No. 3 Michigan won the 2022 Big Ten Wrestling Championships overall team score with 143 points at Pinnacle Bank Arena in Lincoln, Neb., on Sunday. The Wolverines toppled No. 1 Penn State and No. 2 Iowa in their first Big Ten Championship since 1973.

Iowa’s No. 2 165-pound Alex Marinelli defeated Michigan’s No. 4 Cameron Amine to win his fourth individual Big Ten Championship.  Only 17 Big Ten wrestlers have ever accomplished the feat.

Iowa’s No. 6 Drake Ayala,  No. 2 Jaydin Eierman, and  No. 4 Michael Kemerer medically forfeited their final matches. Iowa’s No. 2 Tony Cassioppi followed suit, dropping a match to Minnesota’s No. 1 Gable Steveson. Steveson earned his third Big Ten Championship with the forfeit.

Iowa next wrestles at the NCAA Tournament in Detroit starting on Thursday, March. 17.

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Big Ten Network commentators chat during session five of the Big Ten Wrestling Championships at Pinnacle Bank Arena in Lincoln, Neb., on Sunday, March 6, 2022. Michigan won the Big Ten Championship with 143 points.