Brent Metcalf and Mark Perry finished as National Champions and finalist Joey Slaton was a runner-up. Home meets are held in the 15,500 seat CarverHawkeye Arena in Iowa City. Bill Zadick celebrates after winning the 1996 NCAA title at 142 pounds for Iowa. The Hawkeyes have won or shared the Big Ten regular season championships 13 times since the conference started recognizing a dual meet champion in 1999. Four missed field goals plagued the Hawkeyes in a road loss to Northwestern.[14]. Iowa had 5 national champions in 1986 and 1997. Three additional Hawkeyes, Mike Mena, Mike Uker and Lee Fullheart, also collected All-American honors as Iowa head coach Dan Gable was once again honored as theBig Ten Coach of the Year. Theyve throttled everyone so far this season marching out to a 5-0 record and averaging just over 34 points per dual. All-Americans: Media Guide; University of Iowa Fact Book; Iowa Wrestling Audio and Video; 2022-23 Season Statistics (PDF) 2022-23 Match-by-Match Results; Info. @leespencerlee36 #Hawkeyes pic.twitter.com/ai34hxm6wp, Iowa Hawkeye Wrestling (@Hawks_Wrestling) February 24, 2023. 5. Lately its been a long and lonely road for them, but now theyve positioned themselves inside the top 10 in the coaches poll and have 9 guys in the top 25, including 5 in the top 10. West Lyon /, DuBois, Pa. / The team has also won six Big Ten Championships and produced 89 All-Americans. 1 Penn State in January; then No. Iowa led the nation in attendance for the 14th consecutive season in 2019-20, setting an NCAA average attendance record of 12,568 fans in seven home dates. Spencer Lee (125 pounds), All-Americans: 6. Future Olympian and Hawkeye Wrestling Club head coach Daniel Dennis took seventh at 133 pounds while star and future Iowa State assistant coach Brent Metcalf took second at 149 pounds in an infamous final bout. Matt McDonough won a National Championship as a freshman, while Brent Metcalf and Jay Borschel concluded their senior campaigns with National Championships. Jeff McGinness(142 pounds) All rights reserved. Bozeman / Iowa returned to the NCAA championships with a dominant performance in 2010, having already locked up the team title before the end of the second day of competition. National Champions: Wyoming Seminary/City High /, Albert Lea, Minn. / Roster Youre seeing this ad based on the products relevance to your search query. Gable made his mark in Iowa City, butZalesky showed that the heart of the program remained strong as he guided Iowa into a new era. The year was monumental not just for the team's success, but also because it marked the year when Davis, Zalensky and both Banach brothers became multiple-time NCAA champions together. 3. Brent Metcalf was a finalist and finished second. ON THE MAT:The college wrestling head coaches who had the best NCAA wrestling careers. Jay Borschel (3rd, 174 pounds) Mark Reiland (1990-91): 44 133: Brody Teske // Cullan Schriever vs #15 Zach Redding // Ramazan Attasauov, 141: #3 Real Woods // Drew Bennett vs #12 Casey Swiderski, 157: #25 Cobe Siebrecht // Caleb Rathjen vs Jason Kraisser, 165: #13 Patrick Kennedy vs #3 David Carr, 174: #15 Nelson Brands vs #23 Julien Brodersen, 197: #2 Jacob Warner vs #6 Yonger Bastida, 285: #4 Tony Cassioppi vs #10 Sam Schuyler, I could list ALL 10 and probably should, but Im going to force myself and narrow it down. The 1981 NCAA champion was the year of the Banach Brothers. John Bowlsby (1975-79): 59 Bill Zadick (5th, 142 pounds) National champions: 4 Michigan at Kinnick Stadium in Iowa City on Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022. . Daryl Weber (6th, 158 pounds) Theres Real Woods, an All-American who transferred in from Stanford in April. Theres Patrick Kennedy, only a redshirt freshman despite this being his third year in the program. Iowa State finished 37.5 points behind the reigning Hawkeyes, while Yagla became the first Iowa wrestler to earn the Most Outstanding Wrestler award at the tournament. The Hawkeyes also set NCAA records for total points (158), victory margin (73.25) and number of national champions (5), and tied the record for most finalists (6) in 1986. In Iowa's first season under Brands, they would finish third in the Big Ten championships and eighth at the NCAA championships. Youll hear a lot of die hard Hawk fans say they only care about the postseason, so a loss here isnt the end of the world. Jacob Warner (4th, 197 pounds) In front of a hometown crowd and roaring chants of Hawkeye support, Dan Gable led the Hawkeyes to their ninth consecutive championship highlighted by five individual champions,three additional All-Americans and a handful of broken records. Gable retired after the 1997 season in which the team broke its own NCAA record for total points with its winning total of 170, and recorded the second-largest victory margin (56.50 points) in NCAA tournament history. Lenny Zalesky (2nd, 142 pounds) Health. Lincoln McIlravy (142 pounds) From zero national champs to three, Iowa putMatt McDonough,Brent Metcalf andJay Borschel on top of the podium in 2010 for what would be Tom Brands' last NCAA title to date. By no coincidence, the Iowa wrestling team started its string of 25 Big Ten titles in 1974. [6] They continued this new "unbeaten streak" into 2012 finally ending in a 16-17 loss to Oklahoma State at homeending a run of 84-0-1 going back to 2008.[7]. The University of Iowa men's wrestling program is one of the most successful athletic programs in NCAA Division I. Record: 7-5 (39th of 112) (Schedule & Results) Conference: Big Ten. Every Sports Reference Social Media Account, Site Last Updated: Saturday, March 4, 6:41AM. Carver-Hawkeye Arena is sold out for every Iowa dual, something weve known since the beginning of the season. Season Summaries. Those duals will help dictate whats possible come March. 3. Siebrecht went 5-2 at 149 pounds last season, winning a title at the Luther Open . Iowa's Spencer Lee holds out a heart to the soldout crowd after Carver-Hawkeye Arena after a 28-7 dual wrestling win over Oklahoma State on Sunday. Gone are impact transfers Jaydin Eierman and Austin DeSanto. I expect him to let the proverbial fur fly and seek out a Go Big or Go Home feet-to-back six pointer in this match too. Montell Marion (2nd, 141 pounds) Coach: Hayden Fry (7-5) . Wrestling at the University of Iowa began in 1911 when the first head coach, E.G. 2023 NCAA | Turner Sports Interactive, Inc. Hawkeye heroes claim 23 wrestling team titles. Kurdelmeier led the Hawkeyes to their first national championship in his third year as coach. Carver-Hawkeye Arena is sold out for every Iowa dual, something we've known since the beginning of . In their place are the new faces and younger guys eager to make their mark. Dan Erekson (4th, 285 pounds). National champions: Johnson is the real deal and is incredibly athletic, the exact type of guy Max seems to struggle with. 10. As a matter of policy, Sports Reference only reports the results of games as played on the field. Dan Glenn (2nd, 118pounds) Bruce Kinseth (2nd, 150 pounds) Ed Banach (2nd, 177 pounds). McIlravy . The Hawkeyes begin the 2022-23 season ranked second in InterMats Division I poll, behind only top-ranked Penn State, which returns four NCAA champs. Theres Nelson Brands, an NCAA qualifier at 184 in 2021 who is now down at 174, a more optimal weight. 1978 brought anarrow victory, but a victory nonetheless for the Hawkeyes, and the year signaled the firstin what would ultimately become 15 total for the famous Hawkeye coach Dan Gable. Iowa has not lost a dual to in-state rival Iowa State since head coach. Twenty years after this tournament, Iowa would produce a squad potentially as dangerous and dominant as any squad in program history. 4. They havent only faced cupcakes though, as they ended up beating Wisconsin on that same day, 26-6. But just like ISU, we must win our favored matchups, though lets be honest, theyre damn near toss-ups at this point. Tom Brands was ultimately named the Outstanding Wrestler of the tournament as he picked up his third career title. Stanford University /, Tucson, Ariz. / Scott Trizzino (2nd, 142 pounds) Theyre right, kind of. Iowa Central CC /, Bettendorf, Iowa / Tipoff at Carver-Hawkeye Arena is set for 1 p.m. (central) and Sunday's game will be carried on BTN and the Huskers Radio Network and will also be available online on the Fox Sports app. Jim Zalesky (1981-84) 131, Jim Heffernan (1983-87) &Royce Alger (1984-88): 131 Troy Steiner (3rd, 134 pounds) Gable finished his Iowa head coaching career with a record of 355-21-5 (.940), 21 consecutive Big Ten Titles, and 15 NCAA Championships. Iowa did not have a single national champion on this championship team, but sixAll-Americans allowed the team to edge out Iowa State by half a point to earn its third title in four years. Question, Comment, Feedback, or Correction? Here are five keys takeaways from the meet. Rico Chiapparelli (5th, 177 pounds) Matt Egeland (2nd, 118 pounds) Daniel Dennis (2nd, 133 pounds) Dan Glenn (3rd, 118 pounds) That included a streak of nine consecutive NCAA Team Championships, starting in 1978 and ending in 1986. That's exciting.. Iowa 63-20 The Hawkeyes won against the rival Cyclones for the 15th . In addition, this year's team became the winningest team in program history after earning victory in 21 duals during the season. 9. Sports Illustrated re Carver Circle; History; Photo Galleries; Iowa Wrestling Camps; Social Media. I had a good career at Iowa and was there during the start of the so-called dynasty, Yagla told HawkeyeSports in 2013. Montell Marion, also, finished second, losing to freshman, and future four-time National Champ, Kyle Dake. "Fight for Iowa" was becoming a local and national anthem in the wrestling community. Lindley Kistler (5th, 167 pounds) The most comprehensive coverage of Iowa Hawkeyes Wrestling on the web with highlights, scores, game summaries, schedule and rosters. Phillip Keddy (6th, 184 pounds) Duane Goldman (2nd, 177 pounds). This experienced squad of All-Americans battled the always-intense Penn State for the team title and lost two heartbreaking national final matches at 141 and 174 before Hawkeye Hero Spencer Lee came in and shutout Brandon Courtney to "heal a lot of hearts," as Tom Brands said after the tournament, and help his team capture the championship title they had been looking for. Here's everything you need to know about the Iowa wrestling dynasty, including season-by-season records and breakdowns of every one of the Hawkeyes' championships. The Hawkeyes competed in the first Big Ten meet in 1926 under the direction of coach Mike Howard. While football will always get the attentionit is by far the most popular sport in the country and the Hawkeyes tend to be quite good at itthe wrestling mat is the true symbol of the Hawkeye State. Barry Davis (126 pounds) Randy Lewis (126 pounds) I'll assess it as being incredibly exciting., From June:Tom Brands on Iowa wrestlings future, new facility, Real Woods, Max Murin, and more. Tough tests await against No. Starters are marked with an asterisk (*). Jeff McGinness(126 pounds)All-Americans: Brands was back, and so was Iowa. When you're on that mission, it doesn't mean that if I don't accomplish what I'm after, there's not satisfaction. National champions: Both athletes also won conference titles along with Jamie Heidt. The funny thing about anything in life is if youre not the best, then youre not the best, Brands said. He was 86. On the final play before the break, Michigan punted to All-American Tim Dwight who took it 61 yards to the house for a 21-7 halftime lead. Spencer Lees debut is still up in the air, but for the first time in his Hawkeye career, Real Woods is listed on the probable lineup and we need him in a BAD way to win this dual.