Lindley Kistler

Hometown: Riverside, CA High School: Notre Dame Weight: 167

At Iowa: as a senior finished fifth in the NCAA Tournament...won second straight Big Ten title by defeating Greg Evans of Minnesota 8-4...earned first place honors at UNI Open, Northern Open, and Minnesota Quad...was slowed by a knee injury during the middle of the season...missed a total of six meets...national runner-up in his first appearance at the NCAAs...dropped championship match to Mike Sheets (Oklahoma State), 9-0...started the tournament as the second seed...defeated Chris Casey (11th seed, Augsburg), Shepard Pittman (seventh seed, Missouri) and Jeff Jelic (sixth seed, Pittsburgh) on the way to the final round...gained his first Big Ten title with a 4-1 win overall Darrell Gholar (Minnesota)...season mark was 32-3-5 plus six falls...five draws is an NCAA record...held to draws in his last two regular season matches...won the Minnesota Quad and Northern Open...finished third at Midlands Open, when he suffered his first defeat as a Hawkeye...ranked second most of the season at 167 pounds...was 10-1-4 in his last 15 matches before the season-ending tourneys...the loss was to top-ranked Sheets of Oklahoma State...lost to non-collegian Roye Oliver at Midlands...brother of 1983 Iowa all-American Harlan and current Hawkeye 150-pounder Marty, the NCAA runner-up...At Arizona State: wrestled for two years at Arizona State...missed his freshman year with an injury...second in the Pac-Ten meet as a sophomore, but missed the nationals with an injury...redshirted in 1983-84 after he transferred.

High School: lettered in wrestling four years and was captain twice...all-city four times and twice a conference champion...got third at the state meet twice...overall prep mark was 140-10.

Personal - born 11/22/61 in Columbus, Ohio...recreation education major.

		   DUAL	                              OVERALL			Big
 Year	W	L	D	F	             W	L	D	F	Ten	NCAA
1982-83	Redshirt			    	             Redshirt
1983-84	10	1	5	3	             32	3	5	6	1st	2nd
1984-85	10	2	0	5	             29	4	0	6	1st	5th
Career	20	3	5	8	             61	7	5	12