"There's a lot of meaning in a lot of first-time things for me." "Nick Mitchell at that level is Gable. He's gotten after it." These are in the book "A History of Wrestling In Iowa: Growing Gold" Pre-order now at Amazon.com

I thought WOI's Friday football highlight show hit bottom with Dan Corey. I was wrong as Matthew Judy proves there are floors below still to hit

The late start has effectively punted Iowa State's game off TV....ESPN2 said it went to ESPNews, but now we're subjected to ESPNGoalLine and Toledo game look-ins

What ridiculous crap will spew ftom Booger's piehole tonight? Can it top last week's uttering of how the Bengals are getting things together?

SAVE THE DATE: The unofficial start of wrestling season in Iowa, Fight Knight, will be Wednesday, November 6 at Joe's Knight Hawk in Waverly. Just think of it: Wings, beverages, high school and college wrestling chat and Joe and Julie Breitbach being the great hosts they are.

Mr. Judy from WOI spoke of a "bowling ball of butcher knives"? Seems to me the term Hayden Fry used was a "rolling ball of butcher knives." Is my old-as-dirt memory correct?

Good to see Brian Kelly and his team get beat up by HotSeatKhakis tonight. It's winning efforts such as tonight which make Charlie Weis or Tyrone Willingham good hiring choices

Troy Dannen, enjoy that warm bowl game weather

The college guys talked wrestling, Dan Gable talked wrestling and Jim Miller was his usual stellar self as MC of Fight Knight at Joe's Knight Hawk in Waverly, IA

Good day to go to Hilton Coliseum and watch some wrestling, whether or not you were on your feet. The Harold Nichols Open was today.

Some crazy shenanigans at the Grand View Open today

And more shenanigans...

Christmas may have ended 43 minutes ago or so, but Die Hard is on, so it's Xmas....and Hans Gruber is about to take a Nakatomi High Dive.

Maybe the last quiet Thursday of the winter tonight. No wrestling meets, so that means referees such as Jim Torvik get to have an extended coffee bresk

I am enjoying Mr Shane Sparks on the tOSU-Minnesota meet tonight, but I hope he never again refers to the upcoming show this weekend prior to the Iowa-Penn State meet as a pregame. It's a pre-meet. :)

Wartburg Coach Eric Keller during Thursday night's 19-14 victory over Augsburg in the annual "Battle of the Burgs."

Sad news from Tuesday....Ed Winger, the longtime VOICE of the state wrestling tournament, passed away. Perhaps we can have a moment of silence prior to tonight's Class 3-A regionals and Saturday's districts as well as at state next week

Waverly-Shell Rock gets an early pick for repeating as Class 3-A state wrestling champion by Brooks Wheelan, brother of WSR assistant coach Brett Wheelan, on Iowa Live this morning. Plans to go to district at Marshalltown tomorrow.

Only two wrestling coaches have guided a team to nine consecutive national team championship. They were at the Iowa high school state wrestling tournament. Dan Gable of Iowa and Nick Mitchell of Grand View

Congratulations, Evan Hansen on 4X championship.