From the St Paul Pioneer Press
Cyclones bury Gophers wrestlers
The University of Minnesota wrestling team won the first three matches and built a 9-0 lead against Iowa State in a dual meet Sunday in Ames, Iowa, before the Gophers’ day turned to slush.
The fourth-ranked Cyclones won six of the final seven bouts and escaped with a 21-12 victory over the No. 8 Gophers.
Iowa State improved its record to 11-0, while the Gophers fell to 2-3.
Heavyweight Cole Konrad, 125-pounder Bobbe Lowe and 133-pounder Mack Reiter opened the day with victories for the Gophers.
Konrad, ranked No. 2 in the nation, was first up, surviving a 4-3 overtime decision over 10th-ranked Scott Coleman to improve his record to 20-2.
Lowe, ranked No. 3, got an early scare from 15th-ranked Grant Nakamura before putting him away 11-5. That raised Lowe’s record to 22-0.
Reiter, a redshirt freshman ranked No. 5, beat Jesse Sundell 11-6 in a match pitting four-time Iowa high school state champions. Reiter is 21-3.
Top-ranked Nate Gallick ended the Gophers’ shutout with a 22-7 technical fall over redshirt freshman Manuel Rivera at 141 pounds.
C.P. Schlatter, ranked No. 11, extended Minnesota’s lead to 12-5 with a 7-3 decision over Jason Knipp, raising his record to 6-1.
But Iowa State won the final five bouts, getting decisions from Trent Paulson at 157, Travis Paulson at 165, David Bertolino at 174, Kurt Backes at 184 and Trevor Smith at 197.
The Gophers are off for two weeks, then return to competition at the National Duals in Cleveland on Jan. 22-23
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