The win closed out ISU's dual season with a 15-3 overall mark. Iowa State is the only Big 12 team to beat the Huskers for the second straight season. Nebraska finishes with a 17-3-1 dual record. The 20-point victory margin was the Cyclones' biggest win in Lincoln, Neb. since a 33-11 rout of the Huskers on Nov. 30 , 1984. The victory was Iowa State's biggest overall in the series since beating Nebraska, 31-11 in Ames on Dec. 12, 1991.
Fanthorpe notched his 13th bonus-point victory of the season by dominating Nebraska's Matt Vacanti by major decision, 11-3. Fanthorpe improves his record to 18-4 in his junior campaign. He had not wrestled since injury defaulting his match vs. Oklahoma on Jan. 23.
"We wanted to get Nick (Fanthorpe) a match before the conference meet," Sanderson said. "This was as good of a time as any and he went out there and wrestled tough for us."
The Cyclones scored bonus points at 133, 141 and 174 pounds. NU forfeited the 125-pound match to ISU and the Huskers were without their No. 3 174-pounder Brandon Browne as he did not participate due to a death in the family.
In the marquee match of the afternoon, top-ranked 197-pound Cyclone Jake Varner denied the Husker's second-ranked Craig Brester by decision, 3-2. Varner is now 24-1. Brester is 27-3 with two losses to Varner this season.
"Jake was still looking for points at the end of the match with about 15 seconds left," head coach Cael Sanderson said. "He is tough and a competitor. Brester wrestled his strategy against Jake, but Jake is just a competitor."
ISU's Jon Reader (165) scored the upset of fourth-ranked Stephen Dwyer of Nebraska. Reader, ranked seventh, used a reversal and two-point nearfall to come from behind in the third period to top Dwyer by decision, 7-4.
Cyclone Nick Gallick (141) scored a major decision for the ISU effort by beating NU's Patrick Aleksanyan, 11-1.
ISU's Duke Burk also tallied a major decision in his match at 174 pounds. The Peoria, Ill. native proved to be too much on his feet for Nebraska's Alex Ward, as Burk dominated the match, 19-7.
Mitch Mueller (149) and David Zabriskie (HWT) scored decisions in their matches against the Husker wrestlers. Mueller controlled NU's Robert Sanders by a score of 10-3. Zabriskie held off the Huskers' Tucker Lane, 3-1. Zabriskie scored revenge against the Nebraska heavyweight after Lane came away with a 7-6 victory at the NWCA/Cliff Keen National Duals. Iowa State won that match, 20-19 for third-place honors on Jan. 11 in Cedar Falls.
The Cyclones head back to Lincoln, Neb., for the Big 12 Championships March 7 in pursuit of a third-straight conference title.
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