There’s this rumor going around Iowa’s offensive line that only state champions play tackle. State champion wrestlers that is.
“That’s not true,” says starting right tackle Levi Paulsen, the 2015 Iowa state heavyweight champion, who also likes to point out that he won a title in eighth grade.
“Who said that?” asks starting left tackle Tristan Wirfs, the 2017 Iowa state heavyweight champion, who was also a three-time discus champ.
The instigator spreading such wild gossip is Landan Paulsen, Levi’s twin brother, whose best finish in a high school state wrestling tournament was second place.