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Everything You Need To Know About The NCAA Women’s Wrestling Championships

Here is what the 2026 NCAA Championship format means for women’s wrestling
The NCAA approved its format for the inaugural 2026 NCAA Women’s Freestyle Wrestling Championships. NCAA Division I, II, and III programs will compete at the NCAA Championships.
There are 112 NCAA programs that offer women’s college wrestling, with the following breakdown. Division I: 6
Division II: 36
Division III: 70
Division I and II programs offer athletic scholarships, and Division III programs do not. 
The 2025 National Collegiate Women’s Wrestling Championships — a precursor to the 2026 NCAA Women’s Wrestling Championships — allowed a maximum of 15 national qualifiers per team, with 32-woman brackets for each of the 10 weight classes (320 total).
The NCAA rejected the recommendation of 210 national qualifiers and established that the championships will include 180 participants in 10 weights (18 per category), with a maximum of one qualifier per weight per school. 
Under the new format, each team can send a maximum of 10 wrestlers per region. There will be six regions, with three qualifiers from each region, two weeks before the NCAA Championships. 
The 2026 Women’s Wrestling Championships will be held at Xtream Arena in Coralville, Iowa.
Below is a graph charting the maximum number of qualifiers for the national championships since NCAA programs hosted their championships for the first time in 2020. … more at … https://www.flowrestling.org/articles/14331608-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-ncaa-womens-wrestling-championships

June 25, 2025 Posted by The TakeDown Report | Uncategorized | Leave a comment