NCAA Wrestling releases championship allocations ahead of conference tournaments

The NCAA released the 2024 Wrestling Championship allocations for all conferences across the sport ahead of the conference tournaments.

The Big Ten reigned supreme once again with the most allocations, coming in at 85 across the 10 weight classes. After that, the Big 12 had 57 overall.

Below is the full list of allocations, which saw an increase for the EIWA followed by a steep drop off for the rest of the conferences by comparison.

“Each qualifying tournament was awarded pre-allocations to the national tournament based on regular season performance by conference wrestlers through February 26,” the NCAA Wrestling release read. “The pre-allocations were determined by using a sliding scale of the three standards, win percentage, coaches’ rank, and RPI ranking; while never going below the base of .700 winning percentage, top 30 coaches’ ranking and top 30 RPI ranking until reaching the maximum of 29 wrestlers per weight class.

“For each wrestler that reached the threshold in at least two of the three categories, his conference tournament was awarded a qualifying spot in that weight class. Each conference is awarded a minimum of one automatic qualification per weight class, which will go to the tournament champion, even if they did not have any wrestlers reach at least two of the three thresholds. NCAA championship spots for each qualifying event will be awarded at conference tournaments based solely on place-finish.”

There are 283 pre-allocations allotted for the conference tournaments. That leaves 47 at-large bids for the 2024 NCAA Wrestling Championships.

After all the conference tournaments have concluded, the NCAA Division I Wrestling Committee will meet in-person to select the remaining 47 at-large qualifiers, which will be announced on March 12, while brackets and seeding will be announced on NCAA.com at 8 p.m. on March 13,” the release read. “All weight classes will consist of 33 wrestlers.”

The 2024 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships take place March 21st through 23rd at the T-Mobile Center in Kansas City. This is the first time KC will host the tournament since 2003.

Going into the conference championships, InterMat released its final individual rankings of the regular season. The rankings feature wrestlers No. 1 through 33 in each of the 10 weight classes.It’s a rough look at how the NCAA Tournament could look at each weight. For the set of rankings, click HERE.