Austin Gomez was an All-American at Wisconsin, and NCAA runner-up and Michigan and wrestled in the Olympics for Mexico. He joins the show to talk about his transition to Mexico, beating Nick Lee at the Olympic Qualifier and his upcoming bout with Bryce Andonian at FloWrestling Night In America.

1:15 - Wrestling for Mexico

6:00 - RBY and Team Mexico

7:47 - First Olympic memories & Olympic qualifier

15:46 - Nick Lee match

26:56 - Olympic Experience

31:10 - Gomez will wrestle Bryce Andonian on Feb. 26

36:55 - Austin Gomez’s all-time favorite wrestler

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Bader and Reid dive back into the series as things start to heat up in the dual meet. We get some background on so many of the wrestlers who grew up competing and training together in the Iowa wrestling circuit. Many of them became friends in little league and remain close to this day.

On the mat, Iowa State lead Iowa 16-5 but Iowa had big hitters taking to the mat in Marty Kistler, Ricco Chiapparelli and Duane Goldman who all won at least one NCAA title for the Hawkeyes. On the other side for Iowa State were Mike Van Arsdale and Eric Voelker who both won at least one title for the Cyclones.

Iowa uses three straight victories with two major decisions to bring the dual meet to a tie score as they move to the final match of the evening.

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Former head coach at Iowa State Jim Gibbons and 2x NCAA Champion for the Iowa Hawkeyes Royce Alger are in studio guests to give first hand accounts of all the action and drama that went down on that fateful night in 1986 in one of the most epic dual meets to ever take place!

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We get into the second episode where Iowa State has a 6-0 lead in the team score after a big upset pin of the Hawkeyes at 118. This episodes dives deep into 126, 134 and 142. A big match at 126 between Brad Penrith of Iowa and Bill Kelly keeps the excitement of the meet going. Gable lays the hammer down as he makes a couple of his wrestlers run the arena stairs after losing. We get into two matches with the Gibbons brothers competing with controversial calls in both. Current Iowa State head coach Kevin Dresser was ranked #2 and he took on #1 Joe Gibbons of Iowa State at 142.

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#1 Iowa vs #2 Iowa State in 1986 is one of the most epic and legendary dual meets of all time. THE DUAL is a 6 part series that dives deep this dual meet. Flo's Mark Bader and Reid Connell sit down to talk about episode one.

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2x NCAA All-American from Nebraska Ridge Lovett joins the show on the heels of a big major decision win over Penn State's Shayne Van Ness.

0:45 - Starting at Team real life & getting hooked

4:15 - Setting lofty goals from a young age

6:30 - Getting recruited while at Cadet Worlds

10:00 - Jordan Burroughs and James Green

12:10 - Mentality and progression

14:15 - Holding back

16:45 - Optimal level or arousal

18:00 - Big win over Penn State’s Van Ness

20:40 - Caleb Henson

22:45 - Nebraska coaching staff

22:35 - All time favorite

28:20 - Wins and whoopins

33:33 - Final word - Be amazing

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Bo Bassett joins the show to talk about the personal brand he has grown and the public recruiting process he is going through.

1:02 - Building a brand via social media

4:21 - Hiccup during mindset webinar

6:00 - The recruiting process and graphics

10:30 - Recruiting trips

14:30 - Making cuts to the recruiting list

16:20 - Learning business

17:30 - Posting and accountability

19:30 - Timeline on picking a college

22:35 - Bishop McCort vs Faith Christian potential meeting

27:15 - Bo Bassett's Mt. Rushmore of wrestling moves

35:00 - All-time favorite wrestler

35:55 - Spencer vs Ono

37:45 - Final word

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Alex Clemsen is the head coach at University of Maryland and they just had their biggest win under his leadership last weekend knocking off #10 Michigan.

1:30 - The belief and vision in Maryland 

5:20 - Light bulbs went off at Tuesday practice 

7:55 - Breaking down the Michigan dual

11:40 - Concede the tech falll

14:40 - Celebrating a big win

17:50 - Clemson’s exchange Casey Cunningham

22:11 - Impact of NIL and transfer portal

24:23 - All-time favorite wrestler

26:30 - Sweat it out

29:35 - Get out to a match and support college wrestling!

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Meyer Shapiro is a U20 World gold medalist and NCAA All-American from Cornell. He joins the show to chat about his journey through wrestling, his U20 world title and his run at the 2024 NCAA Championships as a freshman.

1:00 - Getting hooked, learning levels to this

6:27 - High School and Wyoming Seminary

11:03 - Recruiting unraveled fast

16:11 - Folkstyle or freestyle

19:00 - U20 World finals

30:15 - Transitive property

30:45 - Concussions

37:49 - Wrestling back to third place at NCAAs

52:32 - Keep climbing

54:43 - All-time favorite

56:36 - Wins and whoopins

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Olympic Gold medalist, 2x NCAA Champion and 2x Hodge Trophy winner Gable Steveson joins the show to chat about WWE, NFL, his return to college wrestling and more.

0:01 - 2023 Final X but not worlds

0:02 - The WWE

0:04 - WWE training

0:09 - Football

0:16 - Comparing WWE, Football and Wrestling

0:19 - College wrestling 

0:23 - Progressing back to optimal wrestling

0:29 - Freestyle wrestling

0:33 - MMA

0:35 - Conditioning

0:41 - Drive to be great

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