NCAA At-Large Bids Released!

The NCAA released the at-large bids for the 2018 Wrestling Championships. Check them out right here.

Mar 6, 2018 by Andrew Spey

The final 47 wrestlers just received their coveted invites to the NCAA Championships. The NCAA released Tuesday who will be packing for Cleveland and filling out the brackets to 33 per weight at the tournament, which takes place March 15-17.

Below is a full list of qualifiers, with the at-large or "wild card" qualifiers listed first.

125 POUNDS
At-Large	Gage Curry	American	22-14	EIWA
At-Large	Barlow McGhee	Missouri	15-11	MAC
At-Large	Kyle Norstrem	Virginia Tech	11-14	ACC
At-Large	Gerald (JR) Wert	Rider	17-7	EWL
	Alonzo Allen	Chattanooga	21-8	SoCon
	Paul Bianchi	North Dakota St.	24-13	Big 12
	Connor Brown	South Dakota St.	26-15	Big 12
	Ibrahim Bunduka	George Mason	23-12	EWL
	Darian Cruz	Lehigh	26-0	EIWA
	Sean Fausz	NC State	14-2	ACC
	RayVon Foley	Michigan St.	28-9	Big Ten
	Louie Hayes	Virginia	29-6	ACC
	Brock Hudkins	Northern Ill.	17-10	MAC
	Taylor LaMont	Utah Valley	25-3	Big 12
	Spencer Lee	Iowa	17-2	Big Ten
	Ethan Lizak	Minnesota	26-5	Big Ten
	Drew Mattin	Michigan	19-12	Big Ten
	Michael McGee	Old Dominion	28-8	MAC
	Sergio Mendez	CSU Bakersfield	22-12	Pac 12
	Ryan Millhof	Arizona St.	15-5	Pac 12
	Zeke Moisey	West Virginia	22-9	Big 12
	Christian Moody	Oklahoma	23-13	Big 12
	Elijah Oliver	Indiana	17-12	Big Ten
	Nicholas Piccininni	Oklahoma St.	23-3	Big 12
	Travis Piotrowski	Illinois	17-8	Big Ten
	Ronnie Rios	Oregon St.	19-4	Pac 12
	Sebastian Rivera	Northwestern	26-5	Big Ten
	Sean Russell	Edinboro	30-5	EWL
	Jacob Schwarm	UNI	26-10	Big 12
	Nick Suriano	Rutgers	21-0	Big Ten
	Nathan Tomasello	Ohio St.	11-1	Big Ten
	Gabe Townsell	Stanford	19-13	Pac 12
	Luke Welch	Purdue	29-9	Big Ten

133 POUNDS
At-Large	Josh Finesilver	Duke	20-18	ACC
At-Large	Rico Montoya	Northern Colo.	23-12	Big 12
At-Large	Sean Nickell	CSU Bakersfield	22-10	Pac 12
At-Large	Josh Terao	American	29-8	EIWA
At-Large	Ben Thornton	Purdue	26-11	Big Ten
	Montorie Bridges	Wyoming	32-4	Big 12
	Kaid Brock	Oklahoma St.	25-3	Big 12
	Scott Delvecchio	Rutgers	21-7	Big Ten
	Austin DeSanto	Drexel	28-5	EIWA
	Dylan Duncan	Illinois	20-7	Big Ten
	John Erneste	Missouri	24-2	MAC
	Dom Forys	Pittsburgh	21-4	ACC
	Seth Gross	South Dakota St.	24-1	Big 12
	Dennis Gustafson	Virginia Tech	23-7	ACC
	Corey Keener	Penn St.	16-8	Big Ten
	Cameron Kelly	Ohio	25-6	MAC
	Bryan Lantry	Buffalo	16-5	MAC
	Mitch McKee	Minnesota	18-6	Big Ten
	Stevan Micic	Michigan	22-2	Big Ten
	Jack Mueller	Virginia	21-5	ACC
	John Muldoon	SIUE	15-5	SoCon
	Korbin Myers	Edinboro	27-9	EWL
	Ali Naser	Arizona St.	21-11	Pac 12
	Scott Parker	Lehigh	18-3	EIWA
	Mason Pengilly	Stanford	4-1	Pac 12
	Luke Pletcher	Ohio St.	26-2	Big Ten
	Jason Renteria	Nebraska	8-4	Big Ten
	Matthew Schmitt	West Virginia	21-12	Big 12
	Zachary Sherman	North Carolina	15-17	ACC
	Cam Sykora	North Dakota St.	22-10	Big 12
	Charles Tucker	Cornell	21-9	EIWA
	Anthony Tutolo	Kent St.	27-11	MAC
	Tariq Wilson	NC State	22-9	ACC

141 POUNDS
At-Large	Austin Headlee	North Carolina	15-13	ACC
At-Large	Alex Madrigal	Old Dominion	20-8	MAC
At-Large	Henry Pohlmeyer	South Dakota St.	24-9	Big 12
At-Large	Russell Rohlfing	CSU Bakersfield	22-11	Pac 12
At-Large	Thomas Thorn	Minnesota	18-11	Big Ten
At-Large	Cole Weaver	Indiana	24-10	Big Ten
	Josh Alber	UNI	26-6	Big 12
	Tejon Anthony	George Mason	21-13	EWL
	Michael Carr	Illinois	17-5	Big Ten
	Evan Cheek	Cleveland St.	24-8	EWL
	Yianni Diakomihalis	Cornell	29-1	EIWA
	Ryan Diehl	Maryland	12-12	Big Ten
	Jaydin Eierman	Missouri	28-1	MAC
	Irvin Enriquez	Appalachian St.	17-11	SoCon
	Nicholas Gil	Navy	31-8	EIWA
	Dean Heil	Oklahoma St.	23-5	Big 12
	Kevin Jack	NC State	18-3	ACC
	Luke Karam	Lehigh	20-7	EIWA
	Nick Lee	Penn St.	27-5	Big Ten
	Nate Limmex	Purdue	25-14	Big Ten
	Joey McKenna	Ohio St.	16-1	Big Ten
	Bryce Meredith	Wyoming	29-1	Big 12
	Brent Moore	Virginia Tech	19-10	ACC
	Sa`Derian Perry	Eastern Mich.	15-16	MAC
	Chad Red	Nebraska	21-9	Big Ten
	Colton Schilling	Cal Poly	14-5	Pac 12
	Kyle Shoop	Lock Haven	34-12	EWL
	Tyler Smith	Bucknell	27-4	EIWA
	Mason Smith	Central Mich.	31-5	MAC
	Eli Stickley	Wisconsin	19-12	Big Ten
	Vincent Turk	Iowa	13-8	Big Ten
	Brock Zacherl	Clarion	27-1	EWL
	Nick Zanetta	Pittsburgh	20-10	ACC

149 POUNDS
At-Large	Malik Amine	Michigan	15-12	Big Ten
At-Large	Davion Jeffries	Oklahoma	24-17	Big 12
At-Large	Khristian Olivas	Fresno St.	24-7	Big 12
At-Large	Justin Oliver	Central Mich.	25-5	MAC
At-Large	Taylor Ortz	Clarion	26-10	EWL
At-Large	Michael Sprague	American	23-13	EIWA
	Alfred Bannister	Maryland	23-8	Big Ten
	Ryan Blees	Virginia Tech	22-7	ACC
	Steve Bleise	Minnesota	18-7	Big Ten
	Ryan Deakin	Northwestern	30-6	Big Ten
	Jarrett Degen	Iowa St.	20-9	Big 12
	Eleazar Deluca	Rutgers	12-12	Big Ten
	Beau Donahue	NC State	19-6	ACC
	Frank Garcia	Binghamton	27-11	EIWA
	Ke-Shawn Hayes	Ohio St.	27-5	Big Ten
	Troy Heilmann	North Carolina	28-4	ACC
	Matthew Kolodzik	Princeton	24-5	EIWA
	Sam Krivus	Virginia	18-13	ACC
	Grant Leeth	Missouri	22-2	MAC
	Boo Lewallen	Oklahoma St.	27-5	Big 12
	Cole Martin	Wisconsin	17-12	Big Ten
	Colton McCrystal	Nebraska	21-5	Big Ten
	Ronald Perry	Lock Haven	28-3	EWL
	Jared Prince	Navy	22-4	EIWA
	Zain Retherford	Penn St.	26-0	Big Ten
	Dane Robbins	Air Force	17-12	Big 12
	Cortlandt Schuyler	Lehigh	12-10	EIWA
	Brandon Sorensen	Iowa	21-2	Big Ten
	Kyle Springer	Eastern Mich.	21-16	MAC
	Max Thomsen	UNI	25-7	Big 12
	Jason Tsirtis	Arizona St.	17-6	Pac 12
	Sam Turner	Wyoming	26-15	Big 12
	Tyshawn Williams	SIUE	15-13	SoCon

157 POUNDS
At-Large	Ian Brown	Lehigh	17-10	EIWA
At-Large	Larry Early	Old Dominion	27-10	MAC
At-Large	Coleman Hammond	CSU Bakersfield	27-13	Pac 12
At-Large	Taleb Rahmani	Pittsburgh	17-12	ACC
	Tyler Berger	Nebraska	22-8	Big Ten
	Archie Colgan	Wyoming	32-7	Big 12
	Andrew Crone	Wisconsin	27-10	Big Ten
	Mike D`Angelo	Princeton	22-8	EIWA
	Mitch Finesilver	Duke	17-4	ACC
	Paul Fox	Stanford	20-7	Pac 12
	Garett Hammond	Drexel	19-5	EIWA
	Colin Heffernan	Central Mich.	19-6	MAC
	Hayden Hidlay	NC State	22-0	ACC
	Micah Jordan	Ohio St.	22-6	Big Ten
	Michael Kemerer	Iowa	22-2	Big Ten
	Alex Klucker	Lock Haven	25-9	EWL
	Joseph Lavallee	Missouri	29-1	MAC
	Tyler Marinelli	Gardner-Webb	26-6	SoCon
	Kennedy Monday	North Carolina	18-14	ACC
	Jason Nolf	Penn St.	21-1	Big Ten
	Alec Pantaleo	Michigan	17-5	Big Ten
	Clayton Ream	North Dakota St.	23-4	Big 12
	Markus Scheidel	Columbia	24-2	EIWA
	Joshua Shields	Arizona St.	29-2	Pac 12
	Andrew Shomers	Edinboro	29-6	EWL
	Jake Short	Minnesota	16-11	Big Ten
	Casey Sparkman	Kent St.	22-16	MAC
	Justin Staudenmayer	Brown	22-10	EIWA
	John Vanschenkbrill	Rutgers	20-12	Big Ten
	Joseph Velliquette	Penn	17-14	EIWA
	Luke Weiland	Army West Point	22-15	EIWA
	Hunter Willits	Oregon St.	18-14	Pac 12
	Luke Zilverberg	South Dakota St.	31-8	Big 12

165 POUNDS
At-Large	Andrew Atkinson	Virginia	19-7	ACC
At-Large	Zachary Carson	Eastern Mich.	21-11	MAC
At-Large	Jacob Morrissey	Purdue	21-18	Big Ten
At-Large	Quentin Perez	Campbell	25-8	SoCon
	Branson Ashworth	Wyoming	35-4	Big 12
	Dawaylon Barnes	Oklahoma	20-15	Big 12
	May Bethea	Penn	25-8	EIWA
	Te`shan Campbell	Ohio St.	17-10	Big Ten
	Jonathon Chavez	Cornell	18-4	EIWA
	Drew Daniels	Navy	27-5	EIWA
	Zach Finesilver	Duke	11-11	ACC
	Connor Flynn	Missouri	24-7	MAC
	Andrew Fogarty	North Dakota St.	29-10	Big 12
	Nate Higgins	SIUE	21-9	SoCon
	Vincenzo Joseph	Penn St.	20-2	Big Ten
	Richie Lewis	Rutgers	18-4	Big Ten
	Alex Marinelli	Iowa	16-3	Big Ten
	Chance Marsteller	Lock Haven	40-2	EWL
	Bryce Martin	Indiana	15-8	Big Ten
	Isaiah Martinez	Illinois	14-0	Big Ten
	Logan Massa	Michigan	16-6	Big Ten
	David McFadden	Virginia Tech	31-0	ACC
	Chandler Rogers	Oklahoma St.	20-3	Big 12
	Demetrius Romero	Utah Valley	26-8	Big 12
	Jonathan Schleifer	Princeton	16-11	EIWA
	Keilan Torres	Northern Colo.	22-10	Big 12
	Anthony Valencia	Arizona St.	25-8	Pac 12
	Jonathan Viruet	Brown	21-13	EIWA
	Chad Walsh	Rider	24-1	EWL
	Nicholas Wanzek	Minnesota	22-10	Big Ten
	Isaiah White	Nebraska	23-6	Big Ten
	Evan Wick	Wisconsin	23-6	Big Ten
	Gordon Wolf	Lehigh	18-9	EIWA

174 POUNDS
At-Large	Austin Rose	Drexel	20-16	EIWA
At-Large	Will Schany	Virginia	18-12	ACC
At-Large	Ty Schoffstall	Edinboro	21-3	EWL
At-Large	Devin Skatzka	Indiana	22-11	Big Ten
At-Large	Tyrel White	Columbia	24-12	EIWA
	Myles Amine	Michigan	21-6	Big Ten
	Kimball Bastian	Utah Valley	19-10	Big 12
	Jadaen Bernstein	Navy	22-5	EIWA
	Hunter Bolen	Virginia Tech	21-10	ACC
	Christian Brucki	Central Mich.	23-11	MAC
	Daniel Bullard	NC State	16-9	ACC
	Ryan Christensen	Wisconsin	24-13	Big Ten
	Matt Finesilver	Duke	25-9	ACC
	Joseph Gunther	Iowa	16-7	Big Ten
	Mark Hall	Penn St.	28-0	Big Ten
	Ben Harvey	Army West Point	19-9	EIWA
	Josef Johnson	Harvard	28-11	EIWA
	Bo Jordan	Ohio St.	23-5	Big Ten
	David Kocer	South Dakota St.	25-6	Big 12
	Jordan Kutler	Lehigh	24-3	EIWA
	Daniel Lewis	Missouri	29-0	MAC
	Taylor Lujan	UNI	28-5	Big 12
	Dylan Lydy	Purdue	32-12	Big Ten
	Yoanse Mejias	Oklahoma	28-9	Big 12
	Forrest Przybysz	Appalachian St.	24-7	SoCon
	Ethan Ramos	North Carolina	17-4	ACC
	Johnny Sebastian	Northwestern	26-10	Big Ten
	Dean Sherry	Rider	19-9	EWL
	Jacobe Smith	Oklahoma St.	19-5	Big 12
	Keaton Subjeck	Stanford	26-7	Pac 12
	Zahid Valencia	Arizona St.	27-0	Pac 12
	Brandon Womack	Cornell	17-9	EIWA
	Seldon Wright	Old Dominion	25-10	MAC

184 POUNDS
At-Large	Jordan Ellingwood	Central Mich.	25-10	MAC
At-Large	Nick Gravina	Rutgers	17-5	Big Ten
At-Large	Canten Marriott	Missouri	25-6	MAC
At-Large	Chaz Polson	Wyoming	32-11	Big 12
	Domenic Abounader	Michigan	23-5	Big Ten
	Mitchell Bowman	Iowa	12-11	Big Ten
	Greg Bulsak	Clarion	21-7	EWL
	Bryce Carr	Chattanooga	26-5	SoCon
	Alan Clothier	Appalachian St.	27-9	SoCon
	Michael Coleman	Navy	31-6	EIWA
	Maxwell Dean	Cornell	28-3	EIWA
	Alexander DeCiantis	Drexel	18-6	EIWA
	Drew Foster	UNI	25-4	Big 12
	Dylan Gabel	Northern Colo.	22-8	Big 12
	Bryce Gorman	Northern Ill.	11-8	MAC
	Corey Hazel	Lock Haven	23-8	EWL
	Joe Heyob	Penn	23-10	EIWA
	Brandon Krone	Minnesota	11-8	Big Ten
	Christian LaFragola	Brown	19-8	EIWA
	Kayne MacCallum	Eastern Mich.	17-13	MAC
	Myles Martin	Ohio St.	27-2	Big Ten
	Keegan Moore	Oklahoma St.	18-8	Big 12
	Martin Mueller	South Dakota St.	26-6	Big 12
	Chip Ness	North Carolina	16-10	ACC
	Bo Nickal	Penn St.	26-0	Big Ten
	Kordell Norfleet	Arizona St.	12-11	Pac 12
	Emory Parker	Illinois	21-3	Big Ten
	Ryan Preisch	Lehigh	14-2	EIWA
	Pete Renda	NC State	21-2	ACC
	Ricky Robertson	Wisconsin	24-9	Big Ten
	Steven Schneider	Binghamton	21-5	EIWA
	Taylor Venz	Nebraska	23-7	Big Ten
	Zachary Zavatsky	Virginia Tech	28-5	ACC

197 POUNDS
At-Large	Jordan Atienza	Central Mich.	19-11	MAC
At-Large	Rocco Caywood	Army West Point	19-12	EIWA
At-Large	Randall Diabe	Appalachian St.	19-7	SoCon
At-Large	Eric Schultz	Nebraska	18-9	Big Ten
At-Large	Jacob Seely	Northern Colo.	16-10	Big 12
	Kevin Beazley	Michigan	16-9	Big Ten
	Scottie Boykin	Chattanooga	26-6	SoCon
	Patrick Brucki	Princeton	28-8	EIWA
	Christian Brunner	Purdue	23-9	Big Ten
	Daniel Chaid	North Carolina	21-10	ACC
	Kyle Conel	Kent St.	24-10	MAC
	Dustin Conti	Clarion	25-7	EWL
	Ben Darmstadt	Cornell	30-1	EIWA
	Corey Griego	Oregon St.	21-5	Pac 12
	Jared Haught	Virginia Tech	26-2	ACC
	Jacob Holschlag	UNI	17-10	Big 12
	Jeric Kasunic	American	34-5	EIWA
	Thomas Lane	Cal Poly	15-9	Pac 12
	Stephen Loiseau	Drexel	31-10	EIWA
	Michael Macchiavello	NC State	17-3	ACC
	Frank Mattiace	Penn	28-6	EIWA
	William Miklus	Missouri	22-3	MAC
	Kollin Moore	Ohio St.	22-2	Big Ten
	Shakur Rasheed	Penn St.	20-3	Big Ten
	Hunter Ritter	Wisconsin	26-9	Big Ten
	Sawyer Root	The Citadel	25-14	SoCon
	Nate Rotert	South Dakota St.	28-4	Big 12
	Jacob Smith	West Virginia	13-7	Big 12
	Nathan Traxler	Stanford	17-10	Pac 12
	Preston Weigel	Oklahoma St.	12-2	Big 12
	Chris Weiler	Lehigh	15-8	EIWA
	Cash Wilcke	Iowa	18-7	Big Ten
	Matt Williams	CSU Bakersfield	28-7	Pac 12

285 POUNDS
At-Large	Brett Dempsey	American	18-11	EIWA
At-Large	Jake Gunning	Buffalo	17-6	MAC
At-Large	Ryan Solomon	Pittsburgh	20-9	ACC
At-Large	Matt Voss	George Mason	23-11	EWL
	Michael Boykin	NC State	20-6	ACC
	Nathan Butler	Stanford	24-7	Pac 12
	Adam Coon	Michigan	25-1	Big Ten
	Dustin Dennison	Utah Valley	29-9	Big 12
	Amar Dhesi	Oregon St.	20-2	Pac 12
	Andrew Dunn	Virginia Tech	21-13	ACC
	Cory Gilliland-Daniel	North Carolina	23-7	ACC
	Thomas Haines	Lock Haven	18-5	EWL
	Tanner Hall	Arizona St.	20-6	Pac 12
	Jere Heino	Campbell	24-5	SoCon
	Youssif Hemida	Maryland	27-5	Big Ten
	Mike Hughes	Hofstra	34-3	EIWA
	Gage Hutchison	Eastern Mich.	19-7	MAC
	Conan Jennings	Northwestern	25-10	Big Ten
	Jacob Kasper	Duke	35-2	ACC
	Tyler Love	Virginia	9-17	ACC
	William Miller	Edinboro	16-4	EWL
	AJ Nevills	Fresno St.	26-8	Big 12
	Nick Nevills	Penn St.	26-5	Big Ten
	Antonio Pelusi	Franklin & Marshall	24-8	EIWA
	Garrett Ryan	Columbia	30-6	EIWA
	Kyle Snyder	Ohio St.	12-1	Big Ten
	Matt Stencel	Central Mich.	28-13	MAC
	Samuel Stoll	Iowa	19-4	Big Ten
	Shawn Streck	Purdue	28-13	Big Ten
	Stephen Suglio	Kent St.	20-8	MAC
	Jeramy Sweany	Cornell	19-6	EIWA
	Derek White	Oklahoma St.	23-2	Big 12
	Jordan Wood	Lehigh	19-5	EIWA

The NCAA uses a complex set of ordered criteria to choose the final tournament participants, which explicitly included the following: "head-to-head competition, quality wins, results against common opponents, winning percentage, rating percentage index, coaches ranking, and qualifying event placement."

The NCAA revealed the percentages of how each criterion is weighted in the following tweet:

Take a look at the weighted criteria used by the DI Wrestling Committee when selecting at-large wrestlers. #NCAAWrestling pic.twitter.com/EHk6Vt78Ds
— NCAA Wrestling (@ncaawrestling) March 6, 2018

The 2018 NCAA tournament is being held at the Quicken Loans Arena in downtown Cleveland from March 15-17. Seeded brackets are expected Wednesday, March 7. Folks, it's happening, and soon!

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