(Randi Yeager Photo)
IAwrestle’s Night of Conflict got its start nearly 10 years ago on October 15th, 2015. The first ever event took place in the historic Carver-Hawkeye Arena. Over the next nine years we took the event to Waterloo, Cedar Falls, Des Moines, and Sioux City. As we approach the 10 year anniversary of the event we will be bringing it back to Iowa City at the Courtyard Iowa City University Heights.
In our first ever event we saw Jarrett Degen of Montana take on Lisbon’s Carter Happel. Degen would go on to become an All-American under Kevin Dresser at Iowa State, and Happel went on to wrestle at the University of Iowa.
In that first event 29 of the 30 men’s wrestler wrestled on a Division I roster at some point in their careers. As mentioned Degen achieved All-American status, as did Gannon Gremmel, Kaleb Young, Max Murin, and Alex Marinelli.
That group – as well as the wrestlers that proceeded that group – went on to have highly successful college career at all levels of college wrestling. Many qualified for the NCAA tournament, won conference titles, NAIA and Division III titles.
Throughout the years IAwrestle’s Night of Conflict has tallied 197 matches, and after our 11th event tonight we will have seen 217 contested matchups at Night of Conflict.
The 100th match winner belongs to SBL’s Ty Koedam, who won a Western Iowa battle over Cam Clark of West Sioux.
NOC – 10/15/2015
NOC2 – 10/14/2016
NOC3 – 10/13/2017
NOC4 – 10/19/2019
NOC5 – 9/25 – 9/26/2020
NOC6 – 10/2/2021
NOC7 – 3/12/2022
Youth Lineup:
Amir Newman-Winfrey of Hammer Time over Brayton Foster of Sebolt
Hendrix Schwab of Immortal over Cooper Hinz of Big Game
Jack Wallukait of Ubasa over Chase Watkinson of McDominate vs.
Hudson “Ace” Chittum of Boom Ranch over. Hayden Schwab of Immortal
Liam “Catfish” Jennett of Sebolt over. Ethan Humphrey of Big Game
Kai McDonald of Sebolt over. Ty Martin of Immortal
Nico DeSalvo of Sebolt over. Gavin Landers of Immortal
Dawson Youngblut of Immortal over Wil Oberbroeckling of Sebolt
Jaxon Miller of Ubasa over Nolan Fellers of Sebolt
High School Lineup:
Blake Gioimo (Cedar Rapids Prarire) over Kolton Munson (Osage)
Tucker Stangel (Osage) over Kane Naaktgeborn (Linn-Mar)
Dru Ayala (Fort Dodge) over Jace Hedeman (Union)
Easton Fleshman (West Lyon) over Maddux Borcherding-Johnson (Norwalk)
Koufax Christensen (Waukee Northwest) over Eli Becerra (Missouri Valley)
Jared Thiry (Don Bosco) over Barrett Muller (Osage)
Carter Schmidt (Montana) over Kale Petersen (Greene County)
Carter Freeman (Waukee Northwest) over Jaiden Moore (Benton Community)
Hagen Heistand (Underwood) over Avery Allen (Montana)
Tate Naaktgeboren (Linn-Mar) over Griffin Gammell (Waukee Northwest)
Wyatt Voelker (West Delaware) over Luke Rasmussen (Brookings, South Dakota)
Nate Jesuroga (Southeast Polk) over Marcel Lopez (New London)
MJ Gaitan (California) over Aiden Riggins (Waverly-Shell Rock)
NOC8 – 9/24/2022
NOC9 – 3/11/2023
NOC10 – 11/04/2023
