NCAA Announces Allocations, Final Coaches' Ranking and Second RPI

NORMAN – The NCAA announced its conference allocations, third Coaches' Poll and second RPI on Thursday.

Each qualifying tournament was awarded pre-allocations to the national tournament based on regular season performance by conference wrestlers through February 23. The pre-allocations were determined by using a sliding scale of the three standards, win percentage, coaches' rank, and RPI ranking; while never going below the base of .700 winning percentage, top 30 coaches' ranking and top 30 RPI ranking until reaching the maximum of 29 wrestlers per weight class.

The Big 12 was awarded 61 allocations, the second-most of any conference. Those allocations are broken down by weight class below and represent how many Big 12 Championship placewinners at each weight will automatically qualify for the NCAA Championships.

Conference	125	133	141	149	157	165	174	184	197	285	Total
ACC	4	3	4	4	3	5	4	3	3	5	38
Big 12	7	6	7	6	7	7	6	7	4	4	61
Big Ten	9	10	7	8	8	9	8	8	10	10	87
EIWA	2	1	3	1	1	2	4	1	4	3	22
Ivy League	3	2	4	3	3	2	2	4	2	1	26
MAC	1	3	1	3	3	2	3	3	1	3	23
Pac-12	2	2	1	3	1	1	1	1	3	2	17
Southern	1	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	13
Pre-Allocations	29	29	29	29	27	29	29	28	29	29	287
At-Large	4	4	4	4	6	4	4	5	4	4	43

For each wrestler that reached the threshold in at least two of the three categories, his conference tournament was awarded a qualifying spot in that weight class. Each conference is awarded a minimum of one automatic qualification per weight class, which will go to the tournament champion, even if they did not have any wrestlers reach at least two of the three thresholds. NCAA championship spots for each qualifying event will be awarded at conference tournaments based solely on place-finish.

After all the conference tournaments have concluded, the NCAA Division I Wrestling Committee will meet in-person to select the remaining 43 at-large qualifiers, which will be announced on March 11, while brackets and seeding will be announced on NCAA.com at 8 p.m. on March 12. All weight classes will consist of 33 wrestlers.

Additionally, the NCAA released the third coaches' rankings and second RPI of the season.

NCAA COACHES' RANKINGS/RPI
Wt.	Wrestler	Rank	RPI
125	Antonio Lorenzo	25	25
133	Cleveland Belton	24	16
141	Mosha Schwartz	14	27
149	Willie McDougald	17	20
165	Tate Picklo	32	28
174	Gaven Sax	15	NR
184	DJ Parker	19	13
285	Juan Mora	28	25

The coaches' rankings are determined by a vote of 16 coaches in each weight class with two head coaches from each of the eight conferences. For ranking purposes, coaches may only consider a wrestler that has been designated as a starter at a respective weight class. Wrestlers must have eight Division I matches in the weight class to be considered with at least one within the last 30 days.

The RPI is a calculation that consists of three factors: winning percentage, opponent winning percentage (strength of schedule) and opponent's opponent winning percentage (opponent's strength of schedule). Only matches against Division I opponents at the designated weight class count towards the RPI and a wrestler needs to have wrestled 15 matches to be ranked.

The coaches' ranking and RPI are two of several criteria that will be evaluated by the NCAA Division I Wrestling Committee during the at-large selection and seeding process along with head-to-head competition, quality wins, conference tournament placement, results versus common opponents and win percentage.

The NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships will be held March 20-22 at Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia as the event returns for the first time since 2011.