Northern Iowa wrestling has a new home.
The Panthers were officially added to the Big 12 Conference on Wednesday, along with Fresno State, effective for the 2017-18 season. The new additions will join Air Force, Iowa State, Northern Colorado, North Dakota State, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, South Dakota State, Utah Valley, West Virginia and Wyoming in future regular-season and postseason competition.
“We are extremely excited that our wrestling program has been accepted into the Big 12 Conference as an affiliate member,” UNI athletic director David Harris said in a release. "The Big 12 is one of the best conferences in all of college athletics, and it contains some of the very best student-athletes and coaches within the sport of wrestling.