Big Tens Preview

It’s tournament time. The Iowa Hawkeyes will compete at the 110th Big Ten Wrestling Championships in College Park, Maryland on Saturday and Sunday.

Gotta love this time of year. So much hard work has gone into the season to get to this point. Now it is time to play for keeps as they say.

The Hawks have seven wrestlers in the top four in the Pre-Seeds. Of course the first goal is to qualify for the NCAA National Tournament. Several Hawks have their work cut out for them to make it to Nationals.

As I went through each weight for my previews something was very apparent. This is the eleventh year of my Iowa Wrestling Fan Blog and this is the weakest the Big Ten has been in that time frame. 

Don’t get me wrong, there are some real good weights and the Big Ten is still the dominant conference in the country. However the depth of high ranked wrestlers is just not there the way it has been the last ten years.

I am looking for a good showing by the Hawks at Big Tens. I believe that the up and down season prepared them for this type of competition. Now is the time to avenge previous losses and win the ones you are supposed to.

You can listen to the Big Tens on iheart.com, YouTube, and AM 800 KXIC where Steven Grace and Mark Ironside will call the action.

Let’s get ‘em in the middle.

 

Sat and Sun March 9-10 – Big Ten Championships (College Park, Maryland)

Thurs-Sat March 21-23 – NCAA Championships (Kansas City, MO)

 


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Big Tens Pre-Seeds 

125 – Drake Ayala #2

133 – Brody Teske #14

141 – Real Woods #3

149 – Caleb Rathjen #3

157 – Jared Franek #4

165 – Mike Caliendo #3

174 – Patrick Kennedy #3

184 – Aiden Riggins #13

197 – Zach Glazier #3

Hwt – Brad Hill  #7

 


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2024 Big Ten Wrestling Championships Pre-Seeds

https://bigten.org/news/2024/3/4/big-ten-wrestling-pre-seeds-announced.aspx

 

2024 Big Ten Wrestling Championships Schedule (All Times CST)

Date Session Coverage Platform Time (CST)
March 9, 2024 Session 1 – First Round, Quarterfinals, Wrestlebacks BTN 9 AM
March 9, 2024 Session 2 – Consolation Matches, Wrestlebacks B1G+ 4 PM
March 9, 2024 Session 2 – Semifinals BTN 6 PM
March 10, 2024 Session 3 – Consolation Semifinals, 7th Place Matches B1G+ 11 AM
March 10, 2024 Session 4 – Championship, 3rd and 5th-Place Matches BTN 3:30 PM

 

It is great to be an Iowa Wrestling fan.

Go Hawks!

Iowa recruits in action: March 7-9

We are down to the final weekend of the high school season for our incoming recruits.

Val Solorio will be our last recruit to compete this high school season. Solorio will be competing at the first ever PIAA Girls Wrestling Championships in Hershey, Pennsylvania on Thursday-Saturday. 

Solorio is seeded #1 at 100 lbs. and the brackets are available on FloArena.

FloWrestling will have full coverage of the PIAA Championships this weekend.

After the high school season is complete I will continue to cover our incoming recruits on this blog as they compete in Freestyle throughout the spring and summer.

 


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Recruiting Class of 2024

Dru Ayala – Fort Dodge, Iowa  120 lbs.

Season completed – 3rd place.

 

Keyan Hernandez – Billings (West), Montana 126 lbs.

Season completed – State Champion.

 

Miguel Estrada – Bakersfield (Frontier HS), California  152 lbs.

Season completed – 4th place.

 

Angelo Ferrari – Melissa, Texas  175 lbs.

Season completed – State Champion.

 

Jake Howell –  Glenwood Village (Cherry Creek HS), Colorado  215 lbs.

Season completed – 2nd place.

 

Kael Voinovich – City High HS, Iowa City, Iowa  157 lbs.

Season completed – State Champion.

 

Joe Kennedy – Kasson-Mantorville, Minnesota  152 lbs.

Season completed – 3rd place.

 

Brady Benham – Sperry, Oklahoma  165 lbs.

Season completed – State Champion.

 

Recruiting Class of 2025

Leo DeLuca  – Blair Academy New Jersey  120 lbs.

Season completed – National Prep Wrestling Championships 2nd place

 

Leister Bowling – Mead, Colorado  175 lbs.

Season completed – State Champion.

 

Women’s Recruiting Class of 2024

Val Solorio – Canon-McMillan HS, Pennsylvania  100 lbs.

Th/Sat March 7-9 – at PIAA Wrestling Championships (Hersey, PA)

 

Karlee Brooks – Valiant College Prep HS (Phoenix, AZ)  120 lbs.

No competition scheduled.

 

Cadence Diduch – Freeport, Illinois  135 lbs.

Season completed – State champion.

 

Kiara Djoumessi – Waverly-Shell Rock, Iowa  140 lbs.

Season completed – State Champion.

 

Naomi Simon – Decorah, Iowa 170 lbs.

Season completed – State Champion.

 

It is great to be an Iowa Wrestling fan.

Go Hawks!

NCWWC Nationals preview

The University of Iowa Women’s Wrestling team is set to compete at the National Collegiate Women’s Wrestling Championships (NCWWC) in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on March 8-9.

Forty-nine teams from across the country will be competing for All American status in the Alliant Energy Power House on Friday and Saturday. Last year thirty-seven teams competed at Nationals.

Iowa enters their first National tournament in program history ranked #2 in the country.

Iowa has thirteen of the fifteen wrestlers that qualified seeded in the top eight.

The Hawks have three wrestlers with the #1 seed: Emilie Gonzalez(101), Marlynne Deede(155), and Kylie Welker(170). 

Sterling Dias(101), Ava Bayless(109), and Reese Larramendy(143) are the #2 seed.

Only ten wrestlers and one from each weight will be able to score points at the NCWWC Championships.

FloWrestling and TrackWrestling will have coverage of the NCWWC Nationals.

 


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Iowa Seeds for the National Collegiate Women’s Wrestling Championships (NCWWC)

101 – #1 Emilie Gonzalez  #2 Sterling Dias

109 – #2 Ava Bayless

116 – #3 Brianna Gonzalez  #4 Felicity Taylor

123 – Ava Rose – Unseeded

130 – Emily Frost – Unseeded

136 – #8 Lilly Luft

143 – #2 Reese Larramendy  #5 Ella Schmit 

155 – #1 Marlynne Deede  #6 Bella Mir

170 – #1 Kylie Welker  #4 Haley Ward

191 – #5 Jaycee Fowler  

 

Brackets for the NCWWC Championships: https://assets.contentstack.io/v3/assets/blteb7d012fc7ebef7f/bltcd63d52b3f5835a4/65e1e5ce7471415dcd0a47b5/24_NCWWC_Brackets.pdf

 

Schedule

Friday, March 8

Session 1: Prelims  11 AM

Session 2: Quarterfinals and Consolations  4 PM

Saturday, March 9

Session 3: Semifinals and Consolations Finals  11 AM

Session 4: Finals  7 PM

 

It is great to be an Iowa Wrestling fan.

Go Hawks!

Big Tens Preview – Hwt

As with 197 as a fan I have enjoyed following our young Heavyweights for Iowa this season. Brad Hill (redshirt freshman) and Ben Kueter (true freshman) have done a real good job.

As far as who will take the mat for Iowa at Big Tens between Kueter and Hill it looks to be Hill with the #7 Pre-Seed.

Hill, ranked #29 in the country, is 26-5 with three pins, four tech falls, and five major decisions and is 0-3 vs. ranked opponents.

At Hwt the Big Ten has the #1,6 and 7 ranked wrestlers in the country and seven of the top thirty wrestlers. The Big Ten has seven automatic qualifiers at Hwt. 

I really like the way that Hill has progressed throughout the season and I look for him to qualify for Nationals.

 

InterMat Rankings at Hwt in the Big Ten

1.Greg Kerkvliet (Penn State)

6.Lucas Davison (Michigan)

7.Nick Feldman (Ohio State)

12.Yaraslau Slavikouski (Rutgers)

24.Seth Nevills (Maryland)

29.Brad Hill (Iowa)

30.Bennett Tabor (Minnesota)

 


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2023-24 Season – Brad Hill (Hwt)

Max Acciardi (Cal Baptist) W-MD 16-4 1-0 

Luther Open – 2nd Place 

   Maximo Ruiz (Stevens Tech) W-Pin 1:20 2-0 

   Garner Simmons (Wisconsin-Whitewater) W-Pin 0:48 3-0 

   Tanner Gaffey (Minnesota State Mankato) W-TF 22-5 4-0 

   Walter West (Luther) W-MD 16-5 5-0 

   Tyler Kim (Augsburg) L-D 2-1 5-1 

#22 Boone McDermott (Oregon State) L-D 4-1 5-2 

#7 Yonger Bastida (Iowa State) L-MD 17-6 5-3 

Cole Urbas (Penn) W-D 8-3 6-3 

Billy McChesney (Columbia) W-TF 19-4 7-3 

Soldier Salute – 3rd Place 

   Billy McChesney (Columbia) W-TF 21-6 8-3 

   Seth Nitzel (Missouri) L-D 5-4 8-4 

   Vincent Mueller (Columbia) W-MD 10-1 9-4 

   Tyler Mousaw (VMI) W-MD 11-1 10-4 

   Bowen McConnville (SDSU) W-D 7-4 11-4 

   Nathan Schon (Unattached) W-D 6-4 12-4 

Nash Hutchmacher (Nebraska) W-D 4-1 13-4 

Tristan Ruhlman (Purdue) W-TF 19-4 14-4 

Peter Marinopolous (Illinois) W-Pin 5:41 15-4 

#6 Lucas Davidson (Michigan) L-MD 11-2 15-5 

Gannon Rosenfeld (Wisconsin) W-MD 11-3 16-5

 

Sat and Sun March 9-10 – at Big Ten Championships (College Park, Maryland)

Thurs-Sat March 21-23 – at NCAA Championships (Kansas City, MO)

 

It is great to be an Iowa Wrestling fan.

Go Hawks!

Big Tens Preview – 197

As a fan it has been great to follow Zach Glazier at 197 this season. In all of my years following Iowa Wrestling I have never had a wrestler basically come out of nowhere to surprise me at this level and have a great year like Glazier did this season.

Glazier is 21-1 with two pins, seven tech falls, five major decisions and is 6-1 vs. ranked opponents.

The only loss for Glazier this season was a 5-1 decision to #1 ranked and undefeated Aaron Brooks of Penn State. That is the only match that Brooks has not scored bonus points in this season.

Yet Glazier is still only ranked #11 in the country. #11?

At 197 the Big Ten has the #1 and 4 ranked wrestlers in the country and nine of the top thirty-three  wrestlers. The Big Ten has seven automatic qualifiers at 197. 

Glazier is the #3 Pre-Seed at 197.

I am looking forward to seeing how Glazier does at Big Tens and Nationals.

 

InterMat Rankings at 197 in the Big Ten

1.Aaron Brooks (Penn State)

4.Jaxon Smith (Maryland)

11.Zach Glazier (Iowa)

13.Silas Allred (Nebraska)

20.Garrett Joles (Minnesota)

21.Luke Geog (Ohio State)

22.John Poznanski (Rutgers)

30.Kael Wisler (Michigan State)

33.Gabe Sollars (Indiana)

 


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2023-24 Season – Zach Glazier (197)

Eli Sheeran (Cal Baptist) W-MD 11-2 1-0 

Luther Open – 1st Place 

   Seth Butler (Wartburg) W-Pin 2:21 2-0 

   Maxim Ryner (Quincy) W-Pin 2:09 3-0 

   Jacob Steenhoek (Luther) W-TF 21-6 4-0 

   Parker Venz (Augsburg) W-TF 19-4 5-0 

#31 Justin Rademacher (Oregon State) W-D 14-6 6-0 

#24 Julian Broderson (Iowa State) W-D 7-3 7-0 

#26 Martin Cosgrove (Penn) W-D 9-5 8-0 

Jack Wehmeyer (Columbia) W-MD 14-2 9-0 

Soldier Salute – 1st Place 

   Brett Mower (Oregon State) W-TF 21-6 10-0 

   Adam Haselius (Columbia) W-TF 21-4 11-0 

   Garrett Joles (Minnesota) W-D 5-4 12-0 

   A.J. Ferrari (Unattached) W (D.Q.) 13-0 

#11 Silas Allred (Nebraska) W-MD 11-2 14-0 

#24 Garrett Joles (Minnesota) W-D 4-2 15-0 

Ben Vanadia (Purdue) W-TF 19-4 16-0 

Joey Braunagel (Illinois) W-TF 18-3 17-0 

Evan Bates (Northwestern) W-MD 11-2 18-0 

Bobby Striggow (Michigan) W-TF 19-4 19-0 

#1 Aaron Brooks (Penn State) L-D 5-1 19-1 

Josh Otto (Wisconsin) W-MD 13-4 20-1 

#16 Luke Surber (Oklahoma State) W-D 4-1 21-1

 

Sat and Sun March 9-10 – at Big Ten Championships (College Park, Maryland)

Thurs-Sat March 21-23 – at NCAA Championships (Kansas City, MO)

 

It is great to be an Iowa Wrestling fan.

Go Hawks!

Big Tens Preview – 184

At 184 the Big Ten has the #1,3,and 7 ranked wrestlers in the country and nine of the top thirty-one. With all of that the Big Ten only has eight automatic qualifiers at 184. 

Aiden Riggins started off the season at 174 and then bumped up to 184. I appreciate the effort that Riggins has shown this season especially considering his natural weight would have him at 165. That is a lot to ask of anyone especially a freshman.

Riggins is unranked with a record of 11-11 with four tech falls and is 1-4 vs. ranked opponents this season.

Riggins is #13 at 184 in the Big Tens Pre-Seeds.

 

InterMat Rankings at 184 in the Big Ten

3.Lenny Pinto (Nebraska)

5.Isaiah Salazar (Minnesota)

6. Bernie Truax (Penn State)

17.Layne Malczewski (Michigan State)

18.Shane Liegel (Wisconsin)

19.Jaden Bullock (Michigan)

22.Brian Soldano (Rutgers)

31.Troy Fisher (Northwestern)

 


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2023-24 Season – Aiden Riggins (174/184)

174 

Peter Acciardi (Cal Baptist) W-MD 15-4 1-0 

Luther Open – 5th Place 

   Eddie Simes (Wisconsin-La Crosse) W-D 4-1 2-0 

   Lawson Losee (Upper Iowa) W-D 4-2 3-0 

   James Burke (St. Cloud State) L-Pin 0:48 3-1 

   Colton Berg (Wartburg) W-TF 18-2 4-1 

   Cael Meyer (Upper Iowa) W-MFF 5-1 

   Will Carano (Iowa) W-TF 21-5 6-1 

184 

#32 Maximus Hale (Penn) L-Pin 1:55 6-2 

Aaron Ayzerov (Columbia) L-D 4-2 6-3 

Soldier Salute 

   Aaron Ayzerov (Columbia) L-TF 16-0 6-4 

   Jared Thiry (SDSU) W-TF 16-1 7-4 

   Evan Grazzini (Bellarmine) W-TF 21-6 8-4 

   Tyce Raddon (Wyoming) W-D 7-3 9-4 

   Colton Hawks (Missouri) L-D 8-6 9-5 

   Nicholas Fine (Unattached) L-TF 17-0 9-6 

#3 Lenny Pinto (Nebraska) L-MD 18-5 9-7 

#10 Isaiah Salazar (Minnesota) L-D 7-0 9-8 

James Rowley (Purdue) L-D 5-1 9-9 

#29 Dylan Connell (Illinois) L-D 4-1 SV1 9-10 

#24 Troy Fisher (Northwestern) W-D 4-2 10-10 

Joseph Walker (Michigan) W-D 6-5 11-10 

#6 Bernie Truax (Penn State) L-MD 8-0 11-11

 

Sat and Sun March 9-10 – at Big Ten Championships (College Park, Maryland)

Thurs-Sat March 21-23 – at NCAA Championships (Kansas City, MO)

 

It is great to be an Iowa Wrestling fan.

Go Hawks!

Big Tens Pre-Seeds announced

The Big Ten Conference announced Pre-Seeds for the 2024 Big Ten Wrestling Championships in College Park, Maryland.

The wrestling will begin on Saturday morning and wrap up on Sunday afternoon. A full schedule is listed below.

 

Big Tens Pre-Seeds 

125 – Drake Ayala #2

133 – Brody Teske #14

141 – Real Woods #3

149 – Caleb Rathjen #3

157 – Jared Franek #4

165 – Mike Caliendo #3

174 – Patrick Kennedy #3

184 – Aiden Riggins #13

197 – Zach Glazier #3

Hwt – Brad Hill  #7

 


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2024 Big Ten Wrestling Championships Pre-Seeds

https://bigten.org/news/2024/3/4/big-ten-wrestling-pre-seeds-announced.aspx

 

2024 Big Ten Wrestling Championships Schedule (All Times CST)

Date Session Coverage Platform Time (ET)
March 9, 2024 Session 1 – First Round, Quarterfinals, Wrestlebacks BTN 9 AM
March 9, 2024 Session 2 – Consolation Matches, Wrestlebacks B1G+ 4 PM
March 9, 2024 Session 2 – Semifinals BTN 6 PM
March 10, 2024 Session 3 – Consolation Semifinals, 7th Place Matches B1G+ 11 AM
March 10, 2024 Session 4 – Championship, 3rd and 5th-Place Matches BTN 3:30 PM

 

It is great to be an Iowa Wrestling fan.

Go Hawks!

Big Tens Preview – 174

The Big Ten at 174 has the #1,3,7 and 8 wrestlers in the country and ten of the top thirty-two wrestlers. With all of that the Big Ten has only eight automatic qualifiers at 174. Another tough weight class. 

Patrick Kennedy competed at 165 in Soldier Salute and at 174 the rest of the season. Kennedy is ranked #7 in the country and should get the #3 seed at Big Tens. He is 12-4 with one pin, four tech falls and six major decisions and 5-3 vs. ranked opponents this season.

Patrick Kennedy is my top pick as the Iowa wrestler peaking at the right time. I really like where Kennedy is at right now heading into the tournament season. I would not bet against this guy.

 

InterMat Rankings at 174 in the Big Ten

1.Carter Starocci (Penn State)

3.Shane Griffith (Michigan)

7.Patrick Kennedy (Iowa)

8. Edmond Ruth (Illinois)

11.Rocco Welsh (Ohio State)

12.Jackson Turley (Rutgers)

15.Max Maylor (Wisconsin)

25.Donnell Washington (Indiana)

30.Andrew Sparks (Minnesota)

32.Brody Baumann (Purdue)

 


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2023-24 Season – Patrick Kennedy (165/174)

174

#21 MJ Gaitan (Iowa State) W-D 14-13 1-0 

#10 Nick Incontera (Penn) L-MD 10-2 1-1 

Garret Bilgrave (Columbia) W-TF 20-3 2-1 

165

Soldier Salute – 2nd Place 

   Connor Euton (Iowa State) W-Pin 1:25 3-1 

   Brock Fettig (SDSU) W-TF 21-4 4-1 

   Izzy Moreno (Northern Iowa) W-MD 10-0 5-1 

   #7 Michael Caliendo (Iowa) L-D 7-3 5-2 

174 

#30 Bubba Wilson (Nebraska) W-D 9-5 6-2 

Sam Skillings (Minnesota) W-MD 13-2 7-2 

Brody Baumann (Purdue) W-TF 19-4 8-2 

#3 Edmond Ruth (Illinois) W-D 5-1 9-2 

David Ferante (Northwestern) W-MD 11-2 10-2 

#3 Shane Griffith (Michigan) L-MD 12-1 10-3 

#1 Carter Starocci (Penn State) L-MD 13-5 10-4 

Cale Anderson (Wisconsin) W-TF 19-4 11-4 

#21 Brayden Thompson (Oklahoma State) W-MD 12-3 12-4

 

Sat and Sun March 9-10 – at Big Ten Championships (College Park, Maryland)

Thurs-Sat March 21-23 – at NCAA Championships (Kansas City, MO)

 

It is great to be an Iowa Wrestling fan.

Go Hawks!

Big Tens Preview – 165

I have 165 as the toughest weight class in the country. The Big Ten is well represented with eleven wrestlers ranked in the top thirty-one with only ten automatic qualifiers for Nationals.

We have Michael Caliendo ranked #6 in the country and he should get the #3 seed at Big Tens. Caliendo is 20-3 with one pin, seven tech falls and five major decisions and 5-3 vs. ranked opponents this season.

165 has a lot of depth with the eleven ranked wrestlers but the top three are solid picks. Definitely cannot be overlooking anybody in the quarterfinals at this weight. 

I look forward to a potential Caliendo-Mesenbrink rematch in the semifinals. Mesenbrink won 12-6 in the dual meet.

 

InterMat Rankings at 165 in the Big Ten

4.Dean Hamiti (Wisconsin)

5.Mitchell Mesenbrink (Penn State)

6.Michael Caliendo (Iowa)

9.Caleb Fish (Michigan State)

10.Cameron Amine (Michigan)

12.Antrell Taylor (Nebraska)

15.Bryce Hepner (Ohio State)

19.Tyler Lillard (Indiana)

29.Stoney Buell (Purdue)

30.Maxx Mayfield (Northwestern)

31.Blaine Brenner (Minnesota)

 


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2023-24 Season – Michael Caliendo (165)

Mateo De La Pena (Cal Baptist) W-TF 23-7 1-0 

Luther Open – First Place 

   Robert Flege (Wisconsin-La Crosse) W-MD 11-2 2-0 

   Allen Catour (Loras) W-TF 17-1 3-0 

   Bryce McDonough (Luther) W-Pin 1:17 4-0 

   Cooper Willis (Augsburg) W-MD 13-3 5-0 

   Drake Rhodes (Iowa) W-TF 20-4 6-0 

   Kekana Fouret (Oregon State) W-D 15-10 7-0 

#2 David Carr (Iowa State) L-MD 16-4 7-1 

Lucas Revano (Penn) W-MD 14-5 8-1 

Kyle Mosher (Columbia) W-MD 18-5 9-1 

Soldier Salute – 1st Place 

   R.J. Weston (Northern Iowa) W-MD 17-5 10-1 

   Kyle Mosher (Columbia) W-TF 20-5 11-1 

   Blaine Brenner (Minnesota) W-TF 19-4 12-1 

   Patrick Kennedy (Iowa) W-D 7-3 13-1 

#19 Antrell Taylor (Nebraska) W-D 8-3 14-1 

#30 Blaine Brenner (Minnesota) W-D 5-1 15-1 

Stoney Buell (Purdue) W-D 9-4 16-1 

#24 Chris Moore (Illinois) W-TF 17-2 17-1 

#15 Maxx Mayfield (Northwestern) W-TF 21-5 18-1 

Beau Mantanona (Michigan) W-D 9-4 19-1 

#7 Mitchell Mesenbrink (Penn State) L-D 12-6 19-2 

#5 Dean Hamiti (Wisconsin) L-D 14-11 19-3 

#3 Izzak Olejnik (Oklahoma State) W-D 7-2 20-3

 

Sat and Sun March 9-10 – at Big Ten Championships (College Park, Maryland)

Thurs-Sat March 21-23 – at NCAA Championships (Kansas City, MO)

 

It is great to be an Iowa Wrestling fan.

Go Hawks!

Iowa recruits in action: Feb 29-March 2 RESULTS

We had two incoming recruits competing this weekend. Joe Kennedy competed at State Duals on Thursday and the Minnesota State Tournament on Friday and Saturday.

Kennedy was 2-1 at State Duals competing at 152 and 160 where Kasson-Mantorville placed second in AA. Kennedy placed third at 152 at AA State.

Val Solorio pinned her way through the 100 lbs. bracket at the West Regional. Solorio recorded pins in just :24 and :16 before winning by fall in the finals in 3:04.

Solorio will compete next weekend in the first ever PIAA Girls Championships in Hershey.

As I have done for years I will continue to post a blog of where our incoming recruits will be competing for the weekend and a follow up blog with results.

 


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Recruiting Class of 2024

Dru Ayala – Fort Dodge, Iowa  120 lbs.

Season completed – 3rd place.

 

Keyan Hernandez – Billings (West), Montana 126 lbs.

Season completed – State Champion.

 

Miguel Estrada – Bakersfield (Frontier HS), California  152 lbs.

Season completed – 4th place.

 

Angelo Ferrari – Melissa, Texas  175 lbs.

Season completed – State Champion.

 

Jake Howell –  Glenwood Village (Cherry Creek HS), Colorado  215 lbs.

Season completed – 2nd place.

 

Kael Voinovich – City High HS, Iowa City, Iowa  157 lbs.

Season completed – State Champion.

 

Joe Kennedy – Kasson-Mantorville, Minnesota  152 lbs.

Thurs Feb 29 – at Minnesota State Duals Tournament (St. Paul)

160 Joseph Kennedy (Kasson-Mantorville) over Bryan Rhode (Dawson-Boyd – Lac Qui Parle – Montevideo United) TF 18-3

 Joseph Kennedy (Kasson-Mantorville) over Blake Literski (Totino-Grace) TF 18-3

Cash Raymond (Simley) over Joseph Kennedy (Kasson-Mantorville) Maj 13-3

 

Fri/Sat Mar 1-2 – at Minnesota State Tournament (St. Paul)

Champ. Round 1 – Joseph Kennedy (Kasson-Mantorville) won by major decision over Everett Halvorson (New London-Spicer) (MD 13-3)

Quarterfinal – Joseph Kennedy (Kasson-Mantorville) won by decision over Drew May (Becker) (Dec 6-2)

Semifinal – Cooper Rowe (Mound-Westonka) won by decision over Joseph Kennedy (Kasson-Mantorville) (Dec 3-1)

Cons. Semi – Joseph Kennedy (Kasson-Mantorville) won by tech fall over Brayden Chandler (Marshall) (TF-1.5 4:42 (23-8))

3rd Place Match – Joseph Kennedy (Kasson-Mantorville) won by decision over Carson Byer (Perham) (Dec 6-4)

 

Brady Benham – Sperry, Oklahoma  165 lbs.

Season completed – State Champion.

 

Recruiting Class of 2025

Leo DeLuca  – Blair Academy New Jersey  120 lbs.

Season completed – National Prep Wrestling Championships 2nd place

 

Leister Bowling – Mead, Colorado  175 lbs.

Season completed – State Champion.

 

Women’s Recruiting Class of 2024

Val Solorio – Canon-McMillan HS, Pennsylvania  100 lbs.

Sat March 2 – West Regional (Canon-McMillan HS)

Quarterfinals: Val Solorio (Canon-McMillan) won by fall over Nilan Brand (Trinity) :24

Semifinals: Val Solorio (Canon-McMillan) won by fall over Baylee Oreski (Bentworth) :16

Finals: Val Solorio (Canon-McMillan) won by fall over Kristan Walzer (Montour) 3:04

 

Karlee Brooks – Valiant College Prep HS (Phoenix, AZ)  120 lbs.

No competition scheduled.

 

Cadence Diduch – Freeport, Illinois  135 lbs.

Season completed – State champion.

 

Kiara Djoumessi – Waverly-Shell Rock, Iowa  140 lbs.

Season completed – State Champion.

 

Naomi Simon – Decorah, Iowa 170 lbs.

Season completed – State Champion.

 

It is great to be an Iowa Wrestling fan.

Go Hawks!