The Hawkeyes are 37 time Big Ten Conference champions and second in NCAA history with 24 National Championships.

Wrestling at the University of Iowa began in 1911 when the first head coach, E.G. Schroeder, led the team in a dual against Nebraska.

Gable finished his Iowa head coaching career with a record of 355-21-5 (.940), 21 consecutive Big Ten Titles, and 15 NCAA Championships.

He was replaced by Jim Zalesky, who had wrestled for Gable in the early eighties and had been his top assistant at Iowa for several years.

However, the program would find itself struggling over the next six years, with Iowa winning only one Big Ten title in 2004 and no national championships.

The Zalesky era came to an end after the 2005–06 campaign, a season which found the Hawkeyes slipping to fourth place in the final Big Ten tournament standings.

Brent Metcalf and Mark Perry finished as National Champions and finalist Joey Slaton was a runner-up.

Iowa returned to the NCAA championships with a dominant performance in 2010, having already locked up the team title before the end of the second day of competition.

Montell Marion, also, finished second, losing to freshman, and future four-time National Champ, Kyle Dake.

[5] This success continued into 2011 until the Hawkeyes' 69-match winning streak ended with a 15-15 tie v. rival Oklahoma State in Stillwater.

[7] Unfortunately as of late, the Hawkeyes have been dominated by rival Penn State, having only won three duals in the last ten, even dropping the last three in a row to the Nittany Lions.

On November 14, 2015, #4 Iowa reset the national collegiate wrestling dual-meet attendance record at Kinnick Stadium with over 42,000 fans in a victory over #1 Oklahoma State.

Tom Brands came up with the idea in 2008, and broke the previous record set by Big Ten Conference rival Penn State in 2013.