Bracket Facts

NCAA_Wrestling_2016




2016 NCAA Brackets

  • Champion seed breakdown: Five top seeds and one each of #2, #3, #5, #7, and unseeded
  • 52 pins and 8 tech falls in the tournament
  • 43 teams had at least one All-American
  • 52 out of 58 teams scored team points
  • Two wrestlers (Stageberg, 125, Concordia; Cook, 184, La Crosse) slid from the semis to 6th place
  • One wrestler (Warner, 141, York) lost a pigtail and still placed
  • 16 wrestlers lost their first match and still placed
    • 125 Denny Whitewater 4th
      133 Weinmann La Crosse 3rd
      133 Campo Wartburg 7th
      141 Warner York 5th
      141 Giblin Rhode Island 8th
      149 Gaccione JWU 8th
      157 Cannon Messiah 4th
      157 Bova Wabash 8th
      165 Hojnacki Messiah 6th
      165 Velez Ithaca 7th
      174 Sibblies Centenary 6th
      174 Beaman St. Olaf 7th
      174 Hamann TCNJ 8th
      184 Conrad Rhode Island 7th
      197 Watson Loras 8th
      285 Wright Messiah 6th
  • Nine #1 seeds placed (Arnold, 149, Ursinus)
  • Seven #2 seeds placed (Jordan, 125, JWU; Puca, 174, Cortland; Chorzepa, 184, Williams)
  • All ten #3 seeds placed
  • Nine #4 seeds placed (Herring, 165, TCNJ)
  • Only one wrestler was pinned in both of his matches (Martin, 141, Cornell)
  • Ben Swarr (Messiah, 174) beat the #1, #2, and #3 seeds at his weight
  • Riley Lefever (Wabash, 184) was the only wrestler to score bonus points in every match
  • Logan Meister (Ferrum, 157) became the first All-American from his school
  • Nathan Pike (NYU, 133) became the first finalist from his school
  • David Welch (Roger Williams, 197) became the first champion from his school