Pinning Combination

Two episodes of the Pinning Combination podcast are publishing this week with Hall of Fame coach Dick Briggs. First up, a look at the college wrestling scene in Iowa, including Hawkeyes you shouldn’t overlook, Iowa’s sweep of Illinois and Northwestern, 1-1 trips to Oklahoma for Iowa State and Northern Iowa and Augsburg’s win over Wartburg.

This week’s episode of the Pinning Combination podcast with Hall of Fame coach Dick Briggs looks back at wins for the Iowa men and women last week, reviews American Rivers Conference competitions, highlights the standouts from the weekend of high school tournaments and previews upcoming boys’ conference tournaments and regional duals and girls’ regional tournaments.

Weather wiped out much of the wrestling schedule in Iowa last week, but there still are plenty of topics to discuss on this week’s episode of the Pinning Combination, including Iowa’s impressive win over Nebraska and Ben Kueter’s debut.

The first weekend of wrestling tournaments in 2024 gave the Pinning Combination podcast plenty to discuss this week, from the NWCA National Duals in Cedar Falls to high school action returning around the state.

This week’s episode of the Pinning Combination podcast with Hall of Fame coach Dick Briggs looks at the ramifications of the Soldier Salute tournament.

This week’s Pinning Combination ponders “duck or not to duck” competition as ISU goes 3-0 at Collegiate Duals. K.J. Pilcher and Dick Briggs also discuss UNI’s next meets, senior nationals, Upper Iowa’s big weekend at Indianapolis and area high school action. Our last podcast of 2023 includes our top Christmas movies and songs.