Three Becker youth wrestlers made the podium at the Midwest Wrestling Tour's Badgerland National Tournament in LaCrosse, WI last weekend. Grades three, four, five and six competed Saturday while grades Pre-K, kindergarten, first, second, seventh and eighth grades competing Sunday.

 

Second grader Bennett Kujawa was the champion of the first-second grade, 54-lb bracket. Fourth grader, Kaden Nicolas was the runner-up in the same division and fourth grader Landen Kujawa placed sixth in the third-fourth grade, 66-lb bracket. 

 

Fourth graders Cash Stortz and Owen Angell also wrestled in the tournament. 

 

Badgerland Nationals was the second of four national tournaments apart of the Midwest Wrestling Tour. The MWT was created to give the wrestlers in the Midwest the opportunity to wrestle in tournaments that draw wrestlers from multiple states with limited travel. The MWT tournaments have drawn wrestlers from 10-12 different states each year throughout the Midwest and as far away as California, Louisiana and Georgia.

 

Seven-hundred-and-thirty-one wrestlers competed in the pre-k-eighth grade tournament. Wrestlers came from 14 states across the union.