2017 NCAA Wrestling Championships Recap & Final Results/Brackets

The worst season in Iowa State Wrestling history drew to a close over the weekend as the Cyclones limped to a 57th place finish at NCAAs. The only positive to take away from the weekend was that with the conclusion of the finals on Saturday evening Kevin Dresser officially took over as head coach of the team. It’s a new era for wrestling in Ames and there’s a lot of hope that it will go better than the last one.

Final Brackets

Available here (.pdf)

Iowa State Results

133

Earl Hall’s Cyclone career ended with a thud. He went 0-2 with a pair of losses to lower ranked opponents, neither of whom won any other matches.

174

Lelund Weatherspoon opened up with the Cyclone’s lone win of the tournament, a 3-1 decision over Peter Galli of Stanford. He then dropped a 4-10 decision to eventual runner up Bo Jordan of Ohio State in the 2nd round. He then failed to get anything going in the wrestlebacks and dropped an 0-3 match to Ryan Christensen of Wisconsin to end his tournament.

197

Unlike Hall and Weatherspoon, just getting to NCAAs was an accomplishment for Marcus Harrington so there wasn’t a lot of pressure on him to pick up any wins. He opened up with an 0-7 loss to eventual 6th place finisher Preston Weigel of Oklahoma State. That dropped him to a consolation match against Benjamin Honis of Cornell. In that match Harrington scored on an early TD to go up 2-0 and then didn’t do anything the rest of the match (something we saw a lot of this year). He ended up losing 2-11 to end his sophomore campaign.

Final Team Scores

Weight-by-Weight Results

125

133

141

149

157

165

174

184

197

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Parting thoughts

Based on how this season went placing in the top 10, or anywhere near it, was out of the question. But going 1-6 overall and having two returning All Americans win only a single match between them was depressing to see.

Next Up

As Coach Dresser announces his hires for coaching and for elite athletes at the regional training center we’ll provide updates. We’ll also make sure to keep you posted on any news concerning transfers and recruits.