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Iowa Public Television presents an intrastate showdown between the seventh ranked Iowa Hawkeyes and the fifth ranked Iowa State cyclones.
Hello, everyone.
I'm Kim Johnson and welcome to our season debut of college wrestling.
Our 30th season on Iowa Public Television.
I'm pleased to welcome my broadcast partner, Wrestling Hall of Famer Dan Gable.
Coach.
Iowa.
Iowa State.
What a way to start the season.
It doesn't get any better than this.
We only want to get those rankings a little higher, but no good crowd.
And I'm pretty excited.
It's been seventh ranked, but the Hawkeyes really have a huge lead in the series, 52 to 16.
That's a little misleading.
Back in the days in the forties, fifties and sixties.
Hawkeyes didn't match up with the Cyclones who were then dominating.
So it's just been those seventies, eighties and nineties and the last two years.
The Cyclones have turned it around and they are back on top for this rivalry.
Let's start with the Iowa Hawkeyes, led by Jim Zaleski in his ninth season.
Coach, you've been out of the wrestling as the coach for nine seasons.
I don't remember.
That was nine years this well, but yeah, I guess so.
And of course, he's a three time national championship coach and he's looking to get back on top again.
So he's been recruiting well and he's been doing a job that, you know, really is respectable.
But for him, once you win it, you know, it's probably nothing better than what we've got for all Americans there returning.
Ty Eustis, who's back as a senior, Joe Johnson, who was in the national finals last year, the senior Mark Perry, the sophomore who is in the national finals as a 165 pounder, and Paul Bradley, who's a two time all-American.
Well, let's talk about the host coach tonight here at Hilton College saying Bobby Douglas in his 14th season and coach, he's one of only four coaches who's ever reached the 400 win milestone.
Well, I'll tell you, he's coached more than 14 seasons.
He's a national championship coach from Arizona State and he's been other place and that's why he has those 400 victories.
But he also is on the world tour as well.
So, you know, he's done a great job as an athlete and as a coach.
Well, last year they finished 10th in the NCAA, but this year they started out three and oh, and they're led by four all Americans as well.
Well, yeah, they have Nate Golic, who's actually a two time all-American.
We've got Trent Paulson, twin brother, Travis Paulson, and, of course, Kurt Baccus, who leads the way for the Cyclones.
Well, let's bring in our other broadcast partner who knows a little bit about this rivalry, national champion wrestler and coach from Iowa State Jim Gibbons.
Oh, thank you, Tim.
It's good to get the season started because I've got I'm just ready for it here.
It's a blizzard outside, but you get ready to get started to heat up in here.
You can start to feel it here.
Iowa comes into this match, probably favored in two weight classes.
You can make a big case for the rest of these weight classes being toss ups and no bigger toss up probably than you have it, £184 between Kurt Markus from Iowa State and Iowa's Paul Bradley.
And here you have Paul Bradley in that match, a great power wrestler driving true, switching off to the double this instance, a great power wrestler who scored one of his five match series so far.
Here you see him again driving through a good clash of styles.
Kurt Baccus, another wrestler that has just a little bit different style.
Last year's number two seed in the country here you see him in a big match against Bradley.
He comes up for the inside trip, drives through really explosive wrestler.
And now this next sequence here you're going to see just how great of a scrambler here.
Kurt Mack.
This is a great match up between Styles 20 of all Americans in this weight class.
A lot of uncertainty.
It's going to be a great match up.
Let's move to tonight's weight classes here.
Tonight's match ups here because it's going to be a good one, starting at a heavyweight.
You've got Matt feels you're going to get shot.
Magnani against Hanisch Dennis again Sundell starts us against Gallic Eustace.
This against King in the back half of the meet Johnston and Paul's in the match between all Americans Pape and Paulson, Harry Berlin, Old Bradley and Baccus in the meet closes at £197.
Another toss up match Fellers versus Curran.
Tim, let's take it away.
Well, here we are.
Hylton Coliseum, the end of the introductions between the Hawkeyes, the Iowa State Cyclones.
And we're going to start tonight's match at heavyweight.
That's usually the ending.
But nowadays, if you don't agree to start it at the beginning, you can draw and you can start it whatever you pick out at.
So they obviously didn't agree to start at 125 and they kicked the hat out of the hat.
They picked the heavyweight weight class.
So we'll be starting at heavyweight and then go on to the first part of the lineup.
125 and working right up to 197.
The captains are out there right now getting some preliminary type of match preparation ready to go.
So not sure who's the captain for Iowa State, but they're waiting for me.
Here they come right now.
A couple of them look like each other.
And back to the Paulson twins.
And there's three All-Americans out there and they obviously have another one.
But he's not out there right now.
And golly.
So it's a pretty even match here with All-Americans for each.
And I'll tell you, you know, they're ranked close even though they're not one and two in the country.
Right now.
That's where they want to be at the end of the year.
And I'm telling you, it's not just one and two, but they they want to be one.
But that's going to be a tough contest this year with Oklahoma State heavyweight.
Jim, we're starting the Iowa State rivalry here.
How about the freshmen?
I mean, this has to do something to their nerves.
The ones that are in the lineup while we're getting Jim's mike go.
Well, I can tell you right now that the freshmen, yeah, they are going to be a little bit jittery, but there's not as many freshmen as there wasn't in the lineup last year.
But for the Hawkeyes.
But there are still you know, there's one that Daniel Dennis and he's a big question mark.
And of course, for Iowa State Curran he's going to be a big question mark.
See how he holds up in this atmosphere.
And he will be the heavyweight match tonight.
And I think this is heavyweight weight class start here, I think favors Iowa State because, you know, you had the option of maybe bringing fields in and you're probably in it.
You know, he's thinking about redshirt, has some injury problems here over the summer and he was Iowa's heavy weight last year.
But now you start out at heavyweight bell is going to get the nod right away.
So there's no decision.
You know, you're going right to the top guy.
Yeah.
And what you're saying with Iowa putting Fuller in at heavyweight is that if it were to come down to the last match and if heavyweight, that guy right there, Jim Zaleski, may have thought about taking fields out for the victory against Iowa State?
Well, I think I think that would be the case.
And he could consider that if he needed it.
But Fuller does have a win.
But it's a couple of three years ago, so we'll see who's improved the most here in the last couple of years right away.
Ryan Fuller, the junior, he's two and three versus Richard Schock, also a junior who's two and five.
So what a great opportunity for these two guys don't have winning records.
But hey, throw the records out.
It's Iowa, Iowa State.
Here we go.
Yeah, we're moving in right away.
Good.
If I recall, last time, Fuller was able to penetrate shots, legs and actually get three or four high single leg takedowns in driving, driving down to the mat.
So, you know, I'm sure he's thinking about that.
But it's been a couple of years.
So a lot of things can happen in a couple of years from experience.
Fuller didn't get a lot of experience last year with Fields in there, But, you know, it's one of those things.
BENSHOFF Actually hasn't wrestled that much either.
And so it's it's kind of a couple of guys back in there getting their feet wet again a little bit.
That's right.
Ryan Fuller, Junior from Lisbon, I think from Lisbon High School, where he was a two time state champion at Heavyweight.
And right off the mat, you see Fuller kind of take in territory here.
He's the one that's March and straight forward into the end to his opponent here.
SHARP He's probably got the confidence, but at the same time, he's, you know, because he had actually had some success here last spring in the world trials.
He got fourth in the world trials, knocked off a couple very good athletes.
And he did it right here in Hilton.
So he's had some success here.
Both Iowa natives, Richard Sharp with you as well from Bond around Iowa, and he runs the barn door and there's Fuller in Open Out.
He kind of broke over and there's not really a great counter.
But that was one of those things that you can over yourself extend and you end up flooring a little bit.
And he could have gave up there, but he chop did a great job of just kind of moving away.
And it's one of those things that the points aren't there until they're there or even when they're there.
You can wave them off.
Well, I think Fuller might have been a little bit surprised the shop was able to start the first stop, the first drive part of the move.
That was a sequence.
It was mean.
It meant to go down just almost immediately.
And he had to battle and do a little push a out of position.
Exactly.
Yeah.
I think last time he went down low easier.
You're right.
Yeah.
We've almost wrestled 2 minutes in this first match of the big meet between Iowa State and Iowa here at Hilton Coliseum.
And it's scoreless with less than a minute left in the first period between the shot from Iowa State.
Fuller from Iowa and Sharif receives a warning for stalling from Mike Allen, the official from Waterloo, Mike Allen, longtime official in the ward, one of the top officials in the NCAA from Waterloo, Iowa.
Well, Mike's known for that.
He wants to keep the action going.
He wants to create activity, and we need that now.
He may not do the same exact type of refereeing at the national tournament, but here when it's early season, action is needed.
We want to build base and he's done a good job and him on the edge.
Well, I think it was a good call.
You know, he's been buried his head and Fuller's chest in this situation.
He's going to get called again.
Fuller's taken ground on him.
And you're right, he's going to get called again if he doesn't pick his head up.
Fuller's in on the leg right here.
Kenny, finish it.
And he dug it.
Almost fell over him again.
But.
Yeah, but he did a good job of containing himself.
There.
Well, I think he shot basically buried his head, and he just kind of rolls over the top of him.
Here's an important situation in this match.
Only 3 seconds left.
And you like to be the last guy to score in the period.
And that's the end of the first period.
The score 2 to 0 on the strength of a takedown late in the first period by Ryan Fuller from Iowa.
He's leading off soft get the the choice here and he chooses down Fuller when they had the first opportunity he deferred you all right and there you see that was shot just buries his head in as he buries his head.
You can see Fuller kind of just almost roll over the top of him here.
It almost lost position.
But he did get the two and he got a good set out there, kind back into him, got the back pressure under him and did a little quicker pace there to get one point.
That's great because back pressure is so important to getting out.
I think people forget that and that are coaching and analyzing technique.
The guy underneath has to be has to throw weight back in him to get back up to his feet.
You have to have some ability to move.
And if you don't do that, there's no no action.
There's a pretty good shot.
But he kind of.
DOLE But yeah, he will get back to his feet when immediately to a bear hug but wasn't it wasn't really squeezing with that bear hug wasn't coming up to take position they had run out of bounds and again there's some rules on the edge that don't just automatic roll blow the whistle anymore.
You got to come be completely out and there's another takedown.
Well, that's because of that good edge of the mat rule.
Now.
Yeah, that's a classic example.
If you're watching this at home, just because three points are off and that doesn't mean, you know, two guys left or the other opponent.
It really expanded the wrestling area here this year.
Now you can see them basically doing a tight rope catch and sharp leading forward and goes ahead and works for the front trip and does a nice sweep by the old rules.
They were out of bounds earlier, but you're three, three, actually two feet of one and one foot to the other.
But no, you're not out of bounds anymore.
And this is an a big advantage, I think, for our wrestling.
Unlike the international, it's kind of gone backwards.
You kind of yeah, you don't do much wrestling on the edge and you just kind of like push.
Yes, but there's an escape shot.
That's his second two up against Fuller's two takedowns.
So Fuller leads 4 to 2 with about 45 seconds left in the second period.
Well, with with conditioning being a factor here, you have to think that this is this little 42nd sequence here is there's an opportunity for shot to really get back in the match, see what he has.
I think the last time they met, it was like a ten five match.
Actually.
I was staying a little bit closer to this match right now, at least.
You know, you should have hope.
So I think both guys will be battling this third period coming up unless something happens in this last 20 seconds that changes that attitude.
Well, you talk about attitude, though.
It's a little bit different.
These Iowa was date match ups.
The guys that are, you know, maybe not favored are being dominated.
And giving up those bonus points is always in the back of your mind.
Oh, 8 seconds left in the second period.
Score still four two to take down for Fuller Last time they met two years ago, Fuller had five takedowns against Schaaf and he is starting to go towards that same total here.
If he can add on to the third period and at the end of three or 4 to 2 in favor of the Iowa Hawkeye Ryan Fuller new trial, we're headed into the last period and Fuller chooses neutral, obviously.
Well, he must not feel real comfortable in the bottom position.
Otherwise he would have chosen because that's usually a pretty good point.
Yeah, you can pick up if you got a good skill there.
So and short might be a pretty good writer and that be the coaches and the athletes have to know that no reason to risk getting underneath him.
Yeah, that was clearly the no risk position here.
Taken the neutral and maybe, you know, in this situation you got to only maybe get one more takedown.
Then they may start looking for something where you can take them from the feet to the back.
But the other thing is both these guys kind of get in their feet way to get in a little bit their ears.
You know, it's just they haven't been in the lineup, the starting lineup for, you know, well, I don't know if been in the starting line before until this year, but but Fuller was in the starting lineup two years ago.
But, you know, he had to sit out a whole year.
So it's a good match just for people.
Well, are both of these athletes?
Yeah, they're both homegrown, you know, Lisbon and Bondurant.
Fuller spread out beyond his college.
He had some experience in the world.
Freestyle AP beat two really tough athletes that been in the national finals.
One of them.
And then I believe and, you know, it's just one of those things.
So, yeah, he picked up some good confidence, but right now he's just kind of kind of coasting on this form.
And you know that when you start protecting that, lead it, even though he's hand fighting, well, he probably could be scoring points because he penetrated before blow and that could make him a little vulnerable.
But right now, no writing time in the fourth match in Iowa State needs to be able to tie this match up.
Well, you see Fuller now working for the double collar.
He's coming inside and working on the collar ties.
He's really trying to tie off head up.
So he's he's comfortable there.
Whereas before, when he was working on his offense, he was working for double underhook.
So now he's just comfortable, really just hanging on shots.
Had 20 seconds left in the match regulation.
Here's the shot by Iowa State shock trying to tie the match up got a show low more urgency than that goal shooting.
But he's just getting out of position.
He's only shooting to the legs.
He's not coming up with the legs.
You've got to shoot to come up with something to be able to drive with.
And instead he's it on the mat.
And that's the way the match is going to end.
Now, will you finish with your shoelaces flat like that?
It's tough to get more power at the end of the first match in an eight between Iowa State and Iowa.
Ryan Fuller from the Hawkeyes.
But the Hawkeyes ahead three zero with a team score with a42 win.
There you have it.
Ryan Fuller, the winner over Richard Shaw from Iowa State.
So after one match, the Hawkeyes lead three zero.
And now we're ready for £125.
The Hawkeyes are going to put in Lucas Monona Junior on the mat versus Ben Hanisch, a sophomore.
There you see it.
Season record one in three for Mannone and his season record, 8 to 3.
But the last time these guys met a year ago in the Midlands, right?
11 to 1, 11 to 1.
This young man right here from the Hawkeyes really put it to hand the last time they matched.
So he's going to have to do something a little different here in front of the home crowd to keep Iowa State close after into the second match here.
Well, this will be good to see if there's consistency.
It's kind of like the first match, kind of it's it was a consistent win for the Hawkeyes, but it was a culture score, a lot less domination, it looked like.
Whereas we'll see what happens here.
Benjani a transfer from Brown University a couple of years ago.
He's from Long Island, New York, has a brother that's a freshman at and Iowa this year as well.
From Arkansas outside, both athletes doing a pretty good job of keeping possession down Anthony working on a two on one but Hannah she's got him pretty well blocked off there with his forehead on the air.
And when you look at 11 to 1 score, you know that one athlete had some dominance in the top position.
And this is a bad sign here for Hannah getting taken down early in the match, because obviously he had a difficult time with with Monaghan's ability in the top position.
Attorney Harnish, a sophomore from Waterloo, Iowa, went to Columbus High School, getting written pretty hard right here with the nearest Russo.
You've got to roll Slim that arm out, if you possibly can, to build that base back up.
Giannis doing a good job of getting two on one there but again it's he's got to work for a fall there and the breaking down and work the ball and he's coming out front and keeping the referee he's keeping him happy but you know you look how tight that wrist right is.
You say well how the heck is he going to get out of that?
The problem was he had his elbow out when he actually got taken down worry about correctly.
Right.
So we learned about a man there.
It's a little bit, you know, I don't know, what do you expect when you get your arms?
You can't get your arm out, but we'll see what happens here.
A lot of riding time being piled up by Lucas Banana, the Hawkeye on top.
It's been over a minute.
Really work on that power app and actually had an opportunity to attach it out there.
And we're talking about lessons building on what happened in this one figure for going to go at one point the cyclone, there must have been an 1101 okay, it was Arsenal.
And that's one point for Hannah.
So it's kind of one caution.
Come on, stop, jump, start, and we're behind you and you get two of those before you lose a point.
And then you lose a point every time you jumpstart.
After that, you get set ready.
One more.
Well, that's just like getting an escape back down the down position.
If you can get out here again, panic, you can see here is elbows are out really wide.
There it is in.
And when you do that, the college level is just very difficult.
You know, when you're wrestling against an opponent who does do a pretty good job of risk riding, you just given him his favorite possession, oh, one yard.
And Johnny actually needs to turn the head to be able to get this right shoulder down to the mat he just lifted on the arm.
And you cannot lift there unless you turn the head.
And so he's just blocking the head.
He actually has to scoot it to get be able to turn somebody coming from somebody that pinned a couple of guys.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You see bar arms.
I see the clock up at the corner there, less than 20 seconds in the first period.
Then in having controlled the first period with a takedown and then a long ride, he's got a minute, almost 2 minutes of righty.
That could have been out there.
He turned the wrong way.
It looked like that.
Good job.
I mean, Johnny following through there and ended his first period with a lead here 2 to 1.
And here's the guy right there.
I was staff up encouraging men.
Johnny boy That was a good sequence though above Magnani following steel garnish because it looked like he was all the way out.
And again, eventually the turn the wrong way.
He kind of turned towards his head as opposed to the back to the hips.
That was the end of the first period for Johnny, Strength of a takedown and over 2 minutes of riding time lead 2 to 1 at one point for Hanisch it was giving because of an illegal move.
Wow.
He was ready to shoot like I like that.
He was ready to shoot.
He got a quick to take down there.
Yeah, look.
You look like Mark Perry.
He's got a little bit of Mark.
That was Mark Perry, that little bit fake one way go the other with a double dip.
Mark Perry, the 174 pounder who you will see later in the Hawkeye lineup, see fake one way come the other way.
Arsenal does a nice job of keeping his head up, hips low.
If he's going to get back into this match, he's going to have to learn how to get off the bottom there.
And he actually was pretty much there, but he kind of hung on and I think just gone, letting him go.
Yeah.
Manana.
It was doing what I thought he should do, You know, maybe he's looking for reversal, though, now and still getting right in time.
Got flattened out run and Johnny back in a position of advantage right here, right?
Absolutely.
And again, remember, guys manually did not want to take the down position.
He'll make game a point Anthony did not want to take the down position.
So reversal would have been the hashes advantage there for two two favor of the Hawk-Eye Lucas magnani also has 2 minutes and 44 seconds of riding time so you can pretty much chalk up another point on his total at the end of the match and you get one more one minute of writing time or more, you get an extra point at the end of the match.
And right now it's looking good for Magnani in that department.
It's a real crucial 45 seconds.
Both guys make something happen here to change the complexion or add on to them.
And it looks like Magnani is doing the being the aggressor and he's in on a potential takedown again.
But you know, you've got to finish from here.
It's what you start hanging on a little bit.
It's it's a little bit more difficult.
But he is fairly close, but he's trying to get his hips away from heinisch his chest and his head comes down, though he's a little bit of trouble.
Got to come up in the air.
Crowd's getting into a little bit, but I love this position guy who has his head up to go win the scramble.
Call it right there.
Yeah, 10 seconds left.
And then Jani scores another takedown, 6 to 2 as we head to the end of the second period.
If you're just tuning in, we're in the second match of the meet here at Hilton Coliseum between the Hawkeyes, the Cyclones, Hawkeyes leading three oh on the strength of their fuller their heavyweight a win over shot from Iowa State Now Magnani from the Hawkeyes there's the scramble that Magnani used to score his keeps his head up takedown sweeps his head up hand Hannah his head is down and he's just reaching back.
He's not in a very powerful position.
You're getting in doubt right there, Tim.
You keep your head down, keep your head up.
And right now we took what here Hanisch took up and he kept his body up here because he wants to be on top.
Let's get in leg.
But he's having a little tough time here, but wants to slow the pace of this match down a little bit and maybe try to get a turn.
It's going to be very difficult with that line up there.
Yeah, so he gets it.
Does he get the other leg in?
He might be okay.
But if I get a stalemate here.
But Hannah does a nice job of getting his hips back up on top down right there.
But it's kind of a dangerous position for his knee, actually.
A little bit.
It's not a comfortable position.
Do it now for Hannah.
She does have a starting position.
See what Hannah wants to do, though.
He wants to slow down this match and maybe catch it.
Well, exactly.
And think about that at heavyweight.
And now at 125, Iowa has been the aggressive aiming and the slow down match would be to the advantage of the cyclones because we've we have seen the push come from the Iowa Hawkeyes and then Minardi here reversed and he is he has kept the heat on him.
Well what he did there was the leg came in, he got underneath the leg and you know, you've got to have your leg coming in about Germany.
So pretty much him.
And that gave him a reversal, technically a six point lead here with riding time that can't be broken.
Oh, oh.
So Magnani looking for a takedown here and a right out would give him an eight point decision, which would be an extra point for those two guys.
Oh, there's another example.
How about this expanded edge of the map points?
I think the guys are really going to have to get used to this because the officials are calling it the right right on top of it.
Yeah, they are.
That's a major there.
If he rides them out right here, just whips him through optional, has one foot on the mat, that's two and he has hands flattened out right now and it's looking good for Magnani to do just what you're talking about.
Get a 11 to 3 victory which would be eight point spread, which gives you an extra point as a major decision and indecision that has over eight or eight or more points.
That's the extra point mentally.
From the Iowa State meet last year, Magnani actually was doing a good job and end up losing the match against Iowa State.
So this is probably a big, big win for him just from a point of view of a big lead coming through.
It looks like he's going to come through to 3 seconds to go.
Hawkeyes on the verge of going up ten matches to none, and it will make it a seven to nothing if nothing happens here.
And it doesn't.
That's a big win for Lucas Benjani 125 pounder for the Hawkeyes with riding time to score 11 two, three, four points for the Hawkeyes makes the score seven zero over the cyclones as we head into £133.
Well, here's an interesting one coming up.
133 Daniel Dennis, a freshman, true freshman for Iowa, wrestling against Jessie Sandell, the senior former four time state champion from Iowa.
Jessie sitting down with senior going up against a true freshman from Iowa to see how this true freshman handles this.
He's looked good at times and mostly good at times, but I've seen him and Sundell not really off to a flying start here this year.
He kind of finished fairly strong.
Was one match away from placing in the national term, I believe last year that five and five record on the season.
Whoa, this is he's going right into Sundell strength here, which is that neck ranch and see what happens here.
I think there are some respect that was gained there.
Definitely some respect.
A lot of big scrambles here.
Boy, what a strong leader there.
Pick he made up.
Yeah, a lot of action that's going on.
What's action so far?
That's going to happen every now and then with his sandals.
We'll let you in there.
He's going to try to ranch it.
He's looking for big moves.
This kid can lift your feet off, but your feet aren't on the ground.
And you have those type moves.
You're not going to have the power.
Yeah, he's got a good job of picking him up again, throwing him down.
So I like Randall when he needs to do his moves.
He's going to have to have some weight on his feet.
And obviously, Dennis, so far has picked him up big time.
Boy, I like that lift here.
You see how he arch his hips, right?
You would like that.
He would like to running back a few days.
That's in my wheelhouse there.
Birtley used to hit the ceiling and Dennis Come, the freshman from Ingleside, Illinois, Grant High School on top to go on.
Jessie Sundell, the senior from Ogden, Iowa.
Ogden High School.
And right now the freshman doesn't show any freshman jitters at all.
I go, Yeah, he got he's letting go.
Another point for Jessie Sundell, but it's a defensive point.
It was let go.
Those were the only points the Cyclones have scored in these first three matches so far and the offense has been the Hawkeyes.
I think Dennis felt something there.
He did deep.
He didn't want coming back into that neck wrench situation.
And right now he's going to try to just probably, you know, pick a little bit and, you know, pick your spots.
Now you're going to lift.
Now he's got an edge.
But Sundell is dangerous.
Well, he's been around and had a good experience and he's won a lot of championships.
And that was a very good move by Sundell.
But it could have been anything.
Turk Yeah, he's got that leg turkey now.
If he can capitalize on it, it's definitely a good situation that could put somebody left out of it.
Let the Turk go.
That's.
That's.
That's it.
That's an automatic two or three point move right there.
That was.
Was he.
He just didn't feel it.
You could even see it there.
Danny just didn't feel that he had to elevate that bottom leg.
But again, Dennis is pretty explosive, too.
You know, he just is a strong kid, but he doesn't look real tough right here.
But he's getting controlled from the top position.
But which usually these freshmen do have trouble there.
Yeah, it's tough to be an explosive freshman when you're on your belly.
All of a sudden it's three, two, two sundell the senior over the freshman and Sundell looks real tough on top.
He's got a lot of leverage going on and it's 35 seconds left in the first period and the tide is turned to the bad.
I don't think they're going to put him.
He's a strong boy.
Look at that.
Well, I tell you what, the nice job of bailing out of that, I think natural strategy wise, I think you sundell maybe a little a little bit better just to stay in the top position.
We got to be not force that the other guys should have like in the same position.
Yeah.
So advantage Sunday, all right.
Because it looked like he was coming out right.
It could have been a one point, but because he had it so tight there, I don't I think it was a good call.
You see the replay there?
You saw how Sundell kept his hips up.
You know, he wanted to scoot around the corner, but just did.
Right.
There's a position to talk about it, you know, right there like that.
Right.
Well, he let me get it later.
He got to elevate and elevate it and pointing toward the air.
So then it takes the weight off that like he would had he power then.
But he had power to scissors.
You sit back right up.
Okay.
Here's what you work on here.
Your 22nd escapes.
He's quick.
He's quick.
Well, he's got some hops to him.
Good job by Sandel and heats over the arm, though.
Over the arm.
Look at this young man.
That's what you want, is doing the job.
He's hustling.
That's big points right there.
They're on hang out down there, though, and calling that a move back up.
I didn't call him.
He didn't get come.
Well, you know what I like what Sundell did there.
Well, let's look at the sequence here.
Good.
Explosive move.
Kept the sun coming over.
His arm keeps moving on his feet.
You see how he moved?
His footwork there was just excellent.
Right?
Right.
A nice finish.
He said something to him and he got up, said something to Mike Allen about the ball.
And so Mike brought him over just to say, settle down.
Oh, switch off the call from morning.
He wants he wanted while he's down there six or 7 seconds and he was reaching up with one arm.
But you know, 4 to 3 to start the second period in favor of the Hawkeyes.
Go Dan Dennis violation.
Luckily lock hands hands one point now you like to hold against the Iowa State cyclones gives another point to Hauschka blocked hands on top He's so explosive he's this great job getting to his feet That's where he's able to beat Sundell as far as his position here.
But he'll learn it was hand fighting in there and your hips are in close is going to be something is going to be difficult to get.
It is your career returning champions and All-Americans.
But boy, you got to be impressed with the way he's worked in the down position.
Well, and also a true freshman.
He comes in here.
I'm just trying to think who in the heck beat him.
He's a two time state runner up in Illinois.
Young man went to Nebraska.
He's a freshman.
Nobody actually beat him again this year, winning the tender over there.
I believe, is Jim, you're right to have come in and be in high school last year and step in this kind of environment and to perform like this.
This is special.
He does that.
He's in a pretty good position right here.
Whoa.
He's staying in there, too.
I'm just staying right on doing a good job with the mat position right there.
Yeah, it was control and ties inside.
Here's Sandell shot, which, you know, Sundell did score on him on a takedown when he when he hit a shot on him before on the edge.
Lots of time, though.
6 to 3 in favor of the Hawkeye Dan Dennis, the freshman going up against the senior Cyclone Jesse Sundell 50 seconds left.
In the second period, the Hawkeyes are ahead seven oh in the meet after two matches.
This is the third match of the night.
We started a heavyweight, then 125.
Now we're at 130 300 movement.
Well, you know, it's it's two guys that are kind of wrestling in almost a high school type match here with with the with with amount of effort in and they're not worried about their position.
They're both going at it.
Good game.
Nice duck.
You've got good flexibility.
Well, you don't want to come around the back too much, Ross.
You put yourself in a position strong and you can pick them up off the ground.
Yeah, you eliminate all that's to get two points right away.
He just popped his hip in and he flew.
Now, so Dale is in a position where he's really going to have two horses, eight, two, three in favor of Dennis from Iowa going into the third period, 2 to 3.
No riding time involved right there.
He has a little worried here while he got his hips in a good position.
But he wasn't moving sundial.
He was just standing there with him and trying to coming around and didn't have his legs hooked.
So that's a big thing.
Yeah.
And when he was going to hook him, he popped so hard.
And so you make up the metal, that'll happen as quick as Dennis is underneath.
He's also quick on top, you know, shifts from one side to the other.
Right on the whistle.
Well, don't throw if you're Jesse Sundell, you keep fire in the big stuff here.
You know, the big move is going to get you in the match.
And I expect him to do that here.
He'll come out in on that neck.
Ryan Senderos not getting up his hips underneath him very long, and so that's why he just kind of using the upper arm, body and upper arm instead of the whole body.
Just But they're all free shots here.
You know, you've got to go ahead and on the counter shot, Dennis is able to drop down on an ankle, nothing.
And then he covers the hips.
That great position for rival matches.
It is.
You really haven't seen Dennis out of position that much.
He's done a great job with his quickness and positioning.
Another two points makes the score ten two for writing time is not a factor.
Right now it's six points.
What should Dennis do if you're if you're the Hawkeyes?
I wouldn't get tied up in too many neck branches, but at the same time just keep on doing what he's doing, keep those good knee and ankle leg tackles and keep moving your feet.
And he does both like both guys.
If you want to get something going here that see Dennis almost get two or three count here.
He has moved his feet.
A takedown will not give him a major but sandal.
Here he goes.
Got the position he wants.
He's trying to move him back in now for the frozen wallet.
Yeah, here it is.
Jesse.
He didn't give up it.
He's too strong for the elbows.
Going strong.
Him?
Yeah.
He's not trying it.
Yeah, he's not going to get it there.
He's got to good flex.
Not only does he explosive, but he's.
He's turning his hip down.
He's flexible.
But.
But at least put give Fendell some confidence.
Yeah.
For the next time.
You know he just knows that it wasn't just one one way and but it's a big win for the Hawkeyes it's really a very impressive showing because we know now has this and boy, it was a lot of freshmen that couldn't have avoided.
I'm really you know, he got thrown harder.
So sundell he came off his back pretty good there.
They did that ten seven win for the freshman Dennis, the Iowa over sundell from Iowa State.
Three more points for the Hawkeyes makes the score ten zero after three matches as we head into £141 here in the meet at Hilton Coliseum between Iowa State and Iowa.
Here's that last very nice throw attempt.
But look at Sandell.
He doesn't give up on the position, elevates it and almost catches him.
But you see right here, he's got his right hip up.
Dennis keeps his right hipped up and later on the sequence he turns out right hip down somehow.
Yep.
He turns it right here for real.
Flexible in the shoulders there too.
Yeah.
Oh, you can see that.
That arm.
A lot of guys were given that up under the circumstances.
£21.
Well, we've seen these two wrestle before on public television last year, Iowa, Iowa State.
This was the true freshman searches from Iowa, now a sophomore versus Nate Galligan, two time all-American runner up in the NCAA while state.
And it was a tiebreaker win for Galic both they wrestled in the dual meet and then in the Midlands also mentioned about Garlic's career of over to this summer.
Freestyle career was runner up in the world trials.
Maybe he has a deep shot in his crotch.
They're doing a good job of keeping his leg back.
You need to come inside with his.
He needed to go inside instead of outside.
Inside could have gave him the distance to pick him up in the air, but he stepped on the outside and that gave up his chance to escape.
Oh, Alex Curtis, Sophomore.
Okay.
Griffith, Indiana.
Griffith High School.
Never lost in high school.
He was 236.
And oh, and in fact, last year was the first time since junior high that he had ever been beaten in Scholastic in college wrestling.
When he wrestled Galli down at Hawkeye Carver Arena and Galic won on a tie breaker.
Oh, I don't know if you mentioned Delic winning the University World Championships this summer and had given some confidence he beat some fine people over in Turkey.
Well, he was a number one seed last year in the NCAA wrestling tournament, and he got beat by a very hot teen where who had beaten twice earlier in the year in the duel and in the Big Eight or Big 12.
And he was undefeated.
It was his only loss of the whole year, that loss in the finals.
And he has beaten where this year.
So the All-Star meet.
Yeah you know he just took off Forstall in their searches.
Yes but Galaxy just does such a great job of I remember sitting there watching him I was sitting next to John Smith and Oklahoma State coach and he says, boy, he really does some nice stuff.
He goes home.
I have to take some time to study what he does and great respect for what Gallop is doing out there.
He just controls the center of the mat and and controls the tie up and in for a guy who was pretty rangy for his weight class.
Well, says, you know what a quality opponent here but you had the feeling that Nate Golic saying so far I'm supposed to go out there, I'm going to win this and give my team a lift.
Well, so far it's been you know, he's been looking to dominate, but the score is still zero zero.
That shows you what kind of athlete surfaces and not a good shot, but another good hip position counter.
He's taken the best that Galaxy had to offer now and kept it a neutral match.
And now he's got an inside scoop of his own Look at that.
Both scramble hung on for a second.
Now they're both in pretty equal positions, both hanging on the ankles at who's going to be able to come up in the air.
Well, yeah.
And also turn and circle, get their head up again.
They're still battling it right now.
Certs.
This looks like he has an advantage, but Galaxy trying to make a scramble here.
Does he has the advantage?
A little bit, but it's all depending on it.
Whether Galit can keep that ankle and come up.
Okay.
That's some good wrestling there.
That's why I went to the university world right there, because he's pretty much nailed to the to the to the mat there and was able to come up in and surgeons did a great job of of putting himself there.
But two good wrestlers.
Nate Galic, his younger brother Nick Galic, who was a four time state champion from Arizona, is here at Iowa State, and Nate Gulick from Tucson, Arizona.
Sunnyside High School.
Nick, a freshman going to keep the Gallic name in the cycling lineup along with another highly recruited Sanderson.
So you know, they got there.
They had one or two top places in the recruiting class last year.
I wonder how many visits?
Sanders In ten?
Official Yeah, official visits about Utah State.
Okay Yeah they probably whether they're yeah they're talking about the younger brother of Cale Sanders from the associate head coach and four time NCAA champion, first undefeated four time NCAA champion in the history of the sport and an Olympic gold medalist along by college wrestling on Iowa public television 26 season.
This is the first meet Iowa Iowa State.
What a way to start it off then Wisconsin at you.
I Saturday, December 10th, Oklahoma State versus Iowa.
Saturday January 7th I assume versus you and I Sunday, January 22nd, Illinois versus Iowa, Friday, February 10th.
And Missouri versus like one Sunday, February 12th.
All live here on Iowa public television.
Can you guess that young man great lineup when you really back at it £141 Hawkeyes lead the team score ten zero.
After three matches we started a heavyweight 125 133 And now you come on down, we're in the second period.
The scores knotted at zeros between Galic from Iowa State and sources from Iowa.
And they've been in these kind of matches before.
Last year, Gallic winning both by tiebreaker in overtime and now he's ahead one zero with an escape in the second period.
Actually, that shot he made was kind of a one where if surface wouldn't have went to the front head and tried to hang on, he could have gotten maybe a goal behind there because he's such an angle.
But Surface dropped down to get that down, that lock and that feeling of security.
And yeah, you can tell he he's so strong on the upper body.
He likes to be able to control it and grab your head and and get your get your head underneath his chest and and Gallic so far as is just made most of his shots asserts is his right leg I'd expect him to maybe see if he's got something to the other side.
As far as the defense is concerned, he's our galaxy are tight as far as his technique is concerned, so I think he's got the ability to go over both sides.
I would go that B search is his back leg here.
And boy, again, another another motion there that look like Mark Perry.
Well, yeah, they are team, right?
Yeah, you heard that.
Oh it a lot of it.
All of it Pretty good lot position there referee does a good job realize neither wrestler was going to go very far 47 seconds left in the second period Gallic out front one zero on the strength of an escape like three guys looking to get.
Okay, guys, you got it.
You're with the referee wants to settle on a bit to tie it up a little bit hard, but you know, that's the nature of the game.
Yeah, there's probably go out there and club each other for a while.
Was a good shot, right?
He's tight.
If he has a good finish there, he'll get it.
And he got it as big takedown.
Just great footwork on that.
When you got to the leg deep, do you see how he finished?
He made a little half step back, got services coming into him and then came across for Bosa GUARD.
But what what he did was able to do was get that corner cut just about two inches further than normal to be able to come up with the leg instead of just losing the leg.
And that's that made the big difference.
Then he didn't hold it very long.
It went right to the finish and that was a big takedown.
And he rides it to the end of the period to keep the three, you know, answer for certain safety circles out in front a little bit and then comes right across, drives across.
He turns the hips and young man he back off.
Just didn't really have much to work with after that.
Three zero in favor of Gallic here.
You're saying that on the bottom you come on down the street.
It be interesting to see what Gallic strategy is here.
Well, he's got a few options here.
Probably going to try to me keep him down.
And I think the key thing for him, this is probably not going to give up a reversal yet, but he has a lot of options.
When you take a guy down and or reversal or something like that and that your doesn't answer at the end of the period with an escape, it gives you a lot of freedom here.
a30 lead is is just it's just huge in a match like this.
Oh, yeah.
Well, he's doing a good job of controlling him.
I think last year he didn't try to control him too much.
So and this is one of the areas that the young Frenchman last year had for the Hawkeyes.
They're on the bottom position.
But this is it's important for searches to be able to prove to himself that he's improved in this area.
But he's going against the number one ranked wrestler right now.
Well, number two, maybe I'm not sure.
I don't think that that all star meet would not be up a ranking in all poll.
Some polls.
Yes.
Look, I always work on the hips so that's this nice stuff and he's got he's got a minute right right.
He's piled up the riding time an extra point and unless that can turn it around and get on top of Gallic and bring it back down.
But right now.
Whoa.
Not sure what's going on here.
That's a stalemate.
Stalemate That's going to give the hawk a fresh start.
Well, that's an unusual position to start a new start for him, because he was really kind of dominating searches in that position.
But right on rank him overall.
It again, I don't think you can turn him but you want to inflict a little bit of let's let no he's on top rep you got to come down from you're is your horse and I didn't like that that's the first time they've been able to yell cyclones here So now they're gone.
They've been waiting.
There's a pretty good crowd here and this is no certainties.
Get caught with his elbows out and Gallic really once he gets that leg hooked, he really does a nice job, a knock and you see how is he had the left leg hooked and he comes in, slides over to side and knocks you with his knees.
Now he's in a crab right position and, well, he really looks tough in there compared to last year.
You know, Surface is moving pretty well though and so he's Gallic Yeah he's just done surgery seems to be creating more opportunities to score than he would have a year ago but at the same time Gallic hustle all the more taking advantage of maybe learning a little bit about his opponent and making the score a little bit wider than it was before.
Unless the surface hits him with a good throw here, I think.
Search of the deck.
Alex trying to make a statement here right him out.
Well, it's not going to happen, but he certainly was dominant in the top position.
He really was.
And at the end of the match, Gallic wins.
Three, two, one four, two, one, four, two, one.
With riding time here, he created a bigger margin.
His third time.
And so the Cyclones get on the board with three points, makes the score 10 to 3 after four matches is gone, with the fifth match now at 149 before the before the break.
And 149 is pretty much favored by Iowa.
We talk American there talked about that in the open and this is one of the two matches we had to figure that Iowa's heavily favored here.
Who's wrestling for the cyclones and the Canadian.
Yeah, they actually had a pretty good match earlier this year ten eight match going My man.
It was a match, I think.
And it got out in front with a big, big move and use this able to work himself back in the match used as a real basic wrestler.
A lot of experience Tye used as a senior from Blue Earth, Minnesota Blue Earth High School and of course he son of Jack Eustace, who was a great wrestler from Mankato State right now, now Minnesota State, now Minnesota State.
And his brother Eustace was a national runner up for the Hawkeyes and is in the room as well still, right?
Music wrestling for the club there.
Okay.
Training club.
Jason, Caleb, Junior, Waterloo, Iowa, went to Don Bosco High School program with a rich tradition there and Waterloo area.
And he's just one of those you know guys has been the program for a while.
He's had some spot duty every now and then got in the lineup and, you know, he got a chance to go out there and show us where it's tonight against a real tough wrestler and graphic.
Good shot.
Again, he's in a pretty good position here to score the first two points.
They gave it to him already.
He had weight on his hands and nice job there by use, just kind of following up his shot, driving into him kind of slowly working around and getting the two he won right there.
You're not out of bounds to you.
Out of bounds?
Yeah.
Good job, guys.
I think with uses that that last match where he's able to come back and score a lot of points, you know, the takedowns and you're probably going to see him spend most of this match on his feet.
He's probably pretty confident in this match.
At the same time, he knows that, you know, he needs to wrestle a sound type of match and not make a lot of mistakes.
Also a chance for you as a senior to get out there and show some leadership and look, really put it on a guy and send you into the locker room with a good lead, 2 to 1, 2 minutes into the first period, there is another shot head to the inside, but they can never be able to hip out and avoid the takedown.
The second takedown they're used to.
Still ahead, 2 to 1 on the brink of a takedown early in the first period.
As nice job.
I can help.
They did a nice job of squaring up and really kept his hips heavy, kept his head underneath there, too.
You really mean extend well and it just the opposite of what happened last time.
Justis was able to come up with that leg and get head control and can take all the weight off that leg.
This time all the weight got down on that leg and just straighten his arms right out with the hips and always get a kick out of that because sometimes just a little, little tweak like that here showing your strength in and battling after a guy gets in there.
Now, all of a sudden, Justis has a little respect for him here.
You don't see him quite as much on the offense here.
Late in the first period.
But, you know, I'll go see Mike Zarek in the background there for the Hawkeyes.
I'm sure that they spent a lot of time playing brother and good role in the room.
Mike actually has been hurt a little bit lately and has not been able to do as much as he wants.
But once the injury, I'm not even sure exactly what it is.
You can run a facemask correctly, but you know.
But I know he's okay in there blowing around.
So the state is about ready to go back full speed used as a fast start to his senior year six.
You know, then good hand control, good weight on that on his hips.
And the escape gives him a 3 to 1 line early in the second.
Terrible guys.
If you're just joining us, it's the fifth match of the meet between Iowa State and Iowa.
Iowa leads 10 to 3.
I'm Tim Johnson along with Dan Gable and Jim Gibbons.
And we're at Hilton Coliseum, the opening college wrestling dual meet of the season, our 30th year on Iowa public television.
And right now clips doing a pretty fair job of I mean there's flashes in this match where he does he does a good fair job of hand fighting and it's taken the inside ties he's used.
This is really doesn't look like he's trying to get a shot off.
So, you know, this is a situation if you're use this and you're heavily favored in this issue, you've got to go after it.
You've got to create some things that that are they're not quite there.
I just haven't seen action.
I haven't seen the offense yet, though.
I don't know what he has.
Yeah.
They're just once one and done and then if he goes in a couple more in a row users will probably get a score because that's the way the referee's been kind of kind of not being consistent.
They're on one guy that's being aggressive over the other quarter.
Here it is.
There's a shot.
You have plenty of room to do a score, some stuff switches off to double and the two got an extra point.
They're getting one point for a stall and then 2.4 takedowns.
Right.
Right.
And that actually makes the match look like you could possibly dominated.
Here's the drop comes off the head.
Nothing very fancy.
Just a touch come off the head and drop in on him.
Not given to him.
By Ty Eustis.
30 seconds left in the second period.
Eustice ahead 6 to 2 in tie.
Tiger said all-American last year, placing fifth at £149 at NCAA championships.
Ty Eustice was the first guard to face and can Epperly hasn't taken a shot.
He's just been in there and fighting again.
There's a sequence I was looking for, you know, boom, boom, boom.
Look, you know, one gun shot after the other.
You're the favorite.
You've got to get out there.
Good.
After end of the second score, six two, there's Jim Zaleski, pleased with the first five matches, winning three and commanding lead here in the fourth.
The only loss so far.
Nate Gallico over 30.
Alex Hertz's, his third straight victory over the very tough Iowa sophomore searches.
But he can't break through because garlic is right on top of the field for £141 in the nation right now, trying to become a national champion for the first time in Ty Eustis, trying to do the same at 149, undefeated this year, 6.0, and looking for his seventh win controlling Jason catnip for the cyclones.
I look around the crowd and I'm impressed with the student section of of the Cyclones but of course obviously they haven't had a whole lot to yell about yet and they're supporting their their wrestling team.
Yeah.
You see in the background there you get guys with who came in here with no shirts and mother painted all painted on, painted on shirts right here.
I got the second half of this meet's going to start out with the Paulson twins, I believe, from Iowa State.
That'll that'll that'll get the crowd going to take off.
But now guys have an NCAA runner up there, too.
So with Joe Johnston right now ready to start and he hasn't cracked that with Paulson yet.
He's in four against in close but but one more shot by Eustace.
We're going to end up getting another point here.
Crowds get Nancy.
They want to to start pressure on a little bit more.
Not a lot of time left.
And he's got to make up a score of three or 4.263 in favor of uses.
25 seconds left in the third period trying to lock it up back in one single leg and nip hip and out.
They're pretty good job there, but pretty good defense.
It's not the cyclones need right now generally go after three.
He had to look like he had the advantage for a second and just didn't just didn't follow it.
I think he just knew that the wins his and he's not going to get in any unusual situation with Ty Eustace winning for the fourth time for the Hawkeyes.
In the first five matches, Eustis wins 6 to 3 at 149, and after five matches, the score is Iowa 13 and Iowa State three.
We'll be back with more college wrestling in just a moment.
and we're back at Hilton Coliseum for the in the meet between Iowa State and Iowa, where Iowa leads 13 to 3 after intermission.
But this is a great match between Paulson and Johnston.
Paulson and Johnston have met four times before.
Johnston Oh, and four against Paulson.
But Johnston Joe Johnston from Iowa was the national runner up.
And so he has finished higher than Paulson in the past in the NCAA, while Johnston is is is kind of a giant killer.
He's had two wins over returning national champions.
And he had the big win last year over Alec's JR. Pelley, I believe, in the semifinals of the national quarterfinals and national tournament.
So he's the one that had the hot tournament and Travis actually, Trent Paulson did not play in that tournament last year after placing the weight class lower.
Johnston, a senior from Prairie Village, Kansas, Shawnee Mission East High School, and he was a two time state champion there and broke out of the NCAA runner up in 2005 past year, going against Trent Paulson, one of two.
Paulson's in the lineup for the Iowa State Cyclones.
And we'll see Travis next at 165.
Trent and Travis from Council Bluffs, Iowa, Lewis Central High School, coached by Keith Massey.
You have got him.
Coach watches it, watch it has guys watching.
Not a lot of actual maneuvers, but lots of action here.
A little bit of good hand fighting, but both wrestlers are pretty, pretty stymie right now.
I know both guys do a great job of keeping the position and know any little inch or two here with the head and get in the corner.
Now that you saw Johnson get to the corner of that over and under Ty but I think he wants to keep a high pace in here.
Dan, you kind of mentioned that before as he wants to keep a high pace because this thing goes zero zero into the second in the second period, making it a four minute match.
I think that favors Paulson.
Well, Paulson, like I said, is for now against Johnston, the national runner up.
But, you know, Paulson doesn't give me many, you know, thing to put up on the on the wall because he said in the paper, you know, he says, I think Joe Johnston's a stud and I respect him highly as a wrestler.
Every time I wrestle him, it's a battle for 7 minutes straight.
I know if I want to win, I'm going to have to give everything I got.
And so that's showing a lot of respect.
He knows that Joe Johnson always comes at you, and that's what I've always loved about watching this guy wrestle.
Yeah, I think he that's that's a great way to put it here.
And It's nice to see two guys go out there and have great respect for each other and also go out there and give us a good show.
Zero zero 35 seconds left.
The first period of this £157 match.
If you're just joining us, we're five matches in.
It's 13 to 3 Hawkeyes over the Cyclones.
Both athletes have done a good job of warding off some of the best stuff that they have to offer.
Paulson looking for the inside trip on Johnson's left leg.
See, that left leg is right towards us right now.
And Paulson is in a nice job of stopping Jazz's offense, calling him up good and under hooking in, getting his hips into him is not hitting him at where it can pick him up and getting his hips under pressure.
We started in heavyweight tonight.
You don't charge and we are making our way back to £197, which is our quote unquote heavyweight match tonight.
And that's a big decision.
And Iowa has given a lot of those, but they've been in a position here earlier to be able to make those decisions on the neutral position.
But this one, you know, is a crucial one point when there's a two even pretty evenly matched wrestlers.
Yeah, that that means that Johnson's is going to particularly be aggressive in that on the feet either make it up with the pushing and get a stall warning or but you got to be kind of come and be aggressive if you want to be on your feet here and you didn't go down well, you're not confident in the down position.
You need to be ultra aggressive here.
Nobody really came close to scoring yet yet there's been a lot of semi action here.
Paulson is he got call warning policy and I agree with what was happening there because Paulson basically just kind of put a double collar tie up and just saw a freeze him just kind of freeze Johnson's motion.
He knows he has the advantage here.
And I don't you know, it depends on, you know, what takes place here.
Johnson backs up much he'll get he'll get this comparable call but that's good job of keeping that call even though I hit the couple back steps, he's coming back into it and doing shots like that.
There's a good shot.
But kind of fell down a little bit.
Hook the leg, gets to boy he's on his back during collision back then.
I don't think they called it.
Nope, they did not yet.
And I think the Mike Allen very emphatic yeah one count to zero but that's still in he's got the leg but it's not a Turk.
It's just a ride type thing unless you can get the weight onto the right side.
And he doesn't have it yet.
But Paulson wins the scramble and they haven't put the two points up yet.
They just made the board.
They're just waiting.
But he's really got the students into it.
Dan, They just didn't understand why the points aren't up, but they will be.
They just didn't see the signal.
He may not even a single signal for the points because of the idea of guys trying to call him once.
And we didn't have.
Now, Paulson did a nice job in realizing where he was.
He was coming up.
It's two zero after the second period, only three on the strength of Paulson's.
Look at the sequence there, a shot by Paulson, the first one, and Johnson kind of reached over with the pick, but he never got to the corner.
Well, he didn't bring his legs under reach, but he forgot to bring his legs.
And in Paul's did a good job of hitting him and knocking him down.
So I think it was a good call by Mike Allen is there wasn't more than a one count there.
So he's zero.
Let's see what he got through.
Four straight down, no near fall shots where they try and talk about talking about their falls for 40 seconds right in time.
Yeah, right right, right.
And also, we're getting the Florida coach to look in writing time for you.
Yeah, that's the big thing is what the writing time was is coach they didn't catch like we said, they didn't see the signal for the takedown so they didn't put the points up and they didn't start the writing time.
Yeah.
And if I recall that clock automatically goes to writing time.
Once you put the take down on.
Right.
We got to coach, we got there.
But if our guys don't have 4.30 2 seconds to score, Paulson is going down one thing it also happens here, I know what Hilton Coliseum, they have somebody right there with the stopwatch.
If they there's a question there, they'll go hit the watch.
And one more one.
Paulson went down.
He has been warned.
Joe Johnston, a nice shot, but he's hanging on to it and comes across to him.
It's pretty good action here.
Pretty good action by two.
And there's the eruption from the cycling crowd.
Things start great for the cyclones after the intermission.
Well, five oh lead here and you've got a chance to build riding time.
So you know, it was it, you know Johnson is going to come at him this.
Match is not over with here now you see Paulson the low shot Now he reaches over and gets the two and really Johnson bails out at that point cause you have to give credit to Paulson on that shot.
You did a good job of shooting, then staying in there and finishing across the other side.
Go.
But again, when you get a takedown here with a and don't have an escape, answer it.
You have a3o lead.
You can afford to be aggressive and still have the lead, you know, if you get taken down.
So I like what he did.
He was aggressive and and you talked about riding time.
He has it now over a minute, riding on top.
I don't know.
He's getting a little bit off to the side there.
A little bit.
Well, I think he is baiting Johnson and maybe into rolling back into him and maybe trying to catch him with that.
But but he's a little bit loose there.
Yes, he is.
And he did a good job of coming back up and tuck that leg in and Johnson doing a nice job of moving forward, Warren, for stalling.
So he's coming.
He can't hang down there much referee is not going to call him with one.
Yeah, I don't think I don't think that's a good call as you if you look at that, I mean what more can you do?
Well, you can get a call if you're Joe Johnson obvious.
No, what you do there is you got to let him go because if you if you give up a stall warning, it's one point answering my question.
Yeah, you got to let him go.
Yeah.
Because now if you give up another escape, it's just you get to because you're telling me he was in a position he couldn't win because you cut because of the situation, cut your losses.
Don't go too far.
Not so sure the rules correct there.
Right.
When one guy is really doing the movement and if you do let go, you have to lose him.
You shouldn't have to lose anybody.
But at the same time, he's going to, you know, give himself a chance to put himself back in the match.
Match.
Right.
You can't afford another stall down there.
He's got rain.
Times gone, have taken to his back for at least a to two and two to get a tie.
And Paulson's being smart.
Wow.
Wow.
Paulson caught Johnson thinking he was the only man with the offense and was not when when he was there.
Look at this.
He's got plenty of room to score here in the right ma tho.
Yeah, but I tell you what I like what balls Paulson's done here.
He got on the offense here with the lead against the returning runner up.
That's pretty impressive.
Turn the tide here for the cyclones to give him a little bit of a riding time.
Extended his victory totally beating for the last time now it's with riding time 823823.
So the five point victory for Paulson this time gives three more points for the Cyclones.
Make the score after £157.
Hawkeyes 13 cyclones, six.
I tell you what, a lot of the same thing.
But I tell you what, Paulson extremely aggressive with the lead, extremely aggressive with the lead.
The that was impressive for Paulson because he could have shut down.
He pretty much thought he had that could have had the match won.
But he kept doing what what what got him what I believe in the £165 called pate the senior from McCook in Iowa unranked going against Travis Paulson now second half of the Paulson from Iowa State undefeated this year ranked fifth in the nation all-American two years ago fell short last year at the NCAA.
But their big match here, Paulson heavily favored tape a couple of years ago, wrestled in this Iowa State meet and got pinned by Nick Pope.
Solano didn't wrestle last year in it right now papes jobs to keep the the Iowa state from building the momentum and Paulson says let me build on what my brother just did, 13 to 6 in favor of the Hawkeyes.
We got Ben Peterson with us here on the chin.
Then Peterson, Olympic gold medalist, honored with Dan just a little bit earlier in that great ceremony.
Ben, that had to be a thrill.
Stand out there with Dan and Kale and and have that kind of honor with that Banner.
What a neat banner, huh?
Yes, they do.
Kind of unveiled before our eyes, didn't it?
All of a sudden, it wasn't there and it just kind of rolled down.
That's pretty, huh?
I didn't know they were going to do something like that for you.
They did it for you, Dad.
Well, I'm in Iowa, you know, you're Wisconsin, boy, So What'd you think of that last match there?
Been quite to the last year's national runner up from Iowa, Joe Johnston, and then Trent Paulson.
Paulson gave the cyclone fans a lot to cheer about there.
Yes, obviously.
I mean, why didn't the same happen some more?
But, you know, the aggressiveness that he showed there was with the least noticeable.
Yeah, look, we need more of that.
What do you think, too?
What do you think about these brother acts?
You've been you've seen those brother acts before you.
Quite a bit.
They always work better than you know.
Your brother John.
He was an Olympic champion as well.
So, you know, that's pretty unusual then.
I mean, family Ben and Jon Peterson, the Olympic teams, both 1972 and 76, Ben winning the gold in 72 and the silver in 76 and John winning the silver in 72 and the gold in 76.
That kind of kept things okay in the family, huh?
Band for posterity and for for life.
Well, my dad made a comment afterwards, says, I know you both wanted to win the second time, but if this had had to happen, I'm glad it was called John.
Johnny says, I'm glad you won the gold.
So now Ben can't complain that he's better.
You went anyway.
You had another brother here, Russell Here, I believe.
Dan?
Yes.
He's up watching today.
Oh, he's here.
Is he still live in town?
Yes, he does.
He stayed right here.
Talk talk a little bit about the training atmosphere that you guys had at Iowa State back in the seventies, Ben.
Well, I guess I would say it was it was place that if you wanted to work, you definitely had people to do it with it.
Coach Nichols really said a an atmosphere that was one that if you wanted to work, you could you had people to do it with.
And I guess there was times I thought that if you didn't want to work to do that too.
But there was enough of us in that room that definitely wanted to to train and see how far we could go.
And obviously having Dan here as well, he had he was already there two years before I got in is a key factor in making that atmosphere so intense.
And I had some brothers that back home before I came here, I think that prepared me for it and I loved it.
And so you've got to have the next level to get the people another level.
You've got to have people that are pushing each other on a daily basis.
And if your college room isn't doing that, it's not going to succeed.
You know, the kind of interesting thing is that you that you went to school in architecture and then after that you got into going, Tell me a little bit about what happened to you.
Well, I actually left the Irish state here and worked in architecture as a as a draftsman at the idea of getting my license.
And you have to work in the field for a couple of years before you can even apply for it.
But I tell people that God changed my thinking from building buildings.
I used to come over when they were building this place.
I remember when they did it from scratch and I was amazed by watching it go up and I says, instead of building buildings, I want to build in the lives of madmen.
So I started doing that coaching, doing clinics, traveling and speaking, and eventually went to grad school at a Bible college and got a master's degree and then continuing to work in that way, worked as an assistant pastor for eight years on a part time basis while I was coaching then.
But now I'm I do that directly through our campus, the campus champs and our summer racing camps and other things that speaking things that I do during winter.
You know, one of the things that I think is really interesting, you have a father son camp and I go to it every year, at least a couple of them, and it just has worked out.
It really gives a father and a son a chance to get on the mat together and, spend a two or three day period or even more.
Well, from the standpoint of up in the woods, North woods, a little bit and get some good wrestling, good food, good location.
I said that it was an interesting idea that we started with 15 years ago.
And when I think back, it was it was a no brainer.
How could we manage to take a dad's with their son, put him out of wrestling that next to a lake, some office that was going to work and it did Travis pulse and leading here three zero.
Ben Peterson his wish to see the cyclones close close the gap a little bit on the Hawkeyes here and talk to us a little bit about the the difference between wrestling styles, where you were wrestling 30 years ago and and now.
Well, the audacity more I watch here tonight, I'm thinking, why is it that they're more like I rewear than maybe sometimes I give him credit for?
Because there were times that I guess I complained that they've sat around and they've waited too much.
And the one thing I see probably more than anything else is that I think we rode a lot harder, worked for pins much more than they do now.
And it's so much of a can just to take down control.
Kind of a rough Travis Paulson almost getting back points there in the fall.
But there no, no, no takedown at the end of the second period, the score, 3 to 0 in favor of Travis Paulson and Pete goes down.
Here's a replay of the close call here.
If it had been one second longer, it may have been over.
Paper escapes, a pin, a dangerous situation situation they lock at Travis Colson comes on top and and right though tonight all the winners it has been about aggression very definitely I agree with you.
And if that's the story, let's say this and the athletes keep pushing and they'll push each other.
The intensity gets better.
The crowd likes it.
Let's go.
And obviously, if you don't keep that intensity and that hope alive, that you can win, that that that that more aggressive level, the whole intensity drops.
When you and Dan wrestled very well state they didn't have the capacity where you wrestle at the armory to put this many in but they were right on top of you and a little closer I'm sure that was a great atmosphere.
Yeah, the armory was a memorable place to compete.
I was I was privileged to compete here one year, and that was a lot of fun.
Oh, wow.
Now there is what Iowa has been looking for for a lot of reasons.
One big for them, for pap.
And what you talk about, Dan, win or lose, that was huge.
Well, what he did was he did two things together.
He did two things together.
And Now he's back on.
He just got kind of physically hoarse there.
But he did two things together to get that takedown in court.
Paulson flat footed and knocking right to his butt to get the takedown is a good combination move by Pete.
But Paulson has done a great job in the bottom, just going to the inside, getting him over the arms and happening down for the four, the reversal there.
But that was the takedown there.
Knocked him right on his kisser.
So much there.
Yeah.
Speaking of riding time, Travis Paulson accumulated a minute four very, very important here in this close 5 to 3 match but have to end right now.
Paulson would add on a point and so he knows he has the riding time.
He cut him loose.
It looked 5 to 4 on the scoreboard.
But actually that extra point, 7 seconds worth four in favor of Travis Paulson.
Yeah, takedown and a race to the right in time would be a victory for for Paige long he doesn't it doesn't the last 8 seconds but that's this is pretty good action here.
Well he's a he's the first guy we've seen in a while that when have getting dominant he's come back out to the mat.
There's edge and that edge, that rule there, that's a big rule for us for wrestling.
It's a good call, a good rule.
You can predict it's much better in freestyle is right now on the edge.
That's our old freestyle from the seventies down.
Well, we can do that today.
We could do that.
Well, that's the way you should be able to.
And that's the way the rule was until a few years ago here, until actually a couple of years ago, which needs to get back to there because we don't need just pushing and shoving.
We need some wrestling, too.
And here we're coming down to the end of the third period, the end of the match.
Travis Colson will win 8 to 4 with riding time.
And what an honor to have Ben Peterson to have sat in with us.
What a great thing to observe the tribute to the legends of Iowa State Wrestling, Olympic gold medalist.
And Ben, thanks a lot for joining us and congratulations.
Thank you very much.
Appreciate it.
Good seeing you again, Ben.
All right.
It's £165 win for Travis Polson over the Hawkeye Pete, who gave him a good backhand.
Cyclones tacked on another three points and the score is 13 to 9 going into 174.
We're a huge favorite right here for Iowa is Mark Perry wrestling?
Dave BALENO Perry, a sophomore.
Baleno a sophomore, Perry coming off some injury and hasn't wrestled too much this year already.
Not till just was cleared to be cleared to wrestle last Saturday, I believe are against Arizona State And the doctor just finally end up clarity but but you know he has been working out but not at the high pace until recently so you know there's a good shot and he's tough in here He can lift and he's he's strong and he's showing right there didn't take much, but he kept that leg, the inside leg like I talked about earlier.
And that's how he got that elevation almost exclusively such a long reach.
And the look of that Turk position there, he's got the knee bent in the tough position and really working on turning the hips.
Okay.
Wow, that is tight.
Luke Perry, a sophomore, grew up in Stillwater, Oklahoma, but competed at Blair Academy in New Jersey, same place.
Bacchus, who be wrestling here at 184 for the Cyclones, competed at.
Oh, boy, that's just like that at tight.
But he's got good pretty good flexibility to keep from getting turned there and potentially dangerous is the move they're going to start go to the outside That's just like Timmy Suzuki Stuart.
Here's the long reach of Mark Perry.
He pops his hips and arches his hips in and scoops that bottom leg, looking for the turf all the way and not quite able to hook above the knee what he needed to do there.
But he goes right into that first leg ride right?
Perry, only a sophomore, already an all-American as a freshman.
Last year, he placed second at £165 at the NCAA championships, upset the defending champion at that particular time.
Letters from Lehigh in the semifinals.
Yes.
Spent a lot of time in the weight room over the summer.
It looks like Wade's up a weight class and there was a pretty good move by Bertoldo, but didn't get it.
Well, put himself in a little bit of danger.
And here's that bad knee situation.
Referee will get involved and could break really quick potentially.
I'll tell you what I'm going to lean on is how to wrestle here a little bit that's going to make a difference in this match.
When he did that, I didn't know he had the ability to do what he just did, but that doesn't mean he couldn't get caught there.
Bernardino, a sophomore from Mount Pleasant, Ohio, Buckeye Local High School, hops right back up.
Now he's reaching back with a hit.
He's losing some back.
Now he's he's pulling the head over.
I didn't get the head open two points back for him to do well.
He reached back for the head.
Perry was able to get his hips off to the side, stopped him.
He did stop it.
Yeah.
Usually have to wait an extra count or two when the guy puts does the move there and here he's doing it again and he's going to get some more back points here.
No.
Oh, going to give now that one that was got two down there on the mat I think not to get between a lot of credit he's going for, but Perry's just that much tougher than most people here.
And In fact, he's in a little bit of trouble here, but he's been here before and knows what he's doing.
Otherwise, he'd have been pretty much pinned a couple of times the same two and two.
So it's this is an interesting match here.
Boy, I tell you what, those legs Bernardino is not stopping, not giving up.
But he's he's got to reach back that far.
And what he is ramping up.
But even when he does that, he's still going to be in a little bit of trouble.
But with this guy, because Perry's pretty tough, Perry's pretty tough.
You do.
He hangs out, he hangs in there.
But it could be close to a reversal here, but time could be running out, too.
Well, he skewed I don't know.
I'm not going to get it now unless he can know.
Oh, Perry is tough there and he's on his back again in I don't think he got two.
And they to man he had one count but he he's out you know I don't know if a referee is uptight about it.
I mean the fans are uptight about that call Sanderson.
That's eight quick points there.
But you know, I have to give Bernardino a lot of credit.
He's going for it.
Well, I'd say, you know just a little move here.
A little move there.
He could be okay, but he's Russellville, a tough guy there.
Four quick points, are they?
You know, two of those were kind of debatable.
The other two would probably easily nearly agree with you, Jim And right now, the score is eight zero in favor of Mark Perry for the Hawkeyes going into the second period.
We're at 174.
If you're just joining us, the Hawkeyes lead 13 to 9.
We started at heavyweight.
We're working our way to 197.
So we are in the eighth match.
And Mark Perry trying to separate help the Hawkeyes separate from the cyclones to make it almost impossible for them to come out as the victors.
Well, so far this match, it is separated the score there.
I can tell you that.
Lots of action.
See how he holds up here and he's tough on defensive legs as well.
If you want.
If he wants to resonate.
Usually when you learn legs, you know how to get out of them.
But at the same time, it's a lot of wrestling in the first period.
And Perry hasn't been in the lineup that long, and he worked pretty hard in that top position in the first period, running up those eight points.
He had all of those 2 minutes, 35 seconds of riding time in the first week, a period.
Here's where that flexibility comes into play.
Let's get off it.
Worsley has got the leg and eventually he's going to turn to his right and kind of move pop back into him.
Perry's got some tricks up his sleeve there, but at the same time, he's going to be hard for Leno to beat him.
There But he's I think he's I think he's been baited here brutally.
You know, this a little bit high.
Best thing that could happen for Bernd Leno in this situation, the stalemate.
He's going to he's too high there.
Yeah, because right now Mark Perry's left hand is heading right for the back of his back of his.
He's being tough in here, but he's got that John Smith flexibility over there.
He's going to get a reversal.
Yeah.
And of course, that's because he's got the John Smith blood it as a nephew of John Smith.
Mark's dad, Mark, is married to Cathy, John Smith's sister and and he grew up in Stillwater, but he didn't stay there long.
He left and wrestled at Blair Academy and came, put the hockey uniform on, and Russell Russell departed from the Oklahoma State tradition.
Mark Perry, Junior in name only here.
He's got a lot of that.
SMITH Flexibility.
Come on, gentlemen, let's go.
Tim Hartung to time champion for the Minnesota Gophers on the staff now with Jim Zaleski standing up Troy Steiner to the right.
Perry, come down quick.
Come to NBA champion and Luke Eustace, we talked about him earlier, the Iowa braintrust.
They're led by Jim Zaleski in his ninth year as the Iowa Hawkeye head coach.
After assisting Dan Gable for many years there, he's going to lose nothing.
I don't know if he gave it to him or not.
You've got a reversal.
I don't think he's going to get back points.
No, no points in that situation.
Yeah.
Eight point lead and he could get back points there too, you know, based on the other 10 to 2.
Yeah.
Without That was the makeup part of the call.
Oh, hey, I'll tell you what.
That's okay.
These are tough situations for a referee.
Mike Allen is down again, like you just said, you come down from tough situations for that official to call me when he sees those shoulders, it it doesn't make any difference what.
Else is going on with the rest of the body.
It sizzles shoulders at that 45 triangle, there's only one chance to beat Elina Svitolina right now.
That's two to basically go for it and in the process defense.
And you know, Perry has got to realize that the guy is a pretty good wrestler there and just to make sure that he doesn't hang on too long, too much.
Well, that would put a new wrinkle in this meet if he was successful at it, because that would put the cyclones ahead 1513 if he did.
Penny, there's a minute and a half left for him to dry and he's going for but he's not, you know, he's you get him off to the side and he's got it.
Now you know, go back to Burnley.
He'll keep going for it, you know, I like that.
But to his credit.
Yeah, but you know, what else can you do?
You know, you could just lay there, I guess, like But Perry scrambled.
Well, kept being kept out of trouble and is going to, you know, get a major here if he keeps his upright.
You constantly going for more back points and Leno again drops off of it.
Now Perry out staying with him birdie Leno here Yeah well it's it's tough not to stay with him because he's actually trying to exert himself with the crowd Man stalling is stalemate.
Now I know what they want stalling call I think that's what they want.
51 seconds left.
Boy, the crowd is irate.
10 to 2.
And like you said, great student crowd that always?
Yeah, they like this kid.
Go.
These are this is the type of thing to let him go.
Maybe the type of the people used to get behind you.
And when you're in the, in the trap itself, I tell you we all needed that help.
That's great.
You were in the trumpet section back in.
Oh, yeah.
You look at that shot.
We've got some good left here.
Oh, there.
It's over.
No point back.
No back to back points.
He had to give the takedown first.
30 seconds left, 12 to 3 in favor of Mark Perry also has a bunch of riding.
He's still going for it, you know, certainly.
No, I just.
Just not quite as tough in that position as Perry is.
Perry's dominated every, you know, got all the calls as far as he's making them He's making the calls there and he's controlled the match and he's going to they're going to get a major here.
Major decision will give the Hawkeyes another four points.
Well, that's the end of it.
With that type of effort.
It'd be fun to watch Bernd Leno, you know, in a match with maybe a little lesser competition with with the effort he put forth every 7 minutes and we'll get the chance.
See him on college wrestling.
There's Mark Perry, the winner, 13 to 3 with a riding time.
Four more points for the site for the Hawkeyes makes it 17 to 9.
We have two matches left in the big duel between Iowa and Iowa State.
17 to 9.
Favorite of the Hawkeyes as we head to the feature match of the night, £184.
Paul Bradley Senior versus Junior Curt Backus.
They've met several times before, actually Bradley having a 4 to 1 lead in the matches against Backus.
But he'll need to be able to, you know, really put it together tonight to ward off Backus here in front of the home crowd.
All those matches, Tim, decided by two points or less.
You know, it's kind of interesting.
You say Hawkeye series, The Hawkeyes need this wrestling meet because they're down five.
All right now through the Cyclones.
They lost the soccer and they lost football.
And two points for the soccer, three points for the football.
It's something like that.
Or maybe they even have something.
I'm not exactly what it is, but basketball coming up, I think I just think it's something else.
They lost volleyball.
Carmen Lawrence.
Good luck, gentlemen.
You.
You're right.
Let's go, guys.
For guys.
Somewhere in the paper it was that.
But I know they're down five oh, So I'm not sure if this work.
There's a good shot by Bradley, but he kind of pulled it in Instead of penetrating up with it back to his feet.
Good back and excellent scrambler.
Great dresser dump there or Prospect Dump and didn't work.
Bradley did a good job of putting that hip back.
What's it what's it like to face?
Really interesting tip for me in this matchup today is to see how much more physical Baccus is.
I mean, the matches where his losses he's been just a little bit less physical.
Great scrambler, of course, but he's had trouble with the difficulty with you know, Bradley keep in position and stopping his shots.
He does look a little bit bigger to me this year, which that who was bigger backers, Kurt Baccus, the junior from New Jersey, wrestled at Blair Academy, as did they just the last winner for the Hawkeyes, Mark Perry, an all-American as a freshman, but was stopped short of being an all-American last year at the NCAA.
But this guy right here, Paul Bradley, they met in an elimination match and Bradley won and became an all-American for the first time.
Second time, second time for the Hawkeyes back has really had a good season going into the tournament.
He was seeded number two, I believe he was the outstanding in the Big 12 tournament.
So he won a tight match by fall against Travis past rascal.
But what's your face slowing this match down bit which other guys sportsmanship favors Bradley guys okay come on both guys kind of feeling each other out a little bit and there's a pretty good shot that didn't quite cut that corner.
Bradley in Iowa, boy, he's a senior from team Iowa, Went south a high school.
He was a state champion, a senior after placing second as a sophomore and a junior, Backus was an amateur wrestling news prep all-American.
Coming up, Russell, out of the top ranked high school wrestler at £215.
So he didn't cut any weight in high school.
We have blood.
We have blood.
He definitely down a few pounds.
Yeah.
This is Paul Bradley.
He's a he's always getting taped up.
I mean, he's a that now you always it always always got something of some sort of pad on his head because he uses that head quite a bit and we started heavyweight tonight and Ryan Fuller from Iowa won against Shah from Iowa State in Mannone for the Hawkeyes won against Hanisch and then Dennis, the freshman, beat the senior.
Jesse Swindell So the Hawkeyes started out three in Ohio and you're looking at the schedule right there.
We already talked about what a great lineup.
They're all live.
Wisconsin, you and I, Oklahoma State and Iowa is you and you and I, Illinois at Iowa and Missouri.
At Iowa State.
We're college wrestling 30 on Iowa public television, everything all live.
Okay, guys, keep up the good work up.
Paul Bradley getting fixed up there a little bit, a little medical attention and now he gets a shot where he gets a chance to get the corner.
Now he's trying to step around back to got job of burying his hips.
They're squaring up now.
He steps around for the inside trip.
Nice sequence by both guys.
Doesn't look like wow, that happened in action.
Whoa, Look at that.
Bradley comes up on top.
Just kept circling, kept circling.
Didn't give.
You just can't beat horsepower.
Not if the horsepower keeps galloping.
I mean, that's, you know, I mean, he just kept going.
He could have stopped back, has had a good series right there going and right at the end of the period here.
Wow.
Oh, unanswered big time takedown for Paul Bradley, Iowa.
Yeah, just a little sense of, hey, what do I need to do to beat this guy just in the face of backlash right there.
That was big four for Paul Bradley over that sequence here.
Here's the duck under coming around, Bradley keeping his head up and pivoting it off his knees.
The shoelaces are flat and he rudders back.
Now he steps up and drive with his shoelaces up and gets the points you go down.
Actually, back when he was coming around, come up out of position a little bit with that arm on that leg, though, which gave him Bradley a really good chance to kind of like tackle him.
But he doesn't it if he doesn't look up, you know, let's see.
It came right to him.
What's he looking at.
I that he's looking for something under there.
Every now and then he drops something there and find it back is on top for the cyclones but down to zero.
Bradley had a takedown in the first period.
However, once again, Bradley's just give him a little opening.
He's pretty good.
But he just right now he's no opening that on the mat.
That can be in control.
You can sneak out two things.
He's talented.
He has explosive.
He doesn't want to just pop right up and let back is put the leg in there.
You see that right leg coming in there, Damian?
Right there.
My back is doing a great job of controlling that leg, but Bradley's kind of keeping his head down a little bit, that blood there.
So they'll probably be taking the time out here.
Now we got to stop.
We got blood.
That'll give him some thought.
Be able to figure out because well, they definitely race on that two point lead here.
49 seconds right inside.
Okay.
And there goes Paul Bradley back to get take care of Bradley.
You know, he's he's a tough wrestler.
He puts his head and face into the action, as you guys were talking about.
And we've even seen him stitched up during one match so he could come back out and wrestle.
And so, you know, I mean, it takes a tough person.
And it just like you said, Jim, it always happens.
But he always comes back.
He's you know what?
He ought to start in this position right here where they're taping his head up.
Well, he usually does in practice.
Yeah, I think it's routine in practice, but I think in a match that, you know, he tries to get along without it, but it'll probably end up there by the end of the year.
This is a huge match.
If you're just joining us, this is our ninth out of ten matches.
Cyclones Are down 17 to 9 to the Hawkeyes.
Iowa State has to win this.
Yeah, they have to.
And so if Backus wins it, that puts him within five points.
And anything can happen.
As we know in wrestling.
And so if the cyclone 197 pounder pins the the Iowa Hawkeye hey, he's a freshman right out of high school.
But you saw another freshman earlier that beat up fifth year senior, but fourth or fifth year senior.
But what I just talked about has to happen isn't right now Paul Bradley out in front two over back as both all Americans are featured match look at this rally did a good job Wow big time scramble situation here four back as he can't let this one go at least not for a reversal.
Now if he's not lock if he's locked around the way set, be locked.
Hands, ball boy, look at this possession here.
He's got both of his in steps here on the inside.
Barbour's thigh.
And Bradley, who's a strong guy, could even get out of it there.
But now he turns into it and Bradley trying to move up and get the reversal.
20 seconds left.
Wow.
They're still getting the ride in time.
Amazing.
Here.
Get one.
If they make it, they call a stalemate.
They get him one.
That's right.
As good call or neutral Bradley scoring at the end of each period key so far and you mentioned Jim I think Backus can't let this go Backus has let this thing go.
The person that's kept his position in the intensity here and made the mistakes is Paul Bradley.
That's correct.
I mean, Dan called it on the on the goal round here that they were just five or 6 seconds scramble just for a split second, maybe about the 40 seconds.
He let his possession up and Bradley was able to capitalize on it.
Let's go big take down there and stay right here.
You know that that all started in a down position when when they had the blood stoppage back up out of here.
Bradley still on his belly there.
He probably finishes the period in that situation.
Blood stoppage was keeper for Bradley.
That's why he doesn't start way.
Oh, no damage as he goes to practice every day with that skate.
Still got the ride in time.
21 seconds of writing time for Backus Score is 3 to 1.
Easy, guys, Easy with one point.
Right in time is three two.
But there's still plenty of time to raise that or build on it.
Yeah, and I don't I don't think that I mean, Beck is going to put two or three things together to break through Bradley's real tough head hands defense.
Well, if he makes a bad shot, I mean, Bradley is a he's a good scrambler.
Well, he's back is looking for that inside trip.
He's trying to trip Bradley's back leg.
You see Bradley's right leg is way back there.
Nice job.
Oh, all the scoring hokum.
He's hurt.
I got it.
He twisted his knee here.
And that situation maybe just more scared than anything else, because I think so looked like it.
I mean, Bradley has taken advantage of poor position every and to the credit of Paul Bradley right there standing up boy he really got the heel way out in front in that situation.
And, you know, all he did was lower his level.
And as Backus was stepping to penetrate, he just dropped down on his leg was a it's a great rush and technique that that they just utilize their hips at a lower level.
Bradley it for another takedown goes out in front 5 to 1 very impressive outing by Paul Bradley the senior all-American, two time all-American for the Hawkeyes to put it away for the Hawks here tonight here in Hilton Coliseum, Iowa State cyclones have won two years in a row.
The Hawkeyes trying to put a stop to that streak.
BACKUS What does he have to do in this situation?
He's got to get out with 21 seconds and 6.1 seconds to maintain the right time.
It's an escape that makes it a five rebound takedown that could tie it up.
And he has to.
Right.
You know, Yeah.
To keep him down unless he's to let him go and take him down again.
It all starts with getting out this next 15.
Yeah.
Yeah.
There's step one.
Yeah.
See that right leg?
It has stuck real out there.
But he loses when Bradley sets it up himself.
It's not there.
There's going to be a lot of action this last minute.
There's a good shot by that.
And he went up, up and inside and he's got him and there's that.
But how is he going to ride?
He's going to let him go.
I think he's going to let him go.
Look at that.
Now.
He's another mental that.
Yep, he did.
And another mental left.
That is no point yet.
No point.
So he's still down now.
He's got to make a decision what he wants to do.
Not think he's going to let him go.
Yeah.
I think told going to let it go.
Hey he wants the crowd look good, guys.
That's the.
So he helped him look, I like that as an athlete, but Bradley still got this match.
He if he's smart So it's five five.
Well, he thought immediately he had to let him up to get the points.
He had the right time.
And just his heel of vision after he got the takedown was the opposite corner and he wasn't able to look up and see his coach and say what he wanted to do there.
But it's two inside trips that Bradley didn't learn from the last time he got his leg to go to that match ended up a couple of years ago with that inside trip to the Danny went to one side and he came back to the inside when he squared up his hips.
Right.
But that's what I'm saying.
Yeah, but he get the inside trip.
Come on the same.
Yeah.
Same play.
5 to 4.
5 to 4.
Let me go.
I think he's going to let him go.
He's going for the up for the win.
5 to 5 and ourselves to four.
But look at that.
Look at old Brad.
Look at that.
He did a good job there about pinning that hip leg right down.
Everybody Else was like he would be like, wow, it's going to be tough to watch back has hit his head on the shirt now.
He ain't going to get it here.
Whoa.
Nothing.
We're going to call a stalemate.
I think we'll be lucky.
Go in.
If he's going to get it.
I think he's either going to let it go.
It's all a stalemate or we're going to let it go.
Oh, he getting to I want you to know.
I understand that.
But to the way he gave it to two Bradley.
But you know it's stalemate call with a five.
Oh boy I don't think the crowd like that at all.
And I don't blame him for that one.
But yeah, he'll stay.
Anderson.
That's the way it goes.
Bradley made Bradley shot in it.
Bradley would have tried to protect his lead there by stalling.
He would have been called for zero this or he would have been taken down.
But but Bradley made a good shot but I don't know if you I don't know if the last takedown call was correctly, but that's the way, man we should be.
Well, it wasn't a take.
Yeah, I know, right?
Yeah.
No, I mean, I've never seen a takedown given anything that looked like.
Well, I mean, here's the thing.
He coaching staff ending a little frustration here, but, you know, I tell you what, I got to give Bradley a heck of a lot of credit now coming back on that back.
And he's the one that took the shot.
That's the big that's the bottom line.
That's the bottom line.
That's the way it's.
Been all night.
Yes.
Just about.
Yeah.
For every winner winning for every winner.
They made their win.
That's that's what's been exciting about tonight.
I thought Ben Patterson made a good point I thought maybe it wasn't like I used to think it was.
But tonight makes me change my mind.
That's good for wrestling.
Yes.
Yes.
Right out of high school.
Pretty good.
Whoa!
197.
Oh!
Crowd, Crowd excited!
197.
We've got Adams Fellers for Iowa Senior versus the true freshman Joe Curran for the Iowa State Cyclones.
He's going to look like a freshman.
Got a good set of legs on him there and he came right out here.
Tell you what, he's been probably chomping at the bit to get out here all night.
Matches had to watch it and well, these are the heavyweights.
Yeah, 97 pounders in this instance.
But our last match of the meet here at Hilton between the Iowa State cyclones and Iowa Hawkeyes, the Hawkeyes leading 20 to 9, they've got the meet wrapped up, but the crowd wants an Iowa state.
Cyclones win here on this last crowd wants a pound of flesh here and they want to see aggression.
I don't think they can live with the results.
Want aggression.
Joe Curran, a freshman from Elk Point, South Dakota, Bishop, he'll in high school.
Feller's a senior from Fort Dodge, Iowa.
Fort Dodge High School has an interesting sequence at the end of that meet, watching Gail come on out there and and point to the official and well, you know, he's trying to be a coach.
Well, he's associated coach a new role for him sticking up for his guy.
I thought he got a bad call.
Well, you know, stalemate maybe, But this is some good action here.
Oh, I like that.
I like that When when a coach gets out there and defends his guy at one time, what he had to do that every now lost contact.
Yeah.
Because go to anything.
I don't think it happened in this match here so far both guys have been now kind of not flailing around.
But there's been some good action already in this match.
But, you know, I mean, you don't want to beat a dead horse here.
But to your point, Jim, the takedown call may have been suspect, but the shot by Paul Bradley won that match.
Right.
Being aggressive with the lead.
And now we've seen guys do that all night tonight.
And that's been the, you know, young boys.
If you're sitting there watching this at home, stay aggressive with that lead.
More times than not, you got the guy not thinking about his own personal defense.
He's thinking about his being aggressive what he needs to do, and he forgets about his own defense.
Easy time to spot that once in that project, especially when your opponent who's behind thinks you might back off, you know, start, you know, start backing off and you do the exact opposite.
With 35 seconds left in the first period here at £197, our last match, Iowa State duel meet with the Iowa lead, 20 to 9.
There's been an extraordinary amount of action in this match.
Look at this, dollars.
Now, here's the guns.
The cement mixer looks pretty good right here.
Whoa!
Oh.
Got some flexibility.
Yeah.
Bazinet got ring there a little bit.
He's going to be taking some time.
I think his neck went around the circle there.
And Curran did a great job of immediately getting his hips down and the feet on the ground going, whoa, Cement mixer puts his belt buckle to the mat.
And that's what saved him.
You're right.
Tim found himself in a little bit jeopardy there.
Put the belt buckle on that and got an opportunity to live again.
But he's feeling it right now.
You know, he had a great shot.
Most of the action has been when Feller's shot, but they've been straight on shots and right into Curran's power.
He's got too much weight.
The other guy's got too much weight on him.
He's got to be able to cut the corner or finish at the knees or pick him up off the ground.
So you hang in there, you get yourself in a little bit of trouble.
And that's why he was able to use his hips.
There was just always a well-built athlete right out of high school.
He certainly doesn't look like good looking freshman year freshman, but he looks like he's having fun.
Yeah.
And, you know, you worry about a guy like that that comes shot out of a cannon as a freshman.
But, you know, now this little break and get it all crowd behind him.
He knows where he is right now.
He's back close these together and well, 105 he got 25 seconds, coach 45 seconds He was just having a real tough time right now.
Now I think that's his injury time.
So he has no more injury time unless he wants to give the other guy a major advantage to decide where he wanted to go.
A certain position.
That's a rule.
Well, one thing he's not going to do is win a strength battle against Curran, can't make the shot, but then point out the technique.
There are no points.
Good job wrestling on the edge.
Both guys, we've been seeing the aggressive guy get most of the points there.
But Sellars has some good reaction there.
Keeping getting scored.
One bloody nose, I think.
Curry could shoot two.
Yeah, he can.
That was a nice single leg shot.
Look like he was going to get it.
He kept on moving for maybe an opportunity to come back out to the ankle, maybe take it up and trip, but.
Well, I like the fans.
The fans have not left.
No, no, they and good reason.
This is a good match here.
As we said, we started a heavyweight and Iowa won three straight matches before Iowa State broke in with Nate Galic beating out curses.
Then Ty Justis came back.
So Hawks won four out the first five matches tonight, and after intermission, the Polson twins came back and got a couple more wins for the Cyclones.
Mark Perry, one for the Hawkeyes and.
Then we just finished off with Paul Bradley beating Curt Bacchus to take a51 lead in their personal series in the featured match of the night to put it away for the Hawks And here we are in the last match of the evening, the £197 match between Adam Fellers from Iowa and Joe Curran from Iowa State zero zero start of the second period.
Curran put the legs in and looks like he's pretty comfortable up there.
Dan, please turn the hips, getting the crowd out.
You know what he did?
He bounced the and got his hips to the far side, which made him get an opportunity to score those three back points.
And how exciting would this be if the match before this would have gone the other way, this place would have been going through the roof.
Yeah.
Or either any one of the other court type matches go the other way.
But yeah, definitely the last one.
Curran Looking very comfortable up there.
Now watch it.
Push the weight over.
This is getting that weight over there and pushing it even though his hands are turning his back, needs to be pushing with his feet a little bit more.
Not a stalemate.
Anyone making the reaction, give fellers a fresh start.
Let's see.
That happened earlier.
Bobby Douglas, 14th year, he's saying if there are some positive matches, he's won two in a row, likes the taste of this victory in this series between Iowa State and Iowa after the Hawkeyes won about 30 in a row.
Well, you know, the interesting thing about tonight is the matchups.
I'd like to see the matchups again, just to see if there's consistency on the top.
A lot of situations that were, you know, fairly close one way or the other.
You know, the £33 match, Dennis, control a lot of explosive stuff.
But Sundell had him in a couple of times that that could have made a difference.
You know, even Perry's match, I mean, it was topsy turvy stuff for us in there.
But Perry's pretty good.
Usually don't want to challenge a guy that's good in that area at that.
But I don't know if he had any choice once he got behind him.
I think that's where the trouble with the officiating started when Cale got on his feet with that those four quick back points there at the end of that period that I think that's where some of that trouble may have started.
It can kind of be erupted here at the Bradley match.
A lot of pressure on top by Curran very impressed by the young freshman who was in high school last year in South Dakota when he first put that leg in, when he was in on an elevation there, he could actually what could a rubber armed out could have done something.
But once the weight got over to the far side, it's pretty difficult stalling on Adam feller's underneath and of the Hawkeye gets warned so you where northern I was actually wrestling the gophers right now at northern Iowa don't have any reports on that match right now but that was going on at the same time.
Oh, you're very seconds.
Wow.
Well, they didn't really give me much of a chance to get hold on there.
There maybe about 8 seconds apart.
And I don't think it's going to make the Iowa State fans know they'll meet those guys.
Go endearing yourselves to Section 20, which is the big student section.
Well, he wants to get out of here, you know, not being beat up or anything.
You know, he's pretty tough, dude, but you don't want him.
They got mad and a couple of calls, you know, they got a couple of calls he thinks, you know, against him.
There's a nice little maneuver by by fellers and, you know, puts himself right back in position, gives it a little confidence skate.
Florida one in favor of Curran got an extra point for stalling there on that second call against fellers but fellers escapes little freshman mistake kind of let me mountain 10 seconds left in the second period we go to the start of the third period in the last match of the evening, Iowa State's Joe Curran, the freshman leading the senior Adam Fellers from Iowa 4 to 1.
You were talking about liking to see the matchup again.
And there's an opportunity in Cedar Falls and you and I possibly at the team duals, right?
Dan Right up at the national doors this year at the University of Northern Iowa, come in January, I believe 50 to 60, whatever, that Saturday dates.
You know, we need we need the state of Iowa to come out, look at this fella.
So he's right back in here.
Almost got a fall there.
I mean, not a fall, but he had the guy come in going over.
This is going to give, you know, a little bit of momentum here.
Not sure what happened.
What's he doing?
Okay.
Take down four fellers.
Makes the score 5 to 3, but just blood and a little blood right there.
The finals of the National Duals is the 15th.
So the 14th and 15th of January.
That's a Saturday and a Sunday, I believe.
And, you know, we'd like to you know, we haven't we don't have too many major tournaments on campus anymore.
And here's one them.
And that's the second biggest tournament in college, the National Duals.
So it's fact.
It's huge.
It's I don't know how many teams they got there, 16, 16, 16.
And, you know, well, let's see some teams.
I think attendance records were set last time.
It was that you and I maybe you set a attendance record here for the National Duals.
That'd be great, because, you know, they want to get it back there and they want to would like to keep it there.
And I know they're looking for some sponsors and I know they're coming.
They're having a actually they're having a make it a permanent site, but they're actually having what's this here gave an escape to a current and that situation and called time out for blood.
Look it is 208 down 6 to 4 and all of a sudden fellers has got it going.
Here's where the freshman is.
Is the adrenaline pumping it?
Yes What we were talking about.
He's lost some weight.
Lost an edge.
Yeah.
He has lost his leg.
He's not sure how he lost it, but yeah, he certainly did there.
That's the thing about a freshman.
You're not sure about anything, you know.
And so he's given us 5 minutes hard few blood timeouts in there, but he can't hold.
He's got to try to hold the lead.
And this was this is the big thing is, you know, that was a high risk move.
And can you now what you call the he did not need to do that he was getting him on shots.
I think he tried a high risk.
The ventriloquist move put himself on his own back.
And I'll tell you what, I think Kern's going to get the benefit of the doubt right here.
I don't see it.
Yeah, I don't see it.
Oh, it's close.
Oh, yeah, but it's.
That's it then.
Oh, wow.
What a move not to go to.
He had him falling down with good leg tackles and he went to a higher risk move.
Well Curran I think momentum.
Momentum.
He just thought he could do anything.
Yeah.
Coach, the man there.
Snap back.
Okay.
You know, you got it.
Someone's going to give it to you.
He got take it.
Well, I'll tell you what.
He stopped the guy on that roll.
Yeah, he stopped the guy in the roll.
Yeah.
Big pin for the cyclone.
The freshman.
Here's the big move.
Trying to roll through it.
Just not there and reach Reese in the crotch, and all of a sudden he's got a chance and settles back.
Mike Allen giving him the benefit of the doubt on that ball.
But there it is.
We saw a lot tonight, guys.
We saw a lot of action.
We saw Penn, the Hawkeyes win six of the matches.
The Cyclones win for the final scores, 20 to 15.
But wow, what a great meet, good crowd.
You know, the weather's not good.
It's live on television.
You know, it's just pretty exciting.
It really was exciting.
Meet, you know, eight matches there what we thought were toss ups and they you could make a case that they kind of went to form here but a lot of surprises I guess that last one was a toss up going to Kern with the ball.
So really a meet that had everything and got everybody involved in, you know, both schools, you know, 15 to 20, that's a pretty close match.
So one person, you know, turns it around here that much, a much, much closer meet.
You know, I tell you what, it's almost worth me writing another check.
Yeah.
There you go.
I know you said you wanted to borrow one from me, so I would probably let you do that.
I owe you.
Well, we started heavy with it, as we said, and Iowa got off to a fast start with Ryan Fuller winning and then a 125 I will.
One 133 I will one.
Then Iowa State got in there and won, but Iowa came back before intermission with I Eustace four out of five big start for Iowa and then the cyclones came back with the twins winning but the big match the feature match 184 Dwane Bradley in back as Bradley comes out on top again and that keeps the cyclones from winning even though they finished with a Big Ten by their freshman.
So once again the final score is Iowa 20 and Iowa State 15.
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