Driven to be a champion: Wagner’s Gannon Knebel is the Mitchell Republic’s 2026 boys wrestler of the year

Driven to be a champion: Wagner’s Gannon Knebel is the Mitchell Republic’s 2026 boys wrestler of the year

WAGNER, S.D. — There’s a difference between wanting something and being unwilling to leave without it. Gannon Knebel learned that somewhere along the way. Through years in the Wagner wrestling room, through setbacks that lingered longer than he wanted, and through a final season that became less about proving himself and more about finishing what he started. So when Knebel, a senior, secured the final points of a 17-1 technical fall over Canton’…