{"id":35122,"date":"2015-07-30T18:30:43","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T23:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/?p=35122"},"modified":"2015-07-30T18:30:43","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T23:30:43","slug":"outdoor-hawkeye-wrestling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrestlingpod.com\/wrestling-news\/w35122\/outdoor-hawkeye-wrestling\/","title":{"rendered":"Brands on likely Kinnick wrestling dual. May shatter NCAA attendance record."},"content":{"rendered":"

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All signs are pointing to a wrestling dual meet and a national attendance record going down Nov. 14 at Kinnick Stadium.<\/p>\n

Reached by phone Wednesday afternoon, Iowa wrestling coach Tom Brands said, \u201cThere\u2019s something big coming. And we\u2019re excited about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The University of Iowa isn\u2019t going as far to say the Hawkeyes will definitely host an outdoor wrestling dual (in what could be near-freezing temperatures) prior to that night\u2019s 7 p.m. football game vs. Minnesota in Iowa City, nor is it confirming the opponent. Wrestling spokesman Chris Brewer said the 2015-16 schedule is not ready to be released.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur staff has been working on a significant and very exciting project involving our wrestling program,\u201d said Rick Klatt, the UI\u2019s associate athletics director for external relations. \u201cWe are just about done dotting all of the I\u2019s and crossing all of the T\u2019s in the planning process.\u201d<\/p>\n

The wrestling team\u2019s official Twitter account (@Hawks_Wrestling) got the buzz started with a standalone tweet Tuesday that depicted \u201c11.14.15\u201d overlaying what appear to be football-field yard lines and hash marks. Later in the day, Hawkeye Wrestling Club member and international star Brent Metcalf tweeted, \u201c@Hawks_Wrestling fans, tired of some other school holding the attendance record? This year (it) comes home.\u201d<\/p>\n

If the outdoor dual happens at Kinnick, it would almost certainly shatter the NCAA attendance mark held by Penn State, which drew 15,996 fans against Pittsburgh in 2013. That broke the previous record of 15,955, which Iowa set in a 2008 dual vs. Iowa State at Carver-Hawkeye Arena. Kinnick Stadium\u2019s listed capacity for football is 70,585.<\/p>\n

Iowa\u2019s Big Ten Conference schedule has already been determined \u2014 and Iowa vs. Minnesota is already set for Jan. 30 \u2014 so the outdoor opponent is likely a nonconference foe. Brands has previously confirmed to Hawk Central that Iowa would host Oklahoma State, a program with 34 national wrestling championships, on this year\u2019s schedule. A call to Cowboys coach John Smith\u2019s cellphone was not answered Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Minnesota coach J Robinson said Iowa did not approach his program about the possibility of a Nov. 14 Hawkeye-Gopher doubleheader at Kinnick Stadium. The Gophers are scheduled to wrestle the following day at the Northeast Duals in New York.<\/p>\n

Robinson said he first heard about Iowa’s plans Tuesday from his director of camp operations, Ty Eustice, a former Hawkeye whose brother, Luke, is Iowa’s director of wrestling operations.<\/p>\n

\u201cI commend them for doing it,\u201d Robinson said. \u201cI think what they\u2019re doing is great. I think it\u2019s super positive and I applaud them for doing it. We\u2019ve been thinking about doing it for years. It\u2019s good from their standpoint.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt takes a lot of time, effort and getting people on board. There\u2019s a lot of things I would do, but it takes a lot of time and a lot of energy and a lot of commitment to get people to do stuff, especially stuff that\u2019s out of the norm.\u201d<\/p>\n

You can cross Penn State off the list of possible opponents, too. In a story published Monday on PennLive.com, Cael Sanderson said the Big Ten bumped Iowa from his program’s conference schedule and the Hawkeyes and Nittany Lions were unable to set up a non-league date.<\/p>\n

“It’s not ideal,” he said. “I was trying to make it happen. It just didn’t seem to work out. It’s up to us as coaches to try to figure it out and we just weren’t able to figure it out.”<\/p>\n

Outdoor wrestling isn\u2019t brand new. For example, Cal-Poly has hosted a few Pacific-12 Conference outdoor duals. But the climate in San Luis Obispo, Calif., is far more conducive to being outdoors in a wrestling singlet. According to accuweather.com, the average temperatures in Iowa City for Nov. 14 range from a high of 51 degrees to a low of 32.<\/p>\n

by\u00a0Chad Leistikow and Andy Hamilton<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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