At a 3 p.m. press conference today in Iowa City, Tom Brands will prove that you can go home again. Brands, who has been the head coach at Virginia Tech for the past two years, is expected to be named head coach of the Iowa wrestling squad this afternoon.

Brands in the only known candidate to have interviewed with Iowa officials and reports are that the meeting took place yesterday at an undisclosed location in Iowa. Process of elimination leads to the conclusion that Brands is Iowa's choice as the new head of the Iowa Wrestling program.

Obviously Brands is no stranger to the Iowa wrestling room having been a three time national champion, three time Big Ten champion, and four time All American as a Hawkeye. In addition, Brands also won an Olympic gold medal in 1996 at 136.5 pounds, outscoring his opponents 19-1 in the process.

Brands is also no stranger to coaching at Iowa, having served as an assistant to both Dan Gable and Jim Zalesky from 1992 until taking the Virginia Tech position in June of 2004. Along with his coaching at Iowa, Brands has served as a coach on the USA Olympic freestyle team.

Stay tuned to HawkeyeReport.com for coverage of today's press conference with news and notes on who will be joining Brands' coaching staff, reaction from the current wrestlers at Iowa, comments from Dan Gable on the hiring, and we should get a better idea if four standout wrestlers (three from the state of Iowa) will be transferring to Iowa City to follow the new coach.