[cigaretteman]

IOWA CITY, Iowa — The University of Iowa wrestling team will travel to Ames, Iowa, for the opening rounds of the NWCA/Cliff Keen Division I National Duals on Feb. 12. The NWCA announced the tournament format today.
The Hawkeyes will face a regional tournament field that includes Northern Iowa, Oregon State, Virginia Tech, Wisconsin and host Iowa State. The NWCA/Cliff Keen Division I National Duals Presented by Hibiclens and The Marines, will be held on the campuses of Cornell, Iowa State, Oklahoma State and Rutgers. The 24-team field includes 15 teams ranked in the top 25.
The tournament format will be wrestled in three rounds on two mats at each facility. Teams will be seeded No. 1 through No. 6 and will wrestle according to its seed.
In the first round, seeds 1 and 2 will receive a bye with seeds 3 and 6 and 4 and 5 wrestling each other. The winners from the first round matches will move into the semifinals for round two against the top two seeds. The winners of the semifinal matches will then advance to the final round. At the same time the final round is being wrestled, the first round teams that lost will wrestle their second match.
The winner of each region will move on to compete February 19th for the National Championship. The host site for this event will be announced soon.
Below is the breakdown of the twenty-four teams broken down into four regionals (the first team listed is the host team):
- Iowa State, Iowa, Oregon State, Virginia Tech, Wisconsin and Northern Iowa.
- Cornell, Central Michigan, Oklahoma, Purdue, Illinois, and American.
- Rutgers, Minnesota, Kent State, Michigan, Missouri, and Cal Poly.
- Oklahoma State, Boise State, Ohio State, Nebraska, Wyoming, and Chattanooga.
Rutgers will host their regional on February 11th, while the other three regional tournaments will take place at Cornell, Iowa State and Oklahoma State on February 12th. Start times and tournament seeds have not been announced.
Ticket and more specific event information are available at nwcaonline.com.

Format for NWCA Regional Duals released | TheGazette

[Dominate]

Thanks for sharing. Didn't realize the Hawks would be wrestling in Ames on a Sunday.
With any luck they will only wrestle two matches. (Semi's and Finals)

[ih8olives]

Still hoping for a Carter/Ramos rematch but I doubt they are in the same half of the bracket.

Potential matchup of OSU/OSU is interesting. As much trouble as the buckeyes gave the hawks, and subsequently how close iowa/okie state was, I don't think this match will be close and really only see ohio state winning a single bout (141) and even that will be tough.

[hawkeyescott]

Originally Posted by ih8olives

Still hoping for a Carter/Ramos rematch but I doubt they are in the same half of the bracket.

Potential matchup of OSU/OSU is interesting. As much trouble as the buckeyes gave the hawks, and subsequently how close iowa/okie state was, I don't think this match will be close and really only see ohio state winning a single bout (141) and even that will be tough.

They probably won't be on the same side because here is how I see the seedings.

1) Iowa
2) Oregon St
3) VT
4) Iowa St
5) Wisconsin
6) UNI

But I do think Iowa and VT are in the finals creating that Carter/Ramos rematch. Iowa has the weakest Regional of the 4 as well.

[Dominate]

Originally Posted by hawkeyescott

They probably won't be on the same side because here is how I see the seedings.

1) Iowa
2) Oregon St
3) VT
4) Iowa St
5) Wisconsin
6) UNI

But I do think Iowa and VT are in the finals creating that Carter/Ramos rematch. Iowa has the weakest Regional of the 4 as well.

Definitely a weak regional for the Hawks. I think UNI will get at least the #5 seed, if not the #4 seed, considering they already beat Wisconsin 25-15 earlier this year. I'm hopeful they have the chance to wrestle the Clones at the Regional's.

[ih8olives]

its a weak region granted but I think its great for wrestling to open up the bracket, 24 instead of 16 teams is great allowing 8 more programs to gain some national attention and programs on the cusp like a uni will get in when they would not have been invited under the old format. and once u get in who knows what could happen

[Factory51]

ISU just beat Vtech a couple of weeks ago.