NCAA Tournament Allocations Just Dropped
NCAA Tournament Allocations Just Dropped
Find out how many automatic qualifying spots each conference earned for the NCAA tournament.
The NCAA postseason is officially here. The NCAA just released the number of national championship tournament automatic qualifying spots for each conference.
Wrestlers in each conference were evaluated on three criteria: Division I winning percentage at the weight class; ratings percentage index (RPI); and coaches’ ranking, which were together used to determine the number of AQs per conference.
The breakdown of conference AQs per weight class is below.
| 125 | 133 | 141 | 149 | 157 | 165 | 174 | 184 | 197 | 285 | Total | |
| ACC | 2 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 34 |
| Big 12 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 45 |
| Big 10 | 10 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 10 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 80 |
| EIWA | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 47 |
| EWL | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 18 |
| MAC | 2 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 25 |
| Pac-12 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 22 |
| SoCon | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 12 |
| Total | 29 | 28 | 27 | 27 | 29 | 29 | 28 | 29 | 28 | 29 | 283 |
You can watch colleges wrestling's best punch their tickets to the big dance in four conference tournaments live on FloWrestling: Big Tens, EIWAs, Big 12s, and EWLs.
Following the conference tournaments, the NCAA selection committee convenes to decide on at-large selections that will fill each weight class out to 33 total wrestlers.