Hoosiers will rest regulars during weekend's Open

On Nov. 27, IU placed 13 wrestlers at the Mat Town Invitational. For the University of Northern Iowa Open this Sunday, the No. 16 Hoosiers already know they will not have as many grapplers place. That is because IU is using this weekend to rest up and will not be sending as many wrestlers to compete. \nIU coach Duane Goldman said the Hoosiers will not be sending any of their regular starters to the Open, but rather will send a few backups to represent the team.\n"We're mainly using this weekend to heal some of our starters, and we'll send some of our less experienced athletes up there to gain some experience," Goldman said.\nThe break comes at a good time for the Hoosiers who finished first at the Mat Town Invitational but not completely unscathed.\n"We've had a couple of good weeks of competition, but we're banged up a little bit," Goldman said. "So we need to get in a good week of training and get healthy again. Over the next couple of weeks, we have six dual meets coming up so we need to be healthy for that."\nGoldman also hopes he can use the week off to address a couple of things the Hoosiers can do to improve for their upcoming meets, including the Hoosiers Duals Dec. 10.\n"What we took out of the Mat Town was that we had a lot of guys be able to get in there and find some success," he said. "But by the same token it definitely provided a lot of situations for us to improve upon both as a team and individually, so we want to use this week to focus on those and then prepare for our dual meet"