NCAA Tournament Allocations Just Dropped

NCAA Tournament Allocations Just Dropped

Find out how many automatic qualifying spots each conference earned for the NCAA tournament.

Feb 22, 2018 by Andrew Spey
NCAA Tournament Allocations Just Dropped

The NCAA postseason is officially here. The NCAA just released the number of national championship tournament automatic qualifying spots for each conference. 

Wrestlers in each conference were evaluated on three criteria: Division I winning percentage at the weight class; ratings percentage index (RPI); and coaches’ ranking, which were together used to determine the number of AQs per conference.  

The breakdown of conference AQs per weight class is below.


125133141149157165174184197285Total
ACC253432433534
Big 12753536544345
Big 1010789810786780
EIWA134466576547
EWL214122121218
MAC243231322325
Pac-12421131214322
SoCon111111122112
Total29282727292928292829283


You can watch colleges wrestling's best punch their tickets to the big dance in four conference tournaments live on FloWrestling: Big Tens, EIWAs, Big 12s, and EWLs.

Following the conference tournaments, the NCAA selection committee convenes to decide on at-large selections that will fill each weight class out to 33 total wrestlers.