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Iowa State wins three medal matches at NCAA Championships

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March 21st, 2022 by admin

DETROIT – All three Iowa State wrestling All-Americans won their medal matches Saturday, as the Cyclones closed out the NCAA Championships at Little Caesars Arena.

David Carr (157) finished third, Marcus Coleman (184) finished seventh and Yonger Bastida (197) finished fifth, as Iowa State crowned its most NCAA All-Americans under head coach Kevin Dresser.

In the consolation semifinals, Carr beat No. 8 Will Lewan of Michigan 6-3. Carr led 2-1 after the first period with a takedown and escaped in the second to take a 3-1 lead. After Lewan escaped to start the third, Carr sealed the match with a takedown with :16 left. In the third-place match, Carr beat Nebraska’s No. 10 Peyton Robb 7-2 for the second time this season. Carr notched a takedown with :22 left in the first period to lead 2-0, while Robb’s escape to start the second was the only points of the period. Carr started the third on bottom, as he reversed Robb and put him on his back to seal his sixth-straight victory in the consolation round.

Coleman beat No. 11 Jonathan Loew of Cornell 8-3 in the seventh-place match. Coleman led 2-1 after the first period and extended the lead to 4-2 after two periods with a takedown with :47 left in the second period. Coleman started the third on bottom and escaped with 1:47 to go. He added a takedown with :51 left that locked up the victory.

For the third time this season, Bastida met No. 2 Stephen Buchanan of Wyoming in the consolation semifinals. Buchanan used a late takedown in the first period to take a 3-2 lead and held on for the 4-3 victory. In the fifth-place match, Bastida used a takedown with 1:26 left against No. 21 Gavin Hoffman of Ohio State to put Hoffman on his back. Bastida recorded the fall in 2:29 for his first career fall against an NCAA Division I opponent.