It might be tough, but Jenning's kid (the Osage coach) did wrestle at Iowa State and spent at least 1 year wrestling for Dresser.
High School State Tournaments
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The younger Fox out of Osage may be the most intriguing prospect in that part of the state. He got his first title as a freshman so we all know what that means. Stangel's growth trajectory will be interesting to follow. He was 126 last year, then 145 this year and looked to me to be good sized at both weights. I've heard him mentioned as an under the radar kid. Kittleson's dad went to ISU right out of high school and was in the room under Gibbons but Tim Krieger wasn't real easy on room guys back then as an assistant. I can't say if there's any kind of soft spot for ISU now.
The two Smith boys out of Britt are really good athletes. I thought the older one would get his title this year. I believe he had beaten the Knaack kid 2x this season. He has one more crack at it next year. The younger one ran into a buzzsaw Saturday night but he's got a lot of good wrestling ahead of him.
Those Rinken boys are impressive, and they'll have some toughness coming out of Al Frost's room. I'll be interested to see how the older one does at UNI.
You are correct, he beat him 2X. Also thought Knaack did a good amount of stalling in that finals match but he has a shot to get it done next year.
Is this Frost's first D1 wrestler? I know he's had plenty of good kids and teams over the years.
I hadn't thought of that angle but now that you mention it, I can't come up with another one.
Look up the Pin Doctors on Facebook. He has a really good account/story of anxiety/stress/adrenaline dump all happening at once that may or may not explain that match.
What are the rules on kids that injury default out of placing matches as it pertains to making weight for Saturday? Am I correct that they have to make weight even if they're not going to wrestle or they don't get to participate in the Grand March or award stand ceremonies?
I think stangel just doesn’t get the credit he deserves. Last year at Night of Conflict he beat little Naak pretty soundly.
Tucker Stangel (Osage) dec. Kane Naaktgeborn (Linn-Mar), 10-4
Did the IHSAA ever mete out any punishment? Or did the Hawkeye influence keep it from happening?
Back in my day the only men amongst boys in high school were almost universally doing something extra the boys were not. #SmallBerries
Max doesn’t have any aspirations for college at the time being. His dad would love to see him be at Iowa state or uni.
I really hope this isn't a thing where they have the football coaches offer him so he's on a football scholarship rather than counting towards a wrestling scholarship
They can talk to them if the the player makes contact. They can’t offer but can say I’m sure we will have one for you when the time comes.
I believe the rule is that anytime an athlete (on athletic scholarship) is competing in two sports and one of them is football, the scholly counts against football’s 85 available and not the “smaller” sport’s count, even if there is no money coming from the football allotment, to prevent going around the rules for over signing too many players. So technically i think Kueter for example is a “walk on” for wrestling as his scholarship should count against football.
Do schools just shuffle money around behind the scenes? Probably. Doubt Ferentz would want to take all the risk on his prized LB recruit without any buy-in from Brands & Co. But as far as the NCAA scholarship counts are concerned, it’ll take one from the 85 in football and none from the 9.9 in wrestling.
Re-reading your post after typing this out, I think you may already know the above info but I’ll keep it up for those who don’t.
Realistically can Keuter pull both sports off? I have to imagine he'll wrestle heavy weight so he can play linebacker and not have to worry about weight? Get to 230-40?
He’s a freak athlete, so who knows, but it seems unlikely he’d be able to pull both off at a high level. Can someone think of another example of this happening at a power 5?
