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(Almost) All Your Badger Are Belong To Us: Iowa Wrestling Steamrolls Wisconsin, 39-3
(ORIGINAL PHOTO CREDIT: Brian Ray / SourceMedia Group) Credit to commenter BVB_Fan(atic) or inspiring the headline. There isn't a lot to say about this win, frankly. Domination is always fun to see but, honestly, Wisconsin was the worst dual meet opponent Iowa has faced since the Iowa City Duals...
And The 'Stache Shall Lead Them: #5 Iowa Wrestling Beats #3 Minnesota, 19-17
(Original Photo Credit: Brian Ray / SourceMedia Group) All's well that ends well, right? The final result of yesterday's dual meet with Minnesota (a 19-17 Iowa win, Iowa's 7th straight over the Gophers) was good, even if the way Iowa got there (losing the final four matches of the meet) wasn't...
Cat Scratch Fever: Iowa Wrestling Fights Past Northwestern, 24-13
(ORIGINAL PHOTO CREDIT: Adam Wesley / Daily Iowan Media) Two days after rebounding from the Oklahoma State loss with an overall solid win over a top-ten Nebraska team, Iowa returned home to take on Northwestern. The results were... underwhelming, in several cases. Iowa went 2-1 against...
The Streak Ends: Oklahoma State Beats Iowa Wrestling 17-16
(ORIGINAL PHOTO CREDIT: Benjamin Roberts / Press Citizen) So... that sucked. Iowa's historic unbeaten streak in dual meets -- 84 in a row -- is over. At the completion of all ten matches, they were tied with Oklahoma State 16-16, but after newly instituted tiebreaker rules were examined,...
Iowa vs. Oklahoma State, Wrestling, And The Streak
With a win tonight over Indiana, Iowa will extend their unbeatean streak in dual meets to 84, tying the all-time record set by Oklahoma State (1959-1966). A win against Indiana is to be expected -- they have only one wrestler ranked in InterMat's top 20 at any weight (Matt Powless, #4 at 197)...
Stuck In The Midlands With You: Iowa Wrestling Wins 22nd Midlands Title
Yes, this recap is very late. My apologies. I could blame the holidays and the glut of other Iowa athletic events lately, but... I just dropped the ball. It should have been up sooner. Mea culpa. -- RB When does a fifty-point win feel hollow? When it comes on the heels of a 1-4 showing in the...
We Must Break You: To The Midlands We Go
DSJ out; Marion in. The biggest questions for the Iowa team leading up to this event have been: will Montell Marion wrestle? Will Derek St. John wrestle? And who the heck will wrestle at 149? Now, thanks to Tom Brands, we have some answers to those questions. Marion ran into some more trouble...
Iowa 38, UNI 4: Seasons Beatings
If you just leave that arm hanging out there, Mike Evans will be happy to take it from you.(ORIGINAL PHOTO CREDIT: Benjamin Roberts / Iowa City Press-Citizen) As expected, the Iowa wrestlers manhandled UNI last night (38-4) to run their dual meet unbeaten streak to 83 in a row, one shy of the...
Iowa Wrestling Slips By Illinois And Dominates Iowa State
The quick takeaway is this: #1 Iowa beat #7 Illinois 20-13 on Friday and #23 Iowa State 26-9 on Sunday, extending their school-record unbeaten streak to 82 in a row. They also extended several other streaks, including Big Ten duals (36), home duals (37), away duals (48), and dual meet wins over...
We Must Break You: Tom Brands Quotes Galore
(The A Winner Is You! weight-by-weight preview series will get completed, I promise. Hopefully over the next few weeks. Iowa doesn't really face legitimate competition until December, anyway.) Iowa wrestling held their media day and, as expected, Tom Brands provided plenty of great copy. ...
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