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21 T he University of Iowa wrestling team opens its season Nov. 9 at the Kent State Duals in Kent, Ohio. e Hawkeyes wrestle Cal-State Bakersfield at 4:30 p.m. (CT) and Kent State at 6 p.m. e doubleheader is the first of four duals on Iowa's November calendar. Princeton visits Carver- Hawkeye Arena on Nov. 16, and Purdue opens the Big Ten season Nov. 24 in Iowa City. Iowa's 2018-19 schedule includes seven home dates. e Hawkeyes will try to make it 15 straight against Iowa State when they host the Cyclones on Dec. 1 in the annual Iowa Corn Cy-Hawk Series. e final four home contests include Lehigh (Dec. 8), Rutgers (Jan. 18), Maryland (Feb. 8), and Indiana (Feb. 15). Iowa returns seven of nine NCAA qualifiers from last season, including NCAA champion Spencer Lee at 125 pounds. Lee is one of four All- Americans in the lineup. Michael Kemerer, Alex Marinelli, and Sam Stoll are the others. Stoll placed fih at the national championships last season and enters his senior season as the top- ranked wrestler at 285 pounds. Marinelli placed sixth last season at 165. e sophomore was named to Amateur Wrestling News All-Rookie Team in 2018 and is ranked as high as fourth in the preseason polls. Kemerer returns to the lineup aer a pair of All- America efforts his freshman and sophomore years. He placed third in 2017 and fourth in 2018, competing both seasons at 157 pounds. He is aiming for bigger things at a bigger weight this season, bumping up to 174 pounds. e roster also includes NCAA qualifiers Vince Turk (141), Mitch Bowman (184), and Cash Wilcke (197). Wilcke, like Kemerer, is moving weight classes. But unlike his junior classmate, he is moving down a class. He and Bowman will battle for the 184-pound lineup spot when wrestle-offs are contested Nov. 1-2. e spot at 141 is also for the taking at wrestle- offs. Turk shared time at the weight last season with Carter Happel, winning a wrestle-off to earn the postseason nod. Both men return to the same weight class this season, and battle for the top spot on the depth chart with Max Murin, Justin Stickley, and Aaron Meyer. ree transfers could also impact the lineup. Pat Lugo was a two- time qualifier at Edinboro prior to transferring and redshirting at Iowa last season. He wrestles at 149, a spot vacated by the graduation of four-time All-American Brandon Sorensen. Austin DeSanto and Jason Renteria both qualified for the 2018 NCAA Championships at 133 pounds. DeSanto competed at Drexel, and Renteria wrestled for Nebraska. Both sophomores competed as true freshmen in 2017-18, leaving a second-year redshirt offer on the table for both. With Wilcke on the move to 184, the 197-pound spot favors redshirt freshman Jacob Warner, who finished 15-4 last season and was on the 2018 Junior World Team. Seven men are eyeing the 157-pound position Kemerer le behind. Kaleb Young, who saw time last year at 165 and 174, is dropping weight classes to throw his name into a ring with Jeren Glosser, Jeremiah Moody, Keegan Shaw, Danny Murphy, Joe Kelly, and Preston Stephenson. Admission to the wrestle-offs is free. Tickets to the regular season duals inside Carver-Hawkeye Arena are available at the UI Athletics Ticket Office. NOVEMEBER SCHEDULE Nov. 9 vs. CSU-Bakersfield Nov. 9 at Kent State Nov. 16 Princeton Nov. 24 Purdue