- National Collegiate Open Wrestling Championship
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National Collegiate Open Wrestling Championship Type NCAA Collegiate Folkstyle Wrestling Established 2008 Launched 2009 Most Recent Host Clarion University Pin Club (2011) Management Wexvar LLC Website NationalCollegiateOpen.com The National Collegiate Open Wrestling Championship is a collegiate wrestling event that serves as a post season championship for NCAA Division-I athletes that are not wrestling in their conference championship. The event is traditionally known for the redshirting wrestlers entered[1] but often includes accomplished and seasoned wrestlers that were unable to make their program's starting line-up.[2]
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Criticisms
Though the National Collegiate Open is attended by the majority of the NCAA Division-I wrestling programs, the event has been criticised for having a field that has too many athletes from the east coast, absent of some of the strongest college wrestling programs. The 2011 season brought more legitimacy when the University of Missouri and Oklahoma University attended for the first time but the claim has been made, by some in the wrestling community, that the event will not be a true national event until the three most storied programs (University of Iowa, Oklahoma State University, and University of Minnesota) decide to attend.
Most NCO Champions at single Championship
Team Year Champions Rutgers University 2011 3 Kent State University 2009 2 Pennsylvania State University 2010 2 Most NCO All-Americans at single Championship
Team Year All-Americans Kent State University 2009 8 Lehigh University 2010 7 Rutgers University 2011 7 Central Michigan University 2010 6 Indiana University 2009 6 University of Maryland 2010 6 All-Time NCO Individual Championships by School
Team Champions Kent State University 2 Rutgers University 3 Cornell University 1 Indiana University 1 University of Maryland 1 Cal Poly 1 American University 1 Hofstra University 1 United States Naval Academy 1 West Virginia University 2 Pennsylvania State University 3 Lehigh University 2 Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania 1 University of Virginia 1 The Ohio State University 1 Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania 1 Eastern Michigan University 1 University of Pittsburgh 1 University of Michigan 1 Michigan State University 1 References
- ^ Krumrie, Matt (February 16, 2011). "National Collegiate Open Becoming Top Postseason Event For Non-Starters, Backups". WIN Magazine. http://www.win-magazine.com/2011/02/national-collegiate-open-becoming-top-postseason-event-for-non-starters-backups/. Retrieved 3 October 2011.
- ^ Liebman, Josh (February 22, 2011). "What I Learned in College Wrestling this Week". theopenmat.com. http://news.theopenmat.com/2011/02/what-i-learned-in-college-wrestling-this-week-3/. Retrieved 3 October 2011.
- ^ a b "National Collegiate Open Records". nationalcollegiateopen.com. http://nationalcollegiateopen.com/NCO%20Records.htm. Retrieved 3 October 2011.
- ^ "National Collegiate Open All-Americans". nationalcollegiateopen.com. http://nationalcollegiateopen.com/All_Time_National_Collegiate_Open_All_Americans.htm. Retrieved 3 October 2011.
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