I would just add that the all-time dual meet results make Iowa seem more dominant historically than it really was.
As anyone can see in the prior post, they didn't wrestle each other from 1939 through 1972, when Iowa State was clearly the dominant program.
Gable was an assistant at Iowa beginning in the 1970s, when the teams started wrestling each other twice a year, and Iowa clearly turned the corner. Iowa began racking up two wins a season, after decades where they didn't wrestle each other -- again, after a long period of time in which Iowa State would have dominated the series judging by the results at nationals (or, even just looking at the pre-1939 results listed above).
UNI was probably the second best program in the state much of that time, and the UNI head coach Dave McCusky was later hired at Iowa. Later, Gary Kurdelmeier was a good coach at Iowa and coached there when Gable was hired (and, incidentally, was from the same home town as Iowa State head coach Harold Nichols, Cresco, also the hometown of future Nobel Peace Prize winner Norman Borlaug before Borlaug wrestled at Minnesota). Not trying to put any "spin" on this, but anyone wanting to make accurate comparisons of how the two programs have performed relative to each other needs to consider this, how the all-time dual series record is skewed as a result of both the years they didn't wrestle and the years they started wrestling twice a season. With all of their national championships since Gable started coaching, Iowa is clearly the dominant program now, and I believe ranks second all-time to Oklahama State.
All that being said, a return to national championship form should show Iowa State becoming more competitive in this series, as Iowa did when it starting winning in the 1970s. It won't be this year. But it would be great to see some 'surprises' in the results of individual matches. I would only add in the run up to its last national team title, likely no one thought Iowa State would beat Iowa except the Iowa State wrestlers and staff.