Sioux City Journal article
MATSIDE
Without question, the best wrestling read you'll find is Dan McCool's "Reach for the Stars, The Iowa State High School Wrestling Tournament.''
It's every bit the rival of Craig Sesker's entertaining story about former Iowa State Coach Bobby Douglas.
McCool, a walking, talking encyclopedia of prep wrestling in the Hawkeye State, grew up in Clarion, once a hotbed of high school wrestling.
Jim Gibbons, a state prep champ, NCAA champ and ex-Iowa State coach does the forward for the massive tome, approximately 600 pages in length.
Included are some interesting and informative vignettes about dozens of former Iowa high school matmen, including Nobel Peace Prize winner Norman Borlaug.
Sesker, like McCool, grew up in Iowa.
Therefore, good reads make sense. And, remember, McCool is on a first-name basis with many of the folks and their accomplishments he chronicles.
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