Eight Cowboys Set to Compete in U.S. Open Wrestling Championships

LARAMIE -- The University of Wyoming wrestling team will have representation at the 2026 U.S. Open Wrestling Championships in Las Vegas, Nevada, this week.

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Six current Cowboys and two incoming freshmen are slated to participate in a tournament that runs from Thursday through Sunday inside The Expo at World Market Center Las Vegas.

The half a dozen current Cowboys are Isaiah Harrison (57 kg), Antonio Avila (70 kg), Westen Hoffschneider (74 kg), Owen Hull (79 kg), Lane Foard (79 kg) and Bradlee Farrer (79 kg). All six will compete in the U20 Freestyle event.

The incoming freshmen competing include Dom Wilson (70 kg) and Gunner Lopez (74 kg). Those two are set to compete in U20 Freestyle and U20 Greco-Roman.

Winners of both the Freestyle and Greco-Roman brackets will advance to the U20 World Team Trials that take place this summer.

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From Bison to Triceratops - All of Wyoming's Official Things

Every state in our nation has chosen things that represent the state in one way or another to be official state things. Like a flower, or animal. Wyoming is no different.

The Equality State, or the Cowboy State, depending on which state slogan you want to go with, has a state flower. But did you know we also have a state tree and a state fish? Yes, we even have a state code.

To be an official thing, a member of the state legislature must write and submit a bill to the legislature declaring that a thing will be the official state thing. Then the legislature votes to pass the bill, or not, if it passes, the governor signs the bill into law and we have a new official state thing.

Here is what we have so far, all of Wyoming's official things. Now you can win big on Wyo Trivia Night if that's a thing that exists.

Gallery Credit: Ben Kuhns

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