D&D Beyond https://evolve-mma.com/blog/the-7-best-wrestlers-in-history [6], From 1971 to 1973, Gable competed internationally in freestyle wrestling. King Mueller (3rd, 150 pounds) Tom Brands (134 pounds)  "But my freshman year was Dan Gable’s first year as an assistant coach and Gary Kurdelmeier’s first year as a head coach. Categories: American professional wrestlers by state. All three national champions from the 1992 winning Hawkeye team went on to be impactful coaches at the collegiate level after their own athletic careers concluded. Iowa has not lost a dual to in-state rival Iowa State since head coach. Chris Campbell (177 pounds), All-Americans:  Former … Doug Anderson (8th, 167 pounds) 4. Before he was a center for the Iowa football team, Blythe produced one of the best high school wrestling careers in Iowa. InterMat Wrestling - Ranking top college wrestlers of all time Yagla led the team with his second individual national title, but teammates Brad Smith and Chris Campbell also won gold. The Hawks also had an NCAA finalist in Mike Mena and two additional All-Americans in Kasey Gilliss and Mike Uker. All-Americans:  Tom Brands didn't even need a national champion in 2009 to win the NCAA tournament, and as the Hawkeyes put five on the podium and edged out Ohio State by 4.5 points to win the title, Brands had officially started a tournament winning streak of his own. 5. The Hawks also had two wrestlers finish third and a seventh All-American in Wes Hand finish eighth. Zalesky led Iowa to a narrow and fiercely-fought title win over Minnesota by 13 points in 1998 headlined by the success of the tournament's Most Outstanding Wrestler Joe Williams. Dan Erekson (4th, 285 pounds). Brent Metcalf (2008-09): 20 Conference tournament championships: 1915, 1916, 1958, 1962, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2015, 2020. 10. Doug Schwab (1998-2001): 130, 1. Brad Smith ( 142 pounds) 2. In Iowa, names become famous because of their results on the mat. 1981 was unquestionably a banner year for the program. World Champion", "Where are they Now: Catching up with Dan Gable and Larry Owings", Website of film 'Catch: the hold not taken', Gable's wins and losses between the years 1963 and 1973, Olympic Champions in freestyle lightweight, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dan_Gable&oldid=1018780852, Olympic gold medalists for the United States in wrestling, Pan American Games medalists in wrestling, Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Chen, Albert. Terry Steiner (3rd, 150 pounds)  From 1967 to 1970, Gable attended Iowa State University, where he competed in folkstyle wrestling. Hidden categories: CatAutoTOC generates no TOC. Home of the greatest wrestlers in the world including our friend Dan Gable. In addition, this year's team became the winningest team in program history after earning victory in 21 duals during the season. The team has also won five Big Ten Championships and produced 82 All-Americans. All-Americans:  [1][2] On December 8, 2020, U.S. President Donald Trump awarded Gable with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.[3]. Jim Zalesky (1981-84) 131, Jim Heffernan (1983-87) & Royce Alger (1984-88): 131 Terry Brands (1988-92): 48 Five have won a gold medal. 4. President Trump Rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 3rd, 3rd, 7th and 2nd in the NCAA. Mike Uker (8th, 150 pounds)  Lincoln McIlravy (2nd, 150 pounds)  HISTORY BOOKS: 10 all-time dream college wrestling matchups at every weight. The team also put five athletes on the podium, setting a new school record for number of All-Americans at the NCAA tournament. Iowa wrestling has won a total of 23 national championships, including back-to-back titles from 1975-1976 as well as  consecutive titles from 1978-1986, 1991-1993, 1995-2000 and 2008-2010. Joel Sharratt (2nd, 190 pounds)  When he was 15 years old, a teenager from his neighborhood raped and murdered Gable's 19-year-old sister. Tim Cysewski (3rd, 134 pounds) Ryan Morningstar (3rd, 165 pounds)  6. All-Americans:  National Champions:  6. The Hawkeyes also put nine athletes on the podium at the NCAA tournament, the most All-Americans the team had ever produced in one season until 2020. T8. Duane Goldman (2nd, 190 pounds). Brent Metcalf and Mark Perry were largely responsible for that victory, as the two national champions raked in big points for Iowa, but a slew of five additional All-Americans proved to be the difference. But Gable was there Saturday. Lee Fullhart (4th, 190 pounds). Mike DeAnna (2nd, 167 pounds) Joe Williams (158 pounds)  Next, there's Antonio Inoki, who will forever go down as one of the most important … National Champions:  Iowa has the second-longest winning streak in NCAA wrestling history with 69 wins. [6], In addition to coaching folkstyle wrestling at the University of Iowa, Gable coached freestyle wrestling. Greg Randall (5th, 134 pounds)  Ed Banach (2nd, 177 pounds). The race for the title in 1999 however, was the closest the Hawks had been a part of in 20 years, beating Minnesota by just two points. The University of Iowa formed a team in 1911, and Iowa State began one in 1916. Not necessarily a toss up match here. Mark Perry (165 pounds), All-Americans:  Future Olympian and Hawkeye Wrestling Club head coach Daniel Dennis took seventh at 133 pounds while star and future Iowa State assistant coach Brent Metcalf took second at 149 pounds in an infamous final bout. Bruce Kinseth (2nd, 150 pounds) 2 of his losses this year are to #2 Cael Frost at #1 at 152 Max Magayna. Tom Ryan (2nd, 158 pounds)  Twenty years after this tournament, Iowa would produce a squad potentially as dangerous and dominant as any squad in program history. Here's an overview of every Iowa wrestling season. Ed Banach (1980-83): 141 Mark Perry wrestles Eric Tannenbaum (in blue) of the University if Michigan in the 165-pound final of the 2008 NCAA men's wrestling tournament. Barry Davis (1984-85),Terry Brands (1990-91): 43 Mark Ironside (134 pounds)  Zadick and Weber stood on the podium for the first time as they ended their collegiate careers in a spot that had a eluded them in the past. Ray Brinzer (3rd, 177 pounds)  He took on the role with focus and fierceness, determined to coach athletes up to his level and beyond. Barry Davis, a 118-pounder who finished seventh the year before, set the school record for season wins during the Hawkeyes' 1981-1982 campaign, posting a total of 43 victories, a mark that he later broke himself. Charlie Falck (6th, 125 pounds)  Joe Williams (167 pounds)  Mark Reiland (1990-91): 44; T4. Ed Banach (1979-83): Three-time NCAA champion and four-time finalist. President Trump awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Monday to champion wrestler Dan Gable, an Iowa legend whom the president called one of the greatest athletes of all time. https://sportytell.com/wwe/top-10-greatest-wwe-wrestlers-of-all-time Gable's college career record was 117–1, with his only loss being in the final match of his final season to Larry Owings of the University of Washington. The Hawks may not have won the 1994 championship, but they came back with a vengeance in 1995 and put nine of ten wrestlers on the podium with one wrestler, Jeff McGinness, taking home a national title. The Iowa streak would be broken the following year, but in 1986, all was golden in Iowa City. Bill Zadick (142 pounds)  Bruce Kinseth, a national runner-up in 1979, highlighted Gable's and Iowa's second national championship as he pinned his way through both the Big Ten and NCAA tournament to set the program record of in-season pins at 23. Eric Juergens (3rd, 133 pounds)  Olympic champion in 1984. One year later, Brands' squad lifted the trophy that he once lifted as an athlete. Ed Banach (177 pounds)  Owen Hart was one of twelve children from a legendary Canadian wrestling family. Coach: Tom Brands Antonio Inoki. Barry Davis (1981-85):162 Five national champions in 1997 gave the Hawkeyes a new NCAA points record with 170 with second-place Oklahoma State finishing over 50 points behind at 113.5. Lindley Kistler (2nd, 167 pounds)  awards, and earning the Dan Hodge Trophy three times. Doug Benschoter (5th, Unlimited). The Hawkeyes rolled into the new millennium with the same force that allowed them to dominant the late eighties and early nineties. Mike Mena (2nd, 126 pounds)  No. [6], "Bio : Dan Gable – 15 National Championships. The 1993 championship didn't produce the most amount of NCAA champions Iowa had seen, and the tournament didn't yield the greatest number of Hawkeye All-Americans in program history. Daryl Weber (167 pounds)  At Iowa State, he became an NCAA Division I national runner-up and two-time national champion. Lee Fullhart (2nd, 197 pounds). National champions:  Some of the most remarkable footage of Iowa Wrestling at its finest with Tom and Terry Brands, plus Metcalf and more of Iowas great wrestlers. Troy Steiner (3rd, 134 pounds)  National champions:  Tom Brands (1990-91): 45 The first team championship came in 1975 under head coach Gary Kurdelmeier, an NCAA champion for the Hawkeyes himself in 1958. Mark Reiland also won gold, while Brands' brother Terry, Chad Zaputil, Troy Steiner and another future NCAA title winning head coach Tom Ryan finished as NCAA runner-ups. Oklahoma State broke Iowa's streak in 2011 when the tied the Hawkeyes. Head coach Dan Gable was building something special, and his reputation and success would land him the head coaching job for Team USA at the 1984 Olympics. Terry Steiner (150 pounds), All-Americans:  ON THE MAT: The college wrestling head coaches who had the best NCAA wrestling careers. He went 188-11 with 146 pins, still the fourth-most in state history. Ed Banach (1980-83): 73 While the twenty-year anniversary of this 2000 win would not be marked with another title due to COVID-19, the 2000 championship will be remembered in Hawkeye history as the last title under the Jim Zalesky era and one that continued the Iowa success story. National champion:  National champions:  World Champion", "Trump honors legendary Iowa wrestler Gable at White House", "Dan Gable among speakers discussing victims' rights", "Himself the victim of a violent tragedy, Gable says loss can result in some good", "Bio: Dan Gable – 15 National Championships. Greg Randall (2nd, 134 pounds)  Barry Davis (1981-82): 46 Jim Zalesky (5th, 158 pounds)  Gable's teams compiled a dual meet record of 355–21–5. Born in the small town of Waterloo, he did not devote himself to wrestling with full concentration until the age of 16 when a tragedy took place in the family. Lee Fullhart (top) wrestles John Kading of Oklahoma during the in the 190lb finals of the Division I men's Wrestling Championship. Here are some of the most remarkable stats from the Iowa dynasty (as of June, 2020). For the third time in his career, Iowa's Davis also won a national title, and his performance in the 126-pound weight class earned him Outstanding Wrestling honors. Chad Zaputil (2nd, 118 pounds)  Dan Glenn (3rd, 118 pounds) Iowa Football: Ihmir Smith-Marsette selected 157th overall by Minnesota Vikings; Iowa Football: DE Chauncey Golston Selected 84th Overall by Dallas Cowboys in NFL Draft Brent Metcalf (149 pounds)  The Black and Gold Iowa faithful know wrestling. Danny Mack Gable (born October 25, 1948) is an American former folkstyle and freestyle wrestler and coach. Terry Brands (2nd, 126 pounds)  Gable grew up in Waterloo, Iowa. D&D Beyond Led by national champions Chuck Yagla and Dan Holm, the Hawkeyes finished with a solid 102 points in the 1975 tournament to earn a convincing win over second-place Oklahoma. His brother Bret is also one of the most well known wrestlers of all time. The 2000 championship title would be the last for the Hawkeyes for eight more years, but they ended strong and added the first banner of the decade to Carver-Hawkeye. “I had a good career at Iowa and was there during the start of the so-called dynasty,” Yagla told HawkeyeSports in 2013. The 1985 championships was all Gable's world, and everyone else was just living in it. All-Americans:  Fast forward to 27:11 for the quote below. He has developed a legion of champions at the University of Iowa – 10 wrestlers have won national titles, 42 have achieved all-American status – since he became head coach in 1977. Travis Fiser (5th, 190 pounds)  At the conference level, Iowa remained dominant as well, earning a 22nd conference Big Ten tournament title and remaining undefeated during the dual season. That 1975 championship set the new standard. Doug Schwab (3rd, 141 pounds)  Randy Lewis (1978-81): 64 His streak in the 1990's would be shorter than his earlier title runs, but nevertheless, three consecutive national titles showed the world that Iowa wasn't done fighting. Bill Zadick celebrates after winning the 1996 NCAA title at 142 pounds for Iowa. Brands, who won Big Ten Coach of the Year for the third time in 2010, now heads into the 2020-2021 season with 2010 All-Americans Ryan Morningstar on his staff for another season and Daniel Dennis at the helm of the Hawkeye Wrestling Club. Iowa also posted an undefeated record this season as the team added to its trophy collection. Sophomore Joe Williams won the first of his three titles, while Mark Ironside, who would go on to be one of just three Hawkeyes to ever win the Hodge Trophy, earned his first All-American honor. Randy Lewis (7th, 134 pounds) Lincoln McIlravy (150 pounds)  Tom Brands (134 pounds)  Iowa State finished 37.5 points behind the reigning Hawkeyes, while Yagla became the first Iowa wrestler to earn the Most Outstanding Wrestler award … Ed Banach (177 pounds), All-Americans:  John Bowlsby (3rd, Unlimited). In his final year of coaching before moving on to athletic administration, Kurdelmeier built upon his success the previous year and guided Iowa to its first back-to-back titles in program history. He is still ranked among the greatest professional wrestlers in history. National champions:  1 in the NWCA poll with ten All-Americans. An important sport in Iowa, similar to what Steve Prefontaine is to running. 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