Drooke Posted February 28, 2009 Share Posted February 28, 2009 INDIANAPOLIS -- The NCAA has announced the qualifier allocations for the 2009 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships as listed in the chart below. Each qualifying tournament was awarded spots per weight class based on current year data. Each wrestler was measured on the following: Division I winning percentage; rating percentage index (RPI); and coaches ranking. A threshold of a 0.725 winning percentage, top 28 in the RPI and top 28 in the coaches ranking was established to allocate 278 of the 330 championships field positions. For each wrestler that reached the threshold in at least two of the three categories, his qualifying tournament was awarded a qualifying spot in that weight class. Each qualifying tournament was awarded a minimum of one wrestler 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 tournament spots for each qualifying event will be awarded at the tournament based solely on place-finish. After all of the qualifying events have concluded, the NCAA Division I Wrestling Committee will meet in-person to select the remaining 52 at-large qualifiers, which will be announced on March 11. All weight classes will consist of 33 wrestlers. The at-large selections will be made based on the following criteria: head-to-head competition; qualifying event placement; quality wins; results against common opponents; winning percentage; RPI; coaches ranking and the number of matches contested at that weight class. Conference 125 133 141 149 157 165 174 184 197 285 Total Atlantic Coast Conference 2 3 5 3 3 1 1 2 4 3 27 Big Ten Conference 7 6 7 5 7 8 6 6 4 5 61 Big 12 Conference 3 3 3 2 4 5 3 4 5 5 37 Colonial Athletic Association 2 1 1 1 2 2 4 2 4 1 20 East Regional 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 10 Eastern I. W.A. 3 4 2 6 4 3 6 4 2 4 38 Eastern Wrestling League 3 2 1 3 3 3 1 1 1 4 22 Mid-American Conference 2 3 2 2 1 1 2 3 1 2 19 Pacific-10 Conference 3 3 3 2 2 1 1 1 2 2 20 Southern Conference 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 11 West Regional 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 2 2 1 13 TOTAL QUALIFIERS 28 28 28 28 29 27 27 27 27 29 278 The complete listing of the 33 wrestlers in each weight class for the final coaches? panel rankings, as well as the second RPI for the 2008-09 season can be found by logging on to www.ncaa.com. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oscar Posted February 28, 2009 Share Posted February 28, 2009 Thanks for this info. This helps give us all some insight in to how difficult it is just to be a qualifier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drooke Posted March 9, 2009 Author Share Posted March 9, 2009 Bump Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fire77 Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 thanks for the info. interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drooke Posted March 10, 2009 Author Share Posted March 10, 2009 Bump for Delphi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DelphiHWT Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 Thanks drooke that helped alot!!!! I never would have guessde only 1 qualifier at HWT even if it is the weakest class in the Big Ten crazy!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoGutsNoGlory Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 Thanks drooke that helped alot!!!! I never would have guessde only 1 qualifier at HWT even if it is the weakest class in the Big Ten crazy!!!! Big 10 qualifies 5 at Heavy. 61 is total number of qualifiers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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