diff --git a/djangorestframework/tests/reverse.py b/djangorestframework/tests/reverse.py
index 0b74ab06d..02dbe9db4 100644
--- a/djangorestframework/tests/reverse.py
+++ b/djangorestframework/tests/reverse.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ from django.conf.urls.defaults import patterns, url
 from django.test import TestCase
 from django.utils import simplejson as json
 
-from djangorestframework.urlresolvers import reverse
+from djangorestframework.utils import reverse
 from djangorestframework.views import View
 
 
diff --git a/djangorestframework/urlresolvers.py b/djangorestframework/urlresolvers.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 0fd88ec1a..000000000
--- a/djangorestframework/urlresolvers.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse
-
-def reverse(viewname, urlconf=None, args=None, kwargs=None, prefix=None, current_app=None):
-    raise NotImplementedError
diff --git a/djangorestframework/utils/__init__.py b/djangorestframework/utils/__init__.py
index 634d0d68c..ba2f6e05b 100644
--- a/djangorestframework/utils/__init__.py
+++ b/djangorestframework/utils/__init__.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 from django.utils.encoding import smart_unicode
 from django.utils.xmlutils import SimplerXMLGenerator
-from django.core.urlresolvers import resolve
+from django.core.urlresolvers import resolve, reverse
 from django.conf import settings
 
 from djangorestframework.compat import StringIO
@@ -173,3 +173,6 @@ class XMLRenderer():
 
 def dict2xml(input):
     return XMLRenderer().dict2xml(input)
+
+def reverse(viewname, urlconf=None, args=None, kwargs=None, prefix=None, current_app=None):
+    raise NotImplementedError