by Matt Kelley | Mar 18, 2015 | Sports
The Iowa wrestling team will be chasing their first NCAA team championship since 2010 in St. Louis this weekend. The Hawkeyes have their entire 10-man lineup in the NCAA Wrestling Tournament, which begins Thursday morning and runs through Saturday. Iowa Coach Tom...
by Matt Kelley | Feb 23, 2015 | Health & Medicine, Human Interest, News
The high school wrestler from southwest Iowa who collapsed last Wednesday after completing a match in the State Dual Team Championships has been released from the hospital. Eighteen-year-old Tayler Pettit was discharged from a Des Moines hospital Sunday evening. The...
by Todd Kimm | Feb 20, 2015 | Sports
Rick Wulkow is enjoying his role of spectator at the state high school wrestling tournament. Wulkow retired as executive director of the Iowa High School Athletic Association last month. “It’s very relaxing, no tension in the shoulders and...
by Todd Kimm | Feb 19, 2015 | Sports
Council Bluffs Thomas Jefferson sophomore McGwire Midkiff did not take long to advance in class 3A at the state wrestling tournament. Midkiff advanced to the quarterfinal round with a first period fall over Derick Wyatt at 106 pounds.”I want to get the first one...
by Radio Iowa Contributor | Feb 18, 2015 | Sports
When the traditional state wrestling opens on Thursday there will be 24 defending or former champions the field and many others with the goal of getting there for the first time. One of those looking for the first gold medal is English Valley’s 152 pounder Zach...
