The traveling mic's of TDR will hit the road as we've been invited in for a special two-hour, in-depth look at the Iowa Hawkeye wrestling program. The Hawkeyes will hold their annual coaches clinic Oct. 26-27 at the Dan Gable Wrestling Complex in Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City. Some 18 months ago Coach Tom Brands said that the Hawkeye's would replenish the depth in their room and make an effort to do so with the state's best talents. They are doing just that. This season Coach Brands will turn loose the VT 5 and those that are challenging for the various weight classes. What a difference a year can make. 

Recently Mark Ballweg, a state champion from Waverly-Shell Rock and one of the state's top college prospects, verbally committed to the Hawkeyes. He'll join a roster that includes his older brother, Matt, a redshirt freshman at Iowa. 
 
Doug Schwab - an Osage, Iowa native and three-time All-American for Iowa - recently was named interim assistant wrestling coach for the Hawkeyes. Schwab replaces Gable, who will remain at the school as special assistant to the director of athletics earlier this month. Schwab went 3-2 in his first World Championships last month in Baku, Azerbaijan. He dropped a 4-1, 1-0 decision to Georgia's Otar Tushishvili in the bronze-medal match. Tushivili lost to American and past Hawkeye Bill Zadick in the finals of the 2006 World Championships.
 
We'll start this broadcast at 3:30 p.m. Friday. Our guests will include Gable, Hawkeye Coach Tom Brands and Assistants Doug Schwab and Wes Hand. Possible guests include Hawkeye wrestlers and Clinic speakers: Bucknell University Assistant Coach Dave Hoffman and past Hawkeye wrestler John Oostendorp, who is the head wrestling coach at Coe College in Cedar Rapids. 
 
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