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Wrestling Recruiting Guidelines

Division I Recruiting Guidelines

  • State champion or placer multiple times
  • Junior or Cadet National champion or placer
  • Tournament of Champions winner or placer multiple times
  • 4x Varsity Starter

Placed at top tournaments such as: 

  1. Delaware Beast of the East
  2. Reno Tournament of Champions
  3. Five-Counties Invitational (Most difficult tournament in CA)
  4. PowerAde Christmas Tournament
  5. Easton-Phillipsburg (PA) National HS Wrestling Duals
  6. Manheim (PA)
  7. Iron Man Invitational (OH)
  8. Clovis "Doc" Buchanan Invitational (Central CA)
  9. Minnesota Christmas Tournament
  10. Virginia Duals

Division II/NAIA Recruiting Guidelines

  • State placer
  • District and Regional champion
  • District placer multiple times
  • 3x Varsity Starter
  • Win several HS tournaments
  • Experience in Greco and Freestyle

Division III/NAIA Recruiting Guidelines

  • District placer
  • 2x Varsity Starter
  • Win or place at several HS tournaments

 

Preferred Grades
3.0+GPA, 24+ACT, 1000+SAT (out of 1600)
(No scores needed for underclassmen) 

*Must see video first to be sent to DI schools. 

In order to compile these Recruiting Guidelines, NCSA tracked hundreds of former NCSA student-athletes who have gone on to compete at the collegiate level, polled college coaches across the nation, and analyzed college rosters at all levels of competition. 

 

Wrestling by the Numbers

 

Schools Offering Wrestling

NCAA Division I 

86 

NCAA Division II 

45 

NCAA Division III 

92 

NAIA 

26 

Junior College 

45 

Total 

294 

Athletic Scholarship Opportunities

Division I (per school) 

9.9 

Division II (per school) 

9 

NAIA 

12 

NJCAA (*varies per school) 

16 

Student-Athlete Participation

NCAA Division I 

2,615 

NCAA Division II 

1,225 

NCAA Division III 

2,387 

NAIA 

685 

HS Student-Athletes 

257,246 

Note: Division III schools offer merit, academic, and need-based scholarships