Staff USA’s Kyle Snyder scores factors for publicity towards Georgia’s Givi Matcharashvili in a 97 kg match throughout the third session of the 2018 Freestyle Wrestling World Cup at Carver-Hawkeye Enviornment in Iowa Metropolis Sunday. (Cliff Jette/The Gazette)

The World of wrestling got here to Japanese Iowa final weekend. Iowa hit the highway, UNI hosted its residence match and Alburnett boys’ and Mount Vernon ladies’ workforce had robust showings. That is the Wrestling Weekend That Was.

WORLD CUP THOUGHTS

The world got here to Japanese Iowa. Coralville hosted United World Wrestling’s World Cup for males’s and ladies’s freestyle. Women and men from 19 international locations and 4 continents have been right here to wrestle within the two-day dual-style occasion at Xtream Enviornment.

The U.S. Males’s freestyle workforce defeated Iran, 6-4, to rejoice its fifteenth World Cup title. USA Wrestling gained right here in 2018 when it was hosted at Carver-Hawkeye Enviornment. The ladies’s nationwide workforce, coached by former College of Iowa NCAA champion Terry Steiner, completed fourth.

Kyle Snyder, an Olympic and World champion, clinched the fifteenth gold medal for Staff USA within the penultimate match of the occasion. The U.S. Staff was lacking a few of its World medalists and marquee names, though one of many all-time bests, Jordan Burroughs, took the mat. Snyder didn’t give taking part a second thought.

“I simply like to compete,” Snyder stated. “I’m able to go. You inform me the place and after I’ll be there. Particularly on the house turf, I’m all the time going to be right here. I’ll all the time be right here to compete. It’s straightforward.

“Should fly over to Krasnoyarsk (Russia) often to get these kind of matches, so take a two-hour flight to Iowa is simple.”

Attendance fluctuated over the weekend, drawing a superb crowd for the later classes. The timing is hard to draw native followers with highschool tournaments in full swing on Saturdays and the Hawkeyes’ residence basketball sport Sunday.

“I used to be unhappy that I nonetheless heard the Iranian crowd on the market,” Snyder stated. “Not that I hoped to solely hear U-S-A chants, however they journey effectively in every single place, so it was fairly cool.”

Sunday’s matches didn’t disappoint, even when the U.S. girls’s workforce got here up wanting a medal. The groups fielded World and Olympic champions and medalists. Followers caught a glimpse of among the younger and upcoming worldwide stars and among the achieved veterans, like USA’s 18-year-old 72-kilogram Wunderkind Amit Elor, who gained the senior, U23 and U20 trifecta on the World Championships earlier this yr and Mongolia’s 40-year-old Olympian Burmaa Ochirbat.

Want extra to place that final truth in perspective. Ochirbat competed within the 2003 Asian Championships – a yr earlier than Elor was born. A real snapshot of the longer term, current and previous.

Followers have entry to worldwide rivals and USA’s post-collegiate wrestlers by way of tv and stay streams, however nothing matches watching the athletes in individual. Seeing them stay will trigger you to understand their athleticism and talent extra. You probably have a chance to look at worldwide competitors, particularly in your individual again yard, make the most of the prospect. It’s value each penny.

IOWA TOPS UTC

College of Iowa improved to 7-0 this season, beating College of Tennessee-Chattanooga on Saturday. The Hawkeyes gained six of 10 bouts, getting a pin from heavyweight Tony Cassioppi, technical falls from Actual Woods (141) and 165-pounder Patrick Kennedy and a significant choice from Jacob Warner at 197.

Former Lisbon prep and present 157-pound starter Cobe Siebrecht remained sizzling, shifting to 6-0 after a 6-2 choice over Lincoln Heck. Siebrecht has climbed to as excessive as 14th within the nationwide rankings.

Iowa despatched 9 to the College of Northern Iowa Open. Drake Ayala led the way in which, profitable the 125 title with two main choices. Caleb Rathjen was second at 157 for the Hawkeyes.

VOELKER LEADS UNI AT HOME

Freshman Wyatt Voelker paced UNI at its residence Open match Saturday. The previous West Delaware prep was the Panthers lone champion, profitable the 197-pound title. He was one in all 11 UNI medalists, together with runners-up Trever Anderson (125), 133-pounder Julian Farber, Connor Thorpe (141) and Christian Minto at 165.

Voelker opened with a 12-2 main choice over Missouri’s Tommy Hagen and added a 5-3 choice over Minnesota’s Gabe Nagel. He acquired a forfeit over Iowa’s Zach Glazier within the last. Voelker has gained three open titles this season. He’s 11-0 with two pins, a technical fall and three main choices.

BEDLAM FINISH

Rivalries generate pleasure. The “Bedlam Collection” battle between Oklahoma State and Oklahoma is without doubt one of the most notable rivalries in school wrestling. Sunday was a main instance of why many eyes are any twin when the Cowboys and Sooners wrestle.

Oklahoma State’s Twenty ninth-ranked Luke Surber pinned No. 28 Keegan Moore in 34 seconds at 197 and lifted the Cowboys (4-1) to a 21-15 victory at Norman, Okla. Apparently, Moore began his profession at Oklahoma State earlier than transferring to UNI and shifting to Oklahoma.

Dustin Plott (174) gained by technical fall and Travis Wittlake (184) gained in extra time to arrange Surber’s heroics. The Cowboys have gained 16 straight duals towards the Sooners.

I.C. WEST’S PIERCE 2ND AT COUNCIL BLUFFS

Iowa Metropolis West freshman Alex Pierce earned a runner-up end at 106 kilos Saturday on the Council Bluffs Wrestling Traditional. He went 6-1, enhancing to 12-1 this season. Justin Avila (160) was fifth, 170-pounder Kyler Scranton was seventh and Ashton Honore positioned eighth at 220 for the Trojans.

ALBURNETT WINS BOBCAT DUALS

Alburnett captured the workforce title at Western Dubuque’s Bobcats Duals on Saturday in Epworth. The Pirates downed Nice Valley, 42-32, within the finals.

Alburnett, the smallest college within the discipline, rolled to win the black pool. The Pirates defeated Williamsburg (37-24), Dubuque Senior (76-6), Cedar Rapids Kennedy (60-18) and Central DeWitt (64-18). Williamsburg completed third, Kennedy was sixth, whereas the host Bobcats have been seventh.

MUSTANGS SECOND AT MARION

Mount Vernon positioned second within the workforce race, putting behind Bettendorf within the Marion ladies’ wrestling match. The Bulldogs gained with 172. The Mustangs scored 158, edging Cedar Rapids Prairie by 1.5 factors.

Kiersten Swart, Elli Shebetka, Gracie Pickney, Libby Dix, Mae Stoops and Aly Lashley every had titles for the Mustangs.

Cedar Rapids Jefferson’s Madison Larsen and Reward Gonpue, Prairie’s Mackenzie Childers, Addison Bowman, Brianna Bistricky and Luisa Meade and Marion’s Natalie Hedlund and Ashley Lantz all gained particular person titles.