The Iowa State wrestling team entered Friday night’s showdown with No. 2 Iowa as the top-ranked team in the nation, but the Hawkeyes showed why they have dominated the intra-state rivalry during the last two decades.

The Hawkeyes handed the Cyclones a 24-12 defeat Friday in Hilton Coliseum to win their 25th straight dual between the two teams.

The Hawkeyes got off to a good start by winning the first two matches of the meet and won the last three to close strong.

“We didn’t wrestle that bad of a match. Iowa just wrestled much better than we did. It wasn’t as bad as it might appear in the score,” said Cyclone coach Bobby Douglas.

The Hawkeyes used an attacking style to rack up a 27-9 takedown advantage and win seven of the 10 matches.

“Iowa controlled the center of the mat and the tie-ups and scored on the edge of the mat. They were aggressive, and their conditioning was a factor,” Douglas said.

The Hawkeyes got major decisions from defending national champs T.J. Williams at 157 and Doug Schwab at 141 and a technical fall from Gabe McMahan at 174.

The Hawkeyes also won the close matches as four of their victories came by three points or less.

The biggest Hawkeye victories came at 133 and 197. No. 2 Eric Juergens beat top-ranked Cody Sanderson 3-1 on a takedown with 20 seconds left in the 133-pound match while 20th ranked Lee Weber upset No. 3 Zach Thompson 2-1 at 197.

The three Cyclones victories came in impressive fashion. Joe Heskett, a 157-pounder, and heavyweight Trent Hynek won decisions and Cael Sanderson won by disqualification at 184.

Heskett won a decision against Matt Anderson 11-4 and Hynek whipped rival Wes Hand 8-1.

Sanderson won when opponent Paul Jenn was disqualified for stalling.

Sanderson came out fired up and built a 9-1 lead in the first period, and the official stopped the match in the second period after Jenn received his fifth stalling penalty.

“I thought Cael Sanderson did an outstanding job. Joe Heskett is coming back off an injury and not wrestling up to par yet, but he looked pretty good tonight,” Douglas said. “It wasn’t that anybody did a bad job, there was just some things we didn’t get accomplished.”

The meet was wrestled in front of 12,327 vocal fans.

The attendance was highest for a Cyclone wrestling meet since 1983 when 13,805 saw the Hawkeyes beat the Cyclones 21-15.

“It was a great crowd. Twelve thousand people came out and saw Iowa State wrestle,” Douglas said. “They could see that we were fighting and doing some good things, but Iowa is still ahead of us.”

The Cyclones are back in action tonight hosting Ohio State at 7 p.m.