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I wrote about the transfer portal and NIL. It’s on d3wrestle.com but focuses on DI and the changes to the sport. https://www.d3wrestle.com/college-wrestling-and-the-transfer-portal/

www.d3wrestle.com has your DIII coverage. WrestleStat also has a DIII section (and DII).

I try to keep an updated list of all DIII teams who have or have announced women's wrestling at the bottom of this page: https://www.d3wrestle.com/division-iii-team-sites/ If I've counted right, there are 60 DIII schools with teams or plans to start one. Four in DI (Sacred Heart, Presbyterian, Lindenwood, Iowa). Not sure about DII, though it looks like there were 18 DII teams at last year's national tournament. There is also an NAIA championship that is separate from the NCAA schools. What determines if a school has a women's team? It's like any other sport. Does the athletic department sponsor it as a varsity program? Do they meet the minimum participation requirements to compete in the postseason?

A few OT/Tiebreaker clarifications 1. First choice goes to wrestler with first non-escape, non-penalty point. Disc is flipped if only escapes/penalties have been scored. RT point counts as a non-escape, non-penalty. 2. First choice can be top, bottom, neutral, or defer. Second choice can be top, bottom, or neutral. 3. If tied after the tiebreakers, riding time in OT is the deciding factor. 4. If riding time in OT is equal, they do a 1 minute SV period. 5. If still tied, another set of tiebreakers. Repeat 3-5 above until you get a winner.

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The DIII postseason starts Friday with four regions. The other two start on Saturday. Previews have been going up on d3wrestle.com with three done so far. Central https://www.d3wrestle.com/2023-central-region-preview/ Mideast https://www.d3wrestle.com/2023-mideast-region-preview/ Southeast https://www.d3wrestle.com/2023-southeast-region-preview/ Upper Midwest - Wednesday 12pm Northeast - Thursday 9am Lower Midwest - Thursday 12pm

Thanks for sharing the 2nd article there. The voting on NCAA rules changes for DII and DIII will be on Saturday morning, so that's when the season change stuff would be determined for DIII. DI uses a different process where it seems like the various committees make more of the decisions. Two DI changes worth noting from a wrestling standpoint 1. The DI Council voted to eliminate the voluntary coach designation across Division I, instead including those coaches within a new limit for countable coaches in each of the applicable sports. Wrestling will now have four allowable coaches (1 head + 3 assistants). https://www.ncaa.org/news/2023/1/11/media-center-division-i-council-modernizes-rules-for-coaching-limits.aspx 2. Tennis is doing a two year experiment where the individual championships happen in the fall and the team championship happens in the spring. It's the closest thing to a dual/individual championship situation some have angled for in the wrestling world. https://www.ncaa.org/news/2023/1/11/media-center-di-committee-approves-2-year-pilot-program-for-tennis-championships.aspx