The Spladle Master meets The Flea for the 1st time.  The Gibbons Brothers face stiff competition.  #1 Iowa vs #2 Iowa State action continues at 126, 134, and 142 while The Flea and defending Big 10 champion Matt Egeland get a ‘Gable work-out’ in during The Dual at Hilton Coliseum.  Referee Phil Henning is faced with some tough calls.

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The Hawks surge as The Machine (Iowa’s Marty Kistler) faces off against ISU’s Mike VanArsdale (eventual UFC World Title Contender) in another match up of NCAA Champions.  The Baltimore Butcher (Rico Chiapparelli) makes an appearance.  National Champs clash at 190 with Duane Goldman (Iowa) and Eric Voelker (Iowa State).  The Dual is up for grabs.

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The coaches recap The Dual and everyone returns to recount additional events and stories from 1986.  Lessons for a lifetime learned and carried forward.

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It’s February 1986.  The stage is set in Ames.  Dan Gable and the Iowa Hawkeyes have been dominating college wrestling for nearly a decade.  Iowa State’s Jim Gibbons is in his first season at 26 years old and is one of the youngest head coaches of all time.  Both former NCAA Champions at Iowa State, Gibbons and Gable share a fateful car ride in rural Utah exactly one year prior to The Dual.  An unlikely hero gets things started with a BANG!

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The Spladle Master meets The Flea for the 1st time.  The Gibbons Brothers face stiff competition.  #1 Iowa vs #2 Iowa State action continues at 126, 134, and 142 while The Flea and defending Big 10 champion Matt Egeland get a ‘Gable work-out’ in during The Dual at Hilton Coliseum.  Referee Phil Henning is faced with some tough calls.

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Childhood friends and former Iowa High School State Champions Royce Alger (Lisbon) and Bill Tate Jr. (Waterloo) face each other as cross state rivals at the highest level.  Tate is in the best month of his Cyclone career in a ‘wild one’ against Alger, who ultimately goes on to become a two-time NCAA Champion.   #1 vs #2 also face off at 150 with four-time All Americans Tim Krieger and Jim Heffernan, both NCAA Champions.  Another legendary installment of the Krieger-Heffernan rivalry who faced each other 7 times in college.

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The Hawks surge as The Machine (Iowa’s Marty Kistler) faces off against ISU’s Mike VanArsdale (eventual UFC World Title Contender) in another match up of NCAA Champions.  The Baltimore Butcher (Rico Chiapparelli) makes an appearance.  National Champs clash at 190 with Duane Goldman (Iowa) and Eric Voelker (Iowa State).  The Dual is up for grabs.

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Ed Banach’s protégés:  “The Rose Bowl Center” vs. “The Transfer” for the W.  The Dual concludes, but the story continues as records are broken and history is made.  Sports Illustrated is on the college wrestling beat in Ames with a young fact checker who goes by “Ivan”.  “The Van Ride” presents a fork in the road with two very different destinations.  Frank Gifford interviews Dan Gable and the greatest college wrestling team of all time is contemplated by Shane Sparks.

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The coaches recap The Dual and everyone returns to recount additional events and stories from 1986.  Lessons for a lifetime learned and carried forward.

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Head Coach:

Dan Gable

• 1972 Olympic Champion
• 2x NCAA Champion at ISU
• 3x All American
• 10th Season 172-6-2
• Defending 8x Consecutive
• NCAA Team Champions

Assistant Coaches:

Mark Johnson

• 1980 Olympian
• 2x NCAA Finalist
• 4th Season at Iowa

Keith Mourlam

• Big 10 Champ
• NCAA Finalist at Iowa
• 2x USWF National Champ
• 2nd Season at Iowa

Barry Davis

• 1984 Olympic Silver Medalist
• 3x Big 10 Champ
• 4x All American
• 3x NCAA Champ at Iowa
• 2nd Season at Iowa

Iowa Wrestlers

Matt Egeland

• Big 10 Champ
• NCAA Finalist

Brad Penrith

Greg Randall

Kevin Dresser

Jim Heffernan

Royce Alger

Marty Kistler

Rico Chiapparelli

Duane Goldman

Head Coach:

Jim Gibbons

• NCAA Champion at ISU
• 3x All American
• 1st Season 18-1

Assistant Coaches:

Ed Banach

• 1984 Olympic Champion
• 4x Big 10 Champ
• 3x NCAA Champ at Iowa
• 1st Season at ISU

Les Anderson

• 3x NCAA Finalist
• 2x NCAA Champ at ISU
• 20th Season at ISU

Kevin Darkus

• 1985 World Silver Medalist
• 3x Big 8 Champ
• 3x All American
• NCAA Champ at ISU
• 1st Season at ISU

Iowa State Wrestlers