Perhaps I'm wrong, but I always thought of wrestling (as used in LotR and the Silm) in both the physical and spiritual sense. It never occured to me that Sauron, Elendil and Gil-galad would all be scratching and punching each other in a smoldering heap on the ground. Like most stand-offs between powerful forces in Middle Earth, there would probably have been a war of will and dominance, much like when Morgoth and (darn, his name has slipped my mind) that elf sung their two songs: Morgoth of revealing, the elf of escape and concealment. They were "wrestling" also, and the elf was "thrown down" in the end, but it was spiritually as much as physically.
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"'You," he said, "tell her all. What good came to you? Do you rejoice that Maleldil became a man? Tell her of your joys, and of what profit you had when you made Maleldil and death acquainted.'" -Perelandra, by C.S. Lewis
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