Today the Greene County High School wrestling program is scheduled to resume practice. The Rams have been shut down since Jan. 4 due to a skin disease, commonly known as mat herpes. The program was originally scheduled to be sidetracked for just four days and resume practice on Jan. 8, but Greene County school officials, in consultation with medical personnel, extended the shut down through Jan. 14.

Ram head coach Mark Sawhill is convinced the skin disease did not originate in the wrestling room Greene County uses. He emphasized in a conversation with Raccoon Valley Radio the mats the Rams use are disinfected before and after every practice. His belief is the Rams picked it up from another school at one or more of the tournaments they took part in last month.

No Rams have wrestled since Dec. 16, and some have been on the sidelines for longer than that.