The Knoxville Wrestling Squad will head to the Iowa City Regina Invitational today. The Panthers were originally scheduled to go to Roland-Story, but due to concerns with a Roland-Story wrestler and his arrest for assault earlier this year, caused the Panthers to pull out of that event. The Panthers will be facing several teams that they likely would not have seen at Regina. Knoxville will see ranked Johnston, who is 11th in the latest Iowa Wrestling Coaches Association poll. The Panthers still boast of four wrestlers who are unbeaten to start the season. Luke Spaur is 11–0 at 132 pounds. He did not wrestle in the quad on Thursday due to illness but is expected to be ready today. Andon Trout is 8-0 on the season. Trout tells KNIA/KRLS Sports teammate Daniel Gorskikh, is his practice partner and he has made Trout already a better wrestler.

Trout: “Working with him, these guys aren’t as big as they are, so he gives me a really good feel for what I’m going to see in matches.”

Speaking of Gorskikh, he is off to a 14-0 start to his season while Chaz Graves at 152 pounds is unbeaten in six matches. Other wrestlers who are off to good starts are Tristan Sinnard at 11-1 and 106 pounder Tre DeRaad is off to an 11-5 mark to the season. Among some of the other teams that are in today’s field are Fairfield, who were in the Panthers meet last week, Mount Pleasant, Wappello, and West Branch. A total of 16 teams will make the field.