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Iowa wrestling wins third straight Big Ten title

The Iowa wrestling team captured their third straight Big Ten title on Sunday at the Crisler Arena in Ann Arbor, Mich. The Hawkeyes finished with 156.5 team points, throttling second place Minnesota, who ended with 119.5. Wisconsin finished third with 109 points. The Hawkeyes had six grapplers in the finals, but only two – 174-pounder [...]

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Marion, Kerr, Morningstar earn NCAA berth

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Iowa won all three of its NCAA championship tie-in matches Sunday Morning. Sophomore Montell Marion (141), junior Jake Kerr (157), and senior Ryan Morningstar (165) will all vie for third place at the Big Ten championships later today. Both Marion and Kerr needed to win their first consolation bouts, while Morningstar [...]

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Six grapplers in Big Ten finals

Click to view photo slideshow (22 photos) ——— ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Iowa’s 34th Big Ten championship is still in the works after the second session inside Crisler Arena. Despite the Hawkeyes possessing 32.5-point lead with six wrestlers in the hunt for an individual title, Minnesota, sitting in second place with 104.5 team points, remains [...]

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Commentary: The Big Ten Wrestling Championships: More dramatic than a teenage girl

ANN ARBOR, Mich. – The Big Ten Wrestling Championships: More dramatic than The Notebook. More dramatic than that time you broke up with your girlfriend for the fourth time, and she didn’t want to let you go. The drama reached its peak, fittingly, in Iowa’s final match of the day. Hawkeye heavyweight Dan Erekson was [...]

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Kerr: ‘I need to stop worrying’

By Ryan Young ryan-c-young@uiowa.edu ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Jake Kerr’s first match of the Big Ten championships might as well have been a two-on-one tag-team bout inside Crisler Arena. During his postseason debút against fifth-seed Sean Nemec of Ohio State Saturday morning, he spent most of the seven minutes wrestling with his mind. “I worry about how [...]

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