2007 Border Brawl
Iowa vs. Nebraska High School Senior All-Stars
March 9, 2007 at Blair, Neb.

Weights 103-140

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103 - Cruse Aarhus of Cedar Rapids Kennedy pinned Zach Fronce of Ralston in 3:24. 6-0 Iowa
Aarhus led 4-2 in the second period when he locked up the double chicken wing and turned Fronce for the fall.
    
    
112 - Mike Helle of Rockwell City-Lytton/SCAL pinned Calyden McKim of Millard South in 1:20. 12-0 Iowa
Helle allowed McKim, ranked sixth in the nation, to shoot in on his leg and then used a move he called The Sheep or The Williams 
to pin his opponent. Helle trapped the far side tricep and near leg and flipped McKim to his back for the fall.
    
    
119 - Tyler Clark of Bettendorf won 21-6 over Jarod DeTurk of Amherst. 17-0 Iowa
Clark, ranked sixth in the nation, put on a takedown clinic, as he scored eight in the match, on his way to the technical fall.
    
    
125 - In one of the premier matches of the night, 15th-ranked Dalton Jensen of Missouri Valley won 2-1 over No. 4 Andy Pokorny of Bennington. Jensen is a two-time Iowa State champ, while Pokorny won three titles in Nebraska. 20-0 Iowa
Jensen scored a reversal with 21 seconds left in the match and held Pokorny down the rest of the way for the win.
    
    
130 - Robert Eklund of Friend pinned Micah Sheffield of Sioux City North in 3:43. 20-6 Iowa
Sheffield led 6-4 in the second period and had a cradle locked up, but Eklund slapped on a cradle of his own, 
reversed Sheffield to his back and put the Nebraska team on the scoreboard.
    
    
130 - Dylan Laughlin of Creighton Prep won 5-4 over Tyler Halverson of Cherokee. 20-9 Iowa
Laughlin scored a takedown with 20 seconds left in the match to go up 5-3. Halverson escaped, but could not score 
a winning takedown in the final seconds.
    
    
    
135 - Jordan Hasenkamp of Twin River Valley won 13-11 over Daniel Rodriquez of Kearney. 23-9 Iowa
Hasenkamp trailed 9-6 at the end of the second period after fighting off his back. In the third, Hasenkamp closed to within 11-8 with 30 seconds left in the match. He took the 19th-ranked Rodriquez down with a cradle and after trying for several seconds, he finally got Rodriquez rolled over far enough to secure three nearfall points as time ran out for the thrilling victory.
    
    
140 - Trenton Washington of Boystown won 11-6 over Zach McCool of West Delaware. 23-12 Iowa
In a meeting between nationally ranked wrestlers, No. 9 Washington scored a pair of takedowns in the third period 
to pull away from 25th-rated McCool.
    
    
140 - Ben Knight of Sergeant Bluff-Luton won 6-4 in overtime over Travis Kuhn of High Plains Community. 26-12 Iowa
 Knight scored a pair of takedowns in the third period to force the overtime, where he finished off his third takedown of the match with 23 seconds left, to send Iowa into the intermission with a 26-12 lead.

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