I t’s time for a new season of Hawkeye Wrestling, and as always, head coach Tom Brands is ready to get after it. Iowa opens the season at #2 in the Coaches Poll and will face #23 Oregon State in ...

Walking through the bright halls of the Goschke Family Wrestling Training Center, streaks of black marker on Tom Brands’ white and gold shoes catch the eye. “Kata Ashi,” he announced, his voice ...

Stephen Buchanan came to Iowa to become a champion. Iowa needed him to accomplish that goal. Both reaped the rewards when he ...

Tom and Terry (Brands), they pour into you not like a wrestler ... The addition of Buchanan for the Hawkeye wrestling program not only gave fans something to smile about by the end of the NCAA ...

An emotional Stephen Buchanan walked into the media with glossy eyes, sat at the press table, closed his eyes, and exhaled.

IOWA CITY — The importance of tonight’s men’s wrestling dual between Oklahoma State at Iowa isn’t lost on Hawkeye Coach Tom Brands. He has, after all, wrestled in this historic series.

Iowa freshman 184-pounder Gabe Arnold finished 2-2 at NCAAs despite realistic aspirations of reaching the podium. He left the ...

PHILADELPHIA – University of Iowa graduate student Stephen Buchanan II won the 197-pound NCAA Championship on Saturday night, ...

Most important was Buchanan securing a national title at 197 pounds. In his lone season as a Hawkeye, he became the first NCAA champion at 197 pounds for Iowa (the weight class was created in 1999).

When asked about his assessment of his program's third-place finish at the Big Ten Wrestling ... the best of their Hawkeye opponents at the Big Ten meet in Evanston, Ill. Brands knows his ...