Kyven Gadson, a former Iowa State wrestler, won the 2018 world team trials challenge tournament in Rochester, Minnesota, to advance to Final X next month. Cody Goodwin, cgoodwin2@dmreg.com
Before Kyven Gadson left for Las Vegas, before he stormed through the field to win another U.S. Open crown, he got a small message of encouragement from his daughter.
“We sat down to eat on Tuesday, and she told me, ‘Dad, I don’t want you to think about me when you wrestle,’” Gadson recalled. “‘I want you to just think about wrestling.’ It’s so simple, but so hard.
“I think I did a good job of doing that in this tournament.