I'd guess that humans have been grappling eachother for fun longer than we've had speech or fire.

I remember in high school seeing one of the other wrestling team members wearing a shirt that said, “Wrestling: A history of erotic positions”. Or something similar. Anyway, history rocks.

The real question is, was it homoerotic?

Greeks had been wrestling way before the Olympics though. It's not like that's the first time they started wrestling.

Aggressive cuddling has always been a thing

Thy Greeks didn't invent anything. It was all Persians and Egyptians and other African and Asian nations.