STILLWATER, Okla. — Six Cyclones will be heading to Des Moines for the NCAAs after each securing automatic qualifying bids at the Big 12 Championships at Gallagher-Iba Arena on Saturday.

Luke Goettl was the first to secure an automatic bid with his 9-2 victory against Oklahoma State’s Julian Feikert at 141 pounds to advance to the championship match. It was there that he lost to Oklahoma’s Kendric Maple, the nation’s top-ranked wrestler, in a 13-3 major decision.

Many questioned whether the 141-pound weight class would lose an AQ bid since West Virginia’s Nathan Pennesi — who earned the weight class its bid with his regular-season success — could not wrestle because of his broken hand.

However, since Pennesi took to the mat and received an injury default in both of his matches, the second bid for the weight class remained intact.

Max Mayfield pulled off the first upset of the night, defeating No. 2-seeded Nick Lester of Oklahoma 4-2 to secure the second bid to the NCAAs at 149 pounds. Despite getting ridden out the entire third period, Mayfield managed to keep Lester’s riding time to less than one minute to hold on to win.

Mayfield, a former walk-on, missed almost all of last season due to concussions.

At 165 pounds, Michael Moreno fell to Oklahoma’s Bubby Graham before beating West Virginia’s Ross Renzi to finish third. Against Graham, Moreno aggressively fired off attacks but was unable to secure a takedown at multiple points throughout the match.

Moreno redeemed himself with a 4-1 victory against Renzi to secure the Big 12’s third-and-final NCAA bid at 165 pounds.

Tanner Weatherman needed a late takedown of West Virginia’s Bubba Scheffel to punch his ticket to NCAAs at 174 pounds. It was there that Weatherman lost to Oklahoma State’s Chris Perry 8-0 to finish second.

In the 184-pound semifinals, Boaz Beard made quick work of West Virginia’s Lance Bryson, pinning him in 3:56 to earn his second trip to NCAAs. Beard, the No. 1 seed, went on to get upset by Oklahoma State’s Chris Chionuma 5-3 to settle for second place and continue Iowa State’s losing ways in the title bouts.

No. 1 seed Kyven Gadson continued his dominance en route to the 197-pound title, defeating Oklahoma’s Brad Johnson by 14-4 major decision.

Gadson went on to beat Oklahoma State’s Blake Rosholt for the third time this season to earn the 197-pound crown. In that match, however, Rosholt verbally protested the result, claiming that Gadson stalled in the final minute of the match with a 5-3 lead.

An altercation took place at the end of the match, but no penalties or point deductions were given.

Ryak Finch could have been one of the qualifiers, but was unable to secure a bid to instead settle for second place at 125 pounds. The NCAA allotted just one NCAA bid to the 125-pound weight class for the Big 12 Conference.

Finch advanced to the finals with a victory against West Virginia’s Shane Young, but fell to Ed Kilmara for the third time in his career to finish in second.

Matt Gibson ran into the same dilemma, being denied a bid after getting pinned in 0:58 by Oklahoma State’s Alan Gelogaev. Gibson is now 0-5 all time against Gelogaev, the nation’s No. 2 wrestler.

Overall, Iowa State was 1-6 in championship matches on the night.

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