The Badgers were led by their tri-captains, Tom Clum (Arvada, Colo.), Kelly Flaherty (Big Lake, Minn.), and Tyler Turner (Spring Valley Wis.). The trio earned a total of 10 team points for UW, including the match determining pin by Flaherty at 174 lbs.
Wisconsin took the first two matches to jump out to a 6-0 lead. Making his dual debut was Justin Peterson (Comstock, Wis.) at 184 lbs. The redshirt freshman defeated Dan Dunning, 9-5. Fellow redshirt freshman Dallas Herbst earned a win at 197 lbs. over Andrew Anderson, 8-3, improving his record to 9-4 overall.
UNI would answer with two wins of their own at heavyweight and 125 lbs. Senior Lee Kraemer (DeForest, Wis.) fell to Tyler Rhodes, 14-1, giving the Panthers a major decision win. At 125 lbs., Badger junior Collin Cudd (River Falls, Wis.) was unable to hang on against Seth Wright, losing 13-8.
Senior Tom Clum would respond with an 8-2 decision over Chris Helgeson to put Wisconsin in the lead, 9-7. The match was No. 2 Clum's first of the season, having battled an injury earlier this year.
UW would split the next two matches at 141 lbs. and 149 lbs., respectively. UNI's C.J. Ettelson defeated Ed Gutnik, 3-0 to regain the lead 10-9. However, Tyler Turner notched a major decision win over Justin Swafford, 10-2, to put the Badgers up 13-10.
From there, UNI would earn two more victories, and take the lead. Chris Bitetto defeated Craig Henning (Chippewa Falls, Wis.) at 157 lbs., 8-5, followed by Nick Baima taking down Jake Donar (Cuba City, Wis.), 3-0 at 165 lbs. UNI now led 16-13 with one match remaining.
Senior Kelly Flaherty, who has seen limited action this season due to injury, faced Curt Zinnel at 174 lbs. Flaherty dominated the match, leading 7-0 after the first period. With 12 seconds remaining in the second period, he pinned Zinnel, earning six team points and the dual win.
Wisconsin returns home on Sunday to host Northern Illinois at the Field House. It is the first home dual for the Badgers, with match time set for 2 p.m. Wrestling fans who are unable to make the home dual are reminded that live video streaming on uwbadgers.com will be available. Click the Audio/Video link on the left side of the main page. When the stream is available the video button will be activated.
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