Looks like we made it! Four months of the regular season, one weekend of conference championships, and here we are, in the T-Mobile Center in Kansas City getting ready to begin the most excellent tournament of the world’s oldest and largest sport.
Match Notes: Session I | Session II
We’re at the 2024 NCAA D1 Wrestling Championships, and we’ll have an account of all the action here for you in real time!
2024 NCAA Championships Watch Party
Have some time to kill before the wrestling starts? Might I recommend spending an hour watching the latest FloSports Original: Spencer & Austin? I’m admittedly biased but in my humble opinion it rules.
Where Are Brackets?
I’m hoping you came here for the live blog but if you just want the brackets I understand as well. We all crave brackets. Here is the link to the D1 NCAA Championship event page on Trackwrestling. Brackets are very easy to find from there. Sweet sweet brackets.
What About the Schedule?
Sure, right here.
Friday, March 22
Session 3 – 12:00 pm (Quarterfinals & Consolations)
Session 4 – 8:00 pm (Championship Semifinals & Round of 12)
Saturday, March 23
Session 5 – 11:00 am (Placing Matches)
Session 6 – 7:00 pm (Championship Finals)
Recognize that information above? That’s because I CUT and PASTED it from previous live blogs. This tournament is progressing fast and furiously so I need to be efficient!
And now we got the quarterfinals, one of the best few hours in all of sports! I win and you’re an All-American! A loss and you have to wrestle in the bloodround! The stakes are sky high!!
Quarterfinals will take placed on four mats, while the other four will have consolation round bouts. It’s all quarterfinal action on this blog though.
By the way, the numbers before the names in the matchups below are rankings, not seeds!
QUARTERFINALS
125: #1 Braeden Davis, Penn State vs. #11 Richard Figueroa, Arizona State
Figueroa in on a shot early, Davis successfully defends.
125: #23 Anthony Noto, Lock Haven vs. #4 Matt Ramos, Purdue
125: #2 Drake Ayala, Iowa vs #8 Troy Spratley, Oklahoma State
125: #6 Eric Barnett, Wisconsin vs #13 Caleb Smith, Nebraska
Barnett lunges for a leg and he an Smith engages in a protracted scramble. Smith puts Barnett in neutral danger and gets the takedown, the first points of the match.
133: #3 Daton Fix, Oklahoma State vs. Evan Frost, Iowa State
133: #5 Dylan Ragusin, Michigan vs. Dylan Shawver, Rutgers
133: #6 Kai Orine, NC State vs. Vito Arujau, Cornell
133: #7 Nasir Bailey, Little Rock vs. #1 Ryan Crookham, Lehigh
141: #1 Jesse Mendez, Ohio State vs #8 Brock Hardy, Nebraska
141: #5 Anthony Echemendia, Iowa State vs #4 Ryan Jack, NC State
141: #3 Real Woods, Iowa vs #10 Lachlan McNeil, North Carolina
141: #22 Vance Vombaur, Minnesota vs #2 Beau Bartlett, Penn State
149: #1 Ridge Lovett, Nebraska vs #7 Casey Swiderski, Iowa State
149: #6 Ty Watters, West Virginia vs #4 Caleb Henson, Virginia Tech
149: #3 Jackson Arrington, NC State vs #5 Austin Gomez, Michigan
149: #8 Chance Lamer, Cal Poly vs #2 Kyle Parco, Arizona State
157: #1 Levi Haines, Penn State vs #12 Peyton Robb, Nebraska
157: #11 Bryce Andonian, Virginia Tech vs. #9 Ed Scott, NC State
157: #3 Meyer Shapiro, Cornell vs. #7 Daniel Cardenas, Stanford
157: #6 Jared Franek, Iowa vs #2 Jacori Teemer, Arizona State
165: #1 Keegan O’Toole, Missouri vs #10 Antrell Taylor, Nebraska
165: #5 Dean Hamiti, Wisconsin vs #2 David Carr, Iowa State
165: #3 Julian Ramirez, Cornell vs #6 Mike Caliendo, Iowa
165: #9 Cameron Amine, Michigan vs #4 Mitchell Mesenbrink, Penn State
174: #2 Mekhi Lewis, Virginia Tech vs. #1 Carter Starocci, Penn State
174: #25 Jared Simma, Northern Iowa vs #3 Shane Griffith, Michigan
174: #5 Edmond Ruth, Illinois vs #6 Rocco Welsh, Ohio State
174: #8 Lennox Wolak, Columbia vs. #4 Cade DeVos, South Dakota State
184: #1 Parker Keckeisen, Northern Iowa vs #28 David Key, Navy
184: #6 Lenny Pinto, Nebraska vs #4 Trey Munoz, Oregon State
184: #2 Dustin Plott, Oklahoma State vs. #5 Bernie Truax, Penn State
184: #11 Thomas Stewart, Virginia Tech vs #3 Isaiah Salazar, Minnesota
197: #1 Aaron Brooks, Penn State vs #8 Stephen Buchanan, Oklahoma
197: #7 Rocky Elam, Missouri vs. #4 Michael Beard, Lehigh
197: #3 Tanner Sloan, South Dakota State vs. #6 Lou Deprez, Binghamton
197: #11 Silas Allred, Nebraska vs #2 Trent Hidlay, NC State
285: #1 Greg Kerkvliet, Penn State vs #7 Nick Feldman, Ohio State
285: #6 Nathan Taylor, Lehigh vs #4 Cohlton Schultz, Arizona State
285: #3 Wyatt Hendrickson, Air Force vs #5 Zach Elam, Missouri
285: #8 Lucas Davison, Michigan vs #2 Yonger Bastida, Iowa State
Tags: NCAA Wrestling Championships Quarterfinals Live Updates
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