IOWA CITY, Iowa -- The forecast is "clear and cold." There is no sunshine; the predominant colors are the gray of the sky and the dirty-yellowish hue of grass and dead cornstalks. In a few months, Iowa will look so changed, with bright blue skies and decorative white clouds presiding over acres of green.

That will be more pleasant. But this is wrestling weather.

If you grow up in Iowa, you almost certainly know at least something about wrestling. Like how you don't need to have farmed to be familiar with the crop cycles. It's just part of life around you.

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