The brackets for the 2019 NCAA Wrestling Championships were released Wednesday evening, meaning the 24 wrestlers from Iowa’s three Division I programs learned their first-round matchups and their potential paths to a national title.
In all, Iowa had five wrestlers earn top-10 seeds, Iowa State had two and Northern Iowa had three. That’s significant because all 33 wrestlers at each weight are seeded this year. (It used to be just the top-16, and everybody else was just drawn in.)
Here, we offer a bracket breakdown for every Iowa, Iowa State and Northern Iowa wrestler who qualified for the big dance, set for March 21-23 at PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh.