By Kyle Klingman Chad Zaputil has a tattoo on his chest and Dan Gable doesn’t like it. The tattoo is of a Hawk ripping open Zaputil’s chest. It is symbolic, and it is a reminder of the one thing Zaputil did not do during his time as an Iowa wrestler: win an individual NCAA title. [...]
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Wrestling fans…..if you’re going to the NCAA Wrestling Championships in St. Louis, MO, on March 15th-17th, or live in the St. Louis area, stop by the 22nd annual WIN Magazine Memorabilia Show & NCAA Fan Festival at the Peabody Opera House, just adjacent to the Scottrade Center. For approximately four hours each of the three [...]
Editor’s Note: No NCAA coach had as much success at the national tournament as Dan Gable, who was part of 17 NCAA championship as either an assistant or head coach at Iowa between 1973-1997. Recently Gable spoke about this year’s favorite but also looked back on what it takes for average teams to become [...]
By Mike Finn It seems like most wrestlers have one. No, not a cauliflower ear or singlet, but something … or someone … each wrestler has dealt with since he was a little boy wrestling on the family carpet: a brother. And together, wrestling siblings eventually take their mat activities to the same place: first [...]
Editor’s Note: Most people will say the way to win national championships is to learn how to peak when it matters most. Penn State’s Quentin Wright did that last year when the Nittany Lion struggled during the regular season — partly because of an injury — but ended the year winning both the Big Tens [...]
By Mike Finn Six wrestlers in the 2012 NCAA Division I Championships have already won NCAA champions and four — Iowa’s Matt McDonough, 125; Oklahoma State’s Jordan Oliver, 133; Michigan’s Kellen Russell, 141; and Cornell’s Kyle Dake (157) — are seeded No. 1 at their weight classes. Complete NCAA brackets Comparing Number of Qualifiers per [...]
The 2012 NCAA Wrestling Championships will see a familiar face off the mats this year when former three-time All-American and the 2011 NCAA Wrestling Champion Anthony Robles returns as one of two analysts in ESPN’s 21st year of covering the event. Robles, born without a right leg, has yet to let anything get in the [...]
March 5, 2012 NEWTON, Iowa — The following are WIN’s final Tournament Power Index (TPI) and individual rankings after last weekend’s NCAA national qualifying tournaments. The previous rankings were Feb. 28, 2012. In working to compile the most accurate rankings possible, WIN Magazine seeks to subjectively combine both the most recent week’s and season’s results [...]
Oregon State captured last weekend’s Pac 12 tournament and saw four Beavers win conference titles. The following are the remaining nine national-qualifying events which will send wrestlers to the national tournament, March 15-17, in St. Louis, Mo. Atlantic Coast Conference March 3, 2012 • Chapel Hill, N.C. 2011 Review: Led by OW Mike Letts, [...]
NEWTON, Iowa — The following are WIN’s current Tournament Power Index (TPI) and individual rankings as well as WIN’s final team dual rankings. The previous rankings were Feb. 21, 2012. WIN will release its final TPI and individual rankings on Monday, March 5, after the NCAA qualifying tournaments. In working to compile the most accurate [...]
