Submitted photo: Iowa Central wrestling coach Luke Moffitt (right) stands with Jim Miller after being inducted into the Glen Brand wrestling Hall of Fame inside the Dan Gable Museum.

WATERLOO — Luke Moffitt didn’t want any credit for being inducted into the Glen Brand Hall of Fame.

He made sure that went to his family and teammates.

This past weekend, Moffitt was enshrined at the National Wrestling Hall of Fame inside the Dan Gable Museum.

“For me it’s a congratulations to everyone that has been involved in my life,” Moffitt said. “I’ve had a good team at my back since I was born. “It all started with them (the family). I’m a big team guy as a coach, and they were my first team I was ever on. We had limited means growing up, but I always found my way into camps and Fargo. I remember mowing lawns so I could go to camps.

“My parents always found a way.”

Moffitt was one of 22 wrestlers inducted, including one of his former wrestlers from Iowa Central Joe Colon.

“It’s very humbling to be inducted into the Hall of Fame,” Moffitt said. “I owe it to a lot of people that surrounded me. I may have been the guy on the mat or the coach in the corner, but it was the people who were around me that made it happen. My parents, my former coaches, my family.

“When I came to Iowa I was overwhelmed for several days, but I got over that quickly, competing in the best wrestling room in the entire country. I got in over my head, but I learned how to swim.”

Moffitt’s wrestling career went full circle, winning a national championship for Iowa Central and then coming back to coach national championship teams.

Before Iowa Central, he won a high school state title for Estherville in 1997, before winning the 141 pound crown for the Tritons.

After Iowa Central, he committed to the University of Iowa where he wrestled for Jim Zalesky and Tom Brands. Moffitt was a two-year starter and won the Big Ten Tournament and was named Outstanding Wrestler in 2002.

Moffitt then returned to Iowa Central where he has coached the Tritons for 18 seasons and has a career record of 172-57 and has built the Tritons into a national power.

Iowa Central has won seven national titles and has placed in the Top Eight at the NJCAA national tournament 17 consecutives seasons, including 12 top-three finishes.

The Tritons have also won six national dual championships with 31 individual national champions, 49 national finalists and 102 All-Americans. Moffitt has been named national coach of the year five times and regional coach of the year 12 times. The Tritons have won 13 regional team titles and have crowned 76 individual champions.

Moffitt shared the Hall of Fame moment with his parents, his brother, his wife Amy, his niece, along with his former assistant and friend Justin McClintock and his wife Holly McClintock.

“I appreciate the Fort Dodge community,” Moffitt said. “Iowa Central picked me up at a young age and never faltered on me.

“It has always been the best place to work.”