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Brackets released for the NCAA Wrestling Championships in Cleveland

March 12, 2026 5 min read views
Brackets released for the NCAA Wrestling Championships in Cleveland
Story byHawk CentralBrackets released for the NCAA Wrestling Championships in ClevelandEli McKown, Des Moines RegisterThu, March 12, 2026 at 12:41 AM UTC·2 min read

Grab your pencils, fire up the printer and get to work, the NCAA Wrestling Championships brackets are out.

The NCAA released the brackets on March 11, showcasing the 330 wrestlers headed to Cleveland on March 19-21 to compete for one of 10 national titles.

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Iowa State has a wrestler at all 10 weights, while Iowa has nine and Northern Iowa has five.

Without further ado, here are your brackets.

2026 NCAA Wrestling Championships brackets, seeds and first-round matchups

More: See this year's NCAA Wrestling Championships brackets from NCAA.com

Iowa wrestling seeds

  • 125: Dean Peterson - Seeded No. 8, faces No. 25 Kael Lauridsen of Nebraska

  • 133: Drake Ayala - Seeded No. 6, faces No. 27 Marcel Lopez of SIU Edwardsville

  • 141: Nasir Bailey - Seeded No. 7, faces No. 26 Braden Basile of Army

  • 149: Ryder Block - Seeded No. 15, faces No. 18 Eugene Harney of Morgan State

  • 165: Michael Caliendo - Seeded No. 3, faces No. 30 Thomas Snipes of The Citadel

  • 174: Patrick Kennedy - Seeded No. 5, faces No. 28 Holden Garcia of Princeton

  • 184: Angelo Ferrari - Seeded No. 7, faces No. 26 Chase Kranitz of Pittsburgh

  • 197: Gabe Arnold - Seeded No. 27, faces No. 6 Justin Rademacher of Oregon State

  • 285: Ben Kueter - Seeded No. 8, faces No. 25 Alex Semenenko of Brown

Iowa State wrestling seeds

  • 125: Stevo Poulin - Seeded No. 13, faces No. 20 Diego Sotelo of Michigan

  • 133: Garrett Grice - Seeded No. 28, faces No. 5 Kyler Larkin of Arizona State

  • 141: Anthony Echemendia - Seeded No. 4, faces No. 29 Jordan Titus of West Virginia

  • 149: Jacob Frost - Seeded No. 16, faces No. 17 Lucas Kapusta of Lock Haven

  • 157: Vinny Zerban - Seeded No. 12, faces No. 21 Charlie Millard of Minnesota

  • 165: Connor Euton - Seeded No. 15, faces No. 18 Gunner Filipowicz of Army

  • 174: MJ Gaitan - Seeded No. 11, faces No. 22 Brody Baumann of Purdue

  • 184: Isaac Dean - Seeded No. 13, faces No. Brian Soldano of Oklahoma

  • 197: Rocky Elam - Seeded No. 2, faces No. 31 Kael Bennie of Utah Valley

  • 285: Yonger Bastida - Seeded No. 1, faces winner of No. 32 Emanuel Ulrich vs. No. 33 Mason Rebuck of Bloomsburg

Northern Iowa wrestling seeds

  • 133: Julian Farber - Seeded No. 20, faces No. 13 Jacob Van Dee of Nebraska

  • 149: Caleb Rathjen - Seeded No. 14, faces No. 19 Brock Herman of Little Rock (Arkansas)

  • 165: Ryder Downey - Seeded No. 11, faces No. 22 Matthew Olguin of Oregon State

  • 174: Jared Simma - Seeded No. 17, faces No. 16 Nick Fine of Columbia

  • 184: Nick Fox - Seeded No. 29, faces No. 4 James Conway of Franklin and Marshall

Eli McKown covers high school sports and wrestling for the Des Moines Register. Contact him at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter at @EMcKown23.

This article originally appeared on Hawk Central: NCAA Wrestling Championships brackets, Iowa, Iowa State and UNI seeds

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