{"id":8896,"date":"2019-01-31T16:35:02","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T16:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=8896"},"modified":"2021-02-22T05:13:37","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T05:13:37","slug":"kstp-tv-speaks-with-auggie-wrestlers-about-battle-of-the-burgs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2019\/01\/31\/kstp-tv-speaks-with-auggie-wrestlers-about-battle-of-the-burgs\/","title":{"rendered":"KSTP TV speaks with Auggie wrestlers about &#8220;Battle of the Burgs&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/01\/DU9ewxNVoAElMFC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-8897 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/01\/DU9ewxNVoAElMFC-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"A wrestling belt \" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/01\/DU9ewxNVoAElMFC-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/01\/DU9ewxNVoAElMFC.jpg 744w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Augsburg wrestlers will celebrate 70 years of wrestling history at Thursday night\u2019s &#8220;Battle of the Burgs,\u201d an annual battle between Augsburg University and Wartburg College.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Augsburg Wrestling Coach Jim Moulsoff spoke with KSTP about the tradition.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a great rivalry. It&#8217;s been Augsburg or Wartburg that&#8217;s won the last 26 national titles in Division III wrestling. It&#8217;s always an honor to compete against those guys,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s real. It&#8217;s a real rivalry.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The reporter also spoke with Augsburg star wrestlers Lucas Jeske and Ryan Epps, who won individual national titles last year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cIt\u2019s really inspiring and just being able to be a part of that is really big. I just want keep adding to [the wall of trophies] and making the past generations of wrestlers proud,\u201d Epps told KSTP about what it is like to be part of this annual tradition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Battle of the Burgs&#8221; will take place at Augsburg University on Thursday, January 31st at 7:30 p.m. at Si Melby Hall.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Augsburg wrestlers will celebrate 70 years of wrestling history at Thursday night\u2019s &#8220;Battle of the Burgs,\u201d an annual battle between Augsburg University and Wartburg College. Augsburg Wrestling Coach Jim Moulsoff spoke with KSTP about the tradition.\u00a0&#8220;It&#8217;s a great rivalry. It&#8217;s been Augsburg or Wartburg that&#8217;s won the last 26 national titles in Division III wrestling. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8896"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10435,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8896\/revisions\/10435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}