I had a game (in the D&D 3.5 era) where the party arrived among tons of war refugees at a wizard academy. The party wanted to get in good with the academy leadership to persuade them to join the war effort, so the party's enchanter PC, Diogenes, tried to win prestige by engaging in spell duels. We had three famous spell duels that we still talk about twenty years later.
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He charged, and bull rushed, and the 8 Strength wizard knocked the 8 Strength sorcerer out of the ring. And thus did the Great Diogenes become the first wizard to win the championship bout of a spell dueling tournament without casting a single spell.