Home Meets
Home meets are held in the 15,500 seat Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City. Several home matches each year are televised by Iowa Public Television or the Big Ten Network
On Dec 6, 2008 Iowa set the national dual-meet attendance record for wrestling with a crowd of 15,955 against Iowa State University. It was a matchup of the #1 and #2 ranked schools in the country, which Iowa won 20-15.
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