Dale Loebel

Episode 240 with @Acme_Army out for your morning drive! #gopackgo Bit.ly/avgcheese

📍 WARNER, OK - High School Students Learn How To Build A House From The Ground Up! A dozen students in a construction class at Warner High School have completed a 3-bedroom, 2-bath home, which is now for sale. The school district is accepting sealed bids for the home at 1003 E 5th Avenue in Warner, with a minimum bid of $210,000. The bids will be opened on May 15th. Teacher Ira Jackson returned to the classroom after retiring to teach the hands-on work. “The goal of the program is to produce students who can read a tape measure and understand the basics of carpentry and building, and move on from there,” he said. Several students already have job offers after working alongside licensed trades workers during construction. Ethan Atkerson, a Warner High School senior, said he helped with cabinetry, guttering and lighting, and is certain he’ll pursue a career in construction. “I’ve loved doing every part of this,: he said. “It’s all been enjoyable to me. I like being able to work with my hands, and this is something that I can work with my hands and look at the work and think, I did that, I’m proud of that.” Every high school in America should be doing this!

@MatScouts1 2021 Packer loss to the 49ers 13-10

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Episode 239 Evan Western from @acmepackingco comes back to give his thoughts on the 2026 draft podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/avg…

Tomorrow for your morning drive! #nfldraft talk with @TexWestern of @acmepackingco Episode 238 out early! Go listen

Our 2026 @B1GWrestling Sportsmanship Award recipient is Joe Zargo!

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Kirk Cousins has his sons wrestling because he wants them to become “irrepressible.”

Athlete. Aviator. Astronaut. 🚀 Victor Glover is a shining example of one’s ability to soar! ✨ (P.S. continue to share these empowering stories with BWA to share with the community!)

@ericbarnett1117 That was fun to watch. Your style can be a problem for people in freestyle and Greco just like it was in college.

Was an insane weekend wrestling 17 matches in 3 days. Wrestling some studs from around the country!

National Qualifier, Clayton Whiting, transfers from Minnesota to @BadgerWrestling! Announced on his instagram.

There’s no single path in wrestling. Some kids need to be pushed early. They’re winning everything, dominating locally, and if you don’t get them into better rooms and tougher tournaments they get comfortable. They start thinking they’re better than they actually are. Those kids need to get tested early so they stay hungry and stay humble. But on the flip side, some kids are already getting tested every day. They’re losing in the room, losing at tournaments, struggling to place. And that’s where parents panic. They think something’s wrong so they try to add more—more training, bigger events, tougher competition. That’s where it gets messed up. If your kid is already getting beat, already dealing with adversity, already having to figure things out… they’re on the right path. That’s how you build resilience. Not from winning. From losing, adjusting, and showing back up anyway. Throwing them into something even harder doesn’t speed it up. Most of the time it just buries them. Harder isn’t better. Better is what they actually need. The biggest problem is comparison. Parents see another kid dominating at the same age and think their kid is behind. So now it becomes blaming coaches, blaming the room, blaming everything instead of just understanding they’re on a different timeline. You’re watching a snapshot and acting like it’s the whole story. Some of those early studs never learn how to lose. Then they hit college, get beat every day, and they don’t know how to respond. No resilience. No identity. They fade out. Meanwhile the kid who couldn’t win a bracket at 10 learned how to handle losing, learned how to adjust, learned how to keep showing up when it sucked. That kid becomes dangerous later. And then people get burnout completely wrong. Burnout almost never comes from training too much. It comes from pressure. It comes from a kid feeling like every match defines them, like they’re letting people down, like they’re never doing enough. That’s what drains them. You rarely see a kid who truly loves it and owns it burn out from mat time. What you do see is kids start to check out. They stop focusing in practice, go through the motions, avoid hard situations, and become inconsistent. Then people say they’re burned out. No—they’re detached. Wrestling stopped being something they enjoy and became something they feel judged on. And a lot of the time those kids were never fully bought in, they were just carrying expectations. That ties right back into the path. When you force a kid into a path that isn’t theirs—chasing rankings, chasing other kids, chasing results—you don’t build confidence, you build anxiety. So when things get hard they don’t lean in, they pull away. The kids who last are the ones who were allowed to develop. Win, lose, struggle, figure it out. Because it’s theirs, not yours. If your kid is winning, good—challenge them. If your kid is losing, good—let them grow. Either way stop panicking. Most kids don’t fail because they were on the wrong path. They fail because someone rushed it or made it about themselves, and eventually the kid walks away.

𝑨𝑳𝑳 𝑬𝑭𝑭𝑶𝑹𝑻, 𝑨𝑵𝒀𝑾𝑯𝑬𝑹𝑬 Eight of our wrestlers were named NWCA Scholar All-Americans, recognizing outstanding academic achievement.

Thomas Massie is sounding the alarm. Congress is on the brink of passing a liability shield for pesticide companies, like Bayer, who give Americans cancer. Bayer is a foreign company, but Congress wants to give them total immunity to mass poison Americans with glyphosate. “This is not to grant farmers’ immunity.” “This is to grant the corporations immunity.” “If farmers contract a form of cancer or non-Hodgson’s lymphoma from this chemical, if this makes it into the Farm Bill, you won’t be able to sue for that.” This liability shield would be a complete betrayal of the MAHA movement. But House Republicans are on the brink of passing it anyway, and President Trump is urging them to do it. There is still time to fight back. We need all hands on deck to stop this. Here’s how you can take action: Use the link below for a step-by-step guide to urge Congress to remove Sections 10205, 10206, 10207 and portions of 10201 from the Farm Bill in order to preserve Americans’ right to sue pesticide companies when their products poison us:🧵 @RepThomasMassie

Pretty cool note I got from a tech CEO/founder who watched NCAAs about hiring wrestlers: “I'll say this: without question my favorite hiring profile is a D3 All-American wrestler. You competed in the darkness. No lights, no crowd, sometimes literally no one watching. You showed up anyway and you figured it out. Give me 10 of those guys and they're worth 50 fancy Ivy League degrees. Every time. The mat doesn't lie.” Thoughts?

Congratulations to the Class of 2026 Inaugural inductees: Ken Haacke (1963) Ken Heine (1963) Dale Spies (1969) Coach Jim Budish (1980-89) Jordan Gruettner (2012) 1994 Team State Wrestling Champions! Thank You Warriors!

21 seed Charlie Millard takes out 12 seed Vinny Zerban in round 1 at 2026 #NCAAs 😤 NCAA coverage presented by @CKAwrestling

Can you imagine how much greater of a tournament this would be if all of the programs had never dropped @NCAAWrestling? LSU, Clemson, UCLA, Washington, Oregon, Arizona, Colorado, etc… we gotta get those programs back. #MarchMatness @espn @NCAA

@SparkyRadio I know it might not be the most popular segment for a show, but as I sit here at nationals, there is a ton of WI kids wrestling here. 2nd most kids per capita. You should get someone on to talk about wrestling in the state & NCAA’s. Hit me up. I got a guy for you.