Similar to the NCAA BCS experiment, the NWCA has instituted a BSC-esque scenario for the latest edition of the NWCA Division I National Championship Dual Meet Series. The pairings were announced Monday morning and were based largely on the USA Today/NWCA Coaches Poll dual meet rankings. With the Big Ten as the best conference in collegiate wrestling, ten Big Ten Schools were selected as the host schools for the series (take that, college bowl games in the deep South or West).
The Big Ten teams were pitted against six conference champions and a pair of wild card teams. The championship dual will feature Big Ten co-champions Penn State against the highest ranked non-Big Ten team, Oklahoma State.
The pairings are as follows:
Friday, February 19
- No. 15 Iowa State (wild card selection) at No. 18 Minnesota
Saturday, February 20
- No. 7 Lehigh (EIWA champions) at No. 13 Rutgers
Sunday, February 21
- No. 27 Appalachian State (Southern Conference co-champion) at No. 30 Indiana
- No. 6 Missouri (MAC champion) at No. 11 Nebraska
- No. 5 Virginia Tech (ACC co-champion/wild card) at No. 8 Michigan
- No. 3 Oklahoma State (Big 12 champion) at No. 1 Penn State
Monday, February 22
- Edinboro (EWL champion) at No. 9 Ohio State
- No. 4 North Carolina State(ACC co-champion) at No. 2 Iowa
Edinboro boasts four wrestlers ranked in the latest InterMat rankings and have an 8-9 record to this point in the season.
A full preview of the dual will be out prior to the match.
