Iowa City Duals Play-by-play
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Meyer didn't give up the opening takedown at all today. Must be trying a new strategy this year. All joking aside, the kid is slick on the mat. Hope he can develop a go to takedown as the season progresses.
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St.John dec 7-4
Gunther dec 9-5
Meyer dec 7-0
Wilcke Fall 2:43
Halloway dec 3-2
45-0 Iowa
Sounds like not much gained for the established starters, but worthwhile to establish where some others are at with their development. It would seem Holloway and Wilcke could only benefit from getting matches up at there new weights. I'm guessing we don't hear much more clamoring on this board for St. John to be Iowa's starter at 165. As stated it's pull the Bull shirt or Gunther all year. I gotta imagine Brands must absolutely lose his mind on Meyer behind closed doors. How he is at the level he is at and has such a seemingly lackadaisical offensive attitude is beyond me.
perhaps these duals' results could be posted on BWI to foster a discussion on how great we look?
I won't post them there, but here you go:
http://www.wrestlestat.com/event/8974/iowa-central-community-college-iowa-dual/boxscore
http://www.wrestlestat.com/event/8975/cornell-college-iowa-dual/boxscore
It might have been better if Iowa Central at least brought their starters:
They have 5 ranked kids - 4 of them didn't even wrestle against Iowa:
125 - 8 Todd Small
149 - 5 Brandon Murray ***our ole friend Nate Skonieczny #1
184 - 5 Danny Bush
HWT - 7 Thomas Peterson
Probably most impressed with Wilcke today. Great gas tank and always attacking...chain wrestles w/crisp finishes. We have good to elite guys that don't do it....for example taking a guy down and letting him bottom out and then working for a turn whereas Kem and Wilcke continually worked in transition. It's only a few matches but you can see what's possible at 184 there next year.
Agree about Meyer as well; two matches, two first periods and almost 0 shots, he is not creating angles at all. Skyler wasn't impressive today, maybe he wasn't 100% with his leg wrapped up. Wilcke was explosive and strong, even though competition was sub-par. I sure hope Sammy will be back for ISU.
Agree. Wilcke demonstrated a number of techniques; possibly more than anybody else on the team. And Kem is relentless and fearless on top. Some high risk moves on top - hopefully they work against top competition.
