NWCA Academic Awards
The NWCA Academic awards were presented at the NCAA Championships to the top 30 teams and the individuals who became Scholar All-Americans. To become a Scholar All-American, a wrestler has to meet academic and athletic qualifications. A wrestler must achieve at least one of the following, along with the required GPA, to be recognized:
- NCAA qualifier with a winning record
- Regional placewinner (top 8) with a winning record and appeared in at least half of a team’s scheduled events
- Won at least 2/3 of matches and appeared in at least half of a team’s scheduled events
List of 2019 NWCA Scholar All-Americans
The top 30 teams are calculated by calculating the overall GPA of at least six wrestlers who competed in the regional and up to four others who competed in at least half of a team’s scheduled events. Only ten total wrestlers from a given team are used to calculate the team totals.
2019 Team List
| Rank | Institution | Calculated GPA |
| 1 | Johns Hopkins University | 3.776 |
| 2 | Baldwin Wallace | 3.766 |
| 3 | Wesleyan University | 3.714 |
| 4 | Stevens Institute of Technology | 3.704 |
| 5 | Ithaca College | 3.668 |
| 6 | Springfield College | 3.665 |
| 7 | Saint John’s University | 3.650 |
| 8 | University of Chicago | 3.644 |
| 9 | Williams College | 3.627 |
| 10 | Norwich University | 3.620 |
| 11 | Case Western Reserve | 3.611 |
| 12 | Muhlenberg College | 3.608 |
| 13 | Washington and Lee University | 3.602 |
| 14 | Messiah College | 3.597 |
| 15 | Wilkes University | 3.586 |
| 16 | Rochester Institute of Technology | 3.545 |
| 17 | United States Coast Guard Academy | 3.537 |
| 18 | Augsburg University | 3.537 |
| 19 | Cornell College | 3.532 |
| 20 | Trinity College | 3.522 |
| 21 | York College of Pennsylvania | 3.519 |
| 22 | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | 3.515 |
| 23 | New York University | 3.508 |
| 24 | Wartburg College | 3.473 |
| 25 | SUNY Oneonta | 3.406 |
| 26 | Heidelberg | 3.399 |
| 27 | Johnson & Wales University | 3.396 |
| 28 | Concordia College-Moorhead | 3.389 |
| 29 | Waynesburg University | 3.360 |
| 30 | University of Wisconsin-Platteville | 3.359 |