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NCAA Releases NCAA Championships Conference Qualifying Spots and First Coaches Rankings
February 12, 2021 | Cowboy Wrestling
STILLWATER -Â The NCAA announced the pre-allocations and first coaches ranking for the 2021 NCAA Wrestling Championships on Thursday, showing how many automatic qualifying spots each conference is projected to receive.
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The weight class conference champion in each qualifying tournament will earn an automatic qualifier to the national championships. Each conference was awarded additional pre-allocations based on the five-year average (2016-20) earned by the conference in each weight class.
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After the conference tournaments have concluded, the Division I Wrestling Committee will meet in-person to select the remaining at-large qualifiers to fill out the 33-man bracket in each weight class, which will be announced March 9. Brackets and seeding will be announced on NCAA.com at 6 p.m. on March 10.
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In total, the Big 12 Conference received 45 qualifying spots for the NCAA Championships, which takes place in St. Louis, Missouri from March 18-20. The 10 automatic qualifiers for winning the Big 12 Championship will be joined by four additional qualifiers at 125, 133, 149, 165, 197 and 285; three additional qualifiers at 141, 174 and 184; and two additional qualifiers at 157 pounds.
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Nine OSU wrestlers were included in the first coaches ranking, led by No. 4 Boo Lewallen and No. 4 Travis Wittlake. Daton Fix was not included in the initial rankings due to a lack of matches, but is the consensus No. 1 133-pound wrestler among other polls, He will make his season debut on Sunday in the Cowboy Challenge Tournament.
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Below you can find the full where the Cowboys are slotted in the first coaches rankings. The full list can be found at this link.
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125: No. 15 Trevor Mastrogiovanni
141: No. 24 Dusty Hone
149: No. 4 Boo Lewallen
157: No. 13 Wyatt Sheets
165: No. 4 Travis Wittlake
174: No. 11 Dustin Plott
184: No. 6 Dakota Geer
197: No. 13 AJ Ferrari
285: No. 25 Austin Harris
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The weight class conference champion in each qualifying tournament will earn an automatic qualifier to the national championships. Each conference was awarded additional pre-allocations based on the five-year average (2016-20) earned by the conference in each weight class.
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After the conference tournaments have concluded, the Division I Wrestling Committee will meet in-person to select the remaining at-large qualifiers to fill out the 33-man bracket in each weight class, which will be announced March 9. Brackets and seeding will be announced on NCAA.com at 6 p.m. on March 10.
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In total, the Big 12 Conference received 45 qualifying spots for the NCAA Championships, which takes place in St. Louis, Missouri from March 18-20. The 10 automatic qualifiers for winning the Big 12 Championship will be joined by four additional qualifiers at 125, 133, 149, 165, 197 and 285; three additional qualifiers at 141, 174 and 184; and two additional qualifiers at 157 pounds.
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Nine OSU wrestlers were included in the first coaches ranking, led by No. 4 Boo Lewallen and No. 4 Travis Wittlake. Daton Fix was not included in the initial rankings due to a lack of matches, but is the consensus No. 1 133-pound wrestler among other polls, He will make his season debut on Sunday in the Cowboy Challenge Tournament.
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Below you can find the full where the Cowboys are slotted in the first coaches rankings. The full list can be found at this link.
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125: No. 15 Trevor Mastrogiovanni
141: No. 24 Dusty Hone
149: No. 4 Boo Lewallen
157: No. 13 Wyatt Sheets
165: No. 4 Travis Wittlake
174: No. 11 Dustin Plott
184: No. 6 Dakota Geer
197: No. 13 AJ Ferrari
285: No. 25 Austin Harris
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