Iowa State advanced six to the semifinals of the Big 12 Wrestling Championships Saturday in Tulsa, Okla. The Cyclones had 52.5 points, trailing leader Missouri and second-place Oklahoma State. UNI was in sixth with 32.5 and three semifinalists.
Iowa State finished third last season after racking up plenty of dual meet wins that didn’t translate into tournament success. Cyclones head coach Kevin Dresser expects that to change Saturday and Sunday at the Big 12 Championships and beyond.
It’s all about the postseason now on the Pinning Combination, a podcast about all things wrestling in Iowa with hall of fame coach Dick Briggs. This week’s episode previews the Big Ten and Big 12 Wrestling Championships.
On this episode of the Pinning Combination podcast, Hall of Fame coach Dick Briggs sets the scene at Carver-Hawkeye Arena on Sunday, where Spencer Lee wrestled his last home match as a Hawkeye and Iowa beat Oklahoma State.
In front of a Northern Iowa wrestling record crowd of 5,754 at McLeod Center, third-ranked Iowa State spoiled the evening for No. 14 UNI with a 19-12 win.
No. 3 Iowa State seeks a fourth straight win against No. 14 Northern Iowa in a dual Friday. The coaches played up the intense in-state rivalry as usual this week.
Xtream Arena hosted an energetic three days of championship events, the Iowa women dominated and Northern Iowa and Iowa State each went 2-0 leading into their showdown Friday. This is the Wrestling Weekend That Was.
This week’s episode of the Pinning Combination podcast with The Gazette’s Hall of Fame coach Dick Briggs features takeaways from No. 2 Iowa’s dual loss at No. 1 Penn State and the folkstyle-freestyle debate.
Girls’ wrestling hit the postseason. There were conference tournament results. Iowa State and UNI turned Oklahoma programs away with just one dual win. Here is the Wrestling Weekend That Was.
No. 4 Iowa State wins six of 10 bouts for first win over Oklahoma State at home since 2009
Iowa State wrestler Marcus Coleman attained All-America honors for the first time last season. He’s a four-time NCAA qualifier and currently ranked fourth nationally at 184 pounds. And both he and Coach Kevin Dresser believe the best is yet to come as his final collegiate season winds toward March.
This week’s episode of the Pinning Combination podcast with The Gazette’s K.J. Pilcher and Hall of Fame coach Dick Briggs features a preview of Friday’s No. 2-vs.-No. 1 dual between Iowa and Penn State.
This week’s Pinning Combination podcast starts with some reminiscing — our favorite wrestling memories in 40 years of Carver-Hawkeye Arena. Plus, we look back at the week in college and high school wrestling in Iowa.
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