KANSAS CITY, Mo. - (Brackets – PDF | Watch Live) The Preliminary Brackets for the Inaugural NAIA Women's Wrestling National Championships have been released by the National Office. Hosted at Harold Newman Arena, the event takes place on March 10th and 11th. 

Brackets were detemined by a 10-member committee consisting of conference raters and oversight members from each of the five sponsoring conferences in the NAIA. A total of 210 wrestlers were placed within the 10 weight classes. All matches at the national championships for will be stream live via FloWrestling. 

Each conference tournament awards automatic bids per weight class based on the final regular-season poll, which can be seen HERE. Each conference is awarded automatic berths based on the amount of wrestlers ranked in each weight class. Each conference is awarded a minimum of one automatic bid per weight class, which will go to the tournament champions, even if the conference did not have any wrestlers ranked in the final regular-season poll. If a conference does not have an individual ranked in the final top 16 an allocation will be granted to ensure each conference is represented at each weight class at the National Championships.

After the conference tournaments concluded, a 10-member committee consisting of conference raters and oversight members met to select the remaining national at-large qualifiers.The seeding and preliminary brackets will be announced on NAIA.org by 5 p.m. (CST) on Friday, March 3rd.

Four teams will bring a full complement of 12 wrestlers to the championships including Grand View (Iowa), Life (Ga.), Menlo (Calif.), and Southern Oregon. Iowa Wesleyan will travel 11 while Campbellsville (Ky.), Central Methodist (Mo.), and Indiana Tech sport 10 each. 

The Heart of America Athletic Conference and Mid-South Conference are tied for the lead with 53 student-athletes each while the Cascade Collegiate Conference is third with 45 individual qualifiers.

For additional information on the 2023 NAIA Women's Wrestling National Championships, click HERE.