CEDAR FALLS — Tate Naaktgeboren doesn’t lose often. In three seasons at Linn-Mar, he’s compiled a 98-5 career record. He’s a three-time Class 3A state finalist with two titles. He won a Junior folkstyle national title last year, too. Dude wins. A lot.
Which means the losses, few as they are, tend to stick with him.
Like, for example, the one he took 70 days ago at Clinton’s Bob Lueders tournament.
Naaktgeboren suffered a rare 9-4 loss to Aeoden Sinclair, a talented sophomore from Milton High School in Wisconsin. Sinclair caught Naaktgeboren on his back for a takedown and three nearfall late in the second period.