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2026 NAIA Women's Wrestling Championship Allocations Announced

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) has announced the allocations for the fourth annual NAIA Women’s Wrestling National Championship, which will be held March 13-14 at Heartland Credit Union Arena in Park City, Kan., and hosted by Visit Wichita.

The Cascade Collegiate Conference earned a total of 26 allocations to the National Championship. The individual participants will be selected following the 2026 CCC Women’s Wrestling Tournament, presented by U.S. Bank. The Championship will be hosted by Southern Oregon University on March 1st in Ashland, Oreogn.

Each conference tournament awards automatic bids per weight class based on the final regular-season rating, which can be seen HERE. The NAIA coaches’ rating is determined by a panel of head coaches from each of the five conferences. The top 20 individuals in each weight class are determined by how each individual rater votes for the best individuals.

Each conference weight class champion earns an automatic berth to the national championship; additional allocations are determined based on the final regular-season rankings for each wrestler ranked in the top 17 in a specific weight class.
 
Conference 103 110 117 124 131 138 145 160 180 207 Total Allocations
Cascade Collegiate Conference 2 3 1 3 3 3 3 4 2 2 26
Great Plains Athletic Conference 4 1 2 1 2 2 1 1 1 3 18
Heart of America Athletic Conference 2 7 8 7 4 3 4 4 8 4 51
Kansas Collegiate/Sooner Athletic Conference 5 2 3 1 3 3 2 4 4 4 31
Mid-South Conference 4 4 3 6 5 6 7 4 3 4 46

Following the conference tournaments, a 10-member committee consisting of conference raters and oversight members will meet to select the remaining at-large qualifiers until 210 wrestlers have been selected, which will be released Tuesday, March 3rd by 5 p.m. (CST). The seeding and preliminary brackets will be announced on NAIA.org by 5 p.m. (CST) on Friday, March 6th.

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