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Terry Brands was at the World Wrestling Wrestling Camp in Wisconsin Dells, Wisc., providing instruction for high school wrestlers throughout the Midwest. Brands, a two-time NCAA champion and two-time World champion, coaches the Hawkeye Wrestling Club and is the head assistant coach at the University of Iowa.

Brands talked with Wrestling 411 about his role at the camp and what he wants campers to gain from the experience. But he also talked about the possibility of becoming a head coach, the relevance of Iowa-style wrestling, and his purpose for 2009.

 

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By Kyle Klingman

Randy Lewis is competing again…and the wrestling world is buzzing.

Lewis has a legend that exceeds his accomplishments. Yes, he won an Olympic title in 1984 and, yes, he arguably the greatest wrestler the University of Iowa wrestling program has produced.

But it’s the way he wrestled that fascinates us. It was his flair on and off the mat that is his enduring legacy. It was his devotion to the pin. It was the big throws. It was the counters. It was the impossible leg.

“If everyone wrestled like Randy Lewis then wrestling would never need to market itself,” said Lincoln McIlravy, a three-time NCAA champion for the University of Iowa.