2006.09.28
VT wrestling lawsuit still on
If anyone was wondering whatever happened to those wrestlers who sued Virginia Tech, well, not much has changed since the dispute first hit the courts.
All five wrestlers -- Jay Borschel, Brent Metcalf, Joe Slaton, T.H. Leet and Dan LeClere -- have enrolled at Iowa, are listed on the roster and are practicing with the Hawkeyes. The Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Gazette had a feature story recently about how the guys are adjusting to their new lives as non-competing wrestlers. (The Gazette, unfortunately, no longer has the story on its primitive Web site.)
We're still scheduled for an Oct. 10 hearing in Montgomery County Circuit Court to decide the merits of the university's opening gambit, a motion to dismiss -- as is usually the case in such circumstances, I'm told.
Virginia Tech opens its wrestling season with a home meet Nov. 5, and two weeks later travels to a meet at Nebraska that is expected to also include Tom Brands and the Hawkeyes.
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