Ben Keuter Becomes Undefeated 4x Iowa HS State Champion!
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- Опубліковано 23 лют 2023
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Iowa City High's Ben Keuter is committed to play football AND wrestle at the University of Iowa. Watch him win his 4th title to become a 4 time undefeated Iowa High School State Champion.
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You know you’re good when you Tech Fall your opponent on a state championship match. Really excited to see him under Brands leadership.
Brands is going to ruin him.
@@Auxz yeah he's gonna get worse
Might turn into Alex marinelli at Iowa. Win every match by 1 or 2 points no matter the opponent and never do well post season
@@frankmanning5166 and go bald from getting screamed at lmao
@@frankmanning5166 when push comes to shove Marinelli "the bull" gets cucked
For anyone saying this kid wouldn’t place in PA or CA… he is a world champion. WORLD CHAMPION. The more you know.
A lot of idiots in this comment section
CA is not the same level of pa or IA or even il
@@Logan-zv4xg CA is tough, I’m not dogging them. They’re competition structure there is probably the toughest in the nation. That doesn’t mean the wrestlers are the toughest though. Midwest boys just have it down.
@@DrewBahr True.
@@Logan-zv4xg california is much better than iowa. 1 class. Probably goes PA,NJ,Oh,Mi,Ca,Ill..then Mn, Iowa.
The most impressive part is that he is a 2 sport athlete. Not wrestling for 4 months a year while all those other kids are doing club wrestling shows you just how good he is.
He’s doing his club workouts during football just not as much he’s in the wrestling room in the off season as well sometimes during football
@@VoldemortPack how? I don't get how you could be in school 5 days a week, football 6 days a week, and wrestle. If you said he wrestles on the weekends during football, that would make sense. But that is still impressive.
@@rrt5000 weekends
He also played baseball all the way up to last year.
Most athletes in Iowa are multi sport so chances are all the kids he was wrestling played other sports too
imagine how good you have to be to not get beaten by a single highschooler in iowa
What’s crazy is it’s even harder to do in California
@@co8539 as a california wrestler absolutely not lmfao. Southern section is tough but iowa is a different breed
Bro everybody is face sucked
@@co8539def not harder than iowa 😭 one of the top states for wrestling in the country 😭 cali doesn’t compare
Bring him to Pennsylvania and see what he does.
Nothing too fancy, not too flashy, kinda old school soul, very blessed 👏 Chosen.
Always Gold Brother thanks! Pure class on both gentlemen.
The second he hit the mat for that second return you could see he figured it out. Lewis was going for the same return and Kueter felt him getting off balance, he knew he would be able to just walk over him. His sense of balance is unreal.
timestamp?
@@lukechopper3950 @2:43
That’s a great combination of being slick and a high level of IQ right there.
I like the energy in this match especially the way is began.
Wow, that's impressive! Dual sport too, that's very impressive!!! Good luck to this kid at Iowa in both sports.
4X Undefeated State Champ....my Lord. What an incrediable, ferocious, compeditor.
Impressive. Fun to watch
Amazing stuff !
Awesome wrestler!!! God bless
Watch this tournament for this kid. He went through his way class with overwhelming ease.l. RLTW 3/75
What an awesome accomplishment! Cong.
Undefeated wrestler and a 4 star linebacker. Kid is no joke at all.
He has to be in the conversation for the GOAT of Iowa HS wrestling. As a fellow little Hawk though I give the nod to Jeff McGinness by a nose! Go little Hawks
Impressive
It will be interesting to see where this young man ends up as a college wrestler.
Iowa
What weight? He's 220, and pretty lean and lanky, but doesn't college go from 197 to heavyweight? Is he gonna lose 25ish lbs or bulk up 30 lbs? I wanna watch him whatever he does
@@aaronsarquist3382 with him playing football, no way. He will only go up.
Good point! Totally forgot about that. Jeez, once he grows into that frame he could be a monster
@@aaronsarquist3382 he aint got 25 lbs to lose man he gonna lose all his muscles. Only way is up.
Jeff McGuinness also was a 4X state champion.. and undefeated.. This young man is in great company!!
That was awesome.....4X in Iowa is tough enough, but unbeaten? Wow. Not an ounce of fat on either of these kids, so probably gonna have to go Hwt in college. Some huge guys there, but Big Ben can handle it.
Future NCAA champion in the making.
THE REASONS BEN IS DIFFERENT THAN OTHER 4 TIMERS: I’m fully aware of guys like Jacobi Teemer and Yhanni’s lil brother that are both 5xers. But they hit that collegiate level, and everything changes. I follow the sport closely and watched 4xer Jessie Mendez just get bullied by Vito. So I get the point. But for the sake of a FRIENDLY DEBATE 🙏🏼, let’s really break this down further as to why I asked the question and made the comparison. Also just to be more honest & fair to Ben versus the “huge list of other 4xers”.
It is a common feat, and most will NOT go onto to win NCAAs, BUT BEN IS JUST DIFFERENT. Don’t just take it from me (a washed up old man from SC that won state over 20 years ago). I posed this “Gabe Stevenson” question/ comparison to the lovely fans of our sport bc of what experts like Dan Gable, Brands bros, Cael, Seabolt, Dresser, and others have said about this young man. SO LETS DIVE DEEPER INSTEAD OF SIMPLY ADDING HIM TO THE EVER-GROWING 4XER LIST:
*** I think we’re doing ourselves an incredible disservice if we just grouped the generational talent of Ben Keuter with all other 4 timers from other states.
1. COMPARISONS: This is what we do in all sports. We’re constantly looking at the young talent coming up and trying to guess whose going to be the next MJ, Tom Brady, Tiger Woods, etc. It’s fun to spark these comparisons and see what others have to say. So let’s play along my friend…
2.HS RECORD: So let’s take that 4timer list of yours and reduce it down to just the undefeated 4x state champs. Now we’re looking at a much smaller list right?
3. STATE & TALENT LEVEL: I’m a 1 timer from SC so I can shit on my own state here for argument sake. We already know all 4x State Champs are NOT created equal. Take for instance an Iowa 4xer vs. a South Carolina 4xer (where I’m from). Thers no comparison and I’d say that 8-10 times, the Iowa one timer prob beats a South Carolina 4xer. Maybe there’s a argument to be made that Iowa HS might not be up there with Pennsylvania, New Jersey, NY, Cali, etc, but there in my personal top 5 states at creating consistent top talent. Sure there’s always going to be an outlier (follow 2xer Sophmore from South Carolina, J.J. Peace) Check him out, follow him, sub to his channel and tell him I sent you over. You will not be disappointed in this kid. Back to Ben, in general, I just find it a bit a lazy to put Ben in the same category as ALL other 4xers, in my humble opinion.
4. INTERNATIONAL AWARDS: Then let’s just talk about the Jr. World Champs from that dwindling list of 4xers.
5. COMPLETE DOMINATION: Pinning guys in 11 sec at State and wrestling around 60 sec from Rd 1 to the finals. And Ben could’ve ended that finals match earlier I believe. I think he just wanted to soak up his last HS match and I can’t blame him for it. What he’s done thru state and when up against other AAs is just different. And I don’t remember the last time I’ve witnessed this level of dominance. The list continues to get smaller.
6. TRAINING & COACHING: To have that Saebolt level of confidence in your training is a superpower. Seabolt just builds them different.
*** I’m sure others can add on more to his decorated collection of accomplishments, but this is why I raised the question brother. God bless 🙏🏼
Profanity adds nothing. Way overdone. I see flaws that might get exposed in college.
Let's hope he is able to stay healthy
Maybe they said it but I didn't hear it. What weight class for these guys?
Is there a tournament of state champions too???
What weight?
How does flo not have the weight class anywhere, not in the title, not in the description not in the video scoreboard. it's like they went out of there way to not include it.
Bottom of the score card on the mat dude. 220
@@erikmiller4005 it's still pretty crazy flo decides not to include it anywhere not even the description
@@erikmiller4005 6' 3" 220 at 18? How would you like to tackle him hitting the hole? No thanks!
Giga chad
Psh unreal
Never watched wrestling before. How did Lewis score his second point?
I assume he’s going to Carver Hawkeye
#1 in the nation, pound for pound, per MatScouts.
That's if you're in here to say otherwise...
its always nice to dream but as an Iowa native and Hawkeye wrestling fan Im not counting chickens before theyre hatched. I have seen so many multi time state champs that were the next big thing that fell apart at the college level.
He won the world junior championship for his weight class and pinned the other kid in the final. I think he'll be okay.
@@TrentonO3000 he will be going to heavy weight in college. We shall see
Did they say committed to play football at Iowa?
I better take the next train out of Dodge in where's the bull
Zi
How the heck do you play 2 sports at a division I school?
He really seemed to have broke Lewis in the first period 😳
I wonder how far he can hit a baseball? Why not play baseball at Iowa as well?
not hs but spencer lee is still an iowa wrestler
If this kid quits Football and focuses soley on Wrestling he could go down as one of the bests to ever do it.
I talked to him personally if he can make nfl he will quit wrestling
@@tazemurph349well he’s smart then. Still would like to see him stay in the singlet tho…
Football makes money tho so I doubt that will happen. And if he ends up being a star on the football team the football coach will probably put a stop to wrestling
@@whiteronaldj90 true, football does make more money, but your chances of making it are very slim. add to the fact Iowa college football program isn't even top 100 in nation by a wide margin, I doubt he would even get drafted, let alone walk on an NFL team. his chances of making money lay within wrestling and then after college OLYMPIC team with sponsors or MMA
@@XxFWLxX311 If you're going to spit out facts, they need to be accurate. Imagine saying Iowa isn't a top 100 program, stay in school kids.
How old are these Kids..?
See how well he does in football, that will be the test
Nah. Most sports require 1 ball. Wrestling requires 2.
maybe his competition isn't as good as unbeaten wrestlers of the past. I guess we will see how it goes for him in college.
Sounds like a stud
Imagine being in this kids bracket. Everyone is wrestling for second. This is the only scenario I’d recommend ducking a weight class
Kueter is a BAD dude! Too bad he's not going to Penn!!!!!! He could win an NCAA title at a school that will also win an NCAA title!
Can he be the next Gable Steveson? 🙏🏼
really? who is Gable Stevenson
Kills me when announcers say that. You're paid to talk, get it right
Do you know how many 4-time HS state champions there are? There is hoardes of them. Guys that are average wrestlers in Division 1 wrestling are 4 time state champions. I saw a 3 time state champion who was 8-7 in college the other day. The feat is pretty common. It’s extraordinary, but it happens all the time. Yanni took 3rd as an 8th grader in Nee York and then won it 4 times.
@@adamlv1 Oh trust me, I’m with you 100% brother. I’m fully aware of the Jacobi Teemer and Yhanni’s lil brother that are both 5xers. But they hit that collegiate level, and everything changes. I follow the sport closely and watched 4xer Jessie Mendez just get bullied by Vito. So I get your point. But for the sake of a FRIENDLY DEBATE 🙏🏼, let’s really break this down further as to why I asked the question and made the comparison. Also just to be more honest & fair to Ben versus the “huge list of other 4xers”.
It is a common feat, and most will NOT go onto to win NCAAs, BUT BEN IS JUST DIFFERENT. Don’t just take it from me (a washed up old man from SC that won state over 20 years ago). I posed this “Gabe Stevenson” question/ comparison to the lovely fans of our sport bc of what experts like Dan Gable, Brands bros, Cael, Seabolt, Dresser, and others have said about this young man. SO LETS DIVE DEEPER INSTEAD OF SIMPLY ADDING HIM TO THE EVER-GROWING 4XER LIST:
*** I think we’re doing ourselves an incredible disservice if we just grouped the generational talent of Ben Keuter with all other 4 timers from other states.
1. COMPARISONS: This is what we do in all sports. We’re constantly looking at the young talent coming up and trying to guess whose going to be the next MJ, Tom Brady, Tiger Woods, etc. It’s fun to spark these comparisons and see what others have to say. So let’s play along my friend…
2.HS RECORD: So let’s take that 4timer list of yours and reduce it down to just the undefeated 4x state champs. Now we’re looking at a much smaller list right?
3. STATE & TALENT LEVEL: I’m a 1 timer from SC so I can shit on my own state here for argument sake. We already know all 4x State Champs are NOT created equal. Take for instance an Iowa 4xer vs. a South Carolina 4xer (where I’m from). Thers no comparison and I’d say that 8-10 times, the Iowa one timer prob beats a South Carolina 4xer. Maybe there’s a argument to be made that Iowa HS might not be up there with Pennsylvania, New Jersey, NY, Cali, etc, but there in my personal top 5 states at creating consistent top talent. Sure there’s always going to be an outlier (follow 2xer Sophmore from South Carolina, J.J. Peace) Check him out, follow him, sub to his channel and tell him I sent you over. You will not be disappointed in this kid. Back to Ben, in general, I just find it a bit a lazy to put Ben in the same category as ALL other 4xers, in my humble opinion.
4. INTERNATIONAL AWARDS: Then let’s just talk about the Jr. World Champs from that dwindling list of 4xers.
5. COMPLETE DOMINATION: Pinning guys in 11 sec at State and wrestling around 60 sec from Rd 1 to the finals. And Ben could’ve ended that finals match earlier I believe. I think he just wanted to soak up his last HS match and I can’t blame him for it. What he’s done thru state and when up against other AAs is just different. And I don’t remember the last time I’ve witnessed this level of dominance. The list continues to get smaller.
6. TRAINING & COACHING: To have that Saebolt level of confidence in your training is a superpower. Seabolt just builds them different.
*** I’m sure others can add on more to his decorated collection of accomplishments, but this is why I raised the question brother. God bless 🙏🏼
@@scottklepner blahahaha
Dan Knight 132-0
He wrestled the number 2 seed amd made him look like a fish
Who’s his father?
Geez Louise!!
Weight cuts him.
he looks 30, good luck
A lefty, which helps
I was thinking Iowa was a tough wrestling state. What’s goin on here? He may be going for 4 but seriously the second best guy in the state is getting taken down like a first year wrestler.
Shouldn’t there at least be somewhat competitive in the state finals? When this guy transfers up into college if he is in Div. 1 4 time state champs get eaten for breakfast. I just watched a 3-time state champ with an 8-7 record
Exactly
Competition matters, some guys make it look easy no matter who they face, stop taking away from everyone's accomplishments because you just don't understand it.
Great kids make anyone look bad... gable steveson pinned his guy in the finals in his senior year in 12 seconds.
@@matttveita705 Gable Steveson had plenty of matches that went the distance. Are you really going to defend the toughness of Iowa wrestlers by citing one of the best athletes to wrestle in the past decade? 4-time state champs get eaten for breakfast up in D1. He might taper off after high school or push himself and become one of the greats. My comment was for the other guy.
@M.I.L.C Movement for International Love of Calvin do your self a favor and go read the comments on UA-cam and you'll see why I said what I said.
obviously ben has incredible assets and evidently at minute 4 the girl photographer had noticed as well lol but seriously then it's thick where it counts
Explain to the folks at home what "undefeated" means.
Kinda sloppy tbh
He pinned his way to the finals. All pins were under a minute. I'm sure the nerves were high. He was going for history. Bet you'd be nervous as well
More impressive if you’re undefeated Ohio or PA. How many times did he win iron man? David Taylor would tech him
Exactly. He wouldn't be no 4x state Champ in Pennsylvania.
I'm from Ohio..wrestled too..but um David Taylor is currently one of the best in the world...just a tad unfair to mention Kueter in the same breath.
@@christopherwall444 well duhhh
You should google him genius. He's a world champion gold medalist as a high schooler. And he's going to one of the best wrestling programs ever. Sky's the limit for this kid. Don't be a hater
I guess you guys are from Iowa..go Hawkeyes...off the floor and out the door
I love watching videos like this then hearing the diehard Iowa and Penn fans arguing which state creates the best wrestlers.
Iowa ~ 3.3mil population
Pennsylvania ~ 13 mil population
Meanwhile in California ~ 40+ mil population and only one division for the state wrestling championships.
I've seen some pretty embarrassing an novice wrestling on the high school state level from these so called "powerhouse" states. You won't find that in CA. Path to state is insanely difficult, especially if you're in the northern CA region.
That's why all the best wrestlers come from CA don't they...yeah, said no one ever.
I wrestled in South Dakota and we stayed plenty busy. I had 50 matches my senior year alone and placed 4th in the state at Sturgis HS. After I graduated I moved to Livermore, Ca, where my little brother was still in high school and he idolized me ever since he came to watch me wrestle in 7th grade and win the district championships and he wanted to be like me. So he wrestled from that year on and aside from some academic stuff, he was a good kid and a great little wrestler. I began coaching high school wrestling for my brother’s team.
I can attest 100% to what you are saying. California is impossibly difficult. Nobody is going to contest that California is the toughest state. The shear number of high schools is astronomical. All these midwesterners have no idea what Oakland and the surrounding cities look like. The cities all grow together and form one gigantic metropolis. There’s 3,000,000 people in the state of Iowa, but right here in the Bay Area where I live there are 7,700,000 people 9 counties around the bay alone. The Bay Area is 7,000 square miles, The state of Iowa has 55,000 square miles and well under half the population of just this group of cities. There’s 58 counties altogether in California.
The last data that I could find said that Iowa has a total of 7,700 wrestlers in the state. California has almost 30,000 wrestlers. There’s no A and B division either, there is only one state tournament. Well two if you count the girls. Which btw, that number of wrestlers does not include girls, and there’s a lot of them here too.
I would be willing to bet that almost every other state in the country holds a regional tournament with 16 wrestlers and the top 4 from each region advance to state. That is pretty standard stuff. But California has so many wrestlers and it’s almost impossible to seed them because just the distance between the populated region of Los Angeles and San Diego is like a 6 hour drive from the Bay Area and 8 hours from Sacramento so wrestlers never see each other from the 4 populated parts of the state. But California’s state champs are seeded due to accomplishments like in Freestyle at Cadet Nationals in Fargo and other tournaments like maybe Reno Tournament of Champions. Right now there is a 152 lb kid in the semi-finals named Montanona who was absolutely robbed in the state finals last year to take second. He is a cadet national champion and he has pinned his way through the tournament so far. Semi’s are tomorrow morning.
California wrestlers to qualify for the state tournament have to place in the top 4 in their League tournament in order to get a place in the division tournament. I believe League’s is a 32 man bracket. Division is a 16 man bracket. The top 4 from the Division tournaments qualify for Sections. The Section tournament is 32 man bracket I believe and the top 4 from Sections qualify for the State Tournament. The State Tournament is a 64 man bracket and by the time they have whittled the pack down the the 64 best wrestlers in the state, the tournament is the toughest state tournament in the country. California is so tough that every weekend at tournaments you are going to run into guys you have never heard of that appear to be the best wrestler kids have ever wrestled. You just never know what kind of beast is going to come from some of these schools with 20,000 kids attending. They are everywhere. 3 tournaments just to qualify for state means wrestlers had to start qualifying around February 3rd at league. Division was held on Feb 10-11. Sections, or Master’s was held last weekend Feb. 17-18, and the state tournament started yesterday Feb. 23 and run through Saturday night.
@M.I.L.C Movement for International Love of Calvin None of what you're mentioning really matters. Cali has a ridiculous population like you mentioned, but that doesn't equal a higher caliber or competition.
The long process for states you're explaining just weeds out all the mediocre participants.
If what you're saying is true then Cali would be better represented in D1 participants and champions. Except it isn't. And that's with a population that's 2x-10x some other states.
PA and NJ have the highest caliber wrestling. I mean NJ has like 1/5 the population of Cali, and NJ has had more NCAA Champs in the last few decades.
@@randyh.7817 I never said that great wrestlers don't come out of those states, as a matter of fact most of the all timers come from there. That being said, as a whole, those states don't compare to larger states that have a single division option for championship wrestling.
Kueter literally pinned every person in the through all the rounds up until the finals. I promise you he would'nt have had that easy of a pathway in CA.
The clubs are amazing in all of those states but, I would be hesitant to call them powerhouses. I wish I would've wrestled there in highschool.
@@adamlv1 well said. I'm glad there's others that have this experience. Yeah we have three qualifying tournaments before State even begins. And the talent exponentially grows with each one of those tournaments. I made it to our sections tournament my last two years but our section had a cluster of the most dominant schools in the state (Clovis, ponderosa, Bakersfield, DeLasalle, Buchanan, ect) insanely difficult to get top 6 just with those schools alone, let alone the hundreds of others.
Every major city in Ca is essentially an Iowa. For it to be equivalent, those schools would have to lose all their divisions except for one and have a 4-5 state combined tournament with only one champion. Clump Iowa, Penn, NY, NJ and have a single quad state tourney, then you'll feel some real competition going through that tournament.
He's strong, same takedown over & over, limited on mat maneuvers. Average big man wrestler. Better stay with football.
He kind of looked sloppy with technique.
Frank Gotch would like a word.
He also didn't do it wrestling at a 106, where 80% of his opponents are freshmen or sophomore.
Todays youth is so beta, Titling him the greatest isn’t appropriate.