grappler

From grapple +‎ -er.

grappler (plural grapplers)

1. One who grapples.
   • 1912, Harold Bindloss, Vane of the Timberlands, page 19:

     They were cheerful optimists; indomitable grapplers with forest and flood, who did almost incredible things with ax and saw and giant-powder.

2. A wrestler; one who fights by wrestling.