Do the 9th place tourney matches even count for the team score?
Regardless, in theory you’re probably correct, but that’d be a pretty crappy thing for a coach to do. “I don’t think you’re going to win any matches, so I would rather not allow another team to get a couple points”
So the MFF is included in the “33”? I could see including non-D1 in that number, but not sure why they’d include MFF’s at all (regular dual forfeits yes)
Yeah. And I get your point about the small schools too, and showing them how wrestling can be a positive for enrollment and/or revenue (especially now when combined with a women’s team) and hopefully leading to more D1 teams.
I guess my main point was IMO I think it’s going to be easier for Power 5 schools to get competitive wrestling teams just from the resources from being at that school, even if they’re towards the bottom of the totem pole in terms of importance to the school.
Socon looking up it seems.
125, 133 (3), 141, 165, and 184 (3) all with multiple guys in the coaches rank.
But I saw they only had 12 pre-allocations with 133 and 174 being the only weights with more than 1.
Agree, but that’s not really mutually exclusive from “Football, Basketball and Baseball are undoubtedly 1-2-3.”
Teams like NC State and VT are good examples of southern schools that have built a pretty good following for wrestling despite not being very good historically and probably still not being in the top 3 sports in importance at the school.