Wrestling

IOWA CITY — A friend, who is great friend of wrestling, posted on Facebook early Monday morning that parts of the just concluded U.S. Olympic Wrestling Trials at Carver-Hawkeye Arena were “tedious and asinine.” Another friend called them “boring” and didn’t come back for Sunday night’s finals. My father-in-law, a longtime wrestling fan who had [...]

  IOWA CITY — These were the U.S. Olympic Wrestling Trials, which means this was an event with international wrestling rules, which means confusion was bound to reign from time to time. Sunday night’s Carver-Hawkeye Arena crowd of 13,712 thought former Iowa Hawkeye Brent Metcalf had won the final period of his second 66-kilogram match [...]

IOWA CITY — The state of Iowa and the University of Iowa welcomed the United States Olympic Wrestling Trials with record-breaking crowds and unparalleled enthusiasm. The Trials didn’t return that love to the hosts on Sunday. Before a single-session record crowd of 13,784 in the morning and a two-day record total of 54,766, native Iowan [...]

      IOWA CITY — This wasn’t the majority of the Carver-Hawkeye Arena crowd wanted, but Brent Metcalf lost in the 66 kilograms U.S. Olympic Freestyle Wrestling Trials final to Jared Frayer Sunday night in Carver-Hawkeye Arena. He showed a lot of the right stuff by holding a short press conference in the aftermath [...]

By Jason Brummond, correspondent IOWA CITY – Phil Keddy’s return to Carver-Hawkeye Arena nearly put him in the finals of the U.S Olympic Wrestling Trials. He knows almost doesn’t cut it. “Close doesn’t feel very good,” Keddy said. “Let’s put it that way. There’s no moral victory there for me. I just have to keep [...]

  IOWA CITY — Henry Cejudo was an Olympic gold-medal winner in freestyle wrestling four years ago. He lost to top-seeded Nick Simmons in their 55 kilograms second-round freestyle match at the U.S. Olympic Trials Sunday, then said the following:   Can you talk about your emotions and what you’re feeling right now? This sport [...]

By Jason Brummond, correspondent IOWA CITY — Matt McDonough lost, then sprinted off the mat and up the tunnel for a post-match workout. Losing almost is foreign to the University of Iowa’s two-time NCAA champion. McDonough came into the Olympic Wrestling Trials with high expectations for himself, even if he was seeded ninth and is [...]