The Under-16 men’s freestyle portion of the 16U and Junior national championships, USA Wrestling’s biggest national-level high school tournament which runs all week in North Dakota State’s FargoDome, features many of the nation’s top young wrestlers.
In the case of Iowa high school wrestling, the future looks extremely bright — thanks, in large part, to a young phenom from Fort Dodge.
Dreshaun Ross, an incoming freshman at Fort Dodge Senior High School, won the 195-pound title at the 16U men’s freestyle national championships. He was one of eight total All-Americans for an Iowa team that took sixth overall in the 16U freestyle team race.