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AMES, Iowa - No. 9 Iowa State defeated Bucknell, 29-12, Sunday night inside Hilton Coliseum in Brent Metcalf's first dual as head coach. The Cyclones won 7-of-10 matches and tallied bonus points in four bouts.
Brent Metcalf is the seventh Cyclone head coach to win his dual debut. It is ISU's second-straight season-opening dual win and its eighth in its last nine tries.
Iowa State (1-0, 0-0 Big 12) won the takedown battle against Bucknell (0-1, 0-0 EIWA), 22-3.
The middle of ISU's lineup got the job done as Evan Frost (141) and Jacob Frost (149) both won by tech fall and Paniro Johnson (157) won via major decision. Tate Naaktgeboren (174) also put bonus points on the board after he won by injury default.
Naaktgeboren, Coby Merrill and Dru Ayala all earned their first career dual match victories.
Ayala, a sophomore transfer from Iowa and Fort Dodge graduate, notched his first win as a Cyclone with a 5-2 decision against Jackson Heslin at 125 pounds. Ayala got in on a first-period takedown and tallied 1:09 of riding time for his first-career dual victory.
No. 15 Garrett Grice looked solid in his season debut against Blue Stiffler. The Cyclone finished with two takedowns and 1:06 of riding time in the win and is now 34-13 in his career.
The Frost brothers delivered back-to-back tech falls at 141 and 149 pounds to blow the team score open, 16-0, after four matches. At 141 pounds, No. 2 Evan Frost was clinical in a 19-3 result over Bryce Manera in which he recorded five takedowns. No. 19 Jacob Frost had four first period takedowns against Cade Wirnsberger as he cruised to a 21-3 victory in 3:35, his 23rd career tech fall.
At 157 pounds, Paniro Johnson wasted no time getting to his attacks as he put his first of five takedowns on the board in the opening seconds of the match. He defeated Ryan Lawler by major decision, 16-5, in his first match back after missing the majority of last season due to a neck injury.
In the dual's featured bout at 165 pounds, No. 13 Connor Euton led No. 15 Noah Mulvaney, 10-3, at the beginning of the third period but the Bison locked up a cradle for a fall to get Bucknell on the scoreboard.
At 174 pounds, Tate Naaktgeboren earned a win by injury default over No. 17 Myles Takats. Naaktgeboren was leading, 4-1, over Takats when the match was stopped at the 6:42