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139 "Everything I'm looking toward is the top. I want to be the champion, that's where my goals are and that's what I want." Sorensen has won two titles at the Midlands Championships and last season became the 24th wrestler to join the tournament's 20-in-4 Club (20 wins in their first four years of Midlands competition). Another accomplishment came in June when Sorensen won seven straight matches and the 70 kg freestyle championship at University Nationals in Akron, Ohio. He outscored his opponents, 58-6. e margin of victory at Akron (four wins were by 10 or more points) plays into Sorensen's goal of compiling more points and more falls this season. "It is always easier to move forward with success," Sorensen said. "When you get beat, it gives you things to work on, but here, I won and still there are multiple things I needed to do better in that tournament. Success gives me good matches against some of the guys I might see this year and it gives you good experience." Brands calls Sorensen a workhorse who is hardened for battle. Like Sorensen, Iowa's head coach wants to see his 149-pounder score more points in seven minutes and avoid extending matches. Of Sorensen's five losses last season, three came in overtime. "He had some matches last year where I felt they didn't have to go overtime," Brands said. "Are you going to be that wrestler? e thing that holds him back is that some time it is too close; we need to break that door down." Sorensen is off to a 4-0 start to the 2017-18 season with two major decisions, a technical fall, and fall. e Hawkeyes return to the mat Dec. 1 against Illinois in Carver-Hawkeye Arena. e Big Ten opener begins at 7 p.m.