NDHSAA State Tournament North Dakota Wrestling Hall of Fame

North Dakota Wrestling Hall of Fame

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2009 INDUCTEES
Frank Fish-Watford City	Roger Loerch-Harvey
Frank Fish was the head wrestling coach at Watford City High School from 1965-1988 where his teams won three state championships (1972, 1973, 1974), five runners-up (1975, 1977, 1979, 1987, 1988), four thirds (1983, 1984, 1985, 1986), and two fourth place finishes (1976, 1978). Coach Fish amassed 264 dual wins which included a streak of 97 wins and one tie over six seasons and 59 tournament wins including 14 Badlands Conference team championships and 17 consecutive regional championships. Watford City recorded 29 individual state champions and 90 individual place winners at the state tournament during Coach Fish’s tenure as head coach. Coach Fish served as the president of the Class B wrestling coaches from 1973-1978 and twice was selected as the state’s coach of the year in 1973 and 1974. In 1977, 1985, and 1988 Coach Fish was nominated for the national coach of the year by the NDHSCA. Coach Fish was instrumental in the NDHSAA decision to begin seeding the state wrestling tournament and later was a co-author of the current seeding criteria used for the state tournament. In 1981, Frank was a team leader for the USA-AAU cultural exchange team to Germany, and in 1982, Frank was a team host to the Japanese cultural exchange team visiting North Dakota. Frank served as president of the North Dakota Wrestling Coaches Association for 5 years as well as being a member of the NDHSAA advisory board for 5 years. Frank received the Dickinson State University Blue Hawk Athletic Booster Club Outstanding Career Achievement Award in 1988. Following Frank’s retirement as head coach he returned to the Watford City program as an assistant coach in 1990 where he has continued to coach for the last 19 years. Frank and his wife sally have been married 45 years, and together they have four grown children: Laura, Terry, Mary and Janet, and eleven grandchildren.	Roger (The Voice) Loerch started announcing wrestling matches for Harvey High School during their last year of Class A in 1985. He was doing other sports at that time, but then Roger decided to ask the owner of KHND Radio if he could try announcing some live wrestling matches. The owner said, “What!!!” Roger said, “Let’s try it; if it doesn’t work you don’t owe me a thing.” That was the start of a great thing for the city of Harvey and the sport of wrestling. Roger was the first to broadcast the state wrestling tournament, first for Class A, and then Class B. Roger said it was lonely starting out as he had the broadcast booth to himself. Now you have to reserve a spot in advance as there are probably 8-12 broadcasters looking for and sharing a spot. Seeing other broadcasters starting to do state tournaments was awesome and Roger made friends with all of them. He also met many other people who have since become life-long friends, including coaches, referees, tournament officials, wrestlers, school personnel, and parents. Roger broadcast wrestling at the local, regional and state level for twenty years before health issues forced him to retire. “The Voice” still resides in Harvey and is married to his bride of 46 years, Maxine, who, Roger says, “Without her support I would never have had this chance.”
Mike Peterson-Carrington	Dave Reimnitz-Bismarck High
Mike Peterson wrestled for Carrington High School from 1985 to 1988 amassing 112 wins with only 7 losses. In that time he won the state title in the 98 lb. weight class in 1985, again in the 105 lb. weight class in 1986, and for a third time he won the state title in the 112 lb. weight class in 1988. In 1987 mike finished second in state at 112 pounds. Following his senior year Mike was named Honorable Mention All American by Wrestling USA and Asics and was a member of the USA all-stars team in Pennsylvania’s Dapper Dan Wrestling Classic. Mike was a three time state freestyle wrestling champion and a nine time state place winner in the North Dakota State Track Meet excelling in the distance events. Mike also placed third in the North Dakota State Cross Country Meet as a senior. Following graduation Mike was accepted at the United States Military Academy at West Point where he wrestled four years and was a three-year letter winner. Mike set the record in the Army physical fitness test in push-ups while there. Following his graduation from West Point Mike served in the US Army for five years attaining the rank of captain. Mike attained a Master’s of Science degree from Central Michigan University in 1997. He finished fourth from over 1,000 finishers in Minneapolis Lifetime Sprint Triathlon in 2008. Mike currently works as a software architect and resides in Maple Grove, MN, with his wife, Keri, and their two sons, Gavin and Connor.	“Outside of my relationship with Christ, there has been no other discipline that has shaped my attitude and processing of life more than wrestling. As a part of the team, no one can do my part but me…as a way of life, one match at a time. Success is not determined by a single event but my life long journey.” – David Reimnitz“ State champion at Bismarck High, Junior College H-of-F Member & National Champ (BSC), NAIA All-American (Eastern Washington), Junior Pan Am Champion” HIGH SCHOOL High School State Tournament Accomplishments (Bismarck High School) State Champion (1975) State Runner-Up (1974) State Third Place (1976) Career Record: 78-9-3 Member 1975 NDAPSSA “Team of the Year” (7 State Champs/12 Wt. Classes) Youngest member of 5 Reimnitz wrestling brothers (5 state titles in family) COLLEGE 1978 NJCAA National Champion (Bismarck Junior College) 1979 NAIA All-American/Third Place (Eastern Washington University) 1980 & 1981 NLCAA National Champion (Concordia College St. Paul) 1980 & 1981 NLCAA National Championships—Outstanding Wrestler Award OTHER 1978 Junior Pan American Champion Inducted into NJCAA Wrestling Hall of Fame (1995) Inducted into Concordia College Saint Paul Hall of Fame (1997) The sixth of ten children born to Alwin and Helen Reimnitz Married Sherry Kruse of Waterloo, IA in 1985 Ordained as a Lutheran pastor in 1986 and moved to southern Kansas City, MO (Belton, MO) to start Bethlehem Lutheran Church a thriving 1000 member congregation. Father of three intelligent and athletic children sadly none of whom chose wrestling as their sport of sports Currently Luke-20 a sophomore Junior at the University of Central Missouri Leah-19 a freshman at Truman State University Paul-17 a Junior at Belton High School
Ryan Wolters-Fargo South
HIGH SCHOOL 1993-Third Place in State 1994-State Champion Second Place-Folkstyle Senior Nationals Second Place-USA Wrestling Greco Nationals COLLEGE NDSU Wrestling 1995-NCAA II-National Champion; 19-2 record; NCC-Champion 1996-NCAA II-Fifth place; 18-11 record; NCC-Third Place 1997-NCC-Forth Place; 17-8 record 1998-NCAA II-Third Place; 28-10 record; NCC-Third Place Overall College Record: 82-31 Ryan is married to Marissa, He works for UPS and they live in Fargo.