By Craig Sesker
Titan Mercury WC

IOWA CITY – The forecast calls for 59 degrees and sunny.

And for a special, magical and historic day of wrestling.

The NCAA attendance record is expected to be obliterated when the two most decorated programs in college wrestling history, Oklahoma State and Iowa, square off at 70,000-seat Kinnick Stadium in Iowa City.

The “Grapple on the Gridiron” dual is scheduled for 11 a.m. Central Time Saturday at Iowa’s football stadium. Later that day, the unbeaten and fifth-ranked Hawkeye football team will take on Minnesota on Saturday night in Kinnick.

The wrestling dual marks the first time in NCAA history two wrestling teams will compete outside in a Division I football stadium.

The dual will be streamed live online on Big Ten Plus with the match being shown on television on a tape-delayed basis. The Big Ten Network is scheduled to air the dual meet on television at 6 p.m. Central on Sunday.

As of Wednesday morning, 34,421 tickets had been sold for the dual with tickets still available for fans. Capacity for the dual is 70,000 fans.

The dual will match No. 1 Oklahoma State against No. 3 Iowa. The programs have combined to win a whopping 57 NCAA team titles.

The Cowboys have won a record 34 NCAA team titles with the Hawkeyes second all-time with 23 national championships.

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