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=== Wrestling === {{main|Iowa State Cyclones wrestling}} The ISU wrestling program has captured the NCAA wrestling tournament title eight times between 1928 and 1987,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cyclones.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=46632&SPID=4248&DB_OEM_ID=10700&ATCLID=1413974 |title=Cyclone Wrestlers Ready For NCAA's |access-date=June 9, 2008 |publisher=cyclones.com |date=March 18, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081119202701/http://www.cyclones.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=46632&SPID=4248&DB_OEM_ID=10700&ATCLID=1413974 |archive-date=November 19, 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and won the Big 12 Conference Tournament three consecutive years, 2007β2009. On February 7, 2010, the Cyclones became the first collegiate wrestling program to record its 1,000th dual win in program history by defeating the [[Arizona State Sun Devils wrestling|Arizona State Sun Devils]], 30β10, in Tempe, Arizona. In 2002, under former NCAA champion & Olympian Coach [[Bobby Douglas]], Iowa State became the first school to produce a four-time, '''undefeated''' NCAA Division I champion, [[Cael Sanderson]] (considered by the majority of the wrestling community to be the best college wrestler ever),<ref>{{cite web |title=#1 Online Publisher for wrestling videos |url=http://www.flowrestling.org/ |publisher=Flowrestling |access-date=January 1, 2014 |archive-date=November 30, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131130083516/http://www.flowrestling.org/ |url-status=live }}</ref> who also took the gold medal at the 2004 [[Olympic Games]] in [[Athens, Greece|Athens]], [[Greece]]. [[Dan Gable]], another legendary ISU wrestler, is famous for having lost only one match in his entire Iowa State collegiate career - his last - and winning gold at the 1972 Olympics in [[Munich, Germany|Munich]], [[Germany]], while not giving up a single point. In 2013, Iowa State hosted its eighth NCAA Wrestling Championships. The Cyclones hosted the first NCAA championships in 1928. In February 2017, former [[Virginia Tech]] coach and 2016 NWCA Coach of the Year [[Kevin Dresser]] was introduced as the new Cyclone wrestling coach, replacing [[Kevin Jackson]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Kevin Jackson ISU Athletics|url=http://www.cyclones.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=46633&SPID=4248&DB_LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=10700&ATCLID=3731307&Q_SEASON=2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131115020511/http://www.cyclones.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=46633&SPID=4248&DB_LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=10700&ATCLID=3731307&Q_SEASON=2013|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 15, 2013|publisher=Iowa State University Athletics|access-date=January 1, 2014}}</ref>
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