Height: 6’-0"
Weight: 215 lbs.
Hometown: Richardton, ND
Favorite Moves: "Prairie Sky" Frogsplash, Top Rope Crossbody
Training: Ken Patera, Harley Race, Pro Wrestling NOAH dojo

While growing up in a small farming town in North Dakota, professional wrestling seemed like a faraway dream. Dakota spent his school years watching wrestling on television, earning Eagle Scout status and becoming a 4-year varsity letterman in football, basketball and track. But the honor student, who earned All State recognition in football, track and All District honors in basketball, turned down athletic and academic collegiate scholarships in order to pursue his childhood dream, wrestling.

Dakota started training in nearby Minnesota under the tutelage of Olympian strongman Ken Patera and made his wrestling debut on February 7, 1999. He continued to compete throughout the upper Midwest for the next 3½ years, while amassing such career highlights as headlining the first ever pro wrestling event in his hometown and participating in a major wrestling tour of Australia as a troubleshooting referee.

Dakota would travel to Missouri to train and compete for Harley Race and World League Wrestling for the first time in the summer of 2002. Despite returning to college at North Dakota State University that fall and eventually graduating as a highly decorated and nationally recognized student of civil engineering, Dakota continued his regular travels to WLW because wrestling is where his heart was. He would soon become a popular regular on WLW events and find a niche for himself in tag team wrestling. Dakota partnered with Cody Hawk for a short reign as tag team champions in mid-2004, then teamed with "Wild" Wade Chism to regain the gold later that year for a successful reign that lasted nearly six months.

In 2006 Dakota traveled to Japan for three months to train and compete for Pro Wrestling NOAH. The training was rigorous, but his hard work and dedication earned him both a pinfall victory for his team in his Budokan Hall debut and the respect of many of his Japanese opponents. His high-flying barefoot style influenced by Kevin Von Erich would gain him many fans in the Far East. He returned to the United States as a smarter and more aggressive competitor. Since his return, he has been a prominent member of the WLW roster and a favorite among many fans.