UNI wrestling picks up Friday dual against Air Force

RV UNI wrestling (1-5 / 0-2 Big 12) vs. Air Force

8:30 p.m. CT Jan. 14
Clune Arena (2,743) | Colorado Springs, Colorado
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CEDAR FALLS, Iowa – UNI will face its third Big 12 opponent of the year with Air Force after a scheduled dual with Northern Colorado got postponed.

UNI (1-5 / 0-2 Big 12) slipped out of the rankings this week but continues to receive votes for the NWCA top 25 as it faces just its third opponent not ranked in the top-15.

UNI is 7-2 against Air Force in a series that dates back to 2002. UNI won the last dual 28-12 in the teams' last meeting in 2020 at Air Force.

The Falcons (2-2 / 0-2 Big 12) had a dual postponed due to COVID-19 protocols. Air Force had planned to host Utah Valley the next day, Jan. 15.

Air Force has earned two Big 12 Wrestler of the Week honors back-to-back. Sidney Flores was named last week for winning the David H. Lehman F&M Open at 133 pounds. No. 6 Wyatt Hendrickson took the honor the week before for pinning three opponents and earning five bonus point wins en route to a Southern Scuffle title at heavyweight.

It will be the first matchups for all wrestlers at all weights. Air Force is scheduled to return to the West Gym 7 p.m. Feb. 4.

UNI VS. NORTHERN COLORADO

125 | No. 10 Brody Teske (6-2 / 3-1) or Kyle Gollhofer (1-5 / 0-1) Jared Van Vleet (7-4, 1-0)

Teske has two top-25 wins this year. His only two losses have been to Corey Cabanban of Iowa State and No. 5 Vitali Arujau of Cornell. Teske is one of six Panthers who qualified for last year's NCAA national championships.
Gollhofer, a redshirt freshman, entered the dual lineup for the first time in his career last weekend against South Dakota State.
Van Fleet made his first trip to the NCAAs last year as an at-large qualifier.

133 | No. 31 Kyle Biscoglia (11-6) vs. Sidney Flores (9-5, 0-1)

Biscoglia is on a bonus-point streak. Nine of his 11 wins have been earned with bonus points. He has four falls already this year, putting his career total at 14. He has won his last three matches, notching two major decisions and his season-fastest career fall.
Flores is back after sitting out a year for injury. In 2020 he went 16-7 overall as a sophomore wrestling at 125 pounds.

141 | No. 25 Cael Happel (12-5) vs. Cody Phippen (12-7, 1-2)

Happel knocked off No. 12 Allan Hart of Missouri in his opening dual. He bumped up in the rankings from No. 31 last week.
Phippen was the primary started last year at 125 pounds. He was seventh at the Big 12 Championships.

149 | Colin Realbuto (9-5) vs. Dylan Martinez (9-6, 1-2)

Realbuto competed for Italy at the Senior World Championships in Oslo, Norway. He went 2-0 last weekend in extra bouts, earning wins at 149 pounds against Jaron Jensen of Wyoming and 157 pounds against Kenny O'Neil of South Dakota State.
Martinez returns as the primary starter at 149 pounds. His 16 points in dual wins last season was the third most on the team. He posted a 9-4 record that included an eight-match win streak.

157 | Kaleb Olejniczak (5-8) vs. Giano Petrucelli (8-7, 1-2)

This will be Olejniczak's first dual appearance. He went 3-1 in extra matches last year with a win at 157 pounds in addition to two more at 149 pounds.
Petrucelli went 3-2 last year in extra matches as a freshman.

165 | No. 20 Austin Yant (8-2) vs. Trey Brisker (7-5, 1-0)

Yant is a 2021 NCAA qualifier. He took fifth at last year's Big 12 Championships and has placed at two open tournaments this season. He is coming off two dual wins, knocking off No. 26 Creighton Edsell of Penn State and Ricky Stamm of Hofstra. Yant sat out the last dual against South Dakota State.
Brisker is an Iowa native out of Wilton. He went 3-7 in extra matches last year at 157 pounds and was the primary starter at 157 pounds two years ago as a sophomore.

174 | Pat Schoenfelder (10-7) or Dajun Johnson (3-11) vs. Sam Wolf (9-4, 0-1)

Schoenfelder moved up from 165 pounds and already has a top-10 win with an 11-9 decision over No. 9 Peyton Mocco of Missouri. After taking second at the UNI Open, Schoenfelder dropped two duals to top-15 wrestlers but picked up a win over Ross McFarland of Hofstra. He is coming off a loss to No. 11 Cade DeVos of South Dakota State. Schoenfelder has faced five opponents in the top 15.
Johnson has jumped in the dual lineup at 184 pounds three times this year, facing two top-10 wrestlers. After not competing last year, the freshman has gone 3-11 this season and took fourth at the Harold Nichols Cyclone Open.
Wolf went 7-5 last season at 184 pounds as a freshman. He was 1-2 in Big 12 duals.

184 | No. 4 Parker Keckeisen (12-1) vs. Jake Thompson (10-5, 1-2)

Keckeisen was third at last year's NCAA championships. He is the highest-placing freshman UNI has had since 1952. He was the first redshirt freshman to place at nationals for the Panthers since 2017. He has notched bonus points in seven of his 12 matches this season. Keckeisen's only career losses are to top-ranked Aaron Brooks of Penn State. He's on a two-match win streak.
Out for much of last year, Thompson stepped in to compete at the Big 12 Championships at 184 pounds. He went 3-2 on the weekend. He started the two previous years as a freshman and sophomore at 184 pounds.

197 | Noah Glaser (6-9) vs. Kayne Hutchison (6-8, 0-2)

Over his UNI career, Glaser has appeared in the Panther lineup at 174 pounds, 184 pounds and now at 197 pounds. He won the Harold Nichols Cyclone Open earlier this year. Glaser sat out the last dual against South Dakota State.
Huthison went 5-7 last season, earning bonus points in all five wins. His fastest fall of the season was in 1 minute, 51 seconds over No. 15 Jacob Seely of Northern Colorado.

285 | Tyrell Gordon (9-8) vs. No. 6 Wyatt Hendrickson (11-0, 1-0)

Gordon moved up from 197 pounds to wrestle in the heavyweight division this season. He competed as a true freshman for UNI before redshirting in 2020. He had his first top-20 win with a 4-2 decision over Hofstra's Zachary Knighton-Ward. He dropped a Big 12 dual to South Dakota State, but came back to win a match against Wyoming's Terren Swartz in a tiebreaker, 2-1.
Hendrickson was one of just three freshmen heavyweights to be named to Amateur Wrestling News' All-Rookie Team last season. He went 16-5 overall and 5-2 in duals. The undefeated wrestler has pinned his last six opponents. All of his matches have included bonus points. He has nine falls so far on the season and the final two matches were won by a tech fall and major decision. His wins include an 11-2 major decision over No. 21 Brandon Metz of North Dakota State, a 19-1 tech fall in four minutes over No. 26 Zach Schrader of Maryland and a fall in 2:28 over No. 28 Quinn Miller of Virginia.

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