{"id":200005,"date":"2025-12-23T15:46:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T15:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/200005\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T15:46:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T15:46:10","slug":"bastida-named-big-12-wrestler-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/200005\/","title":{"rendered":"Bastida Named Big 12 Wrestler of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AMES, Iowa \u2013 Iowa State heavyweight <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclones.com\/sports\/wrestling\/roster\/yonger-bastida\/13873\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"13873\" target=\"_blank\">Yonger Bastida<\/a> was named the Big 12 Wrestler of the Week after securing a pair of victories against top-6 opponents last weekend at the Collegiate Wrestling Duals, the league office announced Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bastida defeated both Ohio State&#8217;s No. 3 Nick Feldman and Lehigh&#8217;s No. 6 Nathan Taylor Sunday afternoon in Nashville. Both matches ended with the same score, a 4-2 decision in the Cuban&#8217;s favor.<\/p>\n<p>It marks Bastida&#8217;s fourth career weekly honor from the league and the second time this season that a Cyclone has been recognized by the conference.<\/p>\n<p>Now 12-0 on the season, Bastida has seven wins over ranked opponents, including four wins over top-10 foes. He owns a 43:1 takedown ratio this season and has gone eight-consecutive matches without surrendering a takedown.<\/p>\n<p>No. 3 Iowa State is off until after the New Year. The Cyclones are back in action Jan. 4 at Stanford.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AMES, Iowa \u2013 Iowa State heavyweight Yonger Bastida was named the Big 12 Wrestler of the Week after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-200005","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}