The biggest weekend for wrestling every year is Nationals. That is the one weekend the entire wrestling community across the country will come together as fans to follow the great wrestling.
The 2025 NCAA Wrestling Championships will be Thursday-Saturday, March 20-22.
All of the qualifiers have been announced. After the at-large bids were announced yesterday there are now 330 wrestlers lined up to compete in ten weight classes of 33.
Iowa has nine wrestlers that have qualified for Nationals.
Brackets will be announced tonight at 7 PM CST on livestream at NCAA.com
That is when the anticipation goes to a new level for fans and everyone involved.
ESPN will cover every round of Nationals on their network of stations.
Steven Grace and Mark Ironside call the action on AM 800 KXIC and audio streamed online at HawkeySports.com via YouTube.
As always I will keep you up to date right here on my Iowa Wrestling Fan Blog and have you ready for all of the great wrestling.
Next Thursday cannot get here soon enough.
Let’s get ‘em in the middle.
Tuesday, March 11 – At-large bids were announced.
Wednesday, March 12 – Brackets will be announced at 7 PM CST on livestream at NCAA.com
2025 NCAA Wrestling Championships
Wells Fargo Arena
Capacity – 21,000
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Thursday, March 20
Prelims – 11 AM ESPNU/ESPN+
Prelims Round of 16 – 6 PM ESPN/ESPN+
Friday, March 21
Quarterfinals and wrestle-backs – 11 AM ESPNU/ESPN+
Semifinals and wrestle-backs – 7 PM ESPNU/ESPN+
Saturday, March 22
Consolation Finals – 10 AM ESPNU/ESPN+
Finals – 6 PM ESPN/ESPN+
*All times are CST.
Steven Grace and Mark Ironside call the action on AM 800 KXIC and audio streamed online at HawkeySports.com via YouTube.
Nationals will be coming back to the midwest for the next three years.
2026 NCAA National Wrestling Championships – Cleveland, Ohio at the Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse with a capacity of 19,432.
2027 NCAA National Wrestling Championships – St. Louis, Missouri at the Enterprise Center with a capacity of 22,000.
2028 NCAA National Wrestling Championships – Minneapolis, Minnesota at U.S. Bank Stadium with a capacity of 73,000 for football.
This tournament should shatter the all-time attendance record that would have been set there in 2020 when covid cancelled the tournament.
In 2028 Kueter and Arnold will be seniors, Ferrari will be a junior and Bo and the Recruiting Class of 2026 will be redshirt freshman/true sophomores.
It is great to be an Iowa Wrestling fan.
Go Hawks!
