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Wolverines Legacy

Every season. Every athlete. Every moment that built this franchise from nothing.

2026

PGF Season 9

Year One. Foundation Laid.

4th

Final Standing

Total Points

League Awards

Battlerama Finalist

This wasn’t supposed to be easy. The Colorado Wolverines walked into PGF Season 9 as a brand-new franchise. No history. No template. No playbook for how a first-year team is supposed to look.

What we left with: the largest single-week individual point gain of the entire season. A League MVP. A Sixth Man of the Year. A Battlerama finalist. Three back-to-back elbow genies in a single night that nobody had pulled off since Season 1.

We finished fourth. We finished swinging. And we finished knowing exactly who the next Wolverines need to be.

The Moments

What Happened on the Mats

Week 1 · Closing Match

Brett Moyer Scores the First Points in Wolverines History

Final match of opening night. Brett locks in a heel hook on Jared Fekete and closes the show. The Wolverines have an answer in the books before the year even gets going.

Week 2 · Final Outing

Caleb Crump Keeps Playoff Hopes Alive

D’arce choke on Armin Bruni in his final match of the night makes Caleb the Wolverines’ top scorer of the week and keeps the playoff math working.

Week 3 · Half the Team’s Points

Joshua Squires Carries the Night

A rear-naked choke over Jared Fekete nets half of the Wolverines’ points for the entire week. Sixth Man, on display.

Week 4 · The Massacre

Jayden Groner Drops Three Elbow Genies in One Block

Armbar on Jake Straus. Toehold on Jared Fekete. Reverse triangle on Noah McCully. All under 60 seconds. 18 points in a single block — the largest individual single-week point gain of the entire season, and the first athlete to record three submissions under a minute in one block since Season 1. The Wolverines win their first-ever weekly block.

Week 5 · Closing Statement

Sam Schwartzapfel’s Back-to-Back D’arces

Two D’arce chokes in two matches. JJ Bowers, then Noah McCully. Sam ends the regular season the way every Wolverine should — with finishes.

Playoffs · Battlerama

Clayton Wimer Runs to the Battlerama Final

Submitted Derrick Adkins by rear-naked choke on the way through the bracket. Made the final. Lost to Jeo Ortiz on a heel hook. One match short of a title in our debut season.

Year One Awards

Hardware We Brought Home

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PGF Season 9

Jayden Groner

League MVP

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PGF Season 9

Joshua Squires

Sixth Man of the Year

Plank Holders

The Class of 2026

Plank Holder (noun)

In the Marine Corps and the Navy, a plank holder is a member of the commissioning crew of a new ship — one of the first names on the manifest, present at the moment something gets stood up from nothing. These are our plank holders. The first Wolverines.

Franchise Players

Caleb Crump Franchise Player

Week 2’s top Wolverines scorer. D’arce choke over Armin Bruni when the team needed points the most.

Johnathan Wilson Franchise Player

Year One Wolverine. Set the tone for what it means to wear the gold from day one.

Draft Class

Jayden Groner 1st Pick ★ League MVP

League MVP. Three elbow genies in one block. The Wolverines’ first-ever weekly block win belongs to him.

Sam Schwartzapfel 2nd Pick

Closed the season with back-to-back D’arce chokes on JJ Bowers and Noah McCully. Year One ended the right way: with finishes.

Brett Moyer 3rd Pick

Scored the first points in Wolverines history. Heel hook over Jared Fekete in the closing match of Week 1.

Alternates

Clayton Wimer Alternate ★ Battlerama Finalist

Battlerama finalist. Submitted Derrick Adkins on the way. One match shy of a title in our debut season.

Joshua Squires Alternate ★ Sixth Man of the Year

Sixth Man of the Year. Carried Week 3 with a clutch RNC that netted half the team’s points on the night.

Leadership & Staff

David Segraves President · Founder

Built the franchise from the ground up. Year One belongs to the guy who said “let’s do this” first.

Kenny Johnson Head Coach

Cornered every Wolverine for every match of Year One. Set the standard for what coaching this team looks like.

CJ Segraves General Manager

Operations, partnerships, media. Made sure the team had everything it needed to show up on match day.

Donald Rosenow Partnership Acquisition

Brought every Year One sponsor to the table. Eight brands in. None of this happens without him.

TJ Steinebach Business Strategist

Operational backbone. Brought championship experience and gym-running know-how to the franchise.

Peter Yozell Technical Analyst

Film, scouting, prep. The reason the Wolverines knew exactly who they were stepping on the mat with.

Leif Graham Assistant Coach

In the corner, on the mat, building the next class. Year One Wolverine through and through.

Year One Sponsors

Built With

When the Wolverines were just an idea, these brands signed the line. They put their name behind ours before we had thrown a single submission as a franchise. Year One does not happen without them.