olympic wrestler and coach Alan Rice as he joined the practice in the wrestling room named in his honor. We also catch up with German coach Ma...
May 18, 2016•24 min
On May 3, the documentary "J Robinson: Full Circle" was released as it chronicled the life of J Robinson and his Intensive Camp system. Prior to the public release, a small gathering of friends and family attended a watch party at 508 Bar and Restaurant in Downtown Minneapolis and a pre-show was hosted by Jason Bryant with Coach Robinson and the director Ryan Leer. The pre-show was streamed on Facebook Live. This mini-episode of the Guillotine Grapevine contains the audio Q&A from the pre-sh...
May 04, 2016•19 min
Andy Bisek has endured the Minnesota Storm will have a representative competing in the Olympic Games in 2016. On Episode 14 of The Guillotine Grapevine, Bisek talks about his journey from third in the state to member of the U.S. Olympic team. The Chaska native also talks about overcoming the bad memories from the 2012 Olympic Trials in Iowa City and explains his development as a wrestler and how his family has shaped him to be the wrestler he is today. It's a great discussion with yet another Mi...
Apr 19, 2016•40 min
St. Cloud State captured its second straight NCAA Division II Wrestling Championship last month in Sioux Falls, S.D. On Episode 13 of The Guillotine Grapevine, we'll talk with St. Cloud State head wrestling coach Steve Costanzo about the performance. St. Cloud State brought seven wrestlers to Sioux Falls and all seven placed, giving the Huskies an eight-point gap over second-place Notre Dame College. Brett Velasquez emerged as the lone individual champion, but the story there is much more than m...
Apr 06, 2016•35 min
Episode 12 of The Guillotine Grapevine rocks some historic talk as Apple Valley's Mark Hall made history winning his sixth individual state championship to go along with six team championships. Before we get to Hall, we caught up with St. Michael-Albertville's Mitchell McKee after he won his third championship, stepping on the mat a few weights after his brother Patrick claimed the crown at 106 pounds. Following McKee, we talked with New Prague's Griffin Parriott, who wowed the XCel Energy Cente...
Feb 28, 2016•25 min
Episode 11 of The Guillotine Grapevine features one of the top wrestling journalists in the country, Ben Pherson from the Rochester Post-Bulletin. Ben talks about how he gets the right stories to tell in the paper and how he's taken his passion for wrestling and worked it into his day-to-day job at the paper. Ben's got an interesting backstory, but the Minnesota State Championships have been a big part of it throughout his career. With newspapers constantly downsizing and sacrificing coverage fo...
Feb 27, 2016•37 min
Episode 10 of The Guillotine Grapevine features three college coaches who are in town checking out the action at the MSHSL Team State championships at the XCel Energy Center in St. Paul. Minnesota native Ned Shuck is currently the head coach at Division III UW-Whitewater and coach Shuck talks about the reasons he comes back to recruit now that he's closer to home. Previously the head coach at Division III Heidelberg in Ohio, Shuck talks about the differences between recruiting in Ohio and Minnes...
Feb 26, 2016•24 min
On Episode 9 of the Guillotine Grapevine, the focus comes back to Minnesota wrestling and what makes it great at the Division III level. Jeff Swenson, current Athletics Director at Augsburg and the architect for 10 of the 12 Auggie national championships joins the program. Swenson talks about his two separate runs as the program's head coach, what he learned from coaching high school at Rosemount prior to coming back to the program as well as a number of things that Minnesota has offered to help...
Feb 12, 2016•55 min
Episode 8 of the Guillotine Grapevine goes inside the nationally-respected J Robinson Intensive Camps with founder J Robinson and the camp's Executive Director Ty Eustice. Robinson and Eustice talk about the philosophy behind the camp system and the 28-day intensive camp specifically as well as the genesis of the system when it started back when Robinson was an assistant coach at the University of Iowa. With the annual Iowa-Minnesota dual set for this weekend, Robinson and Eustice also share a f...
Jan 25, 2016•53 min
