Welcome to the Membership Page

Gopher Wrestling fans,

Welcome to another year of Gopher Wrestling! We are excited to have a fun home dual schedule that should provide some great atmosphere as we host SDSU, NDSU, Nebraska, Maryland, Northwestern and Wisconsin. (*attempting to schedule a date with Oklahoma State). The team will be lead by three wrestlers currently ranked top 8 at their prospective weight classes Patrick McKee, Michael Blockhus and Isaiah Salazar. We will see some other familiar faces in the lineup as well as the emergence of some new fans favorites. This will be an exciting year for Minnesota Wrestling!

Takedown Club Membership

We are excited that we were able to maintain the price of TDC memberships, as well as the price for NCAA tickets.  Reminder that a TDC membership is required to request NCAA tickets. The money from these memberships helps pay for renting space and providing light apps and refreshments at TDC socials. Benefits of TDC membership include Discounted Group NCAA Hotel Rates, Tournament Ticket Seating For NCAA, Entrance to NCAA Social, Entrance to Home match Takedown Club Socials. The TDC membership form is attached.

NCAA Tickets

The NCAA adjusted their ticket policy this season, so we don't know exactly what to expect this season. We should have a better idea of our NCAA ticket allotment by the middle of November. We may have a limited number of tickets available so I encourage those interested in attending to complete their ticket requests promptly. 

Reminder that due to the change in our ticket policy , you will no longer be able to roll over your money to following year if unable to use your NCAA tickets you ordered. We will work with you in trying to find a home for your ticket, but if unable to resell the ticket we would not refund money or transfer the balance to the following year. You would be responsible for the cost associated to your unused ticket. If you submit a request for NCAA tickets and we are unable to fulfill your request, you would be refunded the cost of tickets but not the cost of your TDC membership. We don’t find out what specific seats we have until mid-February and we assign seats and e-mail tickets at that time.

While we would love to accommodate every TDC member with the best seat in the building, unfortunately we are at the mercy of the NCAA as far as what seats they assign to us and how many are lower bowl seats. The majority of the lower bowl seats go to coaches and wrestlers' families as well as major donors. Some of the things we consider when determining seat placements include; Major Donors($2,500 plus), Season Tickets Holders – Length of the Individual (not group) holding, Gopher Team Alumni, Gopher Wrestling Club Monthly Donor, current Gopher/Family, Staying with the Gopher Takedown Club host hotel and the date your request/payment was received. Please review the attached ticket policy for a more detailed explanation of how tickets are assigned. *All lower bowl seating is subject to change depending availability, if not enough lower bowl seating is available you will be placed in the next best available seating. 

NCAA Hotel

Book your group rate for Gopher Takedown Club March 2024 Kansas City

Our hotel this year is 1 mile from the venue which will make travel easy! Due to being closer to the arena the price of rooms is a little higher than last year, but the convenience will be worth it!

 In order to secure a group block of Hotel rooms, our TDC has to commit to being able to fulfill a certain percentage of those rooms each night. If we do not fulfill the minimum number of rooms, we still have to pay for them. It is strongly encouraged that you stay within our group block as it is a major help to our club. Reminder this is also where the NCAA social will take place.

Home Match Takedown Club Socials

We are in the process of finalizing our TDC Social locations for the upcoming season and I will send that information once we have it.

We plan to host the following Takedown Club Socials this season. We will send additional information at a later date.

November 26 - Following the SDSU Dual

December 10- Following the NDSU Dual

January 19- Prior to the Nebraska Dual (9pm dual start)

February 4- Following the Northwestern Dual

Due For our Thursday, Friday and Saturday duals it is tough to secure a location following the dual and the evenings get late for fans and wrestlers and this impacts our team’s ability for rest and recovery. Keeping those things in mind we will secure a location and host the TDC social prior to our dual vs Nebraska. To offset the increase in cost, as of now we do not anticipate hosting a Takedown Club social for the Maryland or Wisconsin Duals, but that may be subject to change.

3 hours prior to a home dual is when our team does their final practice/weight cut which will limit their ability to attend a majority of the pre match social. We will have one coach present as well as our Gopher Wrestling Club RTC athletes for the duration of the pre-match social. Those wrestlers not weighing in for that home dual will arrive after the conclusion of the practice towards the end of the social. 

Thank You

Thank you all for your understanding and continued support of The Gopher Takedown Club and Minnesota Wrestling. Our program is fortunate to have such a strong Booster Club and passionate fan base. We would not be where we are as a program without you! The guys have put in a ton of work this offseason and I think we are in store for an exciting season! Hopefully see you all at our Open Practice on October 28th in Maturi Pavilion at 7:30pm!

Please complete and return your TDC membership and ticket request by November 15, 2023.  If you have any questions please reach out to me at arnol856@umn.edu or 507-828-1662.

Cody Arnold

TDC President