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
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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.
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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.
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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
Place |
School |
Score |
Place |
School |
Score |
1 |
Penn State |
146.5 |
2 |
Ohio State |
110 |
3 |
Oklahoma State |
103 |
4 |
Iowa |
97 |
5 |
Missouri |
86.5 |
6 |
Virginia Tech |
63.5 |
7 |
Minnesota |
62.5 |
8 |
Cornell |
60.5 |
9 |
Nebraska |
59.5 |
10 |
Michigan |
47.5 |
11 |
Illinois |
43.5 |
12 |
Lehigh |
40 |
13 |
Wisconsin |
39.5 |
14 |
Arizona State |
39 |
15 |
Virginia |
29.5 |
16 |
South Dakota State |
28.5 |
17 |
NC State |
26 |
18 |
Northern Iowa |
25.5 |
19 |
Rutgers |
24.5 |
20 |
Edinboro |
20.5 |
21 |
Rider |
20 |
21 |
Wyoming |
20 |
23 |
Central Michigan |
19.5 |
24 |
Stanford |
16 |
25 |
Princeton |
15.5 |
26 |
Appalachian State |
13.5 |
26 |
Old Dominion |
13.5 |
28 |
Oregon State |
12.5 |
29 |
SIUE |
12 |
30 |
Northern Illinois |
11.5 |
31 |
Navy |
10 |
32 |
Duke |
9.5 |
32 |
Oklahoma |
9.5 |
32 |
Pittsburgh |
9.5 |
35 |
Indiana |
8.5 |
35 |
Maryland |
8.5 |
37 |
Pennsylvania |
8 |
38 |
Campbell |
6.5 |
39 |
Buffalo |
5.5 |
40 |
Bucknell |
5 |
41 |
American |
4.5 |
41 |
Michigan State |
4.5 |
41 |
North Carolina |
4.5 |
44 |
Cleveland State |
4 |
44 |
Lock Haven |
4 |
46 |
Northwestern |
3.5 |
47 |
Gardner-Webb |
3 |
47 |
North Dakota State University |
3 |
47 |
Northern Colorado |
3 |
50 |
Purdue |
2.5 |
51 |
Eastern Michigan |
2 |
51 |
Ohio |
2 |
53 |
Army |
1.5 |
53 |
CSU Bakersfield |
1.5 |
53 |
Drexel |
1.5 |
53 |
Utah Valley University |
1.5 |
57 |
Binghamton University |
1 |
57 |
Clarion |
1 |
57 |
Columbia |
1 |
57 |
Iowa State |
1 |
57 |
West Virginia |
1 |
62 |
Cal Poly |
0.5 |
62 |
George Mason |
0.5 |
62 |
Harvard |
0.5 |
62 |
Kent State |
0.5 |
66 |
Boise State |
0 |
66 |
Brown |
0 |
66 |
The Citadel |
0 |
69 |
Chattanooga |
-0.5 |
Weight-by-Weight Results
125
Place |
Wrestler |
School |
Place |
Wrestler |
School |
1 |
Darian Cruz |
Lehigh |
2 |
Ethan Lizak |
Minnesota |
3 |
Thomas Gilman |
Iowa |
4 |
Nicholas Piccininni |
Oklahoma State |
5 |
Joey Dance |
Virginia Tech |
6 |
Jack Mueller |
Virginia |
7 |
Sean Russell |
Edinboro |
8 |
Nathan Kraisser |
Campbell |
R12 |
Sean Fausz |
NC State |
R12 |
Brock Hudkins |
Northern Illinois |
R12 |
Tim Lambert |
Nebraska |
R12 |
Freddie Rodriguez |
SIUE |
133
Place |
Wrestler |
School |
Place |
Wrestler |
School |
1 |
Cory Clark |
Iowa |
2 |
Seth Gross |
South Dakota State |
3 |
Nathan Tomasello |
Ohio State |
4 |
Stevan Micic |
Michigan |
5 |
Kaid Brock |
Oklahoma State |
6 |
Eric Montoya |
Nebraska |
7 |
Zane Richards |
Illinois |
8 |
Scotty Parker |
Lehigh |
R12 |
Joey Palmer |
Oregon State |
R12 |
Mitch KcKee |
Minnesota |
R12 |
Scott Delvecchio |
Rutgers |
R12 |
Bryan Lantry |
Buffalo |
141
Place |
Wrestler |
School |
Place |
Wrestler |
School |
1 |
Dean Heil |
Oklahoma State |
2 |
George DiCamillo |
Virginia |
3 |
Kevin Jack |
NC State |
4 |
Bryce Meredith |
Wyoming |
5 |
Jaydin Eierman |
Missouri |
6 |
Anthony Ashnault |
Rutgers |
7 |
Matthew Kolodzik |
Princeton |
8 |
Thomas Thorn |
Minnesota |
R12 |
Tyler Smith |
Bucknell |
R12 |
Joey McKenna |
Stanford |
R12 |
Jimmy Gulibon |
Penn State |
R12 |
Colton McCrystal |
Nebraska |
149
Place |
Wrestler |
School |
Place |
Wrestler |
School |
1 |
Zain Retherford |
Penn State |
2 |
Lavion Mayes |
Missouri |
3 |
Brandon Sorensen |
Iowa |
4 |
Micah Jordan |
Ohio State |
5 |
Max Thomsen |
Northern Iowa |
6 |
Solomon Chishko |
Virginia Tech |
7 |
Kenny Theobold |
Rutgers |
8 |
Alex Kocer |
South Dakota State |
R12 |
Laike Gardner |
Lehigh |
R12 |
Steve Bleise |
Northern Illinois |
R12 |
Andrew Crone |
Wisconsin |
R12 |
Justin oliver |
Central Michigan |
157
Place |
Wrestler |
School |
Place |
Wrestler |
School |
1 |
Jason Nolf |
Penn State |
2 |
Joey Lavallee |
Missouri |
3 |
Michael Kemerer |
Iowa |
4 |
Joseph Smith |
Oklahoma State |
5 |
Tyler Berger |
Nebraska |
6 |
Dylan Palacio |
Cornell |
7 |
Paul Fox |
Stanford |
8 |
Sal Mastriani |
Virginia Tech |
R12 |
Jake Short |
Minnesota |
R12 |
Bryan Clagon |
Rider |
R12 |
Max Behea |
Penn |
R12 |
Archie Colgan |
Wyoming |
165
Place |
Wrestler |
School |
Place |
Wrestler |
School |
1 |
Vincenzo Joseph |
Penn State |
2 |
Isaiah Martinez |
Illinois |
3 |
Logan Massa |
Michigan |
4 |
Isaac Jordan |
Wisconsin |
5 |
Chandler Rogers |
Oklahoma State |
6 |
Daniel Lewis |
Missouri |
7 |
Chad Walsh |
Rider |
8 |
Brandon Womack |
Cornell |
R12 |
Drew Hughes |
Michigan State |
R12 |
Vryce Steiert |
UNI |
R12 |
Anthony Valencia |
Arizona State |
R12 |
Nicholas Wanzek |
Minnesota |
174
Place |
Wrestler |
School |
Place |
Wrestler |
School |
1 |
Mark Hall |
Penn State |
2 |
Bo Jordan |
Ohio State |
3 |
Zahid Valencia |
Arizona State |
4 |
Myles Amine |
Michigan |
5 |
Brian Realbuto |
Cornell |
6 |
Zac Brunson |
Illinois |
7 |
Kyle Crutchmer |
Oklahoma State |
8 |
Jake Residori |
SIUE |
R12 |
Zach Epperly |
Virginia Tech |
R12 |
Ryan Preisch |
Lehigh |
R12 |
Jadaen Bernstein |
Navy |
R12 |
Alex Meyer |
Iowa |
184
Place |
Wrestler |
School |
Place |
Wrestler |
School |
1 |
Bo Nickal |
Penn State |
2 |
Gabe Dean |
Cornell |
3 |
TJ Dudley |
Nebraska |
4 |
Sammy Brooks |
Iowa |
5 |
Myles Martin |
Ohio State |
6 |
Nolan Boyd |
Oklahoma State |
7 |
Drew Foster |
Northern Iowa |
8 |
Nathan Jackson |
Indiana |
R12 |
Micheal Macchiavello |
NC State |
R12 |
Jack Dechow |
Old Dominion |
R12 |
Nicholas Gravina |
Rutgers |
R12 |
Emery Parker |
Illinois |
197
Place |
Wrestler |
School |
Place |
Wrestler |
School |
1 |
J`den Cox |
Missouri |
2 |
Brett Pfarr |
Minnesota |
3 |
Kollin Moore |
Ohio State |
4 |
Jared Haught |
Virginia Tech |
5 |
Aaron Studebaker |
Nebraska |
6 |
Preston Weigel |
Oklahoma State |
7 |
Ryan Wolfe |
Rider |
8 |
Kevin Beazley |
Old Dominion |
R12 |
Matt McCutcheon |
Penn State |
R12 |
Shawn Scott |
Northern Illinois |
R12 |
Daniel Chaid |
North Carolina |
R12 |
Cash Wilke |
Iowa |
HWT
Place |
Wrestler |
School |
Place |
Wrestler |
School |
1 |
Kyle Snyder |
Ohio State |
2 |
Connor Medbery |
Wisconsin |
3 |
Tanner Hall |
Arizona State |
4 |
y Walz |
Virginia Tech |
5 |
Nick Nevills |
Penn State |
6 |
Jacob Kasper |
Duke |
7 |
Michael Kroells |
Minnesota |
8 |
Denzel Dejournette |
Appalachian State |
R12 |
Ryan Solomon |
Pitt |
R12 |
Doug Vollaro |
Lehigh |
R12 |
Youssif Hemida |
Maryland |
R12 |
Conan Jennings |
Northwestern |
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.