Wrestling nations cooperate over Olympics

TEHRAN, Iran - Rich Bender (L), executive director of the U.S. wrestling body, hugs Hojatollah Khatib, head of Iran's wrestling federation, in Tehran on Feb. 20, 2013. International wrestling officials held a meeting in the Iranian capital on the sidelines of the Greco-Roman wrestling World Cup, in a bid to reverse the International Olympic Committee's decision to drop wrestling from the 2020 Games.

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