Four-time Montana state champion, Jarrett Degen will be transferring from Virginia Tech to Iowa State. The move will reunite Degen with head coach Kevin Dresser, and assistant coaches Mike Zadick and Derek St. John, who Degen wrestled for while at Virginia Tech. IAwrestle has been told that Degen has been granted a full release from…
AMES, Iowa – The Cyclone Regional Training Center made two additions to its camp yesterday. Two-time All American Earl Hall and former Cyclone Wrestling Club athlete Ben Durbin have both signed on to the C-RTC. “I’m excited to be part of the CRTC and work hard under the direction of accomplished coaches who have…
Fort Dodge prep Brody Teske has given IAwrestle’s Tony Hager an exclusive look at his top five schools. The three-time state champion is considered one of the top lightweight recruits in the nation for the class of 2018, and is rated the #2 wrestler in our latest Fab 50. Given Teske’s prominence as a recruit on…
Ranked #1 at 145 pounds by Flowrestling, Sammy Sasso of Nazareth High School (PA) is receiving heavy interest from major programs all across the country. With July 1st marking the beginning of official contact between the class of 2018 and college coaches, Sasso has already received three in home visits. “I had Ohio State come…
Another member of the IAwrestle Fab 50 has made his college decision, as South Tama prep Isaac Judge announced that he will continue his career at Iowa State. Judge stated he considered a couple smaller schools, but when the Cyclones contacted him he knew that was the place he wanted to be. “I picked Iowa…
Waukee’s three-time Iowa high school state place-winner Jakob Allison has decided to walk on at Iowa State (2nd, 2nd, 7th). For the last year Allison has been wrestling for the Iowa State Wrestling Club at 125 pounds. The club competes in the National Club Wrestling Association where Iowa State sent 10 wrestlers to the national…
New Iowa State head coach, Kevin Dresser is off to a fast start with his 2018 recruiting class with two of the state’s top seniors already giving the head Cyclone verbal commitments. While Dresser continues to make his footprint in state, it appears his reach has also included Illinois prep Will Lewan who told Flowrestling earlier…
Kevin Dresser on his first four months at Iowa State. Video via Trackwrestling.
The Pat Downey saga continues with the former Cyclone receiving a full release from Iowa State University this week. Last month Downey came on the Potentially Dangerous Podcast and mentioned interest in returning to Iowa State but was also considering Iowa, Rutgers and Kent State as options. In the podcast interview, Downey stated that only at Iowa State would…
University of Iowa junior Skyler St. John will be transferring to Iowa State University for his final two years of eligibility. A graduate of Cedar Rapids Prairie, St. John will being joining his brother Derek at Iowa State, who accepted a coaching position at the school earlier this year. After missing his entire redshirt season…
One of the biggest instate recruits for the class of 2018 is off the board as West Des Moines – Valley’s Joel Shapiro has committed to Iowa State. Shapiro made the announcement on Twitter: I am proud to announce that I have verbally committed to continue my academic and athletic career at Iowa State University…
IAwrestle has confirmed that Michigan prep and former Iowa State commit Ben Kamali has decided to reopen his recruiting. The two-time state champion committed to Iowa State in November of his junior year, prior to Kevin Jackson stepping down. The Detroit Central Catholic prep projects to wrestle 125 pounds in college. Kamali tweeted pictures of…
Kevin Dresser continues to work on his 2018 recruiting class, this time landing three-time Iowa state medalist Cayd Lara of Fort Dodge. Lara is the third addition to the 2018 class joining Weston DiBlasi (Missouri) and Ben Kamali (Michigan). Lara is projected to wrestle 157 pounds for the Cyclones. “Iowa State is the place that I…
Austin Stotts, a freshmen last year at Simpson and former West Des Moines, Valley Tiger, announced his commitment on Twitter early Sunday afternoon. I will be continuing my academic/wrestling career at Iowa State University.🌪 pic.twitter.com/9GkKpbOqul — Austin Stotts (@Stotts_Money) July 2, 2017 “I was already planning on going to a bigger school, and saw an…
The Iowa State wrestling schedule is set. The 2017-18 slate features 13 scheduled duals, including eight home match-ups, plus the Harold Nichols Cyclone Open. The Cyclones have also scheduled nine Big 12 foes. The Cardinal and Gold is heading back to the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational in Dec. They will also compete at the…
When new Iowa State head coach Kevin Dresser was hired in February one of the main points he stressed in his inaugural press conference was the development of a Cyclone Regional Training Center (C-RTC) and pursing the top talent on the freestyle ladder in the U.S.. A part of that goal was finding a way…
Less than a year after moving to Ames, Iowa to join the Cyclone Wrestling Club it sounds as if 2017 U.S. National Team member, Dom Bradley, will be parting ways with the Cyclones. Bradley originally joined the Iowa State affiliated senior level club a few months after the 2016 Olympic Trials, and has been a…
Iowa State All-American Pat Downey joins Tony Hager on another episode of Potentially Dangerous. The podcast is broadcast live on Facebook Monday nights at 8 PM. Downey joins the program to talk about what he went through finding out (through Twitter) that he was no longer a part of the Iowa State team, how he dealt…
Since his dismissal from the Iowa State team last year, Pat Downey’s future has been a big topic of discussion. Specifically what school will Downey be competing for when the 2018 NCAA Championships roll around. “I have a few options. Iowa, I’d like to consider them. I’d like to consider Rutgers. Some smaller schools like…
97 KG Quarters – Kyven Gadson (Sunkist Kids) vs. Hayden Zillmer (Minnesota Storm)
