May is a critical month for the sport of wrestling. The International Olympic Committee Executive Board will meet May 29-31 in St. Petersburg, Russia. On Wednesday, May 29, wrestling, with its top representatives from across the world, will be one of eight sports, making a case to be included in the Olympic Programme in 2020. In [...]

Watch more video of 2013 U.S. Open and Fila JR’s on flowrestling.org Whether it is freestyle or folkstyle, Brent Metcalf is fun to watch. Part of flowrestling.org‘s great coverage of the sport, there is footage of Metcalf’s final bout, handling Adam Hall in two periods to place third at 145.5 pounds on April 20 at [...]

This won’t be a surprise to anyone in Eastern Iowa, but more wrestling fans attended University of Iowa duals on average than any other college program last season. According to an article on Amateur Wrestling News by Denny Diehl of Lehigh University Wrestling News, the Hawkeyes averaged a crowd of 8,764 in seven home duals for [...]

International wrestling powers will join together in a competition to further efforts for the Keep Olympic Wrestling movement and the 2020 Vision: Wrestling, Keep the Dream Alive campaign. Iran will wrestle on U.S. soil when the two countries meet for an event being called “United 4 Wrestling” on Sunday, May 19 at Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena, according [...]

USA Wrestling has released its latest update  on the effort to keep wrestling in the Olympic Games. No Less Than 20 States Passing Resolutions To Assist In The Restoration Of Wrestling To The Olympic Programme The Committee to Preserve Olympic Wrestling (CPOW) and USA Wrestling Working with State Governments to Raise Grassroots and Political Support [...]

Phil Keddy didn’t return to basics. He basically went back to what works best. The change resulted in freestyle success for the former University of Iowa three-time All-American. Keddy will look to continue his winning ways at the U.S. Open men’s freestyle tournament April 18-20 at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nev. [...]

Two-time NCAA Champion and former U.S. World Team member Brent Metcalf is seeded first at 145.5 pounds for the U.S. Open of freestyle wrestling. USA Wrestling announced the seeds last week for the tournament that will be held April 18-20 at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nev. Metcalf, a two-time FILA Junior World [...]

University of Iowa wrestling coach Tom Brands made an appearance Thursday at a meeting with members of Iowa’s Presidential Committee on Athletics in Iowa City. The Hawkeyes completed a season witha  second straight third-place finish at the Big Ten Championships and a fourth-place finish at the NCAA Championships in March at Wells Fargo Arena in Des [...]

IOWA CITY — Iowa wrestling coach Tom Brands said there’s muscle and money to garner support for his sport to regain its traditional slot in future Olympic Games. Wrestling was dropped as a core sport by the IOC in February and now must lobby for inclusion in the 2020 Olympics on a provisional basis against [...]

Rick Tucci, the president of the U.S. Wrestling Officials Association. He was recently elected to the Board of CPLA, the Pan American Wrestling Association, shared modifications to both freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling that will be applied for the 2013 season. It appears FILA is seriously encouraging more offense and providing wrestlers a chance to score [...]