WICHITA, Kan. - (PDF Brackets) Action at the 66^th Annual NAIA Men’s Wrestling Championship began on March 3^rd at Hartman Arena. After Sessions I and II, Grand View (Iowa) leads all teams with a 29 point lead over Life (Ga.). Southeastern (Fla.) sits in third place with 60 points, followed by Indiana Tech with 51, and Menlo (Calif.) with 49.

• Four institutions, Central Methodist (Mo.), Cornerstone (Mich.), Keiser (Fla.) and St. Thomas (Fla.), earned their program’s first All-Americans with the Seahawks securing two in a span of a couple minutes
• A total of 57 intuitions were represented with the 280 man field
• The Cascade Collegiate Conference led all conferences with 57 individual qualifiers
• Three teams - Grand View, Indiana Tech, and Southeastern – suited up the maximum of 12 wrestlers
• Menlo’s Gulomjon Abdullaev and Jovan Garcia met in the second round for a spot in the semifinals
• The 40 wrestlers still in the hunt for the National Championships hail from 17 programs highlighted by Grand View with a tournament high 11
• Life has eight still remaining, which is the second most, whole Menlo and Southeastern are tied with three each.
• Indiana Tech and Marian (Ind.) are the only other schools with multiple grapplers still in the chase
• Riley Saison of Menlo and Coleman Bryant of Southeastern are the lowest seeded wrestlers to reach the semifinal round; no unseeded wrestlers reached the Top Four in this year’s tournament
• All 10 top seeds are still alive in the bracket as well as eight who were seeded second and six who were No. 3’s.