HUMBOLDT — In the highschool gymnasium of the Humboldt Wildcats, alma mater of Kevin Dresser, it was troublesome to seek out an empty seat in the home as Iowa State and Grand View confronted off for the primary time since 2013.

The Cyclones surprised the Vikings in a 40-0 shutout win.

Iowa State notched its 18th consecutive twin win, the fourth-longest streak in class historical past. Which led to the Cyclones snapping Grand View’s 116 dual-win streak, the longest ever at any stage of collegiate wrestling, which started in 2013.

“, as your program evolves and also you get higher, it’s a must to discover ways to wrestle as a favourite and generally a robust favourite,” Dresser mentioned. “Grand View has all the things to achieve and nothing to lose in a scenario like this. So, we now have to determine the way to wrestle with an enormous goal on our backs. I instructed all 10 guys, you guys are all favored to win so now it’s a must to exit and work out the way to do it when any individual actually needs to win and take you out.”

All 10 wrestlers secured stable wins with 5 of them being bonus level wins.

“I knew Grandview would wrestle onerous. Particularly the primary 5 weights, I used to be actually impressed with how onerous they wrestled us and I knew they’d wrestle as onerous. Coach Mitchell does an awesome job. And you realize, I believe the followers received so much out of it. There have been some nice scrambles.”

A match like 149 kilos had nearly each patron on their ft. Freshman Casey Swiderski racked up 5 takedowns in simply the third interval to carry Iowa State its first bonus level win of the afternoon.

At 157 kilos, Jason Kraisser and Giovanny Bonilla had some spectacular scrambles that in the end led Kraisser to get the reversal and land Bonilla on his again for the autumn.

You then have a look at veteran wrestlers David Carr, Marcus Coleman and Yonger Bastida who racked up a mixed 53 factors.

Dresser, nevertheless, remains to be targeted on how the workforce can proceed to enhance and develop as a program.

“There have been some shut matches. We’ve to get higher at wrestling, you realize. We make too many technical errors. We’ve received some guys in right here that wrestle fairly onerous,” Dresser mentioned. “However man, we now have received to get higher at wrestling within the subsequent week or two and proceed to get higher. That’s my takeaway and I’m gonna allow them to know that.”

Iowa State 40, Grand View 0
125: Kysen Terukina (ISU) dec. Esco Walker (GV), 5-2
133: Ramazan Attasauov (ISU) dec. Carson Taylor (GV), 7-3
141: Casey Swiderski (ISU) dec. Shea Ruffridge (GV), 14-8
149: Paniro Johnson (ISU) dec. Blake Gonzalez (GV), 3-1 SV-1
157: Jason Kraisser (ISU) WBF Giovanny Bonilla (GV), 5:59
165: David Carr (ISU) TF Marty Margolis (GV), 17-1 (4:41)
174: Julien Broderson (ISU) dec. Isaiah Luellen (GV), 4-2
184: Marcus Coleman (ISU) maj. dec. Ben Lee (GV), 15-6
197: Yonger Bastida (ISU) maj. dec. Garavous Kouekabakilaho (GV), 21-8
285: Sam Schuyler (ISU) over Greg Hagan (GV) (Inj. Def.)