Holding, Wicks inducted into Iowa State Athletics Hall of Fame, 20th straight year with a wrestler

Two Cyclone wrestling legends were inducted into Iowa State’s Athletics Hall of Fame during ceremonies this weekend in Ames, Iowa, 1928 NCAA champion Arthur Holding and 1968 NCAA champion Reg Wicks.


Since the creation of the Iowa State Athletics Hall of Fame in 1997, a wrestler has been inducted every year, for an amazing 20 straight years. There are now 33 Hall of Fame members at Iowa State from its wrestling team.


Holding was the first NCAA champion for Iowa State in wrestling, when he won the 1928 NCAA title at 135 pounds. He was also the first three-time conference champion in the Cyclone program.


Wicks won the 160-pound NCAA title in 1968 and won the Midlands title in 1967. He coached at the U.S. Naval Academy from 1988-2000.


Also inducted alongside Holding and Wicks were Mark Diab (men’s gymnastics), Dan McCarney (football), Jamaal Tinsley (men’s basketball), Erin Woods (softball), Megan Taylor (women’s basketball) and Raf Wyns (track and field/cross country).


The wrestlers in the Iowa State Athletics Hall of Fame include Olympic champions Dan Gable, Glen Brand, Ben Peterson and Kevin Jackson, plus Olympic medalists Chris Taylor and Nate Carr.

Arthur Holding – Wrestling, Class of 2016

* Iowa State’s first national champion (1928), winning the 135-pound NCAA title

* First three-time conference champion in school history (1927, 1928, 1929)

* National AAU champion in 1928

* First Cyclone wrestling Olympian, competing in the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam

* Member of Iowa State’s first conference championship team in 1929

Reg Wicks – Wrestling, Class of 2016

* NCAA national champion at 160 pounds in 1968

* Earned All-America honors in 1968

* Won a Midlands title in 1967 and finished runner-up in 1968

* Iowa State finished second, third and second at the NCAA Championships in his three seasons

* Head coach at Navy from 1988-2000, compiling an 173-60-5 overall record

* Inducted into the Iowa Wrestling Hall of Fame in 1998

* Inducted into the Iowa High School Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2005

IOWA STATE ATHLETICS HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES

from the wrestling program

Dan Gable (1997)

Harold Nichols (1997)

Glen Brand (1998)

Ben Peterson (1998)

Chris Taylor (1999)

Nate Carr (2000)

Polly Wallace (2000), also football

Larry Hayes (2001)

Richard Barker (2002), also football

Jim Gibbons (2002)

Tim Krieger (2003)

Les Anderson (2004)

Tom Peckham (2004)

Carl Adams (2005)

Ron Gray (2005)

Hugo Otopalik (2006), also golf

Kevin Jackson (2007)

Mike Land (2007)

Jason Smith (2007)

Robert Hess (2008)

Al Nacin (2008)

Joe Gibbons (2009)

Frank Santana (2010)

Eric Voelker (2010)

Kelly Ward (2011)

Kevin Darkus (2012)

Gordon Hassman (2013)

Veryl Long (2013)

Vic Marcucci (2014)

Dale Bahr (2015)

George Martin (2015)

Arthur Holding (2016)

Reg Wicks (2016)