Bachmann is also fighting the troubling storyline, already gaining traction within the Iowa political class, that she has difficulty functioning outside a tightly controlled bubble of advisers and aggressive security personnel.
The class action, banging around Iowa state courts for six years, is one of the last suits remaining in Microsoft's long antitrust battles and is on the docket for November.
Steiber nearly made the U.S. Olympic team and remains the overwhelming favorite to repeat as the champion in his class though second-seeded Tony Ramos of Iowa also racked up a pair of falls Thursday and has the crowd behind him.