Pair of No. 2 Seeds Upset, Penn State Continues Dominance

Penn State leads the team race with 40.5 points, and a tournament-high eight quarterfinalists. The eight Nittany Lions still on the front side combined to go 16-0 with 15 bonus point wins (four falls, seven tech falls and four major decisions) on the first day of action.

Nebraska sits in second with 27 points, Iowa in third with 25.5 points and Oklahoma State in fourth at 25 points. All three schools have seven into the quarterfinals, with Penn State, Nebraska and Oklahoma State all still having all 10 wrestlers advance to the second day of action.

Seedings Hold During NCAA Championships Opening Session

College wrestling fans debate the seeds every time the NCAA brackets are released. But if you look at those same brackets after today’s first session, it looks like the committee did its job, as most of the opening 170 matches went chalk.

Both Penn State and Oklahoma State went a perfect 10-for-10 in the opening round, and Ohio State was close behind, winning nine of its 10 bouts. The Nittany Lions hold the lead in the team race, 22.5 to 15 over second-place Iowa.

Session one attendance was 16,625.

2015 Schultz Winner Valencia Named Finalist for the 96th AAU Sullivan Award

USA Wrestling powerhouse and World Champion, Zahid Valencia, who was the California and national winner of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame's Dave Schultz High School Excellence Award in 2015, is joined by some of the nation’s top athletes as finalists for the 96th AAU Sullivan Award.

Five American wrestlers have received the award: Distinguished Members Bruce Baumgartner in 1995, Rulon Gardner in 2000 and John Smith in 1991, three-time NCAA champion, Olympic gold medalist and two-time world champion Kyle Snyder in 2017, and three-time NCAA champion Spencer Lee in 2019.

Seniors Haines, Mendez Lead 330 Athletes Looking to Make Mark at NCAAs

USA Wrestling looks at the 330 Division I college wrestlers who have hopes of winning an individual title at the NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships on March 19-21 at Rocket Arena in Cleveland.

By Saturday night, only 10 will see their hands raised after the last of their five matches of the weekend and walk out of Cleveland with the sport’s top prize.

Bobby Douglas, Pathbreaking Olympic Wrestler

In 1964, he was one of the first three African Americans to compete in wrestling at the Games. He went on to have a distinguished coaching career.

NCAA Division III Championships Promise New Excitement

Here is a preview of the NCAA Division III Wrestling Championships, scheduled for Friday and Saturday at Alliant Energy PowerHouse in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

NAIA Releases Women's Wrestling National Championships Brackets

There are lots of winners of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame's Tricia Saunders High School Wrestling Award competing in the fourth-annual NAIA Women's Wrestling National Championships on Friday and Saturday, including top seeds Erin Hikiji, Mia Palumbo and Sarah Savidge.

Women's College Notebook: Preview of NAIA Championships, Look Back at Historic NCAAs

USA Wrestling previews this week's NAIA Championships and looks back at last week's historic NCAA Championships.