NCAA Tournament Info & Discussion

[Leonard23]

We have 8 qualifiers. Shawver and White will know Tues if they get at large bids. Brackets will be released Wed.

2026 NCAA DI men's wrestling championships: Selection show info, bracket and schedule

The 2026 DI men's wrestling championships will be held at Rocket Arena in Cleveland, OH on Thursday, March 19 through Saturday, March 21.

www.ncaa.com

 

[SirScarlet]

Nobody had Shawver on the outside looking in on their bingo card at the beginning of the season

Good luck to him and White.

 

[Leonard23]

 

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[Leonard23]

Tracking Every Wrestler Qualified For The 2026 NCAA Tournament - FloWrestling

Tracking every wrestler qualifier for the 2026 Division 1 NCAA Wrestling Tournament.

www.flowrestling.org

5 at large bids available at 133 and 4 at 157

 

[Leonard23]

 

[SirScarlet]

@Leonard23 - thanks for sharing all of the tweets...very helpful!

 

[Leonard23]

 

[Leonard23]

@Leonard23 - thanks for sharing all of the tweets...very helpful!

You're welcome

 

[wngarbarini]

What happened to Soldano?

 

[Leonard23]

Breakdown on at large bids/candidates:





Not sure if 133 gets 4 or 5 at large bids, as he has 4 but Flo has 5

 

[NJwrestling26]

Breakdown on at large bids/candidates:

Wrestling Nomad who is pretty solid with this stuff thinks Shawver gets in but White doesn’t

 

[NJwrestling26]

What happened to Soldano?

Tore up his knee late in the year against UNI , wrestled big 12s in big brace and limped the whole time and took 10th as the 6 seed in a 8 bid weight class, he lost to that same UNI kid for 9th. Probably won’t get a wildcard but you never know , he also applied for a Med RS for last year at Rutgers

 

[PessimisticallyHopefulPragmatist]

What happened to Soldano?

A knee injury?

 

[RUAldo]

Iowa is a dumpster fire by Iowa standards. PSU, OKST and VT have all taken recruits that would have been lay-ups for Iowa. And they’ve done a terrible job in the transfer portal.

 

[Kiddagger311]

Tore up his knee late in the year against UNI , wrestled big 12s in big brace and limped the whole time and took 10th as the 6 seed in a 8 bid weight class, he lost to that same UNI kid for 9th. Probably won’t get a wildcard but you never know , he also applied for a Med RS for last year at Rutgers

Why wouldn’t he get a wildcard ?? Is Soldano too hurt to wrestle? Or are you basing it on taking 10th in 8 bid weight class?? He was ranked 10th and has a win over SCW… not sure why u think he probably won’t get a wildcard.