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Halftime: Iowa leads Iowa State, 28-0

No. 9 Iowa leads Iowa State, 28-0, at halftime in Kinnick Stadium. The Hawkeyes scored on their first three possessions. Iowa marched 71 yards in just under seven minutes to start the contest, capped off by a Ricky Stanzi to Marvin McNutt 9-yard touchdown pass. Stanzi completed four of five passes on the drive for [...]

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Morningstar, Erekson earn seventh-place; Keddy finishes eighth

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Commentary: Young grappler wrestling beyond his years

OMAHA, Neb. – Iowa wrestler Matt McDonough steamrolled his first opponent in his first NCAA Championships. In his second match, the redshirt freshman would have to overcome adversity. McDonough’s initiation to the highest level of college wrestling was a 16-0 technical fall victory. Even with his opponent, Oregon State’s Jason Lara, laying flat on his [...]

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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 [...]

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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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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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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, [...]

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Four in a row for wrestlers

The Iowa wrestling team took no mercy on their first three opponents. Nothing changed in the Hawkeyes’ fourth match. Iowa recorded their third consecutive shutout in the Iowa City Duals, beating North Carolina Pembroke, 47-0, inside Carver-Hawkeye Arena. Redshirt freshman Matt McDonough (125), and seniors Daniel Dennis (133), Ryan Morningstar (165), and Phillip Keddy (184) [...]

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