The Bader Show

Donny Pritzlaff is the head coach at Columbia University, they won the IVY League dual title for the first time since 1982. 0:30 - It’s Pritz-laugh not Pritz-loff 2:00 - Establish mentality and culture 4:45 - Most important time of season is March 6:50 - Highlights from last year, 5 NCAA qualifiers 9:00 - Beat Cornell first time in 40 years 11:25 - Big moments this season 14:20 - Sebastian Rivera, Jeff Buxton and coaching staff 20:10 - Goals and expectations are high 23:10 - Realistic long term goals 25:10 - What AI tool would Donny build? 27:20 - Sweat it out 30:25 - Wins and whoopins 35:18 - Donny Pritzlaff’s all-time favorite wrestler 36:35 - NYC is a unique place to to live 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

Casey Swiderski was an NCAA All-American at Iowa State and transferred to Oklahoma State for this season. He defeated former ISU teammate Jacob Frost last weekend as Oklahoma State beat Iowa State in their Big 12 dual. 0:40 - Casey’s introduction to wrestling and his hard-nosed dad 3:30 - Wrestling Dylan D’Emilio in the blood round 6:30 - Swiderski has swagger and wrestles with a chip on shoulder 7:30 - Looking to get your butt whooped 9:40 - Casey and Frost 10:30 - Why Casey went to Iowa State 11:30 - Why did Swiderski leave Iowa State? 15:25 - From training with dogs to training with wolves 16:30 - How Oklahoma State has helped 18:15 - Casey lost the first four matches of the season 19:30 - Oklahoma State vs Iowa State 22:05 - Pheasant hunting story 23:10 - Looking forward to the NCAA Championships 25:00 - Sweat it out 28:30 - Wins and whoopins 32:30 - Casey Swiderski’s All-Time Favorite Wrestler 34:00 - One Word 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

Stanford wrestler Nico Provo knocked off returning NCAA Champion Vincent Robinson of NC State over the weekend. 1:05 - Nico’s dad, brother and sister all wrestled 5:05 - Nico went to Greens Farms Academy prep school 10:00 - Development at GFA in wrestling and academics 12:50 - Effort is more important that being smart in school 14:10 - Treating an exam like a wrestling match 17:00 - Originally committed to Cornell, followed Rob Koll to Stanford 22:00 - You’ll know when you know 23:10 - NCAA Championship experiences, being unprepared 25:20 - Nico wrote a note to himself 28:25 - Rob Koll leaves Stanford, Ayres and new staff come in 30:45 - Internal health issues kept Nico out last year, no training 32:00 - Forced to the sideline, blessing in disguise 34:30 - Nico beat NCAA Champion Vincent Robinson 44:50 - Sweat It Out TRIVIA | 5 questions designed to make you sweat 49:05 - Nico Provo’s All-Time Favorite wrestler 50:10 - Wins and Whoopins 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

Aeoden Sinclair wrestled at Askren Wrestling Academy and values that experience. He is now a redshirt freshman at Mizzou and is ranked #2 at 184. 0:45 - Aeoden ran 7 miles this morning 1:30 - Aeoden was too rough for football, so he wrestled 3:20 - It was more fun when he got beat up less 4:10 - Meeting Askren’s & Tristan Moran 5:55 - Wrestled Mitchell Mesenbrink in state finals 8:50 - Patient Panda 11:00 - Learning from Askrens & love for AWA 17:30 - Aeoden hit a deer on the way to practice 20:30 - Recruiting and deciding on Missouri 23:00 - Crazy stories about Keegan O’Toole 26:00 - Wrestlers are funny and that makes it fun 28:30 - Disagreements and trust, you need both 30:15 - Aeoden’s redshirt year 34:15 - Wrestling 2 age groups and weight classes at the US Open 37:45 - Aeoden’s perspective on Ben getting sick over the summer 43:30 - This season is going well 46:15 - Ferrari and McEnelly at National Duals Invitational 53:25 - Attending the NCAA Championships and feeling the energy 54:45 - Sweat it out 1:01:45- All-Time favorite wrestler 1:02:50 - Wins and whoopins 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

MJ Gaitan is a 2x NCAA qualifier at Iowa State. He recently had a big win over Patrick Kennedy in the CyHawk dual which helped propel Iowa State over Iowa for the first time since 2004. 0:50 - MJ did jiu jitsu first, then started wrestling 3:10 - MJ made a big jump and went all in on wrestling during COVID 8:15 - Gaitan made a break through at Super 32 9:30 - How MJ developed his tricky/funky style 13:20 - Committing to CBU, eventually deciding on Iowa State 15:45 - Wrestling at NCAAs and the blood round on Friday night 19:50 - The CyHawk rivalry 23:45 - The chirping at Carver 26:30 - What Gaitan was doing all dual meet 30:10 - Gameplan for Patrick Kennedy 31:45 - Scrambling and beating Kennedy 34:40 - Stalling to send it to overtime 37:50 - Forget the big win and start to focus on Vegas 39:15 - Confidence boost 40:40 - Sweat it out 44:35 - All-time favorite wrestler 45:00 - 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

Ohio State freshman Ben Davino had an impressive weekend at National Duals which included a win over 2x NCAA finalist Drake Ayala of Iowa in the finals which helped propel the Buckeyes over the Hawkeyes for first place. 0:40 - Ben started wrestling at the age of 5-6 and cried a lot 2:45 - Consistency and always showing up 3:50 - Goals and state titles 4:55 - COVID and missing the 8th grade state championship 6:40 - Development during COVID and the barn tournament 9:10 - Going in on freestyle 10:00 - Experience at U17 World Championships 13:20 - Rebounding from Worlds at WNO 14:00 - Recruiting process 16:15 - Adjusting to college wrestling 17:00 - Deciding to redshirt 19:30 - Improving mentally 21:15 - Mental reps are just as important for improving 23:00 - Watching his practices afterward 24:00 - National Duals 25:55 - Prepping for Iowa and Drake Ayala 27:00 - Learning to keep things simple 29:00 - Watching Bouzakis get a pin against Iowa 30:50 - Breaking down his win over Drake Ayala 36:55 - Dual meets are awesome! 39:10 - What makes Jesse Mendez great? 41:30 - Potential eventual match with Lucas Byrd 42:50 - Feeling fresh all season 44:30 - All-time favorite wrestler 45:50 - Wins and whoopins #TheBaderShow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Trent Hidlay and Parker Keckeisen have wrestled three times and gone back and forth. Their alma maters, NC State and UNI, will wrestle first round at National Duals. The two talk about their history on the mat and the upcoming first round dual. 1:10 - Parker was runner up at Bill Farrell over the weekend in NYC 2:35 - Trent got McDonalds breakfast last time he wrestled in NYC 4:00 - Trent says it’s not fun wrestling against Parker 6:30 - Parker on what it’s like to wrestle Trent 9:25 - Trent and Parker preparing for each other 12:20 - Trent has wrestled several UNI Panthers 14:00 - Memorable college dual meets for Trent and Parker 20:00 - Who could have a breakthrough performance? 25:45 - Where is there upset potential? 29:50 - Trent’s John Gunderson story, strongest man alive 31:40 - 125 lbs Trever Andersen vs Vincent Robinson 34:15 - The throwing the headgear rule will be highly emphasized 35:45 - Predictions for NC State vs UNI 39:20 - Predictions - Who wins the whole thing? 41:40 - Competing well together as a team 45:00 - Watching their teams wrestle this weekend, Trent will be on the call #TheBaderShow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Zack Ryder won four NY state titles who skipped his senior year of high school to train at M2 Training Center in PA. He went on to wrestle at Penn State for a year before transferring to Oklahoma State. 1:00 - Three older sisters beat up Zack growing up 3:45 - Zack got hooked in 8th grade 4:45 - 7th grade Ryder sister changed the law 5:10 - Lost to Stevo in 7th grade state finals 6:20 - Zack met David Taylor and eventually moved to train at M2 his senior year 9:15 - Penn State was a no brainer 10:45 - Maturing at Penn State 11:45 - Rocco Welsh coming to PSU 13:00 - Transferring to Oklahoma State 14:20 - Zack finally learning how to wrestle 15:45 - How much does Zack think about wrestling? 17:25 - Developing and learning quickly 18:20 - Predicted he would major Jaxon Smith 19:00 -Watching Zack Ryder vs Jaxon Smith 27:45 - National Duals 28:15 - Potential match between Ryder and Angelo Ferrari 30:30 - Amazing training partners in Stillwater 31:30 - Stilly Boys 34:30 - Did Pyles leave Ryder hanging? 35:25 - What Zack learned at All-Star Classic? 36:00 - No longer win by 1 38:00 - Nicknames! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kylie Welker just won a U23 world title for Team USA. She also is the main character in the series HAWKEYES: The First Season With Iowa Women's Wrestling. 0:45 - Another world title 1:30 - Won her 2nd senior World Bronze, a little disappointed 2:55 - First international trip 5:00 - Kylie finally has her process down! 8:00 - Kylie can flip that switch and be mean 10:10 - Was very confident she would win U23 gold 11:00 - Watching her Gold medal match 14:40 - Kylie will take some time off the mat 17:20 - Being followed by cameras all season 19:20 - The dramatic final scene in HAWKEYES! 23:40 - Being vulnerable and sharing personal things 26:30 - Lilly Luft’s story was heart wrenching 28:15 - Watched episode 2 in Serbia one day before World Championships 28:58 - Kylie is dating Austin Gomez 29:30 - Ella Schmit is goofy as they come! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ben Askren continues to make progress. He updates us on his recovery, talks building a club/business, National Duals, coaching philosophies and more. 0:40 - Had a great workout and more good days than bad 3:00 - How sensitive is his chest/scar? 4:20 - Coaching from the chair 6:15 - AWA success, make the kids enjoy it 8:55 - Don’t cut any/much weight 10:00 - Don’t over compete 10:50 - LIttle to no 8th grade national success 12:15 - Mitchell Mesenbrink, take days off 13:20 - Making the wrestling room a place they love being in 14:00 - Dan Gable philosophy was meant for adults 16:20 - “They don’t go hard enough” (Stand up to the parents) 17:35 - Reading athletes and knowing what they need 19:15 - Adults talking to adults vs adults talking to kids 21:35 - Sinclair vs Ferrari at National Duals 23:44 - RAF02 28:50 - If you build it they will come 33:50 - RIP Duke Rufus #TheBaderShow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wyatt Hendrickson won and NCAA title, won the Hodge Trophy and make the US World Team. He fell short and Worlds and learned a big lesson this summer which will take him far. 1:00 - Dustin Plott bruised his face 1:30 - Reaction to FloFilm “The Year of Wyatt Hendrickson” 2:25 - Wrestling camps, hectic schedule, not ideal situation 4:00 - Subtle art of not giving a F#%K 5:00 - Not sleeping before Worlds, questioning himself and doubting 5:55 - Head pinch instead of go-behind 6:45 - Camps vs training 7:45 - RTC coaches treat you like an adult, let you make decisions 9:30 - Wyatt would do it all again the same way 11:50 - Put too much pressure and expectation on himself 12:45 - Should have reached out for some emotional support 15:00 - Comparing this situation to sophomore year NCAAs 17:30 - Always room to learn more 19:20 - Remember how you feel right now 22:00 - NCAA vs Worlds lead up and training 23:00 - 2025, Wyatt’s freshman year on senior level 25:00 - Wyatt’s whole next year is mapped out 27:15 - No one else cares. Wyatt was in his own head 28:45 - Wyatt needs to have fun and be easy going. He wasn’t that way at Worlds 33:00 - RTC athletes don’t micro manage, this was Wyatt’s fault 35:50 - This is Wyatt’s first interview since Worlds, finally ready to be honest 38:45 - Wyatt’s advice; watch the losses and learn from your mistakes #TheBaderShow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Trent Hidlay just won a UWW World title at 92kg. He was a 2x NCAA runner-up and a 5x All-American for NC State. 0:45 - Has it set in yet? 2:20 - Best seats in the house for WWE RAW 5:30 - Trent first wanting to be a world champ 8:20 - Age level world experience 10:40 - Always the bridesmaid, never quite first place 14:44 - Confidence and mental process 18:40 - Calm down before the match 21:20 - Princeton match where Trent learned about approach “messy, not perfect” 24:00 - Competition anxiety and 2021 US Open 26:55 - The pressure of folkstyle and college wrestling 29:00 - Only brothers to be 5x NCAA All-Americans 29:50 - Ramping up for World Championships, being a leader 31:50 - Big fan, looking at brackets and the Worlds 34:50 - The gameplan for the finals 35:30 - Watching the World Gold medal match 50:50 - Reflecting on all the losses after the big win 52:25 - Not making results your identity 55:35 - The match represents Trent and his whole career 56:45 - Olympic weight for 2028 57:30 - What’s next and competition schedule 59:15 - Payday for winning Worlds! #TheBaderShow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Zahid Valencia is fresh off a world title where he dominated the field going unscored upon through the entire tournament. 1:00 - Zahid vs Dean Heil 89lbs at Tulsa 2:30 - Feeling less pressure to be the best, doing it for himself 4:13 - High school freshman Zahid interview 6:10 - Consistency 9:00 - Prepping for Ghasempour 10:30 - Zahid breaks down World semifinal vs Ghasempour 20:15 - Zahid wants to wrestle a lot of matches this next year 21:30 - The Final Word #TheBaderShow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What is this CLAW Wrestling League all about? Eric Brugel was an All-American at Penn State and is one of the founders of the professional wrestling league CLAW. 0:45 - World Championships & Penn State talk 2:00 - How CLAW got started 3:45 - Modified rules 4:50 - Pylon on the mat 7:40 - Matches are four rounds, every point counts 9:00 - Match points and team points 12:35 - We call stalling FAST 14:20 - All dual meets, willing to explore new concepts “Half ton challenge” 19:00 - CLAW draft 19:40 - Upcoming events 21:00 - Athletes getting paid 22:00 - How to make CLAW sustainable 24:15 - Dual meets are exciting 27:20 - General managers 28:30 - Adapt innovate Market (AIM) 31:25 - Fantasy wrestling 34:00 - 15% in NCAA pins come from top/bottom wrestling 38:40 - More action, more scoring, more strategy #TheBaderShow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Max McEnelly was 3rd at the NCAAs as a freshman this year for Minnesota. He recently won Gold at the UWW U20 World Championships at 86kg. He will start off the NCAA season ranked #1 at 184. 0:50 - Quit hockey to start wrestling 2:10 - Football was Max’s favorite sport 3:10 - Winning Fargo put wrestling at #1 4:45 - 7th & 8th grade state qualifier 6:15 - Huge jump in weight 7:35 - Freshman state champ 8:55 - Expectations going into college 9:40 - Minnesota all the way 12:00 - Carter Starocci 15:40 - NCAA Semifinals atmosphere 16:35 - Watching his semifinal vs Parker Keckeisen 18:50 - Battle back for third 21:30 - Won Fargo in his 3rd freestyle tournament 22:38 - Setting a goal to be world champion 23:55 - Watching U20 Gold medal match 34:40 - Rolling back into the college season 36:05 - Angelo Ferrari 38:30 - Wins and whoopins 40:25 - All-time favorite wrestler #TheBaderShow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices