The Ivy League has announced its plans to cancel athletic competition in the fall.

"With the safety and well-being of students as their highest priority, Ivy League institutions are implementing campus-wide policies including restrictions on student and staff travel, requirements for social distancing, limits on group gatherings, and regulations for visitors to campus. As athletics is expected to operate consistent with campus policies, it will not be possible for Ivy League teams to participate in intercollegiate athletics competition prior to the end of the fall semester," the conference wrote in a press release.

"A decision on the remaining winter and spring sports competition calendar, and on whether fall sport competition would be feasible in the spring, will be determined at a later date," the release also said.

For wrestling, that means some of the nation's top guys will be missing the first full months of the season along with marquee events like CKLV and the beginning of the dual season. This is a sport in which we frequently talk about "peaking" at the right time — at conference championships and NCAAs — and in order for that to happen well, those beginning months are crucial. 

It seems that January 1 is the absolute soonest that Ivy League fall sports would be able to begin, and that the conference will be monitoring the virus situation in the coming months to make a decision about subsequent athletic competition.

The news comes on a day that already saw a tough blow to the wrestling community when Stanford announced they would discontinue their wrestling program at the end of the 2020-21 season.