“I will not, cannot and should not therefore comment about anything dealing with our testing and coronavirus,” Chryst said Monday.
Chryst did say he is confident the ninth-ranked Badgers’ game Saturday at Nebraska (0-1) would go on as scheduled.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Wisconsin State Journal both reported Sunday that Mertz tested positive. The Journal Sentinel reported Mertz’s positive test came Saturday, one day after the Badgers’ 45-7 season-opening home victory over Illinois.
Both papers reported that Mertz would undergo a second test to determine if the first result was a false positive.