The dual featured a total of nine nationally ranked wrestlers, six of which belonging to the Cowboys, who won 20-17. In the second match of the dual, Gary Wayne Harding fell to Minnesota’s Samuel Brancale by a major decision that ended in a score of 16-2. Shortly thereafter, a top-10, 141-pound matchup between OSU’s No. 1 Dean Heil and the Golden Gophers’ ninth-ranked Thomas Thorn took place.
Heil won in a 7-3 decision, scoring more than half of his points in the first period, recording two takedowns of his counterpart.
It was undoubtedly an impressive performance, but Heil has no desire to dwell on it.