Five-time Minnesota state high school champion for Kasson-Mantorville High School.

Career record of 208-13, including 52-0 as a senior when he was also named Mr. Minnesota Wrestler by the Minnesota Wrestling Coaches Association.

Brother, Brady, was the Minnesota and Midwest Region winner of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame’s Dave Schultz High School Excellence Award in 2017.

Bennett became the seventh wrestler in state history to win five individual titles. Mark Hall, the national winner of the NWHOF’s DSHSEA is only wrestler in Minnesota history to win six state championships.