Conference weekend is over, and it was perhaps even more utterly chaotic than we thought it could possibly be. Included in that turmoil are guys who "should have" qualified for the NCAA tournament but fell short.

The NCAA qualifying process is fascinating in that a wrestler's body of work during the regular season earns his conference an automatic qualifier allocation for the national tournament, but the wrestler still has to match or exceed that place to get his ticket to Cleveland.

In total, 40 wrestlers earned their conferences an automatic bid to NCAAs but did not place high enough at their conference tournaments to earn that automatic qualifying spot. These guys are a great proxy of who will be awarded wild cards to the tournament. It is not perfect, especially when there are weights with more non-qualifiers than wild cards to give out, but it gives us a pretty good idea.

NCAA brackets come out Wednesday, so we'll know the wild cards by then. The automatic qualifier list can be found here.

125 Pounds (4 Wild Cards Available)

• JR Wert, Rider: 3rd at EWL
• Kyle Akins, Buffalo: 5th at MACs
• Korbin Meink, Campbell: 0-2 at SoCon

133 Pounds (5 Wild Cards Available)

• #10 Josh Terao, American: 4th at EIWAs
• Rico Montoya, Northern Colorado: 6th at Big 12s
• Ben Thornton, Purdue: 8th at Big Tens
• Sean Nickell, CSU Bakersfield: 3rd at Pac-12s
• Nathan Boston, Campbell: 4th at SoCon

141 Pounds (6 Wild Cards Available)

• #13 Cole Weaver, Indiana: 9th at Big Tens
• #15 Tommy Thorn, Minnesota: 0-2 at Big Tens
• AC Headlee, North Carolina: DNP at ACCs
• Tyson Dippery, Rider: 5th at EWLs
• Alex Madrigal, Old Dominion: 0-2 at MACs
• Russell Rohlfing, CSU Bakersfield: 2nd at Pac-12s

149 Pounds (6 Wild Cards Available)

• #4 Justin Oliver, Central Michigan: 4th at MACs
• #17 Michael Sprague, American: 6th at EIWAs
• #18 Malik Amine, Michigan: 10th at Big Tens
• Kristian Olivas, Fresno State: DNP at Big 12s
• Kyle Gliva, North Dakota State: DNP at Big 12s

157 Pounds (4 Wild Cards Available)

• Taleb Rahmani, Pittsburgh: 4th at ACCs
• Ian Brown, Lehigh: DNP at EIWAs
• Zack Davis, Navy: 0-2 at EIWAs
• Larry Early, Old Dominion: 4th at MACs
• Coleman Hammond, CSU Bakersfield: 4th at Pac-12

165 Pounds (4 Wild Cards Available)

• #18 Jacob Morrissey, Purdue: 11th at Big Tens
• Brian Hamann, NC State: 4th at ACCs
• Vincent Deprez, Binghamton: DNP at EIWAs
• Quentin Perez, Campbell: 3rd at SoCon

174 Pounds (5 Wild Cards Available)

• Devin Skatzka, Indiana: 8th at Big Tens)
• Ty Schofstall, Edinboro: 2nd at EWL

184 Pounds (4 Wild Cards Available)

• #9 Nick Gravina, Rutgers: 9th at Big Tens
• #15 Canten Marriott, Missouri: 3rd at MACs
• #16 Jordan Ellingwood, Central Michigan: 4th at MACs
• Nick Corba, Cleveland State: 4th at EWL

197 Pounds (5 Wild Cards Available)

• Jacob Seely, Northern Colorado: DNP at Big 12s
• Jordan Atienzea, Central Michigan: 6th at MACs
• Randall Diabe, App State: 3rd at SoCon

285 Pounds (4 Wild Cards Available)

• Ryan Solomon, Pittsburgh: 6th at ACCs
• Brett Dempsey, American: 6th at EIWAs
• Jake Gunning, Buffalo: 4th at MACs