NCAA Wrestling: 2016 NCAA National Championship Qualifiers and Brackets

INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA announced the 49 at-large selections for the 2016 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships the morning of March 9th.

The 49 at-large selections for the tournament will join the 281 student-athletes that qualified automatically through their respective conference tournaments, which took place over the past two weekends.

The NCAA Division I wrestling committee used the following criteria to select the at-large bids; head-to-head competition, quality wins, results against common opponents, winning percentage, rating percentage index, coaches rankings, qualifying event placement, and number of matches contested at that weight class.

BRACKETS: Full 2016 Division I Wrestling brackets

Tickets for the 2016 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships at Madison Square Garden March 17-19 are still available on the NCAA Ticket Exchange. Buy and sell official tickets with other wrestling fans through the NCAA Ticket Exchange before it closes on March 14. This gives ticket holders who are unable to attend a session a place to safely sell their tickets. Buyers can also get their tickets knowing the tickets are authentic and guaranteed.

Note: Qualifiers are listed in alphabetical order. Qualifiers with an asterisk denotes an at-large selection.

WEIGHT	FIRST NAME	LAST NAME	TEAM	LEAGUE	OVERALL
285	Brooks	Black	Illinois	Big Ten	20-9
285	Nathan	Butler	Stanford	Pac 12	25-7
285	Blaize	Cabell	UNI	MAC	22-6
285	Adam	Coon	Michigan	Big Ten	18-2
285	Boyce	Cornwell	Gardner-Webb	SoCon	22-9
285*	Mauro	Correnti	Rider	EWL	16-13
285	Denzel	Dejournette	Appalachian St.	SoCon	31-2
285	Amarveer	Dhesi	Oregon St.	Pac 12	27-3
285*	Patrick	Gillen	Virginia	ACC	17-13
285*	Joseph	Goodhart	Drexel	EIWA	24-12
285	Nick	Gwiazdowski	North Carolina St.	ACC	29-0
285	Tanner	Hall	Arizona St.	Pac 12	23-10
285	Tanner	Harms	Wyoming	Big 12	19-4
285	Mike	Hughes	Hofstra	EIWA	39-8
285*	Gage	Hutchison	Eastern Mich.	MAC	21-13
285	Collin	Jensen	Nebraska	Big Ten	21-14
285	Jared	Johnson	Chattanooga	SoCon	23-5
285	Michael	Kroells	Minnesota	Big Ten	30-7
285	Ross	Larson	Oklahoma	Big 12	19-11
285	Austin	Marsden	Oklahoma St.	Big 12	27-1
285	William	Miller	Edinboro	EWL	28-9
285	Ray	O`Donnell	Princeton	EIWA	27-11
285	Antonio	Pelusi	Franklin & Marshall	EIWA	26-19
285*	Garrett	Ryan	Columbia	EIWA	22-8
285	Riley	Shaw	Cleveland St.	EWL	28-5
285	Billy	Smith	Rutgers	Big Ten	27-8
285	Kyle	Snyder	Ohio St.	Big Ten	6-0
285	Ryan	Solomon	Pittsburgh	ACC	18-8
285	Joe	Stolfi	Bucknell	EIWA	20-2
285*	Sam	Stoll	Iowa	Big Ten	22-5
285	Jeramy	Sweany	Cornell	EIWA	22-14
285	Ty	Walz	Virginia Tech	ACC	23-2
285	Max	Wessell	Lehigh	EIWA	24-4

197	Anthony	Abro	Eastern Mich.	MAC	20-8
197	Bryce	Barnes	Army West Point	EIWA	21-9
197	John	Bolich	Lehigh	EIWA	17-10
197	Nick	Bonaccorsi	Pittsburgh	ACC	15-13
197	Scottie	Boykin	Chattanooga	SoCon	23-6
197	Michael	Boykin	North Carolina St.	ACC	17-9
197	Nathan	Burak	Iowa	Big Ten	23-2
197	Kyle	Conel	Kent St.	MAC	26-6
197	J`Den	Cox	Missouri	MAC	28-1
197	Joshua	Dasilveira	Arizona St.	Pac 12	21-9
197	James	Downey	Iowa St.	Big 12	6-2
197*	Reuben	Franklin	CSU Bakersfield	Pac 12	31-6
197	Brett	Harner	Princeton	EIWA	33-3
197	Conner	Hartmann	Duke	ACC	26-1
197	Jared	Haught	Virginia Tech	ACC	17-7
197	Hayden	Hrymack	Rutgers	Big Ten	17-14
197	Maxwell	Huntley	Michigan	Big Ten	21-5
197	Morgan	McIntosh	Penn St.	Big Ten	28-0
197*	Chip	Ness	North Carolina	ACC	18-12
197	Trent	Noon	Northern Colo.	Big 12	24-8
197	Zachary	Nye	Virginia	ACC	24-10
197	Brett	Pfarr	Minnesota	Big Ten	35-3
197	Nate	Rotert	South Dakota St.	Big 12	26-9
197	Owen	Scott	Cornell	EIWA	15-7
197	Shawn	Scott	Northern Ill.	MAC	23-9
197*	Jacob A.	Smith	West Virginia	Big 12	30-10
197	Phil	Sprenkle	Lock Haven	EWL	18-7
197	Aaron	Studebaker	Nebraska	Big Ten	21-9
197	Preston	Weigel	Oklahoma St.	Big 12	16-10
197	Phil	Wellington	Ohio	MAC	25-6
197	Sam	Wheeler	Cleveland St.	EWL	28-8
197	Ryan	Wolfe	Rider	EWL	27-8
197*	Michael	Woulfe	Navy	EIWA	32-12

184	Domenic	Abounader	Michigan	Big Ten	23-2
184	Joe	Ariola	Buffalo	MAC	13-15
184	Victor	Avery	Edinboro	EWL	13-1
184*	Abram	Ayala	Princeton	EIWA	19-11
184	Nolan	Boyd	Oklahoma St.	Big 12	28-6
184	Sammy	Brooks	Iowa	Big Ten	24-4
184	Nate	Brown	Lehigh	EIWA	21-4
184	Ryan	Christensen	Wisconsin	Big Ten	18-18
184*	Kenny	Courts	Ohio St.	Big Ten	17-10
184	Gabriel	Dean	Cornell	EIWA	29-1
184	Jack	Dechow	Old Dominion	MAC	18-3
184	Timothy	Dudley	Nebraska	Big Ten	20-6
184	Jordan	Ellingwood	Central Mich.	MAC	28-12
184	Nicholas	Gravina	Rutgers	Big Ten	21-9
184	Corey	Griego	Oregon St.	Pac 12	23-10
184	Ville	Heino	Campbell	SoCon	26-12
184	Samson	Imonode	Army West Point	EIWA	15-17
184	Jeffrey	Koepke	Illinois	Big Ten	20-8
184*	Garet	Krohn	Stanford	Pac 12	20-8
184*	John	Lampe	Chattanooga	SoCon	21-5
184	Matt	McCutcheon	Penn St.	Big Ten	16-6
184	Willie	Miklus	Missouri	MAC	18-5
184	Mathew	Miller	Navy	EIWA	29-7
184*	Dane	Pestano	Iowa St.	Big 12	24-13
184	Pete	Renda	North Carolina St.	ACC	21-7
184	Jakob `Bubba`	Scheffel	West Virginia	Big 12	21-14
184	Steven	Schneider	Binghamton	EIWA	30-9
184	Tom	Sleigh	Bucknell	EIWA	26-8
184	Blake	Stauffer	Arizona St.	Pac 12	23-2
184	Lorenzo	Thomas	Pennsylvania	EIWA	30-6
184	Alex	Utley	North Carolina	ACC	25-8
184	Zachary	Zavatsky	Virginia Tech	ACC	23-5
184	Hayden	Zillmer	North Dakota St.	Big 12	30-4

174	Phil	Bakuckas	Rutgers	Big Ten	18-13
174	Micah	Barnes	Nebraska	Big Ten	20-10
174	Rustin	Barrick	Bucknell	EIWA	27-10
174	Jadaen	Bernstein	Navy	EIWA	32-11
174	Zach	Brunson	Illinois	Big Ten	20-3
174	Blaise	Butler	Missouri	MAC	20-3
174*	Te`Shan	Campbell	Pittsburgh	ACC	18-10
174	Zach	Epperly	Virginia Tech	ACC	10-2
174	Bryce	Hammond	CSU Bakersfield	Pac 12	19-3
174	Brian	Harvey	Army West Point	EIWA	23-9
174	Nathan	Jackson	Indiana	Big Ten	31-7
174	Josef	Johnson	Harvard	EIWA	18-14
174	Nick	Kee	Appalachian St.	SoCon	28-7
174*	Casey	Kent	Pennsylvania	EIWA	26-7
174	David	Kocer	South Dakota St.	Big 12	28-11
174*	Sean	Mappes	Chattanooga	SoCon	18-10
174	Myles	Martin	Ohio St.	Big Ten	28-6
174	Jack	McKeever	Binghamton	EIWA	27-10
174	Alex	Meyer	Iowa	Big Ten	23-4
174	Bo	Nickal	Penn St.	Big Ten	29-1
174	Michael	Ottinger	Central Mich.	MAC	29-6
174	Michael	Pavasko	Clarion	EWL	21-13
174	Ethan	Ramos	North Carolina	ACC	22-3
174	Brian	Realbuto	Cornell	EIWA	33-3
174	Matt	Reed	Oklahoma	Big 12	19-9
174	Richard	Robertson	Wisconsin	Big Ten	14-13
174	Chandler	Rogers	Oklahoma St.	Big 12	27-7
174*	Jonathan	Schleifer	Princeton	EIWA	21-9
174	Keaton	Subjeck	Stanford	Pac 12	20-7
174	Cody	Walters	Ohio	MAC	26-4
174	Nicholas	Wanzek	Minnesota	Big Ten	20-11
174	Lelund	Weatherspoon	Iowa St.	Big 12	24-10
174	Gordon	Wolf	Lehigh	EIWA	13-10

165	Connor	Brennan	Rider	EWL	27-3
165*	Tyler	Buckwalter	Kent St.	MAC	24-11
165	Alex	Dieringer	Oklahoma St.	Big 12	28-0
165	Jake	Faust	Duke	ACC	17-8
165	Adam	Fierro	CSU Bakersfield	Pac 12	17-9
165	Casey	Fuller	Edinboro	EWL	26-9
165	Clark	Glass	Oklahoma	Big 12	22-8
165	Devon	Gobbo	Harvard	EIWA	25-5
165	Isaac	Jordan	Wisconsin	Big Ten	25-0
165	Bo	Jordan	Ohio St.	Big Ten	16-2
165	Dakota	Juarez	Eastern Mich.	MAC	14-10
165	Daniel	Lewis	Missouri	MAC	25-4
165	David	McFadden	Virginia Tech	ACC	21-9
165	Cooper	Moore	UNI	MAC	15-6
165*	Geno	Morelli	Penn St.	Big Ten	19-10
165	Anthony	Perrotti	Rutgers	Big Ten	21-3
165	George	Pickett	Cornell	EIWA	26-9
165	Ryan	Preisch	Lehigh	EIWA	16-8
165*	Forrest	Przybysz	Appalachian St.	SoCon	21-11
165	Austin	Reese	Ohio	MAC	21-12
165*	Patrick	Rhoads	Iowa	Big Ten	13-11
165	Steven	Rodrigues	Illinois	Big Ten	25-3
165	Max	Rohskopf	North Carolina St.	ACC	15-2
165	John	Staudenmayer	North Carolina	ACC	21-10
165	Seth	Thomas	Oregon St.	Pac 12	21-9
165	Austin	Trott	Gardner-Webb	SoCon	17-5
165	Tanner	Weatherman	Iowa St.	Big 12	28-8
165	Chad	Welch	Purdue	Big Ten	30-7
165	Tyrel	White	Columbia	EIWA	26-10
165	Cody	Wiercioch	Pittsburgh	ACC	17-11
165*	Mitchell	Wightman	American	EIWA	22-15
165	Jim	Wilson	Stanford	Pac 12	24-6
165	Austin	Wilson	Nebraska	Big Ten	23-9

157*	Andrew	Atkinson	Virginia	ACC	24-9
157	LeRoy	Barnes	Missouri	MAC	27-8
157	Tyler	Berger	Nebraska	Big Ten	21-11
157	May	Bethea	Pennsylvania	EIWA	22-13
157	John	Boyle	American	EIWA	29-7
157	Nick	Brascetta	Virginia Tech	ACC	7-3
157	Chris	Castillo	Boise St.	Pac 12	19-10
157	Spartak	Chino	Ohio	MAC	23-11
157	Edwin	Cooper, Jr.	Iowa	Big Ten	17-9
157	Dylan	Cottrell	West Virginia	Big 12	30-9
157*	Gregory	Flournoy	George Mason	EWL	30-10
157	Thomas	Gantt	North Carolina St.	ACC	24-0
157	Robert	Henderson	North Carolina	ACC	11-12
157	Richie	Lewis	Rutgers	Big Ten	26-5
157	Isaiah	Martinez	Illinois	Big Ten	27-1
157	Austin	Matthews	Edinboro	EWL	10-4
157*	Ian	Miller	Kent St.	MAC	20-1
157	Andrew	Morse	Northern Ill.	MAC	6-5
157	Brian	Murphy	Michigan	Big Ten	9-7
157	Jason	Nolf	Penn St.	Big Ten	29-1
157	Cody	Pack	South Dakota St.	Big 12	27-3
157	Dylan	Palacio	Cornell	EIWA	13-1
157	Russell	Parsons	Army West Point	EIWA	28-11
157	Neal	Richards	Vmi	SoCon	21-9
157	Jake	Ryan	Ohio St.	Big Ten	17-5
157	Markus	Scheidel	Columbia	EIWA	39-8
157	Kamaal	Shakur	Chattanooga	SoCon	24-6
157	Joseph	Smith	Oklahoma St.	Big 12	31-3
157	Luke	Smith	Central Mich.	MAC	30-8
157	Justin	Staudenmayer	Brown	EIWA	29-8
157	Bryce	Steiert	UNI	MAC	21-9
157*	Aaron	Walker	The Citadel	SoCon	28-7
157	Chad	Walsh	Rider	EWL	25-7

149	Nick	Barber	Eastern Mich.	MAC	18-9
149	Matthew	Cimato	Drexel	EIWA	34-5
149	Bryant	Clagon	Rider	EWL	19-10
149	Anthony	Collica	Oklahoma St.	Big 12	25-7
149	Colt	Cotten	Buffalo	MAC	12-9
149	Joey	Delgado	Oregon St.	Pac 12	23-14
149	Mike	DePalma	Kent St.	MAC	23-7
149	Tyson	Dippery	Rutgers	Big Ten	18-13
149	John	Fahy	SIUE	SoCon	19-9
149	Mitch	Finesilver	Duke	ACC	28-7
149	Joseph	Galasso	Cornell	EIWA	18-12
149*	Steven	Galiardo	Brown	EIWA	21-8
149	Laike	Gardner	Lehigh	EIWA	21-9
149*	Alex	Griffin	Purdue	Big Ten	14-7
149*	Coleman	Hammond	CSU Bakersfield	Pac 12	21-13
149	Evan	Henderson	North Carolina	ACC	22-5
149	Davion	Jeffries	Oklahoma	Big 12	23-10
149*	Alex	Kocer	South Dakota St.	Big 12	24-10
149	Matthew	Kraus	Arizona St.	Pac 12	28-6
149	Victor	Lopez	Bucknell	EIWA	28-12
149	Patricio	Lugo	Edinboro	EWL	29-7
149	Geo	Martinez	Boise St.	Pac 12	28-5
149	Lavion	Mayes	Missouri	MAC	26-2
149	Daniel	Neff	Lock Haven	EWL	26-8
149	Justin	Oliver	Central Mich.	MAC	28-5
149	Alec	Pantaleo	Michigan	Big Ten	24-5
149	Clayton	Ream	North Dakota St.	Big 12	21-16
149	Zain	Retherford	Penn St.	Big Ten	29-0
149*	Jake	Short	Minnesota	Big Ten	16-10
149	Brandon	Sorensen	Iowa	Big Ten	25-1
149	Jake	Sueflohn	Nebraska	Big Ten	27-6
149	Jason	Tsirtsis	Northwestern	Big Ten	13-7
149*	Christopher	Vassar	Gardner-Webb	SoCon	18-7

141	Anthony	Abidin	Nebraska	Big Ten	18-13
141	Anthony	Ashnault	Rutgers	Big Ten	29-3
141	Steve	Bleise	Northern Ill.	MAC	26-8
141	Solomon	Chishko	Virginia Tech	ACC	26-4
141	Randy	Cruz	Lehigh	EIWA	24-7
141	Rick	Durso	Franklin & Marshall	EIWA	37-8
141*	Logan	Everett	Army West Point	EIWA	18-13
141	Zach	Finesilver	Duke	ACC	25-12
141	Javier	Gasca III	Michigan St.	Big Ten	21-8
141	Nicholas	Gil	Navy	EIWA	25-15
141	Seth	Gross	South Dakota St.	Big 12	23-12
141	James	Gulibon	Penn St.	Big Ten	12-9
141	Dean	Heil	Oklahoma St.	Big 12	27-1
141	Zachary	Horan	Central Mich.	MAC	25-11
141	Jamel	Hudson	Hofstra	EIWA	20-8
141	Kevin	Jack	North Carolina St.	ACC	23-3
141	Micah	Jordan	Ohio St.	Big Ten	25-2
141	Jordan	Laster	Princeton	EIWA	22-12
141	Mike	Longo	Appalachian St.	SoCon	19-9
141	Matt	Manley	Missouri	MAC	27-6
141	Robert	Mathers	Arizona St.	Pac 12	22-11
141	Joey	McKenna	Stanford	Pac 12	22-2
141	Chris	Mecate	Old Dominion	MAC	21-6
141	Bryce	Meredith	Wyoming	Big 12	25-4
141	Ian	Nickell	CSU Bakersfield	Pac 12	26-10
141*	Jameson	Oster	Northwestern	Big Ten	12-6
141*	Mike	Pongracz	Chattanooga	SoCon	22-4
141	Todd	Preston	Harvard	EIWA	29-4
141	Danny	Sabatello	Purdue	Big Ten	19-15
141*	Tyler	Smith	Bucknell	EIWA	22-11
141	Thomas	Thorn	Minnesota	Big Ten	34-9
141	Joseph	Ward	North Carolina	ACC	19-4
141	Brock	Zacherl	Clarion	EWL	27-1

133*	Josh	Alber	UNI	MAC	26-10
133	Geoffrey	Alexander	Maryland	Big Ten	13-5
133	Mason	Beckman	Lehigh	EIWA	16-10
133	Dalton	Brady	Arizona St.	Pac 12	16-2
133	Cody	Brewer	Oklahoma	Big 12	21-2
133*	Rosario	Bruno	Michigan	Big Ten	14-11
133	Cory	Clark	Iowa	Big Ten	22-1
133	Jordan	Conaway	Penn St.	Big Ten	26-5
133	Zachary	Davis	Navy	EIWA	28-14
133	Robert	Deutsch	Rider	EWL	20-5
133	George	DiCamillo	Virginia	ACC	27-3
133	Johnni	DiJulius	Ohio St.	Big Ten	17-7
133	Austin	Eicher	Northern Ill.	MAC	19-11
133	Dom	Forys	Pittsburgh	ACC	25-3
133	Nahshon	Garrett	Cornell	EIWA	32-0
133	Anthony	Giraldo	Rutgers	Big Ten	17-14
133	Earl	Hall	Iowa St.	Big 12	29-7
133	Gary Wayne	Harding	Oklahoma St.	Big 12	15-11
133	Corey	Keener	Central Mich.	MAC	18-10
133	Cameron	Kelly	Ohio	MAC	22-7
133	Nathan	Kraisser	Campbell	SoCon	33-7
133	Bryan	Lantry	Buffalo	MAC	18-14
133	Dominick	Malone	Northwestern	Big Ten	22-10
133*	Martin (Josh)	Martinez	Air Force	Big 12	23-8
133	Mack	McGuire	Kent St.	MAC	24-5
133	Eric	Montoya	Nebraska	Big Ten	24-8
133	Jamal	Morris	North Carolina St.	ACC	14-8
133*	Joey	Palmer	Oregon St.	Pac 12	24-10
133	Jade	Rauser	Utah Valley	Big 12	20-6
133	Zane	Richards	Illinois	Big Ten	23-1
133*	Caleb	Richardson	Pennsylvania	EIWA	21-13
133*	Zach	Synon	Missouri	MAC	16-12
133	Bradley	Taylor	Wisconsin	Big Ten	9-5

125	Lorenzo	Bentley	Pittsburgh	ACC	18-10
125	Darian	Cruz	Lehigh	EIWA	28-5
125	Joey	Dance	Virginia Tech	ACC	28-1
125	Sean	Fausz	North Carolina St.	ACC	16-9
125	Brent	Fleetwood	Central Mich.	MAC	19-11
125	Zachary	Fuentes	Drexel	EIWA	22-12
125	Thomas	Gilman	Iowa	Big Ten	24-1
125	Nick	Herrmann	Virginia	ACC	15-7
125	Brandon	Jeske	Old Dominion	MAC	18-11
125	Johnny	Jimenez	Wisconsin	Big Ten	18-14
125	Eddie	Klimara	Oklahoma St.	Big 12	27-5
125	Tim	Lambert	Nebraska	Big Ten	23-9
125	Kyle	Larson	Iowa St.	Big 12	23-15
125*	Dalton	Macri	Cornell	EIWA	16-7
125*	Sean	McCabe	Rutgers	Big Ten	14-14
125	Barlow	McGhee	Missouri	MAC	22-7
125	Nico	Megaludis	Penn St.	Big Ten	27-3
125	Ryan	Millhof	Oklahoma	Big 12	21-6
125*	Zeke	Moisey	West Virginia	Big 12	26-11
125	Elijah	Oliver	Indiana	Big Ten	31-8
125	Dylan	Peters	UNI	MAC	14-2
125	Paul	Petrov	Bucknell	EIWA	31-5
125	Ronnie	Rios	Oregon St.	Pac 12	28-7
125	Alfredo	Rodriguez	SIUE	SoCon	15-1
125	Joshua	Rodriguez	North Dakota St.	Big 12	34-8
125	Drew	Romero	Air Force	Big 12	16-15
125	Sean	Russell	Edinboro	EWL	27-7
125	Connor	Schram	Stanford	Pac 12	20-5
125	Drew	Templeman	Wyoming	Big 12	18-8
125*	David	Terao	American	EIWA	25-5
125*	Chasen	Tolbert	Utah Valley	Big 12	16-7
125	Nathan	Tomasello	Ohio St.	Big Ten	22-0
125	Conor	Youtsey	Michigan	Big Ten	12-13

Kyle Carroll

Kyle Carroll is a Long Island, N.Y. native and avid MMA and amateur wrestling fan. He has been a part of the wrestling community for nearly 20 years. Carroll has six years of experience coaching high school wrestling. His father coached high school wrestling over 35 years, passing on his strong knowledge. Carroll has been reporting MMA news since January 2011. The former wrestler’s coverage includes the 2012 U.S. Olympic Wrestling Team Trials, 2013 & 2016 NCAA D1 Wrestling Championship, and numerous MMA events (Bellator MMA, King of the Cage, North American Fighting Championship, and Glory).

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