The 2025 Kaukauna Grappling Ghosts wrestling team is heading back to the WIAA state wrestling tournament.
PS Portraits photo by Paul Stumpf

KAUKAUNA — The 2025 Kaukauna Grappling Ghosts wrestling team is heading back to the WIAA state wrestling tournament.

A win would give the team five Division 1 state championships in a row.

The Ghosts defeated Hortonville 70-8 in the first round at Stevens Point Area High School, then defeated Wisconsin Rapids Lincoln 49-18 to claim the sectional title.

(See more photos by Paul Stumpf HERE)

Division 1 sectional winners:

1. Holmen

2. Kaukauna

3. Bay Port

4. Reedsburg

5. Arrowhead

6. West Allis Hale

7. Waukesha West

8. Muskego

The 2025 State Team Tournament will be held Friday and Saturday, March 7-8, 2025 at the UW Field House in Madison.

The WIAA State Individual Wrestling Tournament will be held a week earlier on Thursday-Saturday, Feb. 27-28-March 1, 2025 at the Kohl Center on the UW-Madison Campus.



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By Dan Plutchak

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