Bo Dearcorn has signed to join the wrestling team at his hometown Northwest College.

Dearcorn, a stalwart wrestler in Powell since his youth, signed his paperwork Tuesday in Cabre Gym. He was selected for the Doc Fulton Scholarship by Trapper coach Jim Zeigler.

“I’m excited. There are a lot of things about him that I like,” said Zeigler about his newest Trapper. “I’ve known him since he was just little and I’ve seen him working 16-hour days” helping one of Zeigler’s friends summers on the farm.

“Bo [Dearcorn] is aggressive and tough and is already getting to know guys on the team,” Zeigler said, adding, “He’s a pinner, too. I like that.”

Dearcorn — whose older brother Ty won a Wyoming high school state title at 170 pounds — said he’s come to NWC to watch wrestling and attended camps there since he was a kid.

“I like the way Zeigler coaches,” he said, “not all this fancy stuff,” but rather power and grit and toughness.

“I like the community, too,” Dearcorn added.

A good student as well, Dearcorn intends to be an engineer. Perhaps the biggest step in the transition from high school to college will be “balancing school work and trying to wrestle at the same time,” he said.

“In high school, anybody can come out,” Dearcorn said, but in college, it’s “the best kids who come here. You’ve got to be mentally tough [to see it through].”

Dearcorn is “physically developed” and, at 6-foot, 2-inches, has grown into his physique well, Zeigler said.

He wrestles at 170 pounds for Powell High School head coach Nate Urbach. However Zeigler sees Dearcorn at 184 or 197 in the room at Northwest.

“We’re going to grow him,” Zeigler said, and “fill out that big frame.”

Dearcorn, who said he “loves” wrestling and competes eight months a year, said his emphasis is always on “being aggressive, staying at it and not giving up any points.”