Brackets have been released for the 2025 NCAA Wrestling Championships.
Iowa has nine NCAA qualifiers for the tournament.
Leading the way for Iowa is Drake Ayala(125) and Stephan Buchanan(197) with the #2 seed.
Somehow Michael Caliendo got the #3 seed after being ranked #2 all season long.
Kyle Parco and Ben Kueter are both at #5. Kueter really shot up the seeds with a third place finish at Big Tens as the #7 seed.
Patrick Kennedy(174) and Gabe Arnold(184) are both at #11.
Jacori Teemer(157) is #18 and Joey Cruz(125) at #29.
The Round of 16 on Thursday night is going to be exciting.
The 2025 NCAA Wrestling Championships will be Thursday-Saturday, March 20-22.
I will release a preview of each weight in upcoming blogs.
FloWrestling released an article that ranks the teams according to seed and Iowa was in second.
Seeds for the 2025 NCAA Wrestling Championships
125 – Joey Cruz – 29
133 – Drake Ayala – 2
149 – Kyle Parco – 5
157 – Jacori Teemer – 18
165 – Michael Caliendo – 3
174 – Patrick Kennedy – 11
184 – Gabe Arnold – 11
197 – Stephen Buchanan – 2
Hwt – Ben Kueter – 5
Full brackets: https://dispatch-cdn.its.uiowa.edu/athletics.gameday/c/1405916246/d1_brackets.pdf
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.
It is great to be an Iowa Wrestling fan.
Go Hawks!
