FARGO - Team North Dakota already made history at the Cadet and Junior National Wrestling Championships on Tuesday, but Ryan Blees didn't get the memo. Bismarck's Blees defeated Jake Short of Inver ...

Fargo - North Dakota went nearly two decades without winning a national freestyle title. That was until Bismarck High School graduate Ryan Blees came along. Blees won the USA Wrestling Junior ...

Huge challenges lie ahead, at Oklahoma State and beyond, but don’t bet against Ryan Blees surmounting them. That amazing reservoir of essential physical, mental and emotional strength that the ...

FARGO — Bismarck High’s Ryan Blees decided to wrestle only freestyle and forego Greco-Roman at the Junior and Cadet National Championships this summer. The idea was to be noticed by all the top ...