The Bader Show

Wyatt Hendrickson beat World Bronze medalist Mason Parris in two straight matches at Final X to make his second straight World Team. He will represent Team USA at the World Championships later this year. 0:30 - This summer will be different from last summer 2:00 - Wrestling Mason Parris at the Ranking Series tournament 4:15 - Wyatt’s thoughts on Final X matches 5:00 - Wyatt almost got pinned 6:30 - Challenges, reviews & new rules 12:45 - Rewatching a scramble against Parris 14:40 - Extra wrestling at the end of match 2 17:00 - Teammates losing and locker room tone 20:00 - Teammates keeping Wyatt accountable 23:50 - Learned a lot wrestling Bahrain and getting pinned 26:00 - Picturing wrestling Zare 27:30 - Wyatt vs Gable? 28:50 - Sweat it out (Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma) 31:40 - Artificial Intelligence, how does Wyatt use it? 34:00 - The final word - Live the Word #TheBaderShow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

IMG Academy is one of the most prestigious schools in the country and specializes in sports. They have started a wrestling program and Director of wrestling, Enock Francois and head coach Kevin Jack join the show to talk about their school, the vision and the future. 0:45 - What is IMG Academy? 3:15 - Sports education institution 5:45 - IMG is starting a wrestling program 8:15 - Why was Enock sold, immediately? 9:50 - Wanting to reflect a D1 program 11:00 - Head coach Kevin Jack 13:00 - Director of wrestling / Athletic director for wrestling 17:00 - What will IMG’s competition schedule look like? 21:30 - How are they putting a team together? 23:00 - The financial component with tuition, financial aid 27:30 - Five years down the road 30:00 - Enock learning under Rob Koll, thinking outside the box 35:00 - New ways to be creative at IMG 40:20 - Creating something and building trust from scratch 41:30 - They will be competing next season 43:30 - The final word #TheBaderShow IMG Wrestling questionnaire: https://forms.imgacademy.com/view.php... IMG Wrestling Camps: https://shop.imgacademy.com/pages/boo... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Grant Leeth helped start the club wrestling program at Tarleton State in Stephenville, TX with the understanding they would be working toward becoming division 1. This week some statements came out that seemed contrary. Grant joins the show to give his perspective on the situation. 0:55 - Starting a wrestling program at Tarleton State 3:25 - Check all the boxes 4:40 - Raising money 6:25 - Allan Rogers, the big donor 7:00 - Wrestling facility 8:15 - The vision and ribbon cutting ceremony 10:10 - The coaching situation 12:50 - Highlights and success on the mat 14:25 - Communication with the administration 18:00 - Preparing to support D1 programs for 5 years 19:15 - Need a D1 conference 22:45 - Time for kids to find a new home 23:00 - False rumors that wrestling is completely done at Tarleton 24:15 - Leeth no longer wanted to be part of the program 25:30 - Could Tarleton women’s program become D1 soon? 28:40 - Need more fundraising 29:35 - Nothing in writing 31:00 - Was it ever real? 32:55 - What’s next for Grant Leeth? 35:10 - How could Leeth have handled things differently? 37:55 - It truly seemed like D1 was going to happen 39:15 - The emotions of Grant Leeth right now 43:25 - Grant Leeth’s final word #TheBaderShow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ben Askren and Donny Pritzlaff had a contentious rivalry back in 2007 and 2008. The two have gone on to become successful coaches, Askren with his AWA academies and Pritzlaff as head coach at Columbia University. The two join the show to talk through their past as competitors and share knowledge as coaches. In the end we see two former rivals become friends. 1:00 - Ben the content creator praised Donny the coach 1:35 - Ben watching Donny’s college career 3:00 - Donny learning who Ben was 4:05 - The mishap when Ben was recruited to Wisconsin 5:45 - Donny on Ben’s college career 7:45 - What it was like wrestling Donny 9:00 - What it feels like to wrestle Ben 9:50 - Warming up with the clinch pushouts everyday for a year 12:30 - Was it personal? 15:00 - Askren wants to know Pritzlaff’s coaching secrets 16:00 - Competitor vs paper boy 20:30 - Askren’s take on belief and confidence 22:20 - Don’t teach moves, put them in positions & figure it out 24:45 - Ben & Donny are now friends! #TheBaderShow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cesar Alvan captured the hearts of wrestling fans at the 2026 NCAA Wrestling championships when he was relatively unknown and came into the NCAA tournament as the #12 seed. He ended up fourth and attributes a lot of his success to Columbia head coach Donny Pritzlaff and his staff. 0:30 - Who the hell is Cesar Alvan? 3:00 - Loved wrestling and combat sports 5:00 - When Alvan went all-in on wrestling & college opportunities 7:30 - Eyeing the UFC in his future 8:00 - Why Columbia University? 11:30 - Out with the old coaching staff, in with the new 12:40 - Alvan recruited Pritzlaff (you read that right) 17:15 - First practice with Pritzlaff as coach 20:00 - Jumping levels under Pritzlaff 23:00 - Cesar & coaching staff LOVED his draw in the bracket 24:00 - Alvan pins Locket in OT, he was ready 26:40 - Being the Man in the Arena 29:30- Mitchell Mesenbrink 31:30 - Day 3 at NCAAs is NOT about who’s a better wrestler 34:00 - When it all sunk it, balling for an hour 36:00 - Mohammad Ali quote 37:55 - Alvan wants to continue to wrestle for Brazil, maybe RAF 41:00 - Wrestling wizard Jeff Buxton 42:10 - Artificial Intelligence 43:00 - Honey the night before a weigh in 44:00 - Who is Alvan’s all-time favorite wrestler? 45:00 - Wins and whoopins #TheBaderShow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Forrest, Vega and Robideau all just won NCAA titles for Oklahoma State as true freshmen, helping the Cowboys to a second place finish at the NCAA Championships. Jax Forrest and Sergio Vega both finished the season undefeated, which had never been done before in the modern era. 0:55 - Coming home to Stillwater 2:25 - Robideau flipping from Minnesota to Oklahoma State 4:45 - Vega flipped from Cornell to Oklahoma State 8:00 - When Jax knew he wanted to wrestle at NCAAs 9:30 - Culture and development at OSU 14:25 - A lot of freedom at practice 15:30 - Robideau, Mike Meyers - Halloween - walkout 17:40 - Is Robideau a serial killer? 19:05 - When did each guy believe he could win NCAAs? 24:00 - NCAA Championship 26:15 - Robideau on semifinal vs PJ Duke 28:45 - Brock Hardy 31:15 - Jax vs Seidel 32:20 - Vega vs Jesse Mendez 39:25 - Robideau vs Antrell Taylor 45:10 - Jax vs Ben Davino 52:40 - Jax crazy story, got trapped in the arena! 56:10 - Freestyle season 57:10 - Sweat it out 1:02:30 - All-time favorite 1:03:15 - Wins and whoopins 1:08:00 - Final word #TheBaderShow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tony Robie just won the ACC Championships for the second straight year as head coach at Virginia Tech and qualified all 10 wrestlers for the NCAA Championships. 1:30 - Robie’s 2009 VT interview on Flo vs VT today 7:25 - Turning points for Robie at VT 11:30 - Likes, challenges and concerns of National Duals Invitational 16:10 - ACC Champions, back to back 17:50 - Aaron Seidel 19:50 - Jax Forrest vs Seidel 23:20 - Eddie Ventresca 26:50 - Free admission to VT wrestling matches 29:45 - Bo Bassett 34:40 - Dealing with the lineup log jam 35:50 - Would Robie consider having a recruit leave high school early 37:20 - How does Robie use AI in his daily life 39:00 - Sweat it out 42:30 - All-Time favorite 44:00 - Wins and whoopins Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brock Hardy is a 3x NCAA All-America and NCAA finalist from the University of Nebraska and is entering the final stretch of his college career. 0:50 - Brock is youngest of like 20 cousins that wrestled 2:30 - Wrestling clicked against Braxton Amos at Reno Worlds 6:30 - Watching Brock’s 10U, 100lbs Reno finals 9:00 - 4x State Champion 12:00 - Juggling recruiting with potentially taking a 2 year mission 14:40 - Brock’s two year mission in Rio de Janeiro 19:30 - Surround yourself with the right people 21:30 - Back to wrestling after 2 years off the mat 24:25 - Wrestling is completely opposite than the mission, BE selfish 26:25 - How age has impacted Brock Hardy. It’s a mental battle 31:05 - Sergio Vega 36:25 - Jesse Mendez 39:00 - The spladle seen round the world 42:00 - How will experience help Brock in March? 45:25 - What’s next for Brock after graduation? 47:00 - How does Brock Hardy use artificial intelligence? 49:00 - Sweat it out - 5 TRIVIA questions 1:00:00 - All-Time favorite 1:01:15 - Wins and whoopins 1:04:15 - Wrestling is fun. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rutgers head coach Scott Goodale has lead the program for 19 years and had one of the biggest wins of that span when they beat Minnesota for the first time in program history last Friday night in front of a big crowd at Jersey Mike's Arena. 1:00 - Big moments over the years for Rutgers 3:15 - Jersey Mikes Arena on Friday night 5:00 - Pep Talk! Let’s go party on these guys! 8:45 - Goodale is obsessive about dual meets, match ups, strategy 10:10 - Second half of Minnesota 11:30 - Halftime routine 12:30 - Momentum 14:20 - Winning the dual at 197 16:05 - Jersey MIke’s Arena went Bananas! 19:06 - Water dumped on coach Goodale 21:25 - - B1G Dual season is a grueling roller roaster 26:00 - Taking Rugers from no fans in a gym to 5,000 fans in an arena 29:40 - Sweat it out 32:15 - Anthony shot him down 33:35 - Wins and whoopins 35:00 - All-time favorite wrestler 36:20 - OneWord Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Princeton head coach Joe Dubuque joins the show after Princeton lost the IVY MAC Rivalry dual to Rider 20-19 after losing a team point when a Princeton wrestler's headgear landed on the mat after a match. 1:00 - Princeton vs Rider the IVY MAC Rivalry 5:00 - Princeton battled injuries prior to Rider dual 7:34 - Dubuque “thanks the refs for keeping everyone safe” 8:00 - We need to use common sense 9:00 - Only sport where they can take points away 10:50 - Watching the controversy of the headgear hitting the ground 12:25 - Calling the IVY ref assigner at the end of the dual 14:45 - A point of emphasis for the referees 17:05 - There’s other ways Princeton could have won that dual 19:20 - Dubuque in his third year as head coach 22:20 - NIL, Transfers, Social Media - College athletics has changed 26:50 - Coach Dubuque still scraps, Princeton coaches all run practices 29:10 - Princeton opened the season in a great dual against Pitt 33:00 - Dubuque wants their wrestlers to be optimized for NCAAs 35:30 - Fun dual meets Dubuque wrestled in 39:00 - Sweat it out - 5 questions designed to make you sweat 42:20 - Joe Dubuque’s All-Time Favorite wrestler 45:10 - The final word Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ty Snook was a Delaware state champion, he wrestled at the University of Maryland and became a member of the Delaware police department. Just before Christmas he was killed in the line of duty. Iowa assistant coach Bobby Telford was very close with Ty and the Snook family. Telford joins the show to tell stories and honor his fallen brother. 1:30 - When Bobby forst met Ty 3:00 - Ty went out a hero 4:15 - Bobby, Ty and his buddies at Tyrant Wrestling 6:50 - Ty picking Bobby up after a lossl 9:15 - Ty was the ultimate gas man! 11:15 - Ty had to work hard for success 12:20 - Ty broke his leg and won states the same year 13:30 - Snooks are salt of the Earth people 15:55 - Be a lumberjack Bobby 18:15 - Keeping in touch over the years 22:10 - Ty went into the police academy right after school 24:15 - How Ty defused a situation 28:00 - Who would you let date your sister? 29:30 - Ty Snook was the American Dream 33:20 - Club wrestling and playing together like a family 37:35 - Last time Bobby saw Ty 41:45 - Prayer for Ty’s family and thank yous Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jaxon Joy is a 3x state champion from Ohio who is now the #2 ranked wrestler in the NCAA at 149 for Cornell University. Last weekend he won first place at the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invite. 0:58 - Jaxon’s introduction to wrestling and love for it 3:40 - Wrestling loft at his parent’s house 8:15 - How did Jaxon develop his wrestling style? 9:00 - Learned penetration step and leg riding at the same time 10:00 - Cradle innovation 12:30 - Thinking about wrestling 13:25 - Recruiting process and choosing Cornell 14:50 - Training with Ian Miller helped prepare for college 17:45 - Grey shirt year after graduating high school 20:35 - First time competing overseas 21:35 - Stressing himself out over winning, lesson learned 27:40 - Expectations 30:00 - Assessing his performance at CKLV 31:30 - Tech fall over Kaleb Larkin 32:35 - Watching his CKLV finals match 36:40 - Boost of confidence, finally winning a big tournament 40:00 - Sweat it out - 5 questions designed to make you sweat 43:10 - All-time favorite wrestler 43:45 - Wins and whoopins Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kaleb Larkin is a redshirt sophomore at Arizona State University. He is taking college wrestling by storm and is currently ranked #2 at 149. 0:45 - Wrestling in first home dual at ASU 2:00 - Early years during his dad’s Sunkist practices 4:00 - Dad as his youth coach and work arounds to that 6:00 - Valiant Prep 7:30 - Kaleb didn’t fall into love with wrestling until 11th grade 10:50 - Getting into ASU room and wrestling at Bill Farrell were big 12:00 - Training a lot without competing a lot 14:00 - Thinking about wrestling when off the mat 15:20 - Knowing the positions and not being stressed 16:15 - Wrestling hard in positions that matter 18:35 - When Kaleb started to beat his dad, a Hodge Trophy winner 22:00 - Injuries 23:30 - Kaleb likes college wrestling and longer matches 24:50 - Wrestling Lachlan McNeil at National Duals 26:00 - Never pressure to win, just pressure to wrestle hard 31:40 - CKLV on the horizon 32:30 - Attending NCAAs in the past 33:27 - Adam Satiev is his all-time favorite wrestler 34:30 - Wins and whoopins 36:35 - Optimum level of arousal 37:45 - Kaleb is big for 149 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices