HOLLAND, MI – West Ottawa wrestling coach Ryan Lancaster has unveiled the team's schedule for the 2017-18 season, highlighted by six home events. The Panthers will look to build off a successful 2017 campaign that saw the squad rack up 277 individual wins. Following up an 18-17 dual record, they also claimed several individual team season records, including most reversals and most 3-point nearfall.

WO will open the season on Dec. 6 in Hesperia, MI with a dual against the Panthers. On Dec. 9, they will match up against a number of teams in a round robin format at the Gene Kraai Memorial in Zeeland, MI. The team will open up its home slate on Dec. 20 in WOHS Aux Gym against Hudsonville before heading back out on the road for a handful of events with duals at Grandville (Jan. 10) and Caledonia (Jan. 31). The historic WO-Grand Haven rivalry continues on Jan. 3 in Holland, as the Panthers will look to finish off the Buccaneers for the first time in several seasons at home. The Panthers will look to make it two-straight Gobles Tiger Dual titles to open the New Year in Gobles, MI., before hosting their ever tough WO Invitational (Jan. 13). They finish up the regular season on the road at Montague (Jan. 27).
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The MHSAA Individual State Finals are scheduled for March 2-3 at the Ford Field in Detroit, MI.

2017-2018 Varsity Schedule
11.29.2017  7:00pm Black N' White Night
12.02.2017 12:00pm WO Scrimmage
12.06.2017 5:00pm Hesperia Quad
12.09.2017 9:30am Zeeland West Invite
12.13.2017 7:00pm @Rockford 
12.16.2017 9:00am Holland Invite
12.20.2017 7:00pm Hudsonville
01.03.2018 7:00pm Grand Haven
01.06.2018 9:00am Gobles 
01.10.2018 6:00pm @Grandville
01.13.2018 10:00am West Ottawa Invite
01.17.2018 7:00pm East Kentwood 
01.20.2018 9:00am Manistee
01.24.2018 7:00pm BYE
01.27.2018 9:00am @Montague
01.31.2018 7:00pm @Caledonia 
02.02.2018 Conference Tournament 
02.07.2018 MHSAA Team District
02.10.2018 MHSAA Ind. District
02.14.2018 MHSAA Team Regional
02.17.2018 MHSAA Ind. Regional
02.23.2018 MHSAA Team Final
03.02.2018 MHSAA Ind. Final

JV/ Varsity B Schedule
11.29.2017  7:00pm Black N' White Night
12.02.2017 12:00pm WO Scrimmage
12.06.2017 5:00pm Hesperia Quad
12.09.2017 9:30am Allendale
12.13.2017 7:00pm @Rockford 
12.15.2017 5:00pm @Rockford
12.20.2017 7:00pm Hudsonville
01.03.2018 7:00pm Grand Haven
01.06.2018 9:00am East Kentwood Invite
01.10.2018 6:00pm @Grandville
01.12.2018 10:00am West Ottawa Invite
01.17.2018 7:00pm East Kentwood 
01.19.2018 5:00pm Montague
01.27.2018 9:00am @Grand Haven
01.31.2018 9:00am @Caledonia

Other Important Dates
10.30.2017 First Day of Preseason
11.13.2017 First Day of Practice
11.20.2017 Alpha Weigh-In
01.01.2018 2 Pound Allowance
03.05.2018 Gear Turn-In

GRANDS RAPIDS, MI
This summer, West Ottawa wrestlers made their way out to Kenowa Hills High School for their 2nd Annual Summer Knights Clinic/Dual Series. Local area wrestlers gather together for over a 6 week period to train with West Michigan college wrestlers and coaches. The clinic is put on my the Grand Rapids Summer Knights Wrestling Club, an extension of the Kenowa Hills Wrestling Club. It's purpose is to provide training/competition opportunities to the Grand Rapids area. You can learn for about them HERE.  Below is most of the technique that was shown.

Also part of the Clinics were a series of dual meets. Here are some of the matches recorded:

​Also, this summer junior wrestler Julian Jimenez competed at the highest level of competition for a wrestler, the 2017 USMC/USAW Cadet Greco and Freestyle Nationals in Fargo, North Dakota. For an entire week in July, Julian battled it out with some of the best wrestlers in the country. Each year the pinnacle of high school freestyle and greco roman wrestling in the United States takes place over a week in Fargo. The Junior and Cadet National championships will crown individual national champions in boys and girls freestyle and greco roman wrestling. Many of these all-americans and national champions will go on to greatness at the NCAA level and into the senior level world and Olympic Games.
You can watch some of this matches HERE and HERE.