WICHITA, Kan. - (
PDF Brackets) Action at the 66
th Annual NAIA Men’s Wrestling Championship began on March 3
rd at Hartman Arena.
After Sessions I and II, Grand View (Iowa) leads all teams with a 29 point lead over Life (Ga.). Southeastern (Fla.) sits in third place with 60 points, followed by Indiana Tech with 51, and
Menlo (Calif.) with 49.
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- Four institutions, Central Methodist (Mo.), Cornerstone (Mich.), Keiser (Fla.) and St. Thomas (Fla.), earned their program’s first All-Americans with the Seahawks securing two in a span of a couple minutes
- A total of 57 intuitions were represented with the 280 man field
- The Cascade Collegiate Conference led all conferences with 57 individual qualifiers
- Three teams - Grand View, Indiana Tech, and Southeastern – suited up the maximum of 12 wrestlers
- Menlo’s Gulomjon Abdullaev and Jovan Garcia met in the second round for a spot in the semifinals
- The 40 wrestlers still in the hunt for the National Championships hail from 17 programs highlighted by Grand View with a tournament high 11
- Life has eight still remaining, which is the second most, whole Menlo and Southeastern are tied with three each.
- Indiana Tech and Marian (Ind.) are the only other schools with multiple grapplers still in the chase
- Riley Saison of Menlo and Coleman Bryant of Southeastern are the lowest seeded wrestlers to reach the semifinal round; no unseeded wrestlers reached the Top Four in this year’s tournament
- All 10 top seeds are still alive in the bracket as well as eight who were seeded second and six who were No. 3’s.
| Place |
School |
Points |
| 1 |
Grand View (Iowa) |
127 |
| 2 |
Life (Ga.) |
98 |
| 3 |
Southeastern (Fla.) |
60 |
| 4 |
Indiana Tech |
51 |
| 5 |
Menlo (Calif.) |
49 |
| 6 |
Marian (Ind.) |
45.5 |
| 7 |
Doane (Neb.) |
34 |
| 8 |
Providence (Mont.) |
34 |
| 9 |
Ottawa (Kan.) |
33 |
| 10 |
Reinhardt (Ga.) |
33 |
| 11 |
Thomas More (Ky.) |
32.5 |
| 12 |
Eastern Oregon |
31.5 |
| 13 |
Campbellsville (Ky.) |
30.5 |
| 14 |
Montana State - Northern |
27 |
| 15 |
Central Methodist (Mo.) |
26.5 |
| 16 |
Cumberland (Tenn.) |
25.5 |
| 17 |
Keiser (Fla.) |
23 |
| 18 |
Baker (Kan.) |
21.5 |
| 19 |
Cumberlands (Ky.) |
21.5 |
| 20 |
Morningside (Iowa) |
21 |
| 21 |
Oklahoma City |
20 |
| 22 |
Graceland (Iowa) |
15.5 |
| 23 |
Embry-Riddle (Ariz.) |
14.5 |
| 24 |
Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) |
14.5 |
| 25 |
Vanguard (Calif.) |
13.5 |
| 26 |
Southern Oregon |
13 |
| 27 |
Corban (Ore.) |
10.5 |
| 28 |
William Penn (Iowa) |
10.5 |
| 29 |
Cornerstone (Mich.) |
9.5 |
| 30 |
Lourdes (Ohio) |
9.5 |
| 31 |
St. Thomas (Fla.) |
9 |
| 32 |
Brewton-Parker (Ga.) |
8.5 |
| 33 |
Dakota Wesleyan (S.D.) |
8.5 |
| 34 |
Missouri Valley |
7.5 |
| 35 |
Briar Cliff (Iowa) |
5 |
| 36 |
Oklahoma Wesleyan |
3.5 |
| 37 |
Texas Wesleyan |
3.5 |
| 38 |
Northwestern (Iowa) |
3 |
| 39 |
Concordia (Neb.) |
2.5 |
| 40 |
Iowa Wesleyan |
2.5 |
| 41 |
Midway (Ky.) |
2.5 |
| 42 |
Midland (Kan.) |
2 |
| 43 |
Wayland Baptist (Texas) |
2 |
| 44 |
Avila (Mo.) |
1.5 |
| 45 |
West Virginia Tech |
1.5 |
| 46 |
Hastings (Neb.) |
1 |
| 47 |
Rio Grande (Ohio) |
1 |
| 48 |
Missouri Baptist |
0.5 |
| 49 |
Saint Mary (Kan.) |
0.5 |
| 50 |
Simpson (Calif.) |
0.5 |
| 51 |
Arizona Christian |
0 |
| 52 |
Central Baptist (Mo.) |
0 |
| 53 |
Montreat (N.C.) |
0 |
| 54 |
Rochester (Mich.) |
0 |
| 55 |
Truett McConnell (Ga.) |
0 |
| 56 |
Waldorf (Iowa) |
0 |
| 57 |
York (Neb.) |
0 |
| 58 |
St. Ambrose (Iowa) |
-1.5 |