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NCAA D1 Wrestling Week 11 Roundup: The Throes Of Dual Season

The world’s finest collection of noteworthy happenings from the 11th week of the 2025-26 NCAA D1 wrestling season.
Now that the statutory limit for wishing everyone a happy New Year has expired, I will instead wish everyone a Happy Dual Meet Season! 
The second week of January is traditionally the start of most conference dual meets, so consider us now officially within the throes of dual meet season! 
Week 10 Rankings | Week 11 Box Scores
Roundups: Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 | Week 7 | Week 8 | Week 9 | Week 10
There was still a tourny to recap as well. A smattering of tournaments will continue throughout the season as newly activated wrestlers need to get their match counts up for NCAA qualification purposes, and redshirts and other non-starters need to get their mat time. 
But this week’s focus will be duals, so let’s get cracking on recapping all the noteworthy happenings of week 11 of the 2025-26 NCAA D1 college wrestling season!!
The Dual of the Century, of the Week
Panther Train Choo Choos Over Jackrabbits For A National Championship!
What better dual to highlight than one that determined who took home first place at the NWCA/USMC Multi-Divisional National Dual Meet Championships? 
This event includes Divisions I, II, III, NAIA and women’s college wrestling into a dual meet bonanza inside the UNI-dome in Cedar Falls, Iowa. And it was the home team UNI Panthers who won the D1 crown. 
The Panthers did so by upsetting the higher-ranked South Dakota State Jackrabbits, the favorites and their Big 12 rival.
What made the victory even more impressive was that UNI completed the upset without 6 (six!) of their ranked competitors: no #20 Anderson at 125, no #9 Land at 141, no #20 Rathjen at 149, no #19 Simma at 174, no #26 Walrath at 184, and no #10 Voelker at 285. (By the way, Coach Schwab also mentioned that, unfortunately, Voelker is done for the season, which stinks.) 
SDSU wasn’t at full strength either, as Coach Hahn was without the services of #28 Cardinal at 133 (who hasn’t wrestled since December), #22 Martin at 149, and #31 Marcus Espinoza-Owens at 165.  But this is what dual meet tournaments are all about. Having the depth to wrestle four or more duals over two days and still put forth a championship effort, which is what both teams did and which is why this is the DotCotW. 
Heroes for the Panthers were Max Brady at 141 and Adam Ahrendsen at 285, who both upset ranked Jackrabbits to help secure the win for UNI. … more at … https://www.flowrestling.org/articles/15167425-ncaa-d1-wrestling-week-11-roundup-the-throes-of-dual-season

January 16, 2026 - Posted by The TakeDown Report | Uncategorized