NCAA Championships 2024
2023 NCAA Qualifiers Eligible to Return for 2023-24
by Earl Smith; Photo courtesy of Sam Janicki; SJanickiPhoto.com
It’s never too early to look ahead to next year! So, with that, we’ve highlighted all of the wrestlers that competed at the 2023 NCAA Championships and have eligibility to return for the 2023-24 season. Normally, this is easy to track, but with eligibility still out of wack due to the 2021 Covid year, these things can be difficult to follow.
Some of the wrestlers that qualified for nationals will have a decision to make, as to whether or not they intend on returning to the mat. Let me know if there is someone below who does not intend on competing in 2023-24 or if there is someone omitted who has been granted extra eligibility.
Wrestlers are grouped by their weight class and how they finished at nationals; starting with placewinners then by the farthest consolation round they advanced to.
125 lbs
Matt Ramos (Purdue) 2nd
Anthony Noto (Lock Haven) 4th
Eddie Ventresca (Virginia Tech) 7th
Round of 12
Eric Barnett (Wisconsin)
Dean Peterson (Rutgers)
Stevo Poulin (Northern Colorado)
Brett Ungar (Cornell)
Consolation Round of 16
Nick Babin (Columbia)
Patrick McKee (Minnesota)
Jarrett Trombley (NC State)
Consolation Round of 24
Braxton Brown (Maryland)
Michael DeAugustino (Northwestern)
Brandon Kaylor (Oregon State)
Ryan Miller (Penn)
Tucker Owens (Air Force)
Noah Surtin (Missouri)
Jore Volk (Wyoming)
Consolation Round of 32
Ethan Berginc (Army West Point)
Tanner Jordan (South Dakota State) … rest of list and story at Rokfin.com/article/13021/2023-NCAA-Qualifiers-Eligible-to-Return-for-202324
Who Returns The Most Team Points For The 2023-24 Wrestling Season?
A breakdown of the returning team points for every team at the 2023 NCAA Wrestling Championships.
The 2023 NCAA Tournament just concluded and it was incredible! So, what will the 2024 Tournament look like? We can’t forecast everything yet but we can look at how many team points every team in the country is returning. The below article has a breakdown of a “way-too-early” look at the landscape of next year’s team race by examining returning points and rosters for the top 10 teams.
Team Rank By Returning Points From 2023 NCAAs
The table below shows the ranking of every team based on points scored at the 2023 NCAA Championships from athletes who are eligible to return in the 2023-24 season. We also included columns that show the points scored by each team at the 2023 Tournament along with the points earned that each team will “lose” from wrestlers graduating.
| Rank | School | Returning Points | 2023 Finish | 2023 Points | Points Lost |
| 1 | Penn State | 114 | 1 | 137.5 | 23.5 |
| 2 | Missouri | 61 | 5 | 64.5 | 3.5 |
| 3 | Cornell | 54.5 | 3 | 76.5 | 22 |
| T4 | Iowa | 48 | 2 | 82.5 | 34.5 |
| T4 | NC State | 48 | 10 | 48 | 0 |
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