IOWA CITY, Iowa -- It has taken five years, three schools, and two weight classes, but Edwin Cooper, Jr., has finally found a home.
The senior from Joliet, Illinois, is in the University of Iowa starting lineup at 157 pounds. It may not be the weight class he targeted when he arrived on campus -- he won the 2012 junior college national championship at 149 -- but it's the weight that gives him an opportunity to compete for a championship, and now the starting spot is his to lose.
"I feel like I've done a good job of holding a spot, where now I have control of whether or not it's going to be my call to go out there on the mat," Cooper said.