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All American Game  | Story  | 8/24/2022

Questad Playing for Wisconsin at PGAAC

Blake Dowson     
Photo: Dylan Questad (Perfect Game)
Dylan Questad is a Wisconsin baseball guy. He’s proud to be from the state and looks up to the guys who have graduated from the state before him.

Younger Questad watched guys like Gavin Lux, Jarred Kelenic, AJ Vukovich, and just last year Gavin Kilen show off their skills on the national stage and play in the Perfect Game All-American Classic.



Questad can count himself among those guys now.

“That feels really awesome,” he said. “I grew up watching a lot of people that I knew play in the [All-American Classic]. Ever since Jarred Kelenic played in it, I dreamed of playing in the game. When I got the call, it was a dream come true.”

There is a lot of baseball momentum in the state of Wisconsin, with guys like Lux, Kelenic, Vukovich, and Kilen all high-profile recruits in the past several years.

Prospects typically pop up a bit later from the northern state. Once they get their shot though, they’ve proven lately that there is plenty of talent up there.

Questad is the greatest, most recent example of that.

“For Wisconsin personally, most of us don’t really develop super early like some of these down south states,” Questad said. “So when we finally get invited to these big events, some of our names really pop…we started to put our name on the map around when we were 16 years old.”

Questad, a right-handed pitcher that attends Waterford High School, is the No. 34 overall prospect in the 2023 class and the No. 9 righty. He is the No. 1 player in Wisconsin.

His performances on the showcase circuit this summer have him flying up prospect rankings and draft boards.

At Perfect Game’s National Showcase, he struck out four in his first inning of work, adding the extra punchout thanks to a dropped third strike. Each of the four guys he sent back to the dugout are also being sent to Phoenix because they are All-Americans along with Questad, despite how they looked in their at-bats against him. Two more strikeouts and a quick groundout in his second inning rounded out his performance, and required a bump in the rankings.



Heading into PG National, Questad was outside the top-60 looking in, and was the No. 15 right-handed pitcher.

“That was probably the best I’ve ever pitched,” Questad said. “I ended up striking out the first six batters I faced and then I broke the bat of the seventh batter. During it, I was just so focused, I didn’t even realize what I did. But then right after I kind of realized I struck out six people in two innings at one of the biggest stages in the country.”

After dominating at PG National and getting the call that he was a PG All-American, Questad flew out to San Diego to pitch at the Area Code Games. He threw three innings, struck out six more guys, and was named Pitcher of the Week.

He’s got some serious momentum going right now. He’s been all over the country proving himself as one of the very best pitching prospects in his graduating class. He could get a big head, puff his chest out a bit. He’s earned that. But that’s not Questad.

Instead, he spends his time hyping other Wisconsin guys up on Twitter, retweeting highlight videos and shouting guys out repeatedly when they make college commitments or announce scholarship offers.

“I’m really close with a lot of the baseball players in Wisconsin, and they all really support me,” Questad said. “I feel like I’m not better or a bigger person than any of these other kids. And if they’re going to support me, I should support them as well.”

He has also spent time recently at the Make-A-Wish offices in Wisconsin, as part of the fundraising efforts surrounding the Perfect Game All-American Classic. That trip really meant a lot to him, he said.

“It was awesome,” Questad said. “Three of my grandparents had cancer. I saw it really late in life and what it does to people, but seeing how little kids can go through it and their story, it just really meant a lot to me…I was really happy to go.”
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