Category Amateur Wrestling

Hawkeyes’ Lineup Taking Shape

By Andy Hamilton Iowa City Press-Citizen The Iowa wrestling class was nearly complete last spring when the Hawkeyes made a late addition, signing a 133-pound prospect who’d never won a state title, but impressed Jim Zalesky with his rapid improvement.…

Cael Sanderson ready for new challenge

By KEVIN EVANS, Executive Sports Editor AMES — Cael Sanderson isn’t ready to say he won’t wrestle again. But he’s getting close. “I haven’t completely (ruled it out), but pretty close, “said Iowa State’s assistant head wrestling coach. “If I…

Weighing in on wrestling

Billy Jack Saylor changed the sport of wrestling forever on Nov. 7, 1997. The 19-year-old freshman at Campell University in North Carolina, one of only 35 three-time Florida state wrestling champions, died of cardiac arrest amidst a grueling training session.…

Wrestling With Tradition: Keep Your Shirt On

By ERIC WILSON WALL paintings in Egyptian tombs depict wrestlers competing in crude loincloths that drooped to their knees. Greek antiquities show that when wrestling was introduced to the Olympic Games in 708 B.C., participants competed in the buff. In…