The ISU wrestling team had to roll up the mats in the Lied Recreation Athletic Center after hosting the Harold Nichols Cyclone Open on Sunday.

The Cyclones cleaned up on the mat as well, advancing nine wrestlers to the finals and winning seven titles.

Nick Fanthorpe (133), Mitch Mueller (149), Cyler Sanderson (157), Jon Reader (165), Jake Varner (184), David Bertolino (197) and David Zabriskie (HWT) were undefeated on the day.

The tournament field consisted mostly of Div. II, Div. III and junior college teams from around the area, but will help the Cyclones’ early-season development, said coach Cael Sanderson.

“We’re trying to prepare for the ones that matter the most to us, and those are in March,” Sanderson said. “And we’re out here, we’re trying to see what we’re trying to work on, what we need to add to, and that’s what we did.”

Each potential starter wrestled at least three matches. The team takes video of each match, which Sanderson said enables the staff to see weaknesses and make corrections.

Fanthorpe was able to wrestle a top competitor in his weight class, Northern Illinois’ 11th-ranked Pat Castillo, for the second time in three days. The seventh-ranked sophomore Fanthorpe beat the Huskie senior with five points in the third period last Thursday, and again scored a third-period takedown to win the 133-pound tournament title, 3-2.

The other winning Cyclones beat top opponents from lesser divisions.

Bertolino shut out Wartburg’s defending national Div. III champion T.J. Miller, 5-0, in the finals.

Cyler Sanderson topped Wartburg’s No. 2-ranked Aaron Wernimont, 8-5, and Reader beat three-time Nebraska state champion Aaron Denson, 5-1, in the finals.

Zabriskie scored a last-second takedown to beat Wartburg’s Brian Borchers, 3-1. Mueller and Varner each swept through their brackets to win their second Cyclone Open titles.

Mark Kist (125) and Nick Gallick (141) advanced to the finals but lost. Kist lost to Iowa Central’s Terrance Young, a junior college All-American, in overtime, giving up a takedown early in the extra period in a 3-1 loss.

Young beat all three of Iowa State’s 125-pounders – Kist, Tyler Clark (3-2) and Ben Hanisch (3-2). Clark, a true freshman, went on to place third. Hanisch placed sixth.

Gallick beat Northern Illinois’ Pat McLemore last Thursday, 7-3, but lost his first match of the season to the freshman Huskie on Saturday. McLemore started on top, securing a cradle and then the pin 27 seconds into the second period.

No team scores were kept in the tournament. The Cyclones will travel to the upper northeast this week, wrestling Rider in Lawrenceville, N.J., on Thursday and in the Binghamton Duals in New York on Sunday.