Early look at how we match up with Iowa

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It's still early in the season and I haven't had a chance to watch either team in action, so I thought I'd look at how we match up per the intermat/Win rankings and see if we can get some discussion going this week.

Here's the rankings (taking an educated guess at the lineups), with the ISU guys listed first:

125 – Patrick Hunter (NR/NR) vs. Matt McDonough (1/1)

133 – Brandon Jones (NR/NR) vs. Tyler Clark (9/NR) or Nick Trizzino (NR/18)

141 – Chris Drouin (11/13) vs. Mark Ballweg (NR/NR)

149 – Nate Carr, Jr. (17/13) vs. Jeret Chiri (NR/NR)

157 – Trent Weatherman (NR/NR) vs. Derek St. John (10/11)

165 – Andrew Sorenson (17/13) (ISU) vs. Jake Kerr (16/NR)

174 – Jon Reader (3/7) vs. Ethan Lofthouse (19/16)

184 – Cole Shafer (NR/NR) vs. Grant Gambrall (8/8)

197 – Jerome Ward (11/9) vs. Luke Lofthouse (12/17)

285 – Kyle Simonson (NR/NR) or Matt Gibson (NR/NR) vs. Blake Rasing (16/NR)


So based entirely off of the rankings I'd say the following on a match by match basis:

125 – Strong Iowa
133 – Strong Iowa
141 – Strong ISU
149 – Strong ISU
157 – Strong Iowa
165 – Weak ISU
174 – Strong ISU
184 – Strong Iowa
197 – Toss-up
285 – Weak Iowa

So Iowa has four matches they should win, and ISU has three, with one match for each where they are they slight the favorite, and one toss-up.

I think the keys to ISU winning on Friday will be to win all the matches we are supposed too, not give up too many bonus points at 125/133, pull off an upset at Heavyweight, and win the toss-up match at 197. It's a tall order but not at all impossible. I think the weight we start at might end up making a huge difference in the outcome if one team is able to gain momentum based on having a few heavy favorites in a row.

Does anybody know what's up with Tyler Clark? He injury defaulted out of the Kaufman open and hasn't wrestled again. Is he done for the season? Or was Iowa just giving him time to heal since they didn't need him for any of their duals so far? Either way we aren't favored at 133, but it could be the difference between a decision and a tech fall/pin.
 
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Dylan Carew messed up his knee and is out for the year.

We need to win 165 and 197 to even have a chance. Getting bonus points from Reader would be nice too
 

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I just want to see the ISU guys wrestle aggressive instead of being on their heels all day long. I get sick of watching the Iowa wrestlers force the action when these 2 teams meet.
 

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We always give up two "should-be wins" to Iowa.

Especially when the meet is in front of a frenzied crowd in Carver. We're going to lose a match we should probably win, it happens all the time against Iowa, we're just going to have to make it up somewhere else and get an upset
 

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im disappointed that St. John is a "strong Iowa" over Trent Weatherman. I know St John beat him 11-0 in a tournament last year. I was expecting Weatherman to step in and be a stud this year. Hopefully he steps it up like we know he can by the end of the season when it counts!
 

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im disappointed that St. John is a "strong Iowa" over Trent Weatherman. I know St John beat him 11-0 in a tournament last year. I was expecting Weatherman to step in and be a stud this year. Hopefully he steps it up like we know he can by the end of the season when it counts!

Yeah, of all the "strong Iowa" matches I think he has the best chance of pulling off an upset, but records don't lie and Weatherman has losses this year to guys that are a lot worse than St. John.
 

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Sorry to bump my own thread, but does anybody know what the status of Tyler Clark is?

Also, I think we're going to have to win six matches to pull this off. Our weakness at 125 and 133 is runs right into their strengths and that means they'll likely get 10-12 points in those two matches.
 
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Sorry to bump my own thread, but does anybody know what the status of Tyler Clark is?

Also, I think we're going to have to win six matches to pull this off. Our weakness at 125 and 133 is runs right into their strengths and that means they'll likely get 10-12 points in those two matches.

read on a hawkeye blog that Clark broke his hand in the match against isu guy at brand open. Bet it will be nate moore who was preseason 12th in country. It will be tough to overcome bonus points we give up at lighter weights
 

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id say more like 8-10 points for them after 2.

i don't think we lose 1 we shouldn't, but of the 3 tossups, id bet my left 1 that they all go iowas way. over the past several years, they have out-conditioned us, which is huge in those tossup matches.
 

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I think the weight we start at might end up making a huge difference in the outcome if one team is able to gain momentum based on having a few heavy favorites in a row.

I bet both coaches agree to start at 125 and don't do a draw. Unfortunately that probably means Iowa will jump out to an early lead. I wonder if Iowa will pull out the elevated mat like we did last year. That was pretty cool and I hope it becomes a regular thing for this meet.
 

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It's still early in the season and I haven't had a chance to watch either team in action, so I thought I'd look at how we match up per the intermat/Win rankings and see if we can get some discussion going this week.

Here's the rankings (taking an educated guess at the lineups), with the ISU guys listed first:

125 Patrick Hunter (NR/NR) vs. Matt McDonough (1/1)

133 Brandon Jones (NR/NR) vs. Tyler Clark (9/NR) or Nick Trizzino (NR/18)

141 Chris Drouin (11/13) vs. Mark Ballweg (NR/NR)

149 Nate Carr, Jr. (17/13) vs. Jeret Chiri (NR/NR)

157Trent Weatherman (NR/NR) vs. Derek St. John (10/11)

165Andrew Sorenson (17/13) (ISU) vs. Jake Kerr (16/NR)

174Jon Reader (3/7) vs. Ethan Lofthouse (19/16)

184 Cole Shafer (NR/NR) vs. Grant Gambrall (8/8)

197 Jerome Ward (11/9) vs. Luke Lofthouse (12/17)

285Kyle Simonson (NR/NR) or Matt Gibson (NR/NR) vs. Blake Rasing (16/NR)


So based entirely off of the rankings I'd say the following on a match by match basis:

125 – Strong Iowa
133 – Strong Iowa
141 – Strong ISU
149 – Strong ISU
157 – Strong Iowa
165 – Weak ISU
174 – Strong ISU
184 – Strong Iowa
197 – Toss-up
285 – Weak Iowa

So Iowa has four matches they should win, and ISU has three, with one match for each where they are they slight the favorite, and one toss-up.

I think the keys to ISU winning on Friday will be to win all the matches we are supposed too, not give up too many bonus points at 125/133, pull off an upset at Heavyweight, and win the toss-up match at 197. It's a tall order but not at all impossible. I think the weight we start at might end up making a huge difference in the outcome if one team is able to gain momentum based on having a few heavy favorites in a row.

Does anybody know what's up with Tyler Clark? He injury defaulted out of the Kaufman open and hasn't wrestled again. Is he done for the season? Or was Iowa just giving him time to heal since they didn't need him for any of their duals so far? Either way we aren't favored at 133, but it could be the difference between a decision and a tech fall/pin.


Im guessing that after the first 2 matches (assuming we start at 125) Iowa will be up by 9 or 10. Hunter is ok but will get dominated. And i've only seen Jones wrestle once and didnt look to impressive. But the next 4 weights could honestly be ours. I think anyone that wrestles Weatherman has to be on the lookout for his throw. He is a monster with his upper body. The only way they win these though is if all the ISU guys wrestle the way they know how to. The rest of the weights besides 184 could go either way. If Ward wrestles the way he did last year in this meet he can win. Simonson is pretty iffy and Gibson just needs some more experience. I would favor Iowa slightly in this match. As long as Iowa State comes to wrestle and doesnt give up a lot of bonus points, we should be right in this meet. But with the meet being at Carver, there is that chance that we get dominated.
 
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I bet both coaches agree to start at 125 and don't do a draw. Unfortunately that probably means Iowa will jump out to an early lead.

That's my guess as well. I could possibly see that working for us if our 125 and 133 guys are able to make it competitive. They don't have to win either of those two (though obviously that would be awesome to see an upset), but if we can go into the middleweights, where we are favored, only down 6-7 points. That would give us a pretty good chance of having it an even meet going into the last two matches.

I'll be in row 12, so I would be down for a raised mat, bring it closer to my level.
 
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I think it will come down to hwt, but in the end ISU just has a few to many hole in their line up. If we didn't have our defections/transfers we would be money.
 

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I think it will come down to hwt, but in the end ISU just has a few to many hole in their line up. If we didn't have our defections/transfers we would be money.

That and Long getting kicked off the team. Even if you just replace 125 with "toss-up" and 133 with "weak ISU" (if Clark hadn't jumped ship) this meet would suddenly turn from a 20-30 percent chance of a Cyclone win into either it being even or ISU being favored.
 
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Can someone refresh my memory?

Where is Nate or Nick Moore and (excuse me for forgetting his name) that colored kid that got 2nd at nationals last year. I believe he was a freshman last year.

Where is joey slaton?
 

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Can someone refresh my memory?

Where is Nate or Nick Moore and (excuse me for forgetting his name) that colored kid that got 2nd at nationals last year. I believe he was a freshman last year.

Where is joey slaton?


Nate and Nick are both at Iowa, Joey is done.
 

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That and Long getting kicked off the team. Even if you just replace 125 with "toss-up" and 133 with "weak ISU" (if Clark hadn't jumped ship) this meet would suddenly turn from a 20-30 percent chance of a Cyclone win into either it being even or ISU being favored.


Boza Beard going back to Kansas and Alex Thompson leaving didn't help things either. We get those 4 guys Iowa would be a little scared I think. Boza beat an AA kid last year, AT pinned Iowa's hwt, and we'd be even on 125 and 133. But I am sure our guys will fight hard and there will be some surprizes in the match.
 

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Can someone refresh my memory?
Can someone refresh my memory?

Where is Nate or Nick Moore and (excuse me for forgetting his name) that colored kid that got 2nd at nationals last year. I believe he was a freshman last year.

Where is joey slaton?

Slaton graduated. He wrestled unattached last year. He didn't suddenly become bad or anything, he just couldn't beat out Daniel Dennis at 133 so he went from an NCAA finalist to a warm body in the room. I'd feel sorry for him if it weren't for the whole thing with Virginia Tech.

Montell Marion got kicked off the team for an OWI (which was the last straw after other incidents).

Nate Moore is on the roster, but looking at the Hawkeye wrestling website it appears he lost in the wrestle-offs. It is totally possible we'll see him at 133 on Friday, the line-ups I posted were just best guesses based on who has wrestled in the most recent duals for each team. Moore hasn't been in a dual meet yet, but has been doing well in tournament matches.