Highly-touted Wisconsin transfer picks NDSU over Southern Illinois

By Jeff Kolpack

June 30, 2010 at 3:33 PM

North Dakota State may have picked up some immediate help in the defen-sive line. Tyler Westphal, who two years ago was one of the top-ranked football recruiting prospects at defensive end in the country by one ratings service, is transferring from Wisconsin to NDSU.

He'll be immediately eligible - NCAA rules allow a player moving from a Football Bowl Subdivision school to a Football Championship Subdivision pro-gram to not have to sit out a year. The 6-foot-6, 245-pound Westphal from Menasha, Wis., picked the Bison over Southern Illinois, a fellow Missouri Valley Football Conference team.

For more, see Thursday's Forum.

By Jeff Kolpack

Jeff would like to dispel the notion he was around when Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press, but he is on his third decade of reporting with Forum Communications. The son of a reporter and an English teacher, and the brother of a reporter, Jeff has worked at the Jamestown Sun, Bismarck Tribune and since 1990 The Forum, where he's covered North Dakota State athletics since 1995.
Jeff has covered all nine of NDSU's Division I FCS national football titles and has written three books: "Horns Up," "North Dakota Tough" and "Covid Kids." He is the radio host of "The Golf Show with Jeff Kolpack" April through August.

Highly-touted Wisconsin transfer picks NDSU over Southern Illinois

North Dakota State may have picked up some immediate help in the defen-sive line. Tyler Westphal, who two years ago was one of the top-ranked football recruiting prospects at defensive end in the country by one ratings service, is transferring fr...