ISU Ready for No. 14 Oklahoma, No. 1 Oklahoma State

AMES, Iowa – A pair of top-15, Big 12 opponents will roll into Ames this weekend. Iowa State (1-7, 1-3 Big 12) will take on No. 14 Oklahoma (6-4, 2-0 Big 12) on Friday night in Beauty and the Beast, then turn around to face top-ranked Oklahoma State (8-0, 3-0 Big 12) on Sunday at 2 p.m.

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The Cyclones are looking to get back into the win column this weekend after falling to UNI in their last contest, 20-12.

vs. No. 14 Oklahoma
Where: Ames, Iowa – Hilton Coliseum
When: Friday, Jan. 27 – 6:30 p.m.
Broadcast/Live Stream: The dual will be broadcast and streamed on Cyclones.TV. Tom Kroeschell will be joined by Taylor Mankle and Becca McRobbie to bring you the action
Live Stats: Live stats will be provided by trackwrestling.com
Live Updates: Follow @CycloneWR on Twitter for live scoring, match-by-match results and Periscope content

at No. 1 Oklahoma State
Where: Ames, Iowa – Hilton Coliseum
When: Sunday, Jan. 29 – 2:00 p.m.
Broadcast/Live Stream: The dual will be broadcast and streamed on Cyclones.TV. Tom Kroeschell will be joined by Ed Banach to bring you the action
Live Stats: Live stats will be provided by trackwrestling.com
Live Updates: Follow @CycloneWR on Twitter for live scoring, match-by-match results and Periscope content

ISU vs. OU History
- Iowa State leads the all-time series against Oklahoma, 50-40-3.
- The Sooners toppled the Cyclones last season in Norman, 28-9.
- ISU and OU first met in 1921 where the Cardinal and Gold defeated Boomer Sooner, 43-3.

ISU vs. OSU History
- The Cowboys own the all-time series against the Cyclones, 20-57-3.
- Iowa State is looking to avenge a 38-3 defeat in Stillwater last season.
- The Cyclones' best stretch against OSU was from 1971-1982. In that stretch, Iowa State posted an 8-5 record against the Cowboys.

Cyclone Notebook
- Iowa State is set up for a pair of Big 12 contests as they welcome the No. 14 Oklahoma Sooners and top-ranked Oklahoma State into Hilton Coliseum this week. The dual against OU will be the second Beauty and the Beast event of the season.
- The Cyclones last contest ended in defeat as in-state rival, UNI, knocked them off 20-12.
- 2016 All American Patrick Downey remained perfect on the year. He picked off UNI's No. 15 Drew Foster by 9-5 decision.
- Lelund Weatherspoon also toppled a ranked opponent. He mustered a come-from-behind effort to beat No. 11 Taylor Lujan by 10-8 decision in sudden victory.
- John Meeks and Colston DiBlasi accounted for the Cyclones' other two wins in the dual. Meeks won 3-1 in sudden victory, while DiBlasi put on an entertaining 12-8 scramble-filled decision.
- The Cyclones earned a 12th-place finish (54.5 points) at the 2016 Midlands Championships. ISU finished with three wrestlers on the podium in Earl Hall (fourth), Kanen Storr (fifth) and Lelund Weatherspoon (second.)
- Storr became just the third Cyclone since 1982 to finish on the podium as a true freshman. In 2011, Tanner Weatherman finished fifth and in 2011 Jon Reader took seventh place.
- In the 174-pound semifinals, Weatherspoon was able to avenge a loss he suffered to Alex Meyer in the Cy-Hawk Dual on Dec. 10. The 2015 All-Americans wrestled to a 9-7 decision with Weatherspoon coming out on top and earning a spot in the championship bout.
- Redshirt freshman Colston DiBlasi had a great first half of the season. After picking up three wins by fall at Midlands, DiBlasi now has 11 on the year, which ranks first among Big 12 wrestlers.
- ISU took 12th place as a team in Las Vegas with 49 team points behind top-8 finishes from Markus Simmons (eighth), Chase Straw (eighth), Lelund Weatherspoon (fourth) and Quean Smith (eighth).
- Four Cyclones are ranked in this week's national polls. Markus Simmons (18, 15, 20) Earl Hall (12, 12, 12), Lelund Weatherspoon (8, 8, 10) and Patrick Downey (10, 8, 8) all begin the weekend slotted in the top-20 in FloWrestling, TheOpenMat and Intermat rankings.
- Kanen Storr has put up five top-five finishes in tournaments and has compiled a 25-5 record with 14 bonus-point decisions. Ian Parker has garnered four top-four finishes and has pieced together a 17-8 mark this year.
- Earl Hall is knocking on the door of 100 career wins. Hall has tallied 98 victories in his decorated Cyclone career
- Hall (7), Weatherspoon (6) and Downey (5) are all coming off of All-America finishes in 2015-- The Cyclones are one of just eight squads in the country to return three or more 2016 All-Americans.
- Iowa State head coach Kevin Jackson is in his eighth year leading the Cyclones.

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