Lincoln McIlravy vs. Gerry Abas: 1993 NCAA title match at 142 pounds

One of the greatest matches! Amazing comeback. I was a freshman in high school and when I saw this match and the Boot Scoot for the first time. I was like, "What was that! Rewind!" I started practicing it and it became far and away my favorite takedown.

I took Abas down in a practice when I was a senior in high school and then he proceeded to kick my ass for it. I legit caught him and he let me know he wasn't going to let that happen again. Both he and his brother were good dudes to roll with.

This is like the perfect example of Iowa style wrestling

Thank you for giving us the full match version of this!!!

Definition of iowa style right here

What a match!

One of the best matches ever

My Fresno State Coach Gerry Abas when I went there from the late 90s/early 2000s.

Abas wasn't faking fatigue. He was being taken to deep water and struggling. He took a couple of breaks and stalled and sucked it up and slipped in a good takedown, but that wasn't fooling people while having energy. He was sucking air. He couldn't hang at that level of intensity. Iowa had several wrestlers do this to you. Ironside was as menacing as anyone by the time you were in the third. That's how he beat Cary Kolat as well. Deep water. It's a part of the PSU formula today as well. Look for it in OSU now.

Seeing gable go apeshit at the end just gives me goosebumps man, total inspiration

One of the greateest examples of guts displayed in any sport. "I will win" attitude.

First time I saw this match. I'm no expert but man that kid was gassed at the end. Lincoln wrestled a good match. Props.

Here is the question.. what was point for.. there was no stalling.. that would have tied it.. don’t know how that happened unnoticed

Phenomenal match! Reminded me of Guerrero vs Schwab in Carver when Schwab broke him in the third!

Heck of a match!

Amazing match Epitome of Iowa Wrestling

Oh my God what a match

Stephen had pretty tough opponents as well. Jeremy Hunter was a 4 time AA and came back to be a NC and Strittmatter placed 2nd and 3rd in his only 2 DI tournaments. Fried and McIlravy were tougher than Hunter and Strittmatter but as far as finals opponents go Hughes has to be toward the bottom 10%- he was good but almost every NCAA finals participant is as good or better than Hughes and Abas still couldn’t win. He couldn’t handle the pressure like Stephen could handle it

That was not won in the last few seconds that was won with the countless hours of conditioning that gave him the tank to break Jerry. Unbelievable match for the NCAA and a lights out fantastic win for Lincoln and the Iowa Hawkeyes

11:50 to 11:56...love Gable's reaction