Dresser poised to put ISU wrestling back on the national map

Kevin Dresser remembers the long walk across the parking lot outside of Iowa State’s Hilton Coliseum with his father, the late Skip Dresser, and neighbor and middle school wrestling coach Larry Leibold, attended Cyclone wrestling meets in the early 1970s.
He also remembers watching Iowa State wrestler Kelly Ward win a national championship at Hilton Coliseum back in 1979.
Those were among the many memories Dresser shared with the audience last week (Feb. 22) when he was introduced as the new head wrestling coach of the Cyclones.
Dresser, a 1981 Humboldt High School graduate and former national champion at the University of Iowa (1986), was lured away from Virginia Tech University, where he has coached for the past 11 seasons and built the Hokies into a national power.
“Needless to say, I’m excited. I know my family is excited. Obviously I’m very excited for this opportunity. Growing up in Humboldt, Iowa, having season tickets to Cyclone football games when I was a kid, when this opportunity came up, my radar went way up,” Dresser said.

“There’s probably two or three jobs in the nation that I would have left Virginia Tech for because Virginia Tech is so doggone special. Obviously this is one of them. I toured the facilities this morning. I’m like, ‘wow.’ There’s my recruiting pitch. The facilities and the commitment and everything I’ve seen is super impressive,” Dresser said.

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