Ben kueter

Iowa Football/Wrestling commit // 4 sport athlete // PFP #1 in 🇺🇸 // 4 time state champion // class of 2023 // #32 // ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ // Under Armour All-American!

[Ben kueter @Benkueter1]

WORLD CHAMP🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Ben kueter @Benkueter1]

Let’s rock🐤

[Iowa Hawkeye Wrestling @Hawks_Wrestling]

Coming home.

Welcome back, Jacob Warner!

[Ben kueter @Benkueter1]

@greentoepalacio 😂😂

[Ben kueter @Benkueter1]

The man!

[Jacob Warner @j_warner156]

Me and a couple of All Americans. So proud!

[Ben kueter @Benkueter1]

@j_warner156 My guy!

[Sam Kueter @KueterSam]

Just getting started

[Ben kueter @Benkueter1]

This kid FIRES ME UP‼️🐤

[Ross Bartachek @rossbchek]

Gabe Arnold. It’s good to be back

[hawkeye.source @HawkeyeSource]

Ryder Block to Drake Ayala after the Swiderski match:

"He started talking shit to me in the first period.. Let's talk now"

[Iowa Hawkeye Wrestling @Hawks_Wrestling]

Why are you here?

[Iowa Hawkeye Wrestling @Hawks_Wrestling]

Thursday. Our house. Be there.

🎟️ : https://t.co/qkpJJGrbAY

[Sam Kueter @KueterSam]

https://t.co/qCo4yYaKQp Week 6 highlights 🚨2 series played. Strip sack touchdown!!!(6’4 230lbs) 3.0 GPA | recruitment open| @ReiverFootball

[Sam Kueter @KueterSam]

https://t.co/VlBK5FhMVx Week 3-4🚨(6’4 - 230lbs) ☠️EDGE☠️

[PFF College @PFF_College]

Jay Higgins: 88.1 PFF Grade in Preseason Week 1

ELITE Debut for the Former Iowa Hawkeye📈

@HawkeyeFootball

[Ben kueter @Benkueter1]

Working🐤

[Ross Bartachek @rossbchek]

And people say they are robots

[The School of Wrestling @TheSchoolofWres]

This past Monday, I had the opportunity to visit the University of Iowa and sit in on a Hawkeye wrestling practice. It was the day after the news dropped that Bo Bassett had officially decommitted, setting off a wave of online criticism, speculation, and hot takes about the future of Iowa Wrestling.

But while everyone online was busy writing off the Hawkeyes and predicting the downfall of Tom Brands, I was watching something very different unfold on the mat.

Inside the room, the energy was focused, intense, and unbothered.
I watched Drake Ayala, Patrick Kennedy, Angelo Ferrari, Michael Caliendo, and incoming transfers Dean Peterson and Massoma Endene put in serious work. These guys weren’t distracted. They weren’t rattled. They looked locked in, hungry, and ready to compete at a high level this coming season.

You can feel the competitive fire in that room—it’s still very much alive.

Let’s be honest, losing top recruits like Bo Bassett stings. These are high-profile names and future stars of the sport. But to act like a couple of decommitments signal the death of a dynasty? That’s just not grounded in reality.

Here’s what I saw:
✔️ A coaching staff still pushing with purpose
✔️ Athletes engaged and training with intensity
✔️ A program that still expects to win

One practice doesn’t tell the full story, of course. But it tells more than message boards and Twitter threads ever will.

Wrestling programs are built on more than recruiting rankings. Culture, development, grit, and leadership matter just as much—if not more—over the course of a season. And Iowa still has all of those ingredients.

I’m not here to defend or critique decisions I wasn’t a part of. I don’t know exactly what led to the decommitments. What I do know is that the Hawkeyes aren’t folding. Far from it.

Tom Brands isn’t going anywhere, and from what I saw, his team is far from done making noise.

Don't count out the Hawkeyes.
They're still in the fight. And they still know how to win.

— Dalton Bullard
The School of Wrestling

[Sam Kueter @KueterSam]

Here’s a handful of clips from this spring.
@CoachAaronTerry

[Ross Bartachek @rossbchek]

Happy Flag Day

[Ben kueter @Benkueter1]

GABLEEEEEE @GableMitchell13

[Iowa Baseball @UIBaseball]

GABLE. MITCHELL.

TIE BALLGAME!!!

#Hawkeyes

[Ben kueter @Benkueter1]

@L_Hinschberger @Edwrds21 @ufan9295761 @hawkeyemuse Did it all the way through my freshman year! Will be a year since I haven’t done it starting this summer.

[Ben kueter @Benkueter1]

Gods plan❤️🐤

[Chad Leistikow🆑 @ChadLeistikow]

Iowa two-sport talent Ben Kueter will not play football in 2025 following hip surgery.
https://t.co/wPw0SMiSVv