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Here’s what the 2020-21 college wrestling season might look like

Back in April, Iowa wrestling coach Tom Brands called the novel coronavirus “enemy number one,” and told everybody on a teleconference that their primary goal was to “eradicate the enemy.”

“It’s really that simple,” Brands said then. “We got clobbered upside the head by something we can’t control, so you go to what you can control.”

Five months later, and, well, the enemy is still here.

And because of that, there’s a growing sense that the 2020-21 college wrestling season may be a short one — if it happens at all.

The Register spoke with nearly a dozen Division I wrestling coaches to gain an understanding of how the season might look.