These three are the first wrestlers to sign with NDSU for the 2007-08 season. North Dakota State is a member of the Western Wrestling Conference and finished with an 8-5-1 record overall. The Bison became eligible for NCAA Championships in the 2006-07 season, qualifying three wrestlers in their first year.
TYLER HEMMESCH Elk River, Minn. (Elk River H.S.)
Projected to wrestle at heavyweight at NDSU...Ranked 66th on IntermatWrestle.com's Top-150 national recruits... Four-time Minnesota state placewinner, finishing runner-up in 2006 and 2007, third in 2005 and fourth in 2004 as a freshman at 189 pounds...Finished his high school career with an overall record of 157-26 and 110 pins...Won the High School Junior Nationals Wrestling Championships in 2005 in Pittsburgh...Earned a spot on the Team USA Fila Cadet team in 2005, placing third at the world tournament in Czechoslovakia...Won the ASICS/Vaughan Cadet Freestyle championship in Fargo in 2004, also placed second in the Greco-Roman division and was an All-American in 2005, finishing fourth in Junior Freestyle...Four-time all-conference selection...Excelled on the football field as a three-time All-Northwest Suburban linebacker...Son of Craig and Jody Hemmesch and has two brothers, Adam and Logan.
KIRK ANDERSON Barnesville, Minn. (Barnesville H.S.)
Projected to wrestle at either 133 or 141 in college...Minnesota's all-time wins leader with 246...Won Minnesota state championships in 2004 at 112 pounds, 2005 at 119 pounds, and in 2007 at 125 pounds...Finished third as a junior in 2006, and was runner-up as an eighth grader in 2003 and also was a state qualifer as a seventh grader in 2002...Finished his career with a 246-14 mark...Four-time section 8A champion...Holds the school record for most reversals in a single season and team points...Was an all-conference safety in football in 2007 and a four-year starter on the track team...Two-time all-state academic selection and a member of the National Honor Society...Son of Mark and Sandra Anderson and has one sister, Kelly Diercks...Father was a two-time NCC champion and a two-time All-American.
SHANNON FETTIG Napoleon, N.D. (Napoleon H.S.)
Projected to wrestle at 165 for the Bison...Two-time Class B North Dakota state champion...Had a high school record of 134-24, including an 86-1 mark his last two seasons...Helped lead Napoleon High School to four Class B state team championships in high school...Also placed fifth as a freshman and sixth as a sophomore at state in 2004 and 2005...Son of Larry and Doreen Fettig.
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