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PHILADELPHIA – Two University of Iowa wrestlers – Patrick Kennedy (174) and Ben Kueter (285) – capped their 2025 NCAA Championships run during Saturday’s medal rounds at the Wells Fargo Center.
Both Kennedy and Kueter finished as All-Americans at their respective weights at the championships for the first time in their careers. Kennedy finished fourth and Kueter placed eighth.
Iowa has three more All-Americans – No. 2 seed Drake Ayala (133), No. 3 seed Michael Caliendo (165) and No. 2 seed Stephen Buchanan II (197) – who will compete in tonight’s finals.
Ayala will be the third match and face Illinois’ No. 1 seed Lucas Byrd, Caliendo will be the seventh match facing Penn States’ No. 1 seed Mitchell Mesenbrink and Buchanan will be the penultimate match facing No. 4 seed Josh Barr of Penn State.
Iowa sits in fourth place with 77 points. Penn State is in first with 169 followed by Oklahoma State with 94.5.
Kennedy went 1-1 on the day. In the consolation semifinals Kennedy defeated South Dakota State’s Cade DeVos the No. 13 seed with an early takedown in sudden victory, 4-1.
“The last couple years, it really sucks leaving here empty handed,” said Kennedy. “Especially without being the guy at the top of the podium. It felt good that what I have been doing has paid off to a degree.”
The Kasson-Mantorville, Minnesota, native finishes the season with a 18-7 record.
Kueter dropped his seventh-place bout to Michigan’s Joshua Heindselman, 2-1.
The Iowa City, Iowa, native finishes his redshirt freshman year with a record of 21-9, with all nine of his loses coming to seniors or fifth years.
CONSOLATION SEMIFINAL MATCHUPS
174 – #11 Patrick Kennedy (Iowa) dec. #13 Cade DeVos (South Dakota State), 4-1 SV1
THIRD PLACE MATCHUPS
174 – #2 Levi Haines (Penn State) major dec. #11 Patrick Kennedy (Iowa), 11-3
SEVENTH PLACE MATCHUPS
285 – #6 Joshua Heindselman (Michigan) dec. #5 Ben Kueter (Iowa), 2-1
TEAM SCORES
1. Penn State - 169.0
2. Nebraska - 109.0
3. Oklahoma State - 94.5
4. Iowa - 77.0
5. Minnesota - 51.5
6. Cornell - 50.0
7. Ohio State - 47.5
8. Northern Iowa - 45.5
9. NC State - 42.5
10. Virginia Tech - 41.0
UP NEXT
Session VI of the NCAA Championships will begin at 6 p.m. (CT). The finals matches will be televised live on ESPN.