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Iowa hs finals

Iowa guys ranked in the top 15 at their weight by Intermat:

#4 @ 145 Happel - Sr - Iowa
#4 @ 220 Andersen - Sr - Okie St
#4 @ 285 Isley - Sr - UNI
#5 @ 285 Gremmel - Sr - ISU
#7 @ 152 Clingenpeel - Sr - uncommitted
#8 @ 195 Cook - Sr - uncommitted
#9 @ 106 Biscoglia - So
#9 @ 120 Wagner - Sr - Iowa
#11 @ 106 Reeves - Fr
#12 @ 126 Thomsen - So
#13 @ 113 Teske - So
#15 @ 170 Shiltz - Jr
 
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Happel looked good, and nice to see Iowa get him. Jmho, it looks like Zachary has more explosiveness and perhaps more upside. If Iowa could take any two, I'd like see Thomsen and Zachary.

Oh yeah, let's make it three... Brands!
 
1st Place Match - Matt Malcom (Glenwood) 52-1 won by major decision over Joe Kelly (West Liberty) 17-5 (MD 18-5)
 
Lembek not going to iowa that i am aware of. His brother was there but was involved with the robbery deal. Thomsen is very good. Teske as well, maybe a hair under Thomsen. Very impressed with Zachary. Rathbun hurt his knee yesterday so nice job still winning after that.
 
Happel looked good, and nice to see Iowa get him. Jmho, it looks like Zachary has more explosiveness and perhaps more upside. If Iowa could take any two, I'd like see Thomsen and Zachary.

Oh yeah, let's make it three... Brands!

Hard to tell between Happel and Zachary who would win,. Room for both IMO. Zachary has the kind of athletic ability we need to add to our lineup. Thomsen is a must get, very good. Brands has improved by leaps and bounds since last year and will keep getting better being a later starter, nice win over a tough well coached senior.
 
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May want to keep an eye on Geerts from New Hampton. He's a junior and won 2A at 132 but could make 126 without much trouble. He caught Ironside's eye this week. Another kid that's been improving by leaps and bounds.
 
I think he would beat happel too.

With that Happel looks a lot smaller then him. We'll see if he drops to 38 for Fargo. Zachary has a big frame. He could end up being 49/57 where as Happel is a 41.
I'll take Happel and his 154-1 record, 4 state titles, Cadet national title, FILA national title and 5th place at Junior nationals, with #4 national ranking with intermat.
 
Sam Cook looking really slick. How tall is the Mehmen kid he is wrestling? Dang
 
Turk...we have a guy that looks a lot like him in Holloway. As much as I heard, thought he would be a lot more dominant.
I like Holloway a lot. Very Raw but he can get there. Bring Cook in anyways. Iron sharpens iron!
 
I'll take Happel and his 154-1 record, 4 state titles, Cadet national title, FILA national title and 5th place at Junior nationals, with #4 national ranking with intermat.

I'm not sure Zachary would care too much about happels cadet title 2 years ago at 120 lbs. That has zero to do with today. Last time we saw Happel wrestled top competition he lost to a tough kid then get smoked by a really tough kid. The eye test tells me Zachary. We have no idea who would win bc Zachary has never wrestled top flight competition.

It's kind of like schiltz and Coleman. No one knows how good Schilz is because he doesn't wrestle anywhere.
 
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Wanted Iowa to land Ethan Anderson and Carter Isley. Tough kids. Then again I wanted Cody Krumweide to be a Hawk heavyweight aswell. Shows what I know!
 
Wreidt with great counter wrestling on Anderson. What a great match!
 
I'm not from Iowa, so I don't really have that big of a grasp on the Iowa HS wrestling scene, but to me it looks like there are quite a few talented kids that could turn into real studs at Iowa who we don't already have.

Thomsen, Teske, Zachary, Brands (assuming he comes here), Wriedt and some of these upper weight boys look pretty good, Lyon and such.
 
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It's not even close. Teske is great in Iowa. Not so great outside of Iowa. He failed to place at cadets last summer.

He looked pretty good against both Louie Hayes and Roman Bravo Young. I think he's beaten Real Woods before too.
 
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