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NCAA D1 Wrestling Week 10 Roundup: Back To The Mats

The world’s finest collection of noteworthy happenings from the 8th week of the 2025-26 NCAA D1 wrestling season.
Hello and happy New Year from Chattanooga, Tennessee, where the Southern Scuffle just concluded another outstanding edition of the annual tournament! 
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College wrestling returned to action after a holiday week, during which there were no results for us to make note of. However, that didn’t stop your humble blogger from writing a Roundup anyway, as I simply repurposed this space for a recap of all of 2025. 
Now that we’ve traveled through time to the year 2026 (a mere 17 years before the events in the original Robocop movie take place), we can recap the bounty of competitions from week 10 of the 2025-26 NCAA D1 college wrestling season. I’d buy that for a dollar! 
But first, our DotCotW.
The Dual of the Century, of the Week
Dragons Slay Boilermakers 19 to 16
While the Drexel vs Purdue featured less ranked matchups (in this case zero) than I typically like to see in a DotCotW, it did otherwise feature all the hallmarks of a quality dual meet. 
A dual that’s hanging in the balance up until the final match? CHECK
An evenly matched dual with five wins per team? CHECK
Multiple lead changes? CHECK
A LOT of lead changes, like, six lead changes? CHECK … more at … https://www.flowrestling.org/articles/15091770-ncaa-d1-wrestling-week-10-roundup-back-to-the-mats

January 9, 2026 - Posted by The TakeDown Report | Uncategorized