Mason Swanson
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- Height:
- 6-1
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- Weight:
- 285
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- Hometown:
- Willmar, Minn.
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- Year:
- So.
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- High School:
- Willmar
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- Major:
- Business Management
Bio
Why did you pick Concordia: It felt like home, very welcoming, and the right decision
Post Graduation plans: Start a business
The SWANSON File
Favorite food: Steak
Favorite restaurant: Green Mill
Favorite movie: I Can Only Imagine
Favorite tv/streaming series: Big Bang Thory
Top song(s) on your playlist: Simple Man, Partin Ways, Teenagers
The place in the world I most want to visit: Hawaii
Favorite professional sports team: Minnesota Twins
Favorite professional athlete growing up: Joe Mauer
My dream job is: Run a business
News mentions
It's go time for the No.23-ranked Cobbers. They've waited all season to get to this point. The wait is over and the NCAA Upper Midwest Regional is upon Concordia when they travel to Stevens Point, Wis. on Mar. 1-2
Concordia led No.1-ranked Augsburg after two matches, but then ran into eight straight Top 6-ranked wrestlers and lost 45-6. Ty Bisek picked up his 23rd win of the year when he posted a pin in the second period of his match at 133.
Concordia did its best Noah Lyles impersonation as they sprinted out of the blocks, won the first four matches against MSU Moorhead and cruised to a 27-17 win at Alex Nemzek Fieldhouse. The Cobbers won six of the first seven dual bouts on the way to posting their 12th victory over the Dragons in the last 13 dual meets.
Concordia recorded four podium finishes and 28 wins among their 10 wrestlers who traveled to Illinois to compete in the final high-level invitational against the top regional competition.
It wasn’t the outcome they wanted, but the Cobbers returned from the NWCA National Duals with a pair of wins and several quality individual performances. Concordia dropped its first two duals of the tournament, but responded by posting wins over Olivet (Mich.) and Aurora (Ill.).
It was an opening and a closing for the Cobbers in the middle of December. No.11-ranked Concordia opened its dual meet schedule and closed out the 2023 portion of its schedule by going 2-1 at the Prairie Wolf Duals hosted by Neb. Wesleyan.
All-American Ty Bisek and senior Gabe Zierden led Concordia across 8th street and helped the Cobbers return with a boatload of hardware from the MSU Moorhead Dragon Open.