Iowa's Patrick Kennedy leaves 2025 NCAA Championships with first medal - The Daily Iowan

Iowa's Patrick Kennedy leaves 2025 NCAA Championships with first medal - The Daily Iowan

PHILADELPHIA – Five years.  Iowa men’s wrestling’s Patrick Kennedy spent five years pouring his blood, sweat, and tears into his craft at one of the great wrestling programs in the country with the goal of winning at the highest level.  Year after year, he came up short. He missed the wrestling championships twice. He qualified three times, including this season, but walked away with empty hands each of the previous two times.  And now, with Fri…

Kasson-Mantorville graduate Patrick Kennedy places fourth at NCAA Wrestling Championships

PHILADELPHIA — Kasson-Mantorville graduate and University of Iowa wrestler Patrick Kennedy is an All-American. Through a black right eye that seemed partially shut, the four-time MSHSL state champion placed fourth at 174 pounds at the NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships on Saturday. Kennedy defeated South Dakota State University's Cade DeVos by a 4-1 sudden victory in Saturday's consolation semifinal to punch his ticket to the third place ma…