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Wisconsin wrestling: UW takes down Northern Iowa

The No. 8 Wisconsin Badgers wrestling team (11-2 overall, 6-2 Big Ten) traveled to face the No. 17 Northern Iowa Panthers on Thursday night in their final road match of the season. The Badgers will return home to Madison with a 24-10 victory after an impressive showing from a number of wrestlers.

Freshman Dean Hamiti picked up another major decision victory, his sixteenth bonus point win of the year, to push his season record to 18-1. As commenter 2CofC noted in the Blogopean Union comments from Friday morning, “Hamiti had three takedowns, a reversal, an escape and riding time,the opponent had two escapes when Hamiti let him up to take him down again” against the No.