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It's a women's dual featuring the number one ranked NCAA team in America, the Iowa Hawkeyes versus Naia powerhouse Grandview Vikings.

Hello, everyone.

I'm Tim Johnson, along with ten time NCAA champion coach Jim Miller and America's premier women's wrestling journalist, Kyle Klingman.

And guys, this is an exciting atmosphere.

It feels great in here.

The energy is off the charts.

This is a blast.

Great way to start the season here.

First duel between the two of them ever.

Let's take a look at the matchups.

The matchups will start at the bottom there in the lighter weights.

What do you see Kyle.

First half is incredible.

You have all Americans across the board.

It really comes down for the Hawkeyes to 103 and 117.

Two returning national finalists for the Hawkeyes Sterling Dias and Brianna Gonzalez.

They'll have to set the tone.

What do you see at the top, Jim?

Well.

I see two.

Two local or in-state girls.

Lilly Luft and Libby Dix for the Hawkeyes.

And Angela Prijovic all the way from Belgrade, Serbia, at 207 for Grandview.

Well, let's go to the PA announcer.

And for the national anthem.

♪♪ Now, ladies and gentlemen, if you would please rise with me if you are able, as we honor America with the singing of our national anthem, tonight's anthem will be performed by keynote Varsity Jazz Choir from Waukee, northwest.

Oh, say, can you see by the dawn's early light.

What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming.

Whose broad stripes and bright stars.

Through the perilous fight.

O'er the ramparts we watched.

Were so gallantly streaming.

And the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air.

Gave proof through the night.

That our flag was still there.

O say, does that star spangled banner yet wave.

O'er the land of the free.

And the home of the brave.

The brave.

Thank you.

Keynote.

Let's talk a little bit about the keys to the meet.

Kyle, what do you see?

I see that I was going to be able to show off their depth.

I think they have unprecedented depth in the history of college wrestling, especially at 103.

That's not even their starter.

Presumably right now she's probably in second place right now.

But you look at this, take the fight to Iowa for Grandview.

That's going to be important because they aren't favored in this.

So they have to fight hard in every position, even in losses.

Score in freestyle.

If you score points and don't get pinned, you can score points for your team.

That's going to be crucial.

Jim.

Yep.

No man.

I'm like, I like this crowd, this beautiful facility gets a lot of energy in here.

We had a great high school meet right before and leading off into the kickoff of the first.

Really Iowa PBS women's featured duel.

Yeah.

And both sides of the gymnasium full.

We had Ankeny versus raccoon River wrestling and it went down to the final match.

And who?

Are getting ready now for 103 pounds.

Judy Sandoval.

You're looking at her.

She's from El Paso, Texas.

J.M.

Hanks High school kinesiology major.

From the Hawkeyes.

Was third last year.

Nice.

And she's going to be going up against Sterling Diaz, a redshirt junior out of Las Vegas, Nevada, from Slam Academy.

Diaz versus Sandoval.

We're going to get her started at 103 Iowa versus Grandview.

And Diaz sets the tone.

She's good at this.

She likes to be out early, and she's an aggressive wrestler.

She's been a U17 world silver medalist, so she knows how to get the energy.

She's popular on the team.

I think she's the the right person to start this off for the Hawkeyes.

Two time All-American, she's been a finalist in the what was prior to the NCAA the first year of NCAA.

And this is interesting because with the first year of the NCAA so they have the best depth at 103 in the country.

They only have one slot.

So last year they had 15 available spots.

This year because it's NCAA sanctioned, they only have one spot per weight.

And that's going to make a difference as you get down to the home stretch.

Last year they had 32 qualifiers for National.

This year it's 18.

So we'll see.

There's a big battle right now at 103 for the top spot.

Sterling Dias in the mix for it.

Three way battle there at 103 for Iowa Hawkeyes.

, Solorio, Rianne Murphy and Sterling Dias.

And Hiller Diaz had a step out earlier for a one to nothing lead.

Put your foot outside the line.

It's a point.

So talk a little bit about the individual scoring.

Rules are different.

If you've watched Folkstyle, there's a three point takedown.

There's not that in freestyle you can score a step out.

So if your foot steps out of bounds, that's one point a takedown.

As you would think of it in Folkstyle, wrestling is worth two points.

Feet to back is four points.

And if we see the popular grand amplitude that is worth five points for the score.

Judy Sandoval doing a good job.

She's ranked second in the Naia.

Really very technical.

You can see her trying to work the arms two on one.

A second.

Impressive.

We'll talk more about the coaches, but it's kind of interesting here.

Coach Crinzi comes from the high school that she he recruited Judy Sandoval from Hanks High School in El Paso, Texas.

Coach Crinzi started out his high school career in El Paso.

We'll talk about him later.

Then he went to Sunnyside High School in Arizona and ended up in Iowa wrestling for Nick Mitchell at Grandview.

And here he is at his alma mater as the head coach for the women's team.

And you see that point there?

That's called an activity clock point.

So they get put on the clock.

It's 30s if the person that does not score gets put on the clock, the opposing wrestler gets a point.

So that can be crucial down the stretch.

So right now Sterling Dias has that two zero lead.

Diaz nice low single trying to cut off to the double.

Nice job by Sandoval scrambling.

She's a good scrambler but Diaz gets the step out point.

Diaz on the step out.

Two periods in each match, three minutes each with a little break in between.

Little break 30s in between.

So you unlike folkstyle wrestling where you just go right to the top, bottom, neutral situation, you have a 32nd break starting neutral.

And the other thing we didn't mention is there's no back points, it's just exposure.

So if you have one short little tilt, you get two points for that.

You don't have to hold them there.

20s left Diaz 3 to 0.

Lead.

And this has been a good job.

By Sandoval Sterling Diaz can really get to her offense early to be able to hold it to a 3 to 0 lead, presumably at the end of the first period.

This is a good job.

By Sandoval.

She's holding tight.

Short time here in the first period and the score three zero.

They'll take that 32nd break, come back for the next three minutes.

Zero.

Interesting what you saw there.

You saw Sterling Diaz be able to get to her offense.

She hit that low single.

Good job of just defending that by Sandoval.

Clearly the aggressor was Sterling Diaz had the two activity clock points and the or.

Excuse me.

One activity clock point, two step outs.

That's why you have the three zero lead.

Here's the rankings.

As I said, NCAA first year as an official women's sport.

Iowa, the number one ranked team in the nation.

There's the wrestling's top five.

All classes together.

There's no Division one, Division two.

Here's Naia, life, University and Grandview.

Number two, William Penn.

Number three.

So the Iowa schools right up there at the top, Jim, you and I were at an evening with Dan Gable down at Atlanta, and the Life University team were there.

There's a they're a lively bunch and they're really tough.

Men and women, man.

They are really they love wrestling down there.

And they treated us great down there, didn't they?

That was a great crowd down in Atlanta for An Evening with Dan Gable.

They came out and supported it and women's wrestling just growing all over the nation.

Female wrestling, girls wrestling in high school and in college.

It's a it's an exciting time for women in this sport.

Important distinction here.

So let's just say the match ended 3 to 0.

That would be three team points for Iowa and zero for Grandview.

So that's why it's important for Sandoval to get a point on the board.

Because even if it ends 3 to 1, she would score a point for a team and then three for Iowa.

If this situation holds.

And you also notice headgear is optional.

I mean, Dias wearing headgear.

Sandoval chose not to.

Go.

Your time.

Seems like Diaz is slowing down a little bit, her feet not moving as fast.

Yeah, just interesting to see if Diaz can get back to that low signal.

She was successful there earlier to see if she can get back to that.

But Sandoval, if she's going to win this match here at 140 to go, she's really got to get on something.

She's got to take that fight to Iowa.

At this point in order to stay in the match.

Take down gets you within one point.

So Sandoval halfway through, she really has to be the aggressor.

Diaz really doing a good job keeping her hands free.

Sandoval trying to tie her up.

Tie her hands up, get a two on one.

But Diaz has done a good job so far.

Shout out to another great journalist that just checked in with us and said, great job boys.

Jason Bryant says, hey.

Glad he's watching.

I would expect nothing less.

Appreciate that.

About a minute to go here.

This is interesting because Sandoval has been in the match.

He's done some good things here, but as we said earlier, you got to get on the board.

So scoring a point really is fundamental for Grandview to score that team point.

So there's a lot at stake here.

It's not just a win or loss.

It's how you get team points.

And we've seen that come into play often.

Nice nice high crotch by Diaz.

But Sandoval likes to scramble.

She likes this position.

She she's comfortable here.

She's going to try to lift her up to or toward her back.

But Diaz staying really low all the way down makes it hard to lift.

Lift her back up.

So good job.

34 seconds left.

Sandoval really got to get busy here.

Nice shot.

Away.

It's on Sandoval right now.

She really has to push the pace with 20s to go.

It's still 3 to 0.

Even if you can get a step up point, this would be big.

You just have to keep moving forward.

At this point.

Maybe a caution in one.

Are they going to call for it?

And there it is.

Caution in one.

Are they going to confirm it?

Yeah there's three.

There's two judges and two out of the three have to agree.

So they're looking here to see if they're going to call it.

So essentially that's just a stalling where they say you aren't putting enough effort into it.

You're backing up.

And they can call a caution one they did not give it.

So they confirmed.

In on the single leg.

So close but not enough.

They score three zero win for Diaz 3 to 0.

Iowa leading Grandview.

So it worked out that way.

3 to 0 score for the match 3 to 0 score for the University of Iowa over Grandview at this point, after one match.

Here's your winner, Sterling Diaz.

Just look right in here, Diaz switches off.

Yep.

In there.

We're ready to wrestle.

110 pounds.

No takedown scored in the match.

Number seven ranked Tristin.

All right, we're getting ready for 110 pound weight class for Grandview.

Tristin Nitta junior from Mililani, Hawaii.

Nursing student.

Wrestling for Iowa.

And for Iowa.

Nyla Nyla Valencia from Morgan Hill, California.

And Sobrato High School.

If you recognize the name, there's some pretty good wrestlers named Valencia and her younger brother, Aiden is right in the mix at Stanford this year.

He's tough.

He's tough.

He's fun to watch.

Tristan Nitta earlier this week said that Hawaiians have a special bond.

So you know where Clarissa Chun is from.

She's from Hawaii, Tristan Nitta is from Hawaii.

I know who the Clarissa is going to be cheering for, but there is that special bond between Hawaiians, so I'm sure they'll be taking a picture afterward.

Clarissa Chun one of the all time greats and Hall of Famer, National Wrestling Hall of Fame.

Whoa, that's arm throw attempt.

No score, no score here.

Oh, nothing.

She goes right back to do it.

Two.

Oh nice job by Nitta Nitta.

Big score for the Vikings.

That is a big score because for Tristan needed to get on the board first here against someone as high level as Nyla Valencia.

That is huge for Grandview right now with 203 to go, 2 to 0 lead Nitta coming out setting the tone.

Another.

Here it is.

You see the arm spin.

Valencia in on a shot, looking to score.

And she does.

Two point takedown.

Now for Valencia.

She ties it up, but she holds crazy.

All right, so this is an important distinction too.

So you see 2 to 2.

But because Nyla Valencia scored last she has a criteria lead.

So there is no overtime in freestyle at the end of six minutes.

If it goes that far, the match will be over by some sort of criteria.

And right now Valencia would win the match if it ended 2 to 2.

Like right now.

Interesting situation here at 110 as well.

So Nyla Valencia has been injured the last two seasons.

She is actually favored right now in the Iowa lineup over two returning national champions.

Emilie Gonzalez is a national champion.

Ava Bayless a national champion.

Nyla Valencia has been injured and she's probably the best option at this point for the University of Iowa.

So again, you see the depth at 103 110.

It is unprecedented for the Hawkeyes.

Well, let's make it personal there.

That says a lot about Valencia as far as overcoming double ACL surgeries, coming back.

And it's interesting, coach said.

She has a you know, she's a pre-med student, wants to be perhaps a doctor.

And her interests are all over the place, except orthopedics seems to be right in there right now.

And she's had a lot of experience at university hospitals there in Iowa City.

And so she's on a on a track to pre-med, but showing a lot of courage of overcoming adversity.

I'll tell you what, the first time I heard her in an interview, meaning Nyla Valencia, I said, this is one of the smartest people I've ever met.

She has that high level skill, great public speaker.

Well, we got front headlock by Nitta in a tight front headlock here.

Nice try to arm drag out nice and then Valencia right back in on a shot.

Good defense by Tristan Nitta.

It's going to end 2 to 2 after this first period boy.

Credit Tristan Nitta.

She came out firing.

She came with the offense.

This is a little bit of a surprise for me.

I thought that Nyla Valencia might have a bigger gap by this point.

She has the criteria lead, but to be two two right now need is in this.

[LAUGHTER] For sure.

Nitta a junior as well as Valencia, also a junior.

♪♪ We head to the second period here at 110.

It's 2 to 2.

The first takedown by Nitta Valencia answered with her.

Oh nice.

Headlock.

Nice headlock, but it looks like she's going to slip out of it.

And again.

A nuance.

They have a slip.

Throw in freestyle.

So in Folkstyle that would be a takedown but they're going to bring it back to their feet.

Slip throw no points.

They reward an execution.

The effort right.

And that's the biggest difference between freestyle and Folkstyle.

Freestyle rewards execution Folkstyle rewards control.

Great match here.

2 to 2.

Front headlock by Valencia.

Brings her down.

Wants to do a go behind.

She's looking to.

Looks like she's going to score.

She does.

Two two points for Valencia.

Goes out in front 4 to 2.

A little more than two minutes left in the match.

But also look at the scenario and how it works.

So she scores that two points.

But if Nitta scores the takedown, she would be in the lead by criteria.

So even though that's important, that's a big takedown.

It's not out of reach for Nitta at this point.

Correct.

She would have had to Nitta would have had to score anyway a takedown anyway because she was behind on criteria.

So in one sense you're saying that wasn't a killer takedown?

Yeah it does not.

Yeah.

It's not fatal at this point.

Now in that situation, could she have gotten a step out and gotten the lead?

Yes, she could have.

But right now she gets the takedown.

She's going to have the criteria lead.

We're halfway through and she's well within the reach of this match.

Nice.

Go behind again by Valencia.

Got to get her down.

There it is.

Hits her knee.

That's a two point.

Valencia.

Looks like Valencia is getting the motor running.

You.

Do you see this?

She's putting the pressure on right now.

And you see why.

Nyla Valencia is one of the best wrestlers in the country.

And why the coaching staff thinks so highly of her and what she can do.

And again, with this situation, even if it's a technical superiority win, points will be scored for Grandview.

So it would be four for Iowa, one for Grandview.

If it ends in a technical superiority.

And in this situation, Nitta wants to keep it to a decision that would give a point for Grandview.

Three points for Iowa.

Inside Tripp Valencia.

Another takedown.

she's trying to get a gut wrench here because she if she can expose her to her back, that'll be that'd be another two points.

Important for Nitta to just keep the pressure and keep the pace going.

Here.

She's.

She can keep this to a decision.

Clock isn't the clock was rolling.

Now.

[APPLAUSE] And so unlike Folkstyle, there is no major decision.

It's just all decision.

Technical superiority or fall.

Trying to snap her down.

Nitta hanging in there.

Nitta had been game in this match.

So she did just what you were talking about.

Kyle.

There's the end.

It's 8 to 2.

She holds it to a decision.

Three points for Iowa, one for Grandview.

So that's big.

She did a good job in that match.

She kept the pressure on.

Got the inaugural takedown got the first takedown.

So she's going to score a point for her team.

Here we go.

Nice inside trip by Valencia.

17 pounds.

Beautiful takedown.

By Anjali.

As we get ready for.

117, we go to the number three ranked NEA wrestler at 117.

Mya Anjali Colon from.

Mulberry, Florida.

Mulberry Senior High she's a junior going up against the number four ranked 117 pounder at the NCAA Brianna Gonzalez redshirt junior out of El Monte, California, Aurora High School.

Mya Mya.

Brianna Gonzalez an interesting situation.

She was a national finalist against her teammate Felicity Taylor in 2024, got fifth last year, third at women's nationals, and then she won this year's U.S.

open and reached final X, so she was one spot away from making a senior world team.

So Brianna Gonzalez is the class of the field.

Felicity Taylor made the world team.

All-American and she's an Iowa girl and Mayangelie Colon Florida ranked number three in.

Silver medalist, a two time senior world team member and a huge 20 foot Guarino World Team member.

[APPLAUSE] A good scrap so far on their feet.

And you notice the height difference Gonzalez about four foot 11.

So she's kind of changed levels already just with her height.

And I think if she can get to those leg attacks, she's got great leg attacks.

That's just going to be the key right here.

Get to Colon legs.

If you're just joining us, Tim Johnson, along with Jim Miller and Kyle Klingman bringing you the meet between the Iowa Hawkeyes and the Grand View University, Vikings.

Two great matches to start out at 103 and 110.

The score 6 to 1 in favor of the Hawkeyes, with their two wins going all the way, though, and really tough fight by Grandview so far.

You're right.

That's the operative word.

They took the fight to Iowa and they took some matches that could have been blowouts, and they kept them competitive.

So you got to credit Grandview.

They must have done a good job of game planning because they've looked good the first two matches.

Mayangelie on the attack here.

See what they're going to call here.

They call step up.

They do.

Yeah.

Mayangelie gets a one point step out.

She was fourth last year in the Naia.

Here it is.

And she really pressed her.

Step out.

And what have we seen the trend here the first or the last two matches.

Grandview has gotten on the board.

First another.

Shot by Mayangelie Colon.

Wow.

What do we get a call here?

One point.

1.3 Gonzalez.

So that's because Mayangelie Colon stepped out first.

Yep.

Yep.

So you see that 2 to 1 score for Colon.

You have your judge on the far side of the table and your.

Colon's interesting.

She only wrestled two years in high school.

Yeah.

And now she.

Story and and now she's on the Puerto Rico senior world team.

Just coming back from a competition at 110 pounds.

So she's had to put on a little weight here for her college season.

And just getting back from she's going to be representing Puerto Rico at 50kg, which is around 110.

Nice shot by.

Iowa.

She's in on a shot.

Gonzalez what she need to do here.

Jim needs to limp her arm out, get that arm free.

Which she did.

And there you go.

And a takedown.

For Gonzalez.

Also on the kind of like stalling.

If there's a lack of action.

And one thing we haven't seen yet, we haven't seen a turn on top.

I would have thought at this point, given the high caliber we have, that we would have seen that.

So we'll see what we can see.

The first turn.

There's a look at the coaching staff there.

Clarissa Chun Gary Mayabb, the associate head coach.

Nice shot.

Let's go.

Great period.

Both these guys, they scrapped.

3 to 2.

[APPLAUSE] Yeah.

You know what?

In this season of giving, here's a look back at the Iowa women's wrestling team's new tradition.

Cooking meals for families at their local Ronald McDonald House.

With only so much space inside, the ladies had to take shifts to allow the entire team to rotate through and contribute.

Is that awesome or what?

So cool.

I love that picture and to see them doing that, that's a that's a big part of the sport.

That Ronald McDonald House is right outside Carver-hawkeye.

And so what a neat relationship there.

And you know, talking to Coach Chun, she's all about community.

She's all about family as far as the team.

And they're leading the way.

They're.

Some of these young girls, a lot of young girls here watching, I'm sure on TV Mayangelie Colon only only wrestled two years in high school.

And already, I mean, you can see the the advancements she's made in the sport.

Nice.

Nice arm drag to a single wow by Gonzalez right into now an armbar.

Leng Mya.

Good job.

And once you get that arm trapped it's it can be tough, but.

There she goes.

Turns it over.

Beautiful job.

Got her in trouble.

Exposure.

And a lot of time to settle in here.

A little more than two minutes, but Gonzalez is trying to do is just settle down, use her hips as an anchor.

Nice fight, nice fight.

Look at.

Nice job.

Very, nice.

Job of fighting through big points for Colon.

Great fight.

I mean for Gonzalez.

Great fight by Colon.

Again, as we compare Folkstyle to freestyle, she just got two points for that.

She could have held her, held her back the entire time and only got.

Dragged to the to the drag double drag single right to an armbar.

Let's go Mya.

Gonzalez really has to be thinking about tech at this point.

She has a five point lead.

If she can really get on this, she can score some big time points.

If she can get to her offense.

Colon two on one.

Snap down Gonzalez like you said, TJ, she is compact and strong.

Working Mya.

One minute left in the second period here, 7 to 2.

The lead Gonzalez over Colon.

Mya Mya.

Women's wrestling in college.

The Iowa in their first year of the NCAA women is the 91st sanctioned sport in the NCAA of all sports.

The 91st sanctioned sport.

They'll have their NCAA national championship at Extreme Arena in Coralville in March.

Nice shot.

Colon got in, but now Gonzalez does.

Nice go behind, gets another score, 9.9 to 2.

9 to 2.

Coming down to the wire.

15 seconds to go.

If she could get to a 13 to 2 or a 12 to 2, she would get that technical superiority.

Superiority which would be four for Iowa and one for Grandview.

But if it holds this way, it'll be again three.

You got it.

Three for Iowa and one for Grandview.

That's going to hold.

Correct.

And that's how it land the winner.

Brianna Gonzalez 9 to 2, three points for the Hawkeyes and one point for the Vikings.

The score now Iowa nine, Grandview two.

And interesting this.

We have back to back matches where we have twins.

So I know that Brianna Gonzalez and Emilie Gonzalez were twins.

The Campbells have twins for the Grand View Vikings.

So kind of cool.

Yeah.

Great.

Call Kyle.

We meant to mention twin sister Emilie Gonzalez and now Katie Campbell out there and her twin sister Kaitlyn on the team with her.

Katie, the Campbells, both seniors are from Crawfordsville, Indiana.

Montgomery High School.

She's in veterinary medicine, going up against Cali Leng.

Kelly Leng from Marysville, Ohio, Marysville Early College High School.

She was an All-American last year, seventh.

Love the story with Kelly Lang.

She wasn't a blue chip recruit, just really worked her way in the more matches, the better.

For Kelly Lang.

She's gritty, she's tough.

She embodies the Iowa.

Nice fireman's carry attempt by Campbell.

Good job of facing by Lang and a step out and the first score again goes to Grandview.

Yeah they came.

To wrestle get.

After it.

They came to wrestle.

An expected dogfight in this match.

Both these wrestlers have that type of fight and they go after each other.

I think this is going to be a fun one.

And Katie Campbell, a three time Naia All-American.

Cali Lang is ranked sixth in the.

NCAA.

She's a 2025.

She's the number six ranked, 124 pounder in the NCAA this year.

Cali Leng Katie Campbell ranked number two in Naia.

Position.

And you can imagine with having twin sisters, they do fight a lot in the wrestling room, so they carry on the tradition.

Twins have to.

Fight, and we heard that from the coaches.

They have to kind of separate them.

Sometimes they can drill together only can drill front headlock by Lang, but Katie Campbell doing a good job squaring up, not letting her get an angle, holding on to that elbow.

Oh, dresser.

Jump attempt.

[LAUGHTER] [APPLAUSE] Kelly Lang's dad Jesse, wrestled for Ohio State and he is one of the owners of Rudus.

You know, the rudest wrestling company.

I know I worked out in my Rutte shirt.

[LAUGHTER] Yeah, yeah.

[LAUGHTER] Her dad.

is is the man behind the vision of Rudus.

Two on one by Campbell.

Mania.

One on.

And again.

We've seen this trend.

Third match in a row where Grandview has scored the first point.

So we'll see if they can keep the pace going into halftime.

And then in the second period, if anyone can do it.

As Katie Campbell.

We will be taking a halftime after this match.

Ten minute break.

Go behind by Leng net.

Campbell still has not given that up.

Leng still attempted.

Oh, another fireman attempt, but Leng goes around for a big takedown.

Karlee Lang goes out in front.

The junior gets two point takedown to go out in front.

2 to 1.

Go bottom.

Let's go!

Katie.

Bring them back to their feet.

Eight seconds to go.

Lang holds that 2 to 1 lead.

You know you were talking about Lang being a you know under the radar.

Well she gets in there last year she wins 40.

She had 40 wins last year.

Incredible.

15 and one dual meets.

And I think that's what she needed.

She just needed that experience to continue to develop through the course of the season.

Great story for Iowa.

Remember during last weekend's football championship, former Iowa wrestler Nina Estrella was recognized as a recipient of the Big Ten's Jackie Robinson Community Impact Award for helping her hometown of Lahaina, Hawaii, recover from the 2023 wildfires by organizing toys, clothing, sports equipment and food pantry drives in Iowa and online.

Yeah, I was watching that and I saw her come out to receive that award.

And then she throws up her big Hawkeyes she does.

dang right.

She gave a little flex there and showed the Hawkeye emblem.

That was pretty cool.

I had no idea what was going on, but yeah, that's really neat.

Here we go.

Second period.

Campbell on the attack again.

Grandview needs this.

This is one they can win.

This is a three time All American.

You've got to get in the match.

You've got to take the fight.

As we said in the keys to the meet, this is a match where Katie Campbell can take the fight to Cali Leng.

Yeah.

Coach Crinzi was saying she's the hardest worker in the room.

And you can tell she comes with a hard pace.

The snaps, and you just got it from a snap there.

You want to get that, lower the level and get the penetration in there and get past the head hands defense.

And you look at him, it looks like mirrors of each other.

It just looks like you're wrestling each other.

They just both have that style straight forward.

Who can come out on top at the end.

I think this is going to be a close.

One.

Here.

Nice snap down by Campbell, then a shot.

Lang going to go behind again.

She's really really done a good job with that.

Now she's close to step out getting her to step out.

But there's the goal behind.

two more Iowa Iowa does.

[LAUGHTER] No one does it better than Iowa.

The snap down go behind men and women.

[LAUGHTER] Nothing.

[APPLAUSE] In freestyle there's not a stalemate like we haven't had a stalemate forever.

We'll call for.

Action right here.

Fadi right.

Towards scoring the go ahead and just call the wrestlers back up.

Get them back.

Neutral and center will start again.

So no stalemates, no.

Rides by Campbell.

Nice single.

Trying to turn the corner.

Needs to get her knees underneath her and lift and lift.

Kelly Lang doing a good job keeping a lot of weight on her.

Pressure on her head.

Tough to finish there like that.

Good attempt by Campbell.

Campbell really needs to score here.

Being down 4 to 1.

That's a that's a two score match.

Unless you're able to get feet to back which we haven't seen an indication that that could happen at this point.

So she's really got to get on her offense because she's going to need two scores to win this match.

Katie, you.

Go.

[APPLAUSE] Katie Grandview bought some brought some fans.

Man.

A lot of noise behind us for Campbell.

There's a shot.

There's another another go behind.

She's making a living there.

Lead six one.

Now with 20s left in the bout.

Sending the lead.

We'll see if Lang really commits to that leg lay.

She hasn't yet coming back up.

They're going to go back to their feet here to close this out.

Like you said, Kyle, we have not seen a turn yet.

Haven't seen one.

And I'm surprised by that.

I thought at this point of the meet, given the high caliber we had, that we would see that.

Hard, high level effort by both these guys girls.

But Cali Leng another takedown ends up 8 to 1.

The final score of eight one.

Hard fought match again, three more points for the Hawkeyes, one for Grandview.

It's 12 to 3 at intermission.

Great first four matches.

Intermission.

So concession stand for the restrooms.

We will have a brief intermission.

We'll go to break now with the Iowa Hawkeyes leading the Grand View Vikings 12 to 3, and we'll be back with more wrestling.

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It's college wrestling tonight from the Carver-hawkeye arena.

For years.

At the network, we did Division one wrestling only at some point in time, we saw wow, they have so many in-state schools here.

The Division three level.

And so we started televising the Iowa Conference championships.

Hello everybody.

I'm Doug Brown with Tim Johnson.

I think it's wonderful that public television is on the forefront of doing women's wrestling.

Oh my gosh.

You know women's wrestling is just both on the international level and now on the collegiate level.

It's becoming a fastest growing sport.

And wrestling fans are lucky to have that sort of coverage now in the state.

♪♪ Welcome back at intermission, where the score is Iowa 12, Grandview three.

We just heard from Doug Brooker, longtime producer director of college Wrestling on Iowa PBS, reflecting on his legacy here and the advancements in covering the sport for TV.

Speaking of women's wrestling, Iowa PBS is proud to announce the addition of Girls State High school wrestling championships this February with me to discuss that are Kylie Walker with the Girls Athletic Union and Katie Buscaglia, wrestler with raccoon River.

Welcome to you both.

Thank you.

Thanks for having us.

Yeah, this is great.

What an exciting atmosphere tonight.

First of all, we're going to take a look at Katie wrestling.

And I know I mean I'll tell you what Katie.

You put on a show out there.

But I know your history.

You've won three state titles going for your fourth.

Yep.

Here's a picture tonight.

And this is an example of the question I'm going to ask you.

She was tough.

Your opponent.

You had to wrestle hard.

Is it getting is it completely different from your freshman year to your senior year.

Oh my goodness yes.

I mean the girls have just gotten so much better.

There's been so much growth in the sport and throughout the state.

Even the competition that we have at that team.

And it's really great to see that.

Well, and congratulations, you're going to go to Wartburg next year.

Yep.

Good night and good luck on going to a fourth.

And speaking of the growth of wrestling, women's wrestling.

Kylee.

Wow, you're going to be at Extreme Arena for the state championships.

PBS is going to be covering it.

But there's a new schedule.

And I guess my question is, this is growing so fast.

Is it going to outgrow Extreme Arena?

I know it's a good problem to have.

It really is.

We had over 3600 wrestlers this year in their body comp assessment.

So that's a that's some growth from last year.

Even.

So we're really excited to see that we did change our schedule this year to accommodate the growth that we're seeing, with hopes that we can stay around as long as possible at Extreme Arena.

But we're happy that we're growing that much.

Well, it's great.

I'll tell you what, it's the excitement around here tonight.

We Ankeny and River and raccoon River.

We are filling the place on both sides.

You had great atmosphere and now everyone stayed around for the college experience here.

This is wonderful.

And we thank you both for stepping in and talking about the growth of female and women's wrestling in Iowa and the nation.

Thanks for joining us.

Yeah.

Of course.

Thank you.

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♪♪ Back at Waukee Northwest High School for the big women's dual meet between University of Iowa and Grandview University.

I'm Tim Johnson, along with my partners Kyle and Jim and Kyle.

We talked about the atmosphere, the environment and the fight by these women.

The fight for Grandview was impressive.

You see that 12 to 3 lead for Iowa.

But Grandview really did come out and did the keys to the meet.

They fought hard.

Iowa did get the four wins.

And Jim, there was a lot to be happy with for the Hawkeyes.

Yeah, I mean, obviously they've kind of dominated.

Started out with Sterling Dias 103.

Nice high crotch right there.

Finished on the edge.

She starts it off for Iowa.

Comes into Nyla Valencia.

Nice inside trip for a score.

And she kind of dominated most of that match.

117 Brianna Gonzalez for Iowa.

Nice arm drag to a single.

Nice drive for a nice takedown, right to an arm bar and she wins as well.

And we ended up with Karlee Leng coming up 124 for Iowa versus Katie Campbell.

That was a dogfight here.

Really tough match.

But Cali Leng had about three goal behinds to win that match.

♪♪ And just to review the match results at 103, Dias defeated Sandoval at 110 Valencia over Nitta 117.

The Hawkeye Gonzalez over Colon, and at 124, Lange defeated Campbell.

The score 12 to 3.

And now we're going to take a look at the backside.

We've got Maya Davis for Grandview going up against Emily Frost for the Hawkeyes.

Davis out of Chatham, Illinois, Glenwood High School going up against Frost from Troy, New York, Tamarack High School.

This should be the fun one.

These two are gunslingers.

Emily Frost has a world class headlock.

It's what she's known for.

Maya Davis is nonstop action.

She likes to throw, too.

It wouldn't surprise me if we see our first four point move in this match.

I like that gunslinger.

You know.

Here's Maya Davis with a big comeback last year at home against Devyn.

Patty looked like.

Looked like Davis rallied to win her match off a couple of lateral drops, turning the tables on Patton.

She also is an official Maya Davis is a referee.

The Grandview All-American has been doing it for a while.

At age 15, she became the youngest female official to referee a wrestling match in her native Illinois.

She says the sport needs more young officials.

She's a trusted presence at major events like girls folkstyle and preseason nationals.

I love that it was so cool to see her at preseason Nationals in Des Moines.

She doesn't have to travel far.

She can do it right there.

Nice paycheck and she's multifaceted.

She likes to coach, wrestle and officiate.

She does it all.

There she is right there.

Maya Davis.

She's athletic training major, a three time All-American.

And as Kyle said, she's a gunslinger.

She loves her throws.

She's got a brother that wrestles at Siu Edwardsville.

She'll be going up against a junior out of Troy, New York.

Emilie Frost, who's got a nasty headlock herself.

She does.

And that's what she's going to go for.

She can lull you to sleep.

You think you're fine, and then she's going to unleash it.

So I know that both sides have scouted this out, but expect some sort of a big move in this match.

24 she bumped up to this spot.

She's a Maya Davis brother.

Drew Davis, 125 for Southern Illinois Edwardsville.

There'll be some scraps in that house, but look at this.

We got a scramble going on.

Nice job by Maya Davis getting two.

And here we go now.

Iowa.

Yeah.

Another score for her.

Score for Grandview.

Once again.

I think.

every four in a row.

Yeah.

I was going to say every one but one.

[LAUGHTER] Yeah.

Everyone has come out and got the first score.

Hawkeyes have clawed their way back.

They've got all the wins after four matches.

And we'll only have eight matches tonight because we have two open weights.

And that's why we took the halftime after four matches.

Hawkeyes winning all four.

The score 12 to 3.

But right now the Vikings Maya Davis tied up 2 to 2.

And Davis this isn't her normal weight, so she's moving up from 124 to 131.

She's one of two national finalists for Grandview.

So this is big time for Grandview to come out here and get a win on the board.

This is important for the Vikings.

Mya.

Go.

Mya.

And the more they tie up, the more you can see some of those fireworks come into play.

[LAUGHTER] If they keep it in a phone booth, we could see something special happen here.

There it is.

There's attempt for a headlock.

And there she does.

Get the headlock.

Emilie Frost!

Oh.

She's in trouble.

It's tight.

For was offered, but two was confirmed.

Boy, there's a lot of fight there.

Once again.

Maya Davis bridging hard.

Emily Frost trying to settle in here.

She might get out of this.

She's fighting hard.

Wow.

She got a long way to go.

50s.

She's been on her back for a long time.

She is working her way out.

Whoa!

And looked like the ref thought it might be a fall.

And there it is.

There's the fall.

The headlock and.

Emilie.

Five points for a fall.

Doesn't matter how many points were scored in the match by any wrestler.

If you get a fall, you get five points for your team.

That's big time for Iowa Hawkeyes.

Go up 17 to 3 with that five points for the team.

The fall by Emily Frost and we'll move.

To.

On.

And when you're good with a head like like she is you can throw it from anywhere.

And we saw that in that match.

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You know, Jim, you're the director of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame.

Dan Gable Museum.

And that's in Waterloo.

And this is a big year.

Speaking of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame, America's shrine to the sport of wrestling in Stillwater and Waterloo, the National Wrestling Hall of Fame will be celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2026.

What a big that's.

We're so excited about that.

And both both museums working hard at it.

And man that's that's a when your last 50 years boom.

Since its founding in 1976, the Hall of Fame has preserved wrestling history, recognized extraordinary achievements and inspired greatness for generations.

To learn more, visit NWA.

Lilly Luft Charles City shout out to Charles City I spent six years there right out of college as a head coach.

Good people up there, Lily.

Going up against the Adrienna Turner.

Turner, Turner.

The senior out of Davis, California.

Davis High School.

And as you said, Jim Lily, a junior out of Charles City, her freshman year.

She got right in there as an All-American, then had some injury, injury, plague last year.

Injury, plague.

But after the injury, she went to the U23 World Team Trials and made the best of three finals.

So good job here.

By Luft to get a double out of bounds two points.

She's got a really good blast double.

I mean she just doesn't double in stops.

She doubles and drives you off the mat.

Oh nice shot there.

Good single by Turner.

Almost got a push out there.

But Lilly Luft comes back.

Goes to go behind.

[APPLAUSE] For Luft.

And Jim that's not good for Grandview.

If she's getting that go behind this early.

That's just exactly where Lilly Luft wants to be.

This is her match.

She's got it teed up.

She can roll here.

Yeah, she can.

Adrienna Keana Keana.

Hawks leading after five matches, 17 to 3.

We're at 138 pounds.

Number 12, ranked Adrienna Turner going up against Iowa's own Lilly Luft out of Charles City, Iowa.

Let's go.

She was fifth All-American two years ago.

Won 30 matches for freshman year.

As Kyle said after an injury plagued last year in college, she was a Pan Am silver medalist and was the finals of the U20 World Team Trials.

Pretty cool what she did that freshman year.

She had to step in for Danny Estrella, who we mentioned earlier with that prestigious award.

She was injured.

She stepped up and got fifth in the country.

So Lilly Luft did it right.

There's your there.

Another go behind.

And go behind.

Yep.

Just almost automatic.

If you don't get to the leg you get stopped.

and next thing you know Iowa's be hits a go behind for another takedown.

6 to 0 first period.

[LAUGHTER] You know we're talking about Coach Crinzi earlier in his seventh year at Grandview.

But he's had quite a run and always placing high.

But he finally he got to second place.

And he's looking to win that Naia championship so he can get on the board with the with the men's team that he wrestled for.

For a guy that wrestled for you that just retired Nick Mitchell.

He.

Sure did.

Legacy 13 national titles.

Nick Mitchell was a three time All-American at Wartburg and man, just what a great job he's done.

What made Nick unique?

Why was he able to have that success?

You know what?

I had a he had kind of the plan, the recipe and and took it with him to Grandview.

Started the program at Grandview.

Oh, nice job by Turner.

To come back there for Turner.

[APPLAUSE] Yeah.

And that's what you want.

You want to start out after being down 6 to 0, if you can score early, this really sets the tone for the rest of the period.

She can be in this match if she does more of that.

And if you notice, they get back to the feet quickly.

If you aren't trying to turn, if they see that you aren't going for that, they're going to bring you back to your feet pretty quickly.

Position.

You know, the rise of women's wrestling has just been remarkable.

I was talking to Mike Moyer, the executive director of the National Wrestling Coaches Association since 2000.

The WCA has helped start 451 men's and women's college teams, 218 of them have been women's programs.

Unbelievable.

218 of them women's programs.

And it's an exciting time in our sport, in the nation.

And it's still growing.

We're still getting more and more as we go.

And another Turner close to another takedown here.

But Lilly Luft oh, she looks like she does get it.

6 to 4.

At least six for.

A minute and a half left in the match.

And another difference.

If you notice you can lock hands in freestyle and folkstyle.

That's a no no.

But here you see it all the time.

And that's how you get gut wrenches.

That's how you get leg laces.

Here.

Looks here's the scramble here a little scramble for the takedown.

And Turner comes up on top.

Right here man.

Nice job.

You probably hear the Grandview fans they're getting into this.

They know if you get a takedown right now for Adrienna Turner she has A66 criteria lead.

You screamer.

Wow.

Arm drag to a low single.

Got Luft upside down.

Looking for a go to turn in to get to Luft.

Trying to hold on to the ankle.

And she does scores.

She takes the lead.

She got a great a great.

shot with her fans as she was coming around.

I think it gave her an extra shot of adrenaline.

To.

Lilly Luft trying to get a reversal.

She needs to score in some way because right now she's behind by criteria.

So look at what happened here.

Three takedowns in the first period for Luft, three in the second for Adrienna Turner Turner because she scored last, has the six six criteria lead.

Wrestler.

All you three.

Not sure what the delay is okay, here we go.

Turner winning this match.

Because it's on Luft to take the action right now.

Adrienna Turner has to stay in the middle, but she doesn't have to be offensive.

Nice shot by Luft.

There it is.

That's her go to.

13 seconds left.

But if Turner scores in these 13 seconds for a takedown, she'll win the match.

You see Luft glancing at the clock.

She knows what she's up against.

It's on Turner.

Another takedown by Luft to end it.

10 to 6.

Lilly Luft comes up late, down 6 to 6 and she comes back late.

One second left, scores twice, gets a 10 to 6.

There's one second.

Well no, that's the end okay a 10 to 6 win three points for the Hawkeyes.

Makes it 20 to 4.

Now.

That's a good scrap.

Schedule for the remaining college wrestling schedule.

Only on statewide Iowa PBS, Missouri Valley College and Grandview double header men and women, you're going to be excited about tuning in on this, especially especially after tonight.

Then first time ever to the best community colleges in the nation, Indian Hills versus Iowa Central.

And then a big Iowa state, South Dakota State match up in Kevin Dresser's hometown gym in Humboldt, and will end with Luther at Central.

Good schedule.

Just seeing that get you excited, why wouldn't you tune in to that?

That's unbelievable.

All right.

Now we're at 145 pounds.

Grandview Sofia Delgado out of Miami, Florida.

She's a sophomore going up against Cadence Diduch, a sophomore out of Freeport, Illinois.

In on a single.

Nice takedown there to start the match.

Two one.

Tredinnick looking for a leg lace here.

We still haven't seen a turn, have we, Kyle?

We haven't seen one.

Yeah.

Derek was a U-20 world team member and a Pan Am gold medalist last year.

Pretty cool I think.

Especially with Delgado, she's got started late and so she had a Jiu-Jitsu background.

It's a common path to get into wrestling.

She found that first, then got into wrestling and she's just taking it from there.

Came to Grandview from Florida and just like Nyla Valencia super smart.

You know, she's going places.

And it's a neat story how she's found the sport.

, kinesiology and health promotion and psychology major, double major.

And very impressive young women.

We're seeing Dziedzic wrestling behind Reece.

Larramendy Larramendy.

And so the impressive things that she's done being in the u-20s in the Pan Americans and still has to, you know, she's got her work cut out for her to just make the the starting team for the Hawkeyes.

Look, that's the thing is, Iowa has unprecedented depth.

So top to bottom, some of these are the presumably going to be the starters, some not.

Nice headlock attempt by Delgado.

Another score.

Two.

Extends her lead.

6600.

Good.

Girl.

First year in the lineup for Delgado.

She was the first person out so you can take 12 to the NCAA championships.

Ten of course for the NCAA championships.

And Coach Crinzi said that if they could take 13, Sofia Delgado would have been that person.

She's in the lineup now.

Nice change up by from Iowa for another takedown.

Now it's eight to nothing.

There's the first turn.

We've seen two points and that's going to end the match 10 to 0.

Technical superiority.

The ten point separation.

The technical superior four points for the Hawkeyes.

Another difference.

Makes it 24 to four, 24 to 4 Hawkeyes over Grandview.

You know what's so interesting here?

Obviously the Hawkeyes, I mean, number one ranked, they're so deep, really tough.

But what Grandview has done as far as the fight every time.

But right here.

Here's the leg.

Lace took it.

Over with a big win.

In the match.

Now, 160 Kami Senlycki from Princeton, Minnesota.

79 open.

She is.

receiving a forfeit at 169 Amalie Kennedy Blades.

The premier wrestler on the team, the Olympic silver medalist.

She's got a lot going on.

There's finals and projects right now, and she's going to be wrestling in the real American freestyle event coming up, and then the Hawkeyes at 180 will get a forfeit.

Katja Osteen out of Simi Valley, California.

Royal High School, a transfer from Simon Frazier is also receiving a forfeit.

So, ladies and gentlemen, we are going to our final bout now at 207 for the Vikings.

And Grandview Usha Andjela.

So now, after five points, Moore for Grandview, that's nine five more points for Iowa.

That's 29.

So the score is 29 to 9.

The Hawkeyes lead, and now we go to 207.

♪♪ Here.

You see.

Libby Dix Libby Dix out of Mount Vernon High School.

You shout out to Charles City.

All shout out to Mount Vernon.

And you know what's interesting about Libby is she was also a discus champion.

And she was going to go, you know, throw the discus at a high level.

And it reminds me of some people from Mount Vernon.

Paul Hufford happened to be, you know, a champion shot put football and wrestling when I was there.

How about Tristan Wirth.

He could throw the the weights as well as play a little football.

Now he's still playing.

A little and a state champion.

So this is Libby Dix is carrying on the legacy for the Mount Vernon Mustangs.

A freshman, a two time state champion and A3A discus state champion.

And guess what?

Also an all conference softball player in the Walmart, Walmart conference.

That is awesome.

And her dad, Justin, wrestled for Cornell College and is the the lead loan guy at the Mount Vernon Bank that Dave, Brian, my good friend Dave Ryan is the president of.

And so we've got good Mount Vernon Representative Scherer tonight.

And Angela Prijovic is is.

From Belgrade.

Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia, and hits a nice single trying to turn the corner.

Dix got a shin whizzer there.

Oh.

Oh, wow.

This is this is a scrap here.

Nice job of getting the weight.

Oh, wow.

There's a kind of go behind and gets a first score.

Two to nothing, right to an armbar.

She's been here before.

I tell you.

Wants to break her down to her stomach right here with that armbar and running around.

And there she goes.

She goes.

Looking for the fall.

She's tough here.

She's.

Prijovic really doing a good job fighting that off.

She did a good job of getting back to.

The neutral position.

All right let's go Angela.

Good.

Look there at Gary Mayabb.

Clarissa Chun Tonya Verbeek three time Olympic medalist, three time world medalist.

It's a heck of a staff right there.

I tell you what USA wrestling wanted Tonya Verbeek so bad.

And for years they couldn't get her.

And then Clarissa Chun had the the lucky charm.

She got her down to Iowa.

So she's the envy of Canada and the United States.

Clarissa, in her fourth year, first year they spent time building up the program and recruiting and third year competition.

First year that women's wrestling is a sanctioned NCAA sport.

As I mentioned earlier, the 91st sport to be sanctioned in the history of the NCAA, the NCAA Championships will be held at Extreme Arena in Coralville in March.

Correct?

Yeah, first week in March.

And that's exciting that you have that.

And to be able to say you're an NCAA champion, I just think that holds a lot.

It really makes progress look tangible and they've earned it.

It's been a long road and there's just so many groups that are behind that.

And congratulations to those groups for the work they did, because it was tireless.

Naia championships a week later, March 1314, Wichita, Kansas.

Both the men and women Nya's are in Wichita.

Yes, that's correct.

Here we are, the last match of the night.

♪♪ I know you're looking to.

See what Grandview has come to wrestle.

They came to wrestle tonight, scored first and a lot of matches.

Kind of outmatched in a few weights.

But I was impressed with how they come out tonight.

Iowa, man, a lot of depth, like Kyle said.

And you make the weight class there and they only get ten, right?

I mean ten to the National.

Ten to the nationals.

So it's one per weight right now.

So they really have some dilemmas.

They have some things they have to go through, especially at 103, 110.

It's going to be tough to decide who they're going to pick.

131 another one of those weight classes too.

It's just a little bit up in the air right now.

Two on one by Prijovic.

And nice single shot like she did before, but has trouble finishing Libby Dix really squared up, heavy, heavy on her and just man, it's just hard to score when you have that good base.

Libby Dix doing a good job.

Only two to nothing though.

That's anybody's match here.

So Prijovic can get a score.

She'll she'll lead by criteria.

Angela.

Normal starter for Iowa.

Jaycee Foeller four time national finalist.

She has a fifth opportunity to win an NCAA championship.

She's placed second four times in a row.

She's going to try to get it done this season.

Oh, nice foot sweep to.

a front headlock.

Prijovic trying to go behind.

Get her own takedown.

She's close enough.

She can drop down to that ankle instead of being on the calf and pull that in.

Libby Dix so far.

Holding her off.

Oh wow.

Gets stopped.

Oh that was a big opportunity.

Prijovic.

And election night we had that dissenter.

That would have put her in the lead if she could have scored.

There.

And she had a nice foot sweep from a two on one.

But what an opportunity here though for Prijovic to end on a high note for Grandview.

So I think that should be top of mind for her that she can get a win.

And that's something to build on for the program.

Definitely.

You got it.

One minute left in this match and in this meet.

Libby Dix out front two zero for the Hawkeyes.

Hawkeyes lead 29 to 9.

Two on one by Prijovic, but Dix.

Trying to get wrist control here.

Slow her down.

Takes a shot.

Prijovic going around.

Sideways.

Oh my goodness.

She takes the lead.

Interesting the shot.

She didn't need to take that shot.

Really didn't.

Yeah, she didn't need to take that shot.

And she gave the opportunity to to do the runaround.

Now Prijovic ahead with 20s left in the match.

Boy.

Jim, in this situation 20s to go.

You really have to step up at this point.

You can see she's probably a little exhausted.

She's just got to go.

Grandview team real excited.

10 seconds left.

You can take a step out for a caution and one.

Look.

She's going to give up a step out.

She gave up the step out.

She stepped out, and it was almost the other way around.

It was.

That was so close.

That was like tippy toes.

It could have gone either way.

And the winner?

Great sportsmanship.

Great battle.

Libby Dix gets the win.

Three more points for the Hawks 32 and a point.

And so that's 1032 to 10 32 to 10.

The Hawks beat Grandview and just a great battle all the way around.

No I thought Grandview really brought some energy.

They scored first.

And most of the matches.

They really, I thought, showed out pretty well for themselves.

Lost a couple matches late Lilly Luft match and the and the last match at 207.

But I enjoyed it.

It's good meat.

I think the fans enjoyed it.

We're going to have an opportunity to talk to the winning coach.

Clarissa coming up.

Okay, here we go.

Here it is shot.

And here's where Roque comes to go behind and gets a lead.

20s left.

Libby Dix gets a push out to win the match.

Here you got the coaching staff pretty happy.

Clarissa coming over.

♪♪ Roque.

Coach, you got me.

I got.

You.

So exciting.

And I know you were here earlier to view a bit of the high school meet and the environment.

What a tremendous environment.

Absolutely.

It's so nice to be in Iowa.

And you know, I know we're close to where Grandview is.

And so it's nice to hear the crowd from their their crew and then have see a lot of Hawkeye fans in the crowd too.

So but even better, like getting to come to Northwest High School and get to check out the high school girls prior to our our dual.

Is there the future?

So it's really exciting.

It's truly the essence of what we break down every day.

As for her.

Iowa 32.

Clarissa Grandview fought hard.

How do you prepare for that fight?

We do appreciate you.

You know.

We.

Evening, everyone.

Please, if you could help us out by.

We always tell our women to just be.

Be who they are and just.

Just go out there and be.

Be their best and just come out fighting, you know, just wrestle hard every single minute of the match.

And we knew Grandview was going to come up with a scrap.

And it was fun.

Made it a good, made it a good meet.

And it was cold, probably coming over.

Clarissa, Iowa.

You love Iowa, though.

You love it inside with the wrestling's on.

Yes.

Yeah, it was a great trip over, you know, nothing stops anything from happening with wrestling in the winter in Iowa.

You know, that's what was so great.

I feel like if it wasn't snowing, it'd be more packed maybe, you know, and the great thing is, is on Iowa PBS so people can come check it out.

That's right.

That's a that's a drop mic drop right there.

Thanks so much, coach.

Congratulations.

Thank you.

Yeah.

Congratulations I love that.

Our next wrestling dual in 2026.

That doubleheader men's and women's double header Missouri Valley College Vikings going up against the Grand View Vikings Thursday.

And for Tim Johnson along with Jim Miller and Kyle Klingman and the entire PBS production team.

So long from West Des Moines northwest Waukee High School.

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