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2026 NCAA DI men's wrestling championships: Brackets, schedule, results
The 2026 DI men's wrestling championships will be held at Rocket Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, on Thursday, March 19, through Saturday, March 21. The NCAA Division I Wrestling Committee met in person to select the remaining 42 at-large qualifiers, which were announced on March 10, while brackets and seeding were announced on NCAA.com on March 11.
👉 Click or tap here for the list of at-large and automatic qualifiers
Below you can find the complete schedule of the 2026 DI men's wrestling championship.
The DI men's wrestling brackets were released on Wednesday, March 11. Click here for every weight-by-weight bracket.Â
Oklahoma State is the winningest program in NCAA DI men's wrestling history with 34 national titles, while 467 athletes have earned All-American honors. Of those 467 All-Americans, 142 of them won NCAA titles.
2026 NCAA Men's Wrestling Championship Qualifiers By The Numbers
My estimable colleague JD Rader has already provided a list of every NCAA qualifier's hometown and high school (which you can find here) and even provided an excellent heat map for wrestling fans to enjoy.Â
We can pinpoint every qualifier in a map to make it look like the continental USA contracted chicken pox, which is why I call this the Chicken Pox Map.Â
This map also shows the two Cubans who made the tournament but it cuts off Hawaii for spatial reasons, so a special shout-out to the one Hawaiian in the tournament, Kysen Terukina of North Carolina.Â
But we don't have to stop there. For starters, we can calculate the number of qualifiers per capita for each state. Everyone loves a per capita calculation!
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Seeds and Brackets Announced for 2026 NCAA Championship
The Iowa wrestling team secured seven top-10 seeds for the NCAA Championships, the governing body announced Wednesday.
IOWA CITY, Iowa — The University of Iowa men’s wrestling team secured seven top-10 seeds for the NCAA Championships, the governing body announced Wednesday. The Hawkeyes will send nine wrestlers to the national tournament.
Michael Caliendo earned the No. 3 seed at 165 pounds, while Patrick Kennedy is the No. 5 seed at 174. Caliendo is 18-4 on the season with a 12-4 record against ranked opponents, and Kennedy is 18-4 with an 11-4 mark against ranked foes.
Drake Ayala is the next-highest seed for the Hawkeyes, coming in at No. 6 at 133 pounds. Nasir Bailey and Angelo Ferrari are both seeded seventh at 141 and 184, respectively. Dean Peterson earned the No. 8 seed at 125 pounds, while Ben Kueter is also an eighth seed at heavyweight.
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