Boyceville’s Trett Joles claims state and national wrestling championships
NATION’S BEST — Boyceville’s Trett Joles, right, won the 182-pound national wrestling championship in the freshman division at the 2018 NHSCA High School National held in Virginia Beach, Virginia on March 23-25. Joles also captured the WWF Cadet 182-pound Freestyle State title in Wisconsin Dells on May 5. —photo submitted
While the four seasons come and go, wrestling season never ends in the Harry and Kathy Joles household.
Eldest son Garrett Joles, who recently graduated from Boyceville High School, holds a pair of WIAA Individual State Wrestling Championships.
Sibling rivalry in the Joles Family and a passion for the sport of wrestling has also led youngest son, Trett, to a pair of state titles of his own, the most recent coming just last month.
After winning the 160-pound state championship in the boys born 2002-03 division at the 2017 Wisconsin Wrestling Federation (WWF) Kids Folkstyle State tournament, Trett Joles claimed a second state gold trophy with a victorious march through the Cadet 182-pound division in this year’s WWF Freestyle State Championships held Saturday, May 5 at the Woodside Dells Center in Wisconsin Dells.
Earlier this spring, Trett Joles, who placed third in the Division 3, 182-pound bracket at the 2018 WIAA State Individual Wrestling Championships back in late February, added a national title to his resume.
Trett Joles finished first in the 182-pound weight class in the freshman division at the 2018 NHSCA High School Nationals held in Virginia Beach, Virginia on March 23-25.
His victory in the WWF State Freestyle championships, qualified Trett Joles for the Wisconsin Cadet Freestyle National team. As a result of that, Joles will be competing in this week’s 2018 National Cadet Duals which are being held, June 12-16, at Spokane Convention Center in Spokane, Washington and will feature the nation’s best youth wrestlers.
Joles gave a dominating performance at the 2018 WWF Freestyle State Championship held May 5 at the Woodside Dells Center.
Finishing with an unblemished record of 4-0, Trett Joles (who wrestled as a member of the Cross Trained WIC crew) scored a 12-0 win over Jordan Vandehei in the Cadet’s 182-pound quarterfinal. He then scored a second consecutive shut out on a 10-0 semifinal’s win against Logan Shramek.
In the title match, Joles scored a pin fall over Shamus McLain in just 1:15 to lay claim to the WWF’s gold trophy.
That gave the younger Joles his second gold in less than a month and a half.
His first came on the East Coast with a win at the 2018 NHSCA High School Nationals in Virginia Beach.
Trett Joles finished the tournament with three wins and the 182-pound freshman national title. To earn the honor, the soon-to-be Boyceville sophomore defeated Holden Cypher of North Carolina 9-2 in a quarterfinal’s match, scored an 8-6 sudden victory in the semifinals against Ohio’s Owen Amburgy and an impressive 9-2 championship victory in 3:48 against Michael Misita of New Jersey.
That final win gave Trett Joles his first national championship and some one-upmanship over his brother Garrett.