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6 selected
to enter Glen Brand Wrestling Hall of Fame,
April 17, 2010
WATERLOO – Five former
NCAA champions and one of the nation’s
finest wrestling officials will be inducted
into the Glen Brand Wrestling Hall of Fame
of Iowa, Class of 2010. The event begins at
1 p.m. Saturday, April 17 inside the Dan
Gable International Wrestling Institute and
Museum.
Members
of the Class of 2010 are Gordon Hassman,
Chuck Jean, Dan Holm, Mike Allen, Mark
Reiland, and Tolly Thompson.
“This is
another great class of inductees,” said Kent
Sesker, marketing director at the Gable
Museum. “All are well-deserving of this
prestigious honor.”
Also that
weekend is a wrestling clinic featuring
Tolly Thompson, one of this year’s
inductees. This free clinic will begin at 11
a.m. at the Dan Gable Teaching Center
located in the museum.
The Glen
Brand Wrestling Hall of Fame was established
in 2002 to honor the people who have made an
impact on the sport on a national level, or
who have done extraordinary work in the
State of Iowa. The hall recognizes native
born Iowans, and those who achieved their
fame while wrestling or coaching for an Iowa
college. To date, 98 individuals have been
honored by the hall. This is the ninth
class.
The hall is named after
Glen Brand, an NCAA champion for Iowa State
in 1948, who won an Olympic gold medal the
same year, at 174 pounds in London. He
graduated with a degree in civil engineering
and by 1983 he owned two companies in Omaha
– Brand Hydraulics and Brand Fluid Power.
The companies had over 50 distributors
around the world. He attended every hall of
fame inductions, and passed away on Nov. 15,
2008, in Omaha, at the age of 85.
“This is
a chance to honor six worthy inductees and a
chance to honor Glen Brand,” said executive
director Kyle Klingman. “Brand continues to
influence wrestling through his remarkable
contributions.”
Gable Museum honors
Greco-Roman stars
Five Greco-Roman champions, the
former Speaker of the House of
the United States Congress and a
legendary Iowa wrestling family
came together on Oct. 17 for a
stirring event at the Dan Gable
International Wrestling
Institute and Museum here.
The Alan and Gloria Rice
Greco-Roman Hall of Champions
was the focus of a two-day
affair that is designed to
recognize and honor the great
athletes of Greco-Roman
wrestling. Alan Rice was a
member of the 1956 Greco-Roman
Olympic team, head coach of the
1972 Olympic team, and has been
a driving force in the
development of Greco-Roman
wrestling in this country for
over four decades. His wife,
Gloria, passed away in 2001 but
was at his side as he traveled
the world in support of
wrestling at all levels.
“This is a great moment for
Greco-Roman wrestling and a
tremendous honor for Gloria and
me,” said Alan as he addressed
the overflow crowd in the new
wing named after him in the
Gable Museum. “It is a thrill to
even be in the same room with
these great World and Olympic
champions.”
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First ‘Iowa
Legacy Award’
to Reiter family 
Members of the record-setting Reiter family
are
(from left) Eddie, mother Janet, Bart, Mack,
father Doug and Joe
Doug and
Janet Reiter of rural Jesup have six
children, four of whom wrestled at Don Bosco
of Gilbertville High School. They have set a
standard of excellence in high school
wrestling that will be nearly impossible to
surpass. As a result, the family is the
first-ever winner of the Iowa Legacy Award,
created this year by the Dan Gable
International Wrestling Institute and Museum
to recognize tremendous achievement by a
wrestling family in the state.
Doug
and Janet’s sons – Joe, Mack, Eddie and Bart
– own nine individual state titles, and 15
medals at the state high school
championships. It is the only family in Iowa
to have TWO four-time state champions in
Mack and Bart.
Joe
was a state champion and three-time
finalist, and was expected to win his second
title when he was sidelined for the season
by a concussion. He was riding a 65-match
win streak at the time. Eddie placed all
four times he went to the state meet, with a
third his final season.
Pro Inductions a BIG Success!
An
enthusiastic group of fans came to Waterloo
the weekend of July 10-11 for the 11th
annual inductions into the George Tragos/Lou
Thesz Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame –
and to see firsthand how the museum has
recovered from the devastating flood of last
summer.
Last year’s inductions were nearly wiped out
by the flood of June 10, 2008, which left
the museum in shambles and closed for six
months. However, the inductions were held
two blocks away in the Five Sullivans
Brothers Convention Center.
“It was a tremendous feeling to see the fans
begin to come in on Friday,” said Mike
Chapman, the museum’s director since it
opened in 1999. “Last year was such a
traumatic event for everyone concerned. But
this year, we were back home, in the museum,
and the compliments were overwhelming.”
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Brand Inductions Held on April 18
(from left) Vic Marcucci, Jim
Craig, Mike Chapman,
Franc Freeman,
"Champ Martin,and Eric Voelker.
Nearly two hundred wrestling
fans greeted the Class of 2009
at the Glen Brand Wrestling Hall
of Fame inductions held on April
18. The hall is located inside
the Dan Gable International
Wrestling Institute and Museum,
and is named in honor Glen
Brand, Iowa State’s 1948 NCAA
and Olympic champion.
Inducted were (in order):
* Leon “Champ” Martin, who coached Algona High
School to four team championships and was NCAA
runner-up for Iowa State Teachers College (now UNI)
in the 1942;
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Quarterly Breakfast Social in Cedar Rapids
Friday, February 5
The
Dan Gable International Wrestling Institute
& Museum is taking its breakfast social on
the road. The event will take place on
Friday, February 5th at The Marriott Hotel
in Cedar Rapids and will be showcasing the
wrestling programs of Coe College and
Cornell College, who will be competing in
their annual dual meet that night at Cornell
College in Mount Vernon, IA at 7:00PM.
Head coaches Mike Duroe (Cornell) and John
Oostendorp (Coe) will both be speaking at
the breakfast.
Barron Bremner, who coached at both Coe and
Cornell, will also be addressing the crowd.
Special guests will include Dan Gable and
Mark Ironside.
The event is sponsored by Body Bar Systems.
Doors will open at 8:15 and breakfast will
be from 8:30 – 9:00. The program will begin
at 9:00 and will last until approximately
9:45.
Cost is only $15 per person and all proceeds
will go to the Cornell and Coe wrestling
programs. The Marriott is located at 1200
Collins Road NE, Cedar Rapids.
To RSVP, call
the wrestling museum at 319-233-0745 or
email orders@wrestlingmuseum.org.
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Saturday
April 17
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Saturday
April 17
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Glen Brand
Wrestling Hall of
Fame Inductees
Gordon Hassman
was a three-time All-American and two-time
Big Eight champion for Iowa State. As a
junior in 1964, Hassman capped a perfect
season with an NCAA title at 157 pounds. The
following season he placed third at the same
weight and was part of the Cyclones’ first
NCAA team championship. Born and raised in
New Hampton, Iowa, Hassman won a state title
in 1960.
A native of Albert Lea,
Minn., Chuck Jean
won NCAA titles for Iowa State in 1969 and
’70 before transferring to Adams State and
winning NAIA titles in 1972 and ’73. He was
also part of four team championships, making
him the only collegiate wrestler to win four
individual national titles and four team
national titles. Jean was a state champion
for Albert Lea High School in 1967.
Dan
Holm was a three-time
All-American for the University of Iowa.
Placing third at the NCAA tournament in 1973
& ’74, Holm won an individual NCAA title in
1975. His title was part of the first NCAA
team wrestling championship in school
history. Holm wrestled for Libertyville High
School in Illinois, winning a state title in
1971. His high school coach was 1972
Olympian and Glen Brand Hall of Famer Bob
Buzzard.
Mark Reiland
won two state titles and was a four-time
placer for Eagle Grove (IA) High School from
1984-1987. He went on to the University of
Iowa where he was a two-time All-American
and NCAA champion in 1991. He has achieved
excellence in coaching as well, leading the
Iowa City West program to six state
championships: four dual meet titles and two
traditional state titles.
Mike Allen
grew up in Waterloo, Iowa, and attended East
High School where he competed in football
and wrestling. He also competed in both
sports at Ellsworth Community College (IA)
and the University of Northern Iowa. Allen
is best known for his 35-year career as a
wrestling official. He has officiated
national wrestling tournaments in all five
divisions, including 23 NCAA Division I
tournaments.
Tolly Thompson
was a two-time state runner-up for
Janesville (IA) and a three-time
All-American for the University of Nebraska.
Thompson won an NCAA championship at
heavyweight for the Cornhuskers in 1995. He
was also a three-time Big Twelve champion.
Thompson won three U.S. Open freestyle
titles and was a member of two World teams,
earning a bronze medal at the World
Championships in 2005.
Herbert of Northwestern wins 2009 Dan
Hodge Award
After turning in a
near perfect season of wrestling,
Jake Herbert of Northwestern has
been named the winner of the 2009
Dan Hodge Trophy. The trophy is
co-sponsored by WIN magazine and the
Dan Gable International Wrestling
Institute and Museum, in Waterloo,
IA.
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