Minnesota at Iowa | Select Matches | Big Ten Wrestling | Jan. 15, 2024

During the season, we will be posting meet highlights and select matches on this channel. Watch the full meet and more Big Ten wrestling all season long with B1G+ - bigtenplus.com.
0:00 - 125 LBs - Iowa’s Drake Ayala vs. Minnesota’s Patrick McKee
10:00 - 141 LBs - Iowa’s Real Woods vs. Minnesota’s Vance Vombaur
18:24 - 157 LBs - Iowa’s Jared Frank vs. Minnesota’s Michael Blockhus
26:57 - HWT - Iowa’s Ben Kueter vs. Minnesota’s Bennet Tabor
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During the season, we will be posting meet highlights and select matches on this channel. Watch the full meet and more Big Ten wrestling all season long with B1G+ - bigtenplus.com. 0:00 - 125 LBs - Iowa’s Drake Ayala vs. Minnesota’s Patrick McKee 10:00 - 141 LBs - Iowa’s Real Woods vs. Minnesota’s Vance Vombaur 18:24 - 157 LBs - Iowa’s Jared Frank vs. Minnesota’s Michael Blockhus 26:57 - HWT - Iowa’s Ben Kueter vs. Minnesota’s Bennet Tabor

[@alonsocota1451]

i was so stoked the entire time Ben wrestled. Can’t wait to see more from him and Gabe Arnold soon

[@duby5465]

My hands were sweating watching that match! I think he will win that re-match by 5-6 next time, maybe in the Big 10s...

[@waltdigi3570]

Proof that wrestling conditioning is totally different than football.

[@freedomrings4134]

Can't wait to see how jacked Kueter will be on that Iowa Juice

[@albertalexander2347]

Welcome back to wrestling Kueter lol.. ⛽ 💯 by the end of season..

[@richiecabinian1336]

Good win. Don't know why drake waited so long to go to the single to mcgees lead leg. Miss spencer at this weight. What a hammer!!

[@michaelbradley7621]

Woods isnt looking as dominant as last year. I wonder if hes fallen to the iowa injury curse.

[@salvajeasp757]

Ben is going to have to get in WAY better shape. And also going to have to gain weight. Still looks skinny for heavyweight

[@TheNotoriousGooch]

Loved watching Ben at fargo, I expect hell do huge things in college

[@zekegaeta9169]

Ben Kueter did really well but you can see on his face that he knows he has to rebuild his gas tank. If he had better conditioning he probably would have smoked his opponent. Either way he had a very good showing and was fun to watch

[@steventhury8366]

I think Keuter learn that this ain't high school.

[@Tkenny35]

Ben Kueter is going to be a champ soon. Dude is one of those rare HWs that move like a lightweight. You can tell he needs to work on his conditioning and can see with his head shake that it wasnt a good performance but man he isnt your typical HW and gonna make some noise

[@louisschwarz3943]

Idk about that. He will be good but unless he commits to wrestling full time i doubt he will be a champ at this level. More athelitic heavy weightnow days than there are big guys.

[@mojoe8181]

he needs to put on at least 30 lbs. guys like kerk will ragdoll him.

[@anthonymorton9299]

Barely handled the 29th ranked guy… at least right now he would get destroyed by a top 10

[@cincydooley]

Lol. Hardly.

[@treverappell1679]

He’s a small heavy weight, Brock Lesnar was way bigger and just more physical i think Ben has potential but not at heavy weight

[@littlenel17]

Congratulations to Levi Haines in winning the NCAA Championship at 157

[@AndrewSmith-ff9hz]

I’m calling it now: Drake Ayala is going to win the national tournament.

[@loganmiller2290]

Almost

[@eternalelitist1936]

6 gopher wrestlers with a 4.0 GPA…suspicious

[@matjul2008]

Agreed, it’s like they studied or something

[@fitness4234]

Franek vs Brockhus was a great match

[@aiconehadishi3038]

Was really excited to see Kueter but he gassed hard early. Any of the top HWTs, especially those with size, would ragdoll him right now.

[@yeetfeet2633]

He’ll get his gas tank to where it needs to be for NCAA’s. I’ll have to see him more this season, but I think he all Americans this year, I definitely don’t see him beating Kerkvliet though

[@aiconehadishi3038]

@@yeetfeet2633 my bet is they redshirt him this year. Next year he'll have the football to wrestling transition figured out better and put on another 25 lbs.

[@60921spady]

there needs to be a 235 weight class in ncaa

[@yoda5389]

Very true. He definitely won’t place at the ncaa tournament with this stamina and skill level

[@xzjayz7925]

@@aiconehadishi3038that’d be the smartest thing to do. And would be playing the long game to challenge penn state, something Iowa doesn’t really do.

[@tropicalterrarium1742]

Kueter essentially off the couch looking solid vs a very game gopher.

[@cashrules520]

Wait Mckee is still wrestling? Sheesh he's been around as long as Fix

[@spencerness6579]

What does Bennet Taylor weigh in at?

[@2016JC]

I haven’t been paying attention to wrestling lately. When did takedowns become 3 points?

[@letsssgooo4618]

Did Kueter not enroll at Iowa last January? Did he come in a semester early for football? Maybe he didn’t just curious.

[@sgriffin8739]

Come on Kueter!

[@Cassirole13]

Wrestling on mat officiating is so good

[@letsssgooo4618]

Why aren’t they wrestling Arnold. Tom’s always going on how they wrestle their best lineup. That’s obviously not the case if Gabe isn’t in the lineup.

[@gregtatavosian]

Wrestling > Football

[@michaelsnyder6922]

Better build that gas tank or Kueter is going to get embarrassed by the higher ranked guys.

[@KevinStetka]

Bellator doesn't and legally cannot use an "octagon". The octagon is only used by the UFC and trademarked by them. (24:16)

[@user-bp7vi6de2l]

Been looked average. He will be better with more cardio & strength & size. Please red shirt him.

[@onlyonehoudini5302]

McKee is hurting

[@terrie001]

Not really. He is so happy he doesn’t have to face Lee again this year. Woulda ended way worse.

[@onlyonehoudini5302]

@@terrie001 bro could barely react

[@aiconehadishi3038]

@@onlyonehoudini5302 You can see when he visibly switches off

[@ibraoul]

McKee isn't hurt, He just lost his drive. No intensity. A two time All American and he's ranked 20th. He gets worse every year. He needs a check up from the neck up. Coach Eggum needs to build a fire inside his wrestlers

[@onlyonehoudini5302]

@@ibraoul he is hurt

[@ciriloreyes3184]

Real w9ods will not win a championship wrestling like that, he comes out hot every match scores and then um he's done, doing enough just to win will eventually cost u, and franek now 2, maybe at another college this is acceptable but at iowa now really? When is it OK to be up 2 points and then u stop.taking shots

[@kyledan4555]

Anyone here from earn your gold medals story post

[@terrie001]

Spencer Lee woulda finished McKee with a pin after 1 period. Ayala has a tough time barely beating him. Oh dear.

[@suspiciousneighbor4799]

Not everyone can be Spencer pee

[@yeetfeet2633]

Spencer Lee majored McKee last year so it’s not as much of a gap as you think, also stop comparing the two, Ayala is not Spencer and Spencer is not Ayala

[@camdenwhite9739]

2 different wrestlers 2 difference skill sets, give the guy time to develop

[@slimmachado5405]

Spencer is literal a once in a generation type of wrestler. Kinda unfair to compare them.

[@billymullan]

Why not just zoom in on the wrestling and not always have the ref in the picture.

[@JonIronhorse]

We need 215 or 220 FFS. And get rid of the 3pt takedown. You're watering down the sport.

[@fjbxrplover]

Definitely need 215 or 20.

[@mcphlyyy1919]

takedown should be worth more than reversal.