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| Northeast 1 | Victor Perlleshi | Johnson & Wales |
| Northeast 2 | Nate Fitt | Coast Guard |
| Northeast 3 | James Rodriguez | Castleton |
| Mideast 1 | Xavier Pena | Centenary |
| Mideast 2 | Domenic Difrancescantonio | TCNJ |
| Mideast 3 | Cahal Donovan | Cortland |
| Southeast 1 | Josh Wilson | Greensboro |
| Southeast 2 | Kyle Slendorn | Stevens |
| Southeast 3 | Avery Leonard | Alvernia |
| Central 1 | Jacob Reed | Ohio Northern |
| Central 2 | Zachery Anderson | Baldwin Wallace |
| Central 3 | Evan Burge | Wabash |
| Lower Midwest 1 | Bradley Rosen | North Central |
| Lower Midwest 2 | Zayren Terukina | Wartburg |
| Lower Midwest 3 | Eric Kinkaid | Loras |
| Upper Midwest 1 | Cameron Johnson | Aurora |
| Upper Midwest 2 | Ethan Harsted | Wheaton |
| Upper Midwest 3 | Sam Stuhl | Augsburg |
The 2nd, 3rd, and 4th place finishers all return from 2022 at this weight, and they were lined up as the top three spots in the rankings before the regional. #4 Josh Wilson of Greensboro muddied the seeding waters with his first period pin over #3 Kyle Slendorn of Stevens. Wilson’s only DIII loss is to James Rodriguez of Castleton, the 8th place finisher at this weight a year ago.
Zayren Terukina of Wartburg and Jacob Reed of Ohio Northern finished 2nd and 3rd last year. They never met, both losing to the champion Jordin James. This season, they have gone wire-to-wire as #1 and #2 as both have gone undefeated. Reed picked up his 40th win in the regional final, though that 40th win was his first match against another wrestler in the field. Terukina is 23-0 with a win over Slendorn and three other wrestlers in the tournament, though he did forfeit the regional final.
There are seven wrestlers in the bracket who were also at this weight last year. Terukina (2nd), Reed (3rd), Slendorn (4th), and Rodriguez (8th) are the returning placewinners that are joined by qualifiers Xavier Pena of Centenary, Domenic Difrancescantonio of TCNJ, and Sam Stuhl of Augsburg. Pena is undefeated in DIII so far while Difrancescantonio is just 14-2 but has squeezed matches against six other qualifiers in already (not counting his forfeit to Pena in the regional). He has wins over Rosen, Perlleshi, Rodriguez, Donovan, and Burge to go along with a loss to Kinkaid.
Cameron Johnson won the Upper Midwest region for Aurora to give the team its first national qualifier since bringing the team back last season. He was a semifinalist in the region in 2022 where he was injured and withdrew from the tournament. He’s wrestled a limited schedule this year and is just 13-2, but he has defeated Lower Midwest champ Rosen and Wheaton’s Ethan Harsted.
