OMAHA, Neb. – Three Iowa seniors ended their careers with All-American honors. Ryan Morningstar and Dan Erekson earned seventh-place finishes, while Phil Keddy finished eighth. Morningstar toughed out a 3-2 win over Old Dominion’s Chris Brown. The Lisbon native revealed after his match he suffered a torn PCL and torn MCL in his bout with [...]
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Iowa clinches third straight national title
Click to view photo slideshow (21 photos) ——— OMAHA, Neb. – At the beginning of the season, Iowa head coach Tom Brands said former Hawkeye headman Dan Gable would hit him in the head if Brands said his team dominated last season. Brands didn’t go as far to say his squad dominated on Friday, but [...]
Dennis earns rematch with defending champ
OMAHA, Neb. – Iowa’s Daniel Dennis was tied with Iowa State’s Nick Fanthorpe, and less than 30 seconds remained in their quarterfinal match. But with 16 clicks to go, Dennis struck and scored a takedown to secure his 4-3 win. Ideally, Dennis said he wanted to lock up the match with a flurry of points [...]
Morningstar wins in SV on injured knee
By Ryan Young ryan-c-young@uiowa.edu OMAHA, Neb. — Prior to Thursday morning, Ryan Morningstar didn’t know what to expect from his banged-up knee. Neither did anybody else inside the Qwest Center. During a Wednesday afternoon press conference, Iowa head coach Tom Brands added to the mystery, ducking and dodging Morningstar’s injury status as though he were [...]
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Iowa wrestling leads after Session I
OMAHA, Neb. – The Iowa wrestling team won nine of its first 10 matches during the first session of the NCAA championships to seize a 5.5 point team lead. The Hawkeyes are in first with 21.5 points, while Oklahoma State sits in second with 16. Central Michigan, Lehigh, and Wisconsin are all tied for third [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Iowa in command after first session of Big Ten Wrestling Championships
Click to view photo slideshow (16 photos) ——— ANN ARBOR, Mich. — All 10 Iowa wrestlers remain in contention for a conference title after the first session at the Big Ten Championships, scoring 93 team points in the process. Penn State is second with 59 points. Not only are the Hawkeyes still in the mix, [...]
Wrestlers top No. 4 Ohio State on Senior Night
The road to an undefeated regular season goes through Madison, Wis. No. 1 Iowa crushed No. 4 Ohio State, 32-3, on Senior Night in front of an announced crowd of 9,149 at Carver-Hawkeye Arena on Friday. The Hawkeyes also extended their dual meet winning streak to 60 and remained undefeated at 22-0 overall (7-0 in [...]
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