The No. 10 Wisconsin wrestling team battled to its first tie of the season Saturday night against Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, Iowa. The 16-16 tie places Wisconsin at 4-0-1 for the season.
UW fell behind 3-0 from the start as junior Justin Peterson lost to UNI's No. 16 Alex Dolly 7-3 at 174 lbs.
No. 12 sophomore Trevor Brandvold tied the score at three when he secured a 6-4 victory against UNI's Andy O'Loughlin at 184 lbs. Brandvold amassed a 5-0 lead but had to hold on in the final minute for a two-point victory.
UNI pulled ahead again when No. 4 Badger junior Dallas Herbst narrowly lost his first match of the season 4-3 against Andrew Anderson at 197 lbs. Anderson secured the biggest upset of the night with a one-point escape with eight seconds left in the match.
Junior Kyle Massey (No. 11) gave the Badgers the 7-6 lead with a 12-0 major decision against Dustin Bauman at heavyweight. It was the Badgers' only bonus point of the night.
At 125 lbs., sophomore Drew Hammen added to the Badgers' lead with a 6-5 win over UNI's Caleb Flores. Flores led 5-2 going into the third period, but Hammen recorded an escape, a takedown and one point of riding time for a comeback 6-5 victory.
At 133 lbs, No. 18 junior Zach Tanelli was upset by UNI freshman Trent Washington. Tanelli was tied with Washington 6-6 heading into the third period, but the UNI grappler had three takedowns and a near fall in the third to beat Tanelli 14-11.
No. 13 sophomore Kyle Ruschell scored an upset of his own against No. 10 C.J. Ettelson at 141 lbs. to put Wisconsin up 13-9. Ruschell was also tied with Ettelson heading into the third period, but his escape in the third won the match 6-4.
UNI's Charlie Ettelson tied the score at 13 when he defeated Wisconsin true freshman Kendall Vogel in a 13-0 major decision.
At 157 lbs., No. 3 senior Craig Henning registered a takedown and one point of riding time in the third period to defeat Jarion Beets, 4-0 and put the Badgers ahead 13-16.
In the last bout of the night, senior Jake Donar faced No. 5 Moza Fay at 165 lbs. After trailing 6-0 to Fay in the first period, Donar responded in the second, scoring five points of his own to claw the score to 9-5. With no one scoring in the third period, Fay won the match 9-5 to put the final team score at 16-16.
The Badgers will open their 2007-08 Big Ten Conference season Monday when they travel to Columbus, Ohio for a dual against No. 13 Ohio State (4-1-0).
This is the first conference match-up for both teams, and it will begin at 6 p.m. inside St. John's Arena.
- uwbadgers.com contributed to this report.
