Family pride, Fort Dodge tradition inspires Drake Ayala to become rare wrestling talent in Iowa

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Ayala goes home after practice and finds his family in the dining room. There’s a sauna in the corner — yes, really — and Angie arrives wearing an Iowa Hawkeyes hoodie.

He laughs.

“Mom!” he says. “What are you doing? You’re about to be on video.”

And then this one

The whole family attended the Iowa-Iowa State dual in Ames earlier this season. Angie wore an Iowa State shirt — she has a shirt from every visit, she says — and Ayala’s phone blew up.

“That’s probably the worst part of it,” Sam says. “Everywhere you go, people always want to know.”

“And people don’t believe us when we say we don’t know,” Angie adds.