Iowa State has not beaten the Iowa wrestling team since the 2004-05 season and Sunday’s 35-6 loss at the hands of the Hawkeyes continues that losing streak. 

The meet against Iowa is the second dual in a row where the Cyclones have lost by double digit points with the last loss being 31-7 at Northern Iowa.

During the meet, Iowa’s ranked wrestlers held their ground against any chance of an upset against the Cyclones and Iowa capitalized against Iowa State wrestlers who were favored in their matches.

“It’s what you do as a competitor, when it’s your turn to wrestle you go out and do the best you can and you come out with intensity,” said Iowa’s head coach Tom Brands.

Markus Simmons seemed to have one of the more winnable matches of the day after coming off of last weekend where he racked up a pin against Fresno State and technical fall against Northern Iowa.

Against Iowa’s Paul Glynn, Simmons jumped out to a 6-0 lead in the first period in which he earned a takedown and four near-fall points. That takedown was Iowa State’s only one of the entire dual.

In the second period, Glynn deferred and Simmons began the period on the bottom and he earned a takedown to lead 7-0. Then, Glynn earned a takedown and caught Simmons on his back and earned four near-fall points to cut Simmons’ lead to 7-6.

Glynn was nearly able to pin Simmons, but Simmons’ freakish flexibility and bridging ability fought off the pin for nearly 50 seconds.

To begin the third, Glynn chose the neutral position and took down Simmons to jump ahead 8-7. Neither wrestler scored the rest of the period and Glynn secured the victory for the Hawkeyes.

Iowa State Coach Kevin Dresser attributed the loss to Simmons getting tired during the match and a need to change his mentality if he wants to win those types of matches.

“Everybody gets tired, the great ones get tired and they step it up,” Dresser said, “He has to decide if he wants to be a great one or if he just wants to be a guy that wears a singlet and gets a starting spot.”

At 141-pounds, No. 18 Ian Parker was upset by the Hawkeyes’ Vince Turk.

After being named Big 12 Wrestler of the Week two weeks ago, Parker has not wrestled a match since Jan. 28 with a knee injury.

In the first 30 seconds of the match, Turk secured a takedown on Parker and Parker fell backward onto his back. Turk made the most of the opportunity and earned four near-fall points.

Parker was able to get back to his base and escaped 23 seconds after the takedown occurred, but Turk then attained another takedown which Parker escaped from again ending the score at 6-2 after the first period.

Parker began the second period on bottom and was able to escape from Turk. After some hand fighting, Turk was able to secure a tight grip on Parker’s right arm and was able to use it to obtain solid positioning for a takedown.

Turk began the third period leading 8-3 and chose the down position and quickly secured a reversal on Parker which Parker escaped from. Turk ended up with another takedown and in the last 10 seconds Parker escaped, but Turk had a point added for riding time.

After beating a two-time national champion and former Big 12 Wrestler of the Year in Oklahoma State’s Dean Heil, Parker lost to unranked Turk from the Hawkeye’s, who now owns a 9-6 record.

The Cyclones’ only points on the day came from a forfeit at 197-pounds for the Hawkeyes.

Iowa had weighed in Steven Holloway to fill in for No. 8 Cash Wilcke, who has the flu, to face Iowa State’s Sam Colbray in the dual.

“Holloway has an injury,” Brands said. “He was ready to go if we needed him and we weighed in one guy there, the right thing to do is to protect our guy.”

Dresser was not happy with Iowa’s decision to withhold Holloway from competition.

“I think it is a chicken-blank move. We went and found a guy at 7/11 and wrestled him all year at 125 and they weigh in a guy at 197 and don’t wrestle him,” Dresser said, “That’s probably the difference between the two programs and the day will come when we even the score here.”

Next year, Iowa State will travel to Iowa City to face the Hawkeyes and will only be without senior 184-pounder Dane Pestano and will be gaining a talented pool of redshirt freshman.

133-pounder Austin Gomez, 149-pounder Ryan Leisure and 174-pounder Marcus Coleman will join the Cyclone ranks with another talented class behind them including No. 5 overall recruit David Carr.