ST. LOUIS — The ISU wrestling team started hot, but faded in the end at the NCAA wrestling championships this weekend.

The Cyclones were in third after one day, sixth after two and 10th when the final whistle blew.

Senior Scott Coleman, junior Nate Gallick and sophomore Trent Paulson each earned All-American honors.

Gallick earned a runner-up finish at 141 pounds. He fell to Oklahoma’s Teyon Ware 3-2 in the finals.

“I wanted to go out there and score,” Gallick said. “I didn’t want [another] match taken into double overtime. It just didn’t go as planned — stuff happens.”

The loss was Gallick’s first of the year. He had beaten Ware twice this year and was 4-0 all-time against him.

Trent finished fourth after losing to Ohio’s Jake Percival in the third-place match.

Tied 2-2, Percival pinned Trent at the 6:23 mark of the third period.

Trent beat defending national champion Matt Gentry 8-6 before falling 10-7 to the 2003 and eventual 2005 champion Ryan Bertin of Michigan.

Trent defeated Indiana’s Brandon Becker 8-7 with a last-second takedown to get him into the third-place match.

Becker protested the ruling at the end of the match but the NCAA denied his appeal.

Coleman finished his career with a seventh-place finish — one up from last year’s eighth place.

“In this tournament, you have to just keep wrestling,” Coleman said. “I feel the best I’ve ever felt.”

Coleman defeated Central Michigan’s Bill Stouffer for the second time in the tournament to take seventh.

Coleman’s two losses in the tournament were a 2-1 decision against runner-up Cole Konrad of Minnesota and a 3-2 sudden victory loss against Pennsylvania’s Matt Feast.

The surprise for the Cyclones was Jesse Sundell’s improbable brigade through the consolation bracket.

After losing his first match to fourth-place finisher Mack Reiter of Minnesota, Sundell pinned Tennessee-Chattanooga’s Josh Keefe and scored a 9-6 decision over ninth-seeded Jason Borrelli of Central Michigan.

Sophomore Travis Paulson fell just short of repeating as an All-American. One match shy of All-American status, Travis lost 2-1 to Minnesota’s Matt Nagel — a wrestler he defeated earlier this season.

The Cyclones return seven wrestlers to the lineup for the 2005-06 season, including six NCAA qualifiers.

Iowa State went 16-2 during its dual-meet schedule.

Their two losses were to eventual national champion Oklahoma State and Nebraska.