The NCAA Division III Wrestling Committee presented the following regional alignment to the coaches at the NWCA Convention today in Daytona Beach, Florida. Barring any changes, this is how the 108 teams competing this season will be arranged for the NCAA qualifying tournaments. Three regions remained unchanged, while three ended up with a net gain of teams to account for the gain of five new teams and loss of one (Hampden-Sydney). Defiance, Ohio Wesleyan, Wilmington, Pitt-Bradford, and Alfred State are new for 2018-2019, while Washington & Jefferson and Waynesburg are the two teams that are changing regions from Central to Southeast.
| Lower Midwest (17, no change) | Upper Midwest (17, no change) | Central (19, +1) |
| Augustana | Augsburg | Adrian |
| Buena Vista | Concordia Wisconsin | Alma |
| Central | Concordia-Moorhead | Baldwin Wallace |
| Coe | Eau Claire | CWRU |
| Cornell | Elmhurst | Defiance |
| Hungtingdon | La Crosse | Heidelberg |
| Loras | Lakeland | John Carroll |
| Luther | MSOE | Manchester |
| MacMurray | Oshkosh | Mount St. Joseph |
| Millikin | Pacific | Mount Union |
| Nebraska Wesleyan | Platteville | Muskingum |
| North Central | St. John’s | Ohio Northern |
| Simpson | St. Olaf | Ohio Wesleyan |
| University of Dubuque | Stevens Point | Olivet |
| University of the Ozarks | University of Chicago | Otterbein |
| Wartburg | Wheaton | Thomas More |
| Westminster | Whitewater | Trine |
| Wabash | ||
| Wilmington | ||
| Southeast (20, +2) | Mideast (18, +1) | Northeast (17, no change) |
| Averett | Alfred State | Bridgewater State |
| Delaware Valley | Brockport | Castleton |
| Ferrum | Centenary | Coast Guard |
| Gettysburg | Cortland | Johnson & Wales |
| Greensboro | Elizabethtown | New England College |
| Johns Hopkins | Hunter | Norwich |
| King’s | Ithaca | NYU |
| Lycoming | Keystone | Plymouth State |
| McDaniel | Merchant Marine | Rhode Island |
| Messiah | Mount St. Vincent | Roger Williams |
| Penn College | Muhlenberg | Southern Maine |
| Penn State Behrend | Oneonta | Springfield |
| Pitt-Bradford | Oswego | Trinity |
| Southern Virginia | RIT | Wesleyan |
| Thiel | Scranton | Western New England |
| Washington & Jefferson | Stevens | Williams |
| Washington & Lee | TCNJ | WPI |
| Waynesburg | Ursinus | |
| Wilkes | ||
| York |
This is hilarious to anyone who knows anything about geography. Lycoming and Penn College in the Southeast while Etown and Ursinus are in the Mideast. These schools pass each other on the road to their Regional. PSU Behrend and Pitt-Bradford could be in the Central. I’m sure given the inclination I could find other instances as well.
Why wouldn’t you add to regions and make them each have same amount of Colleges? Geographically they still aren’t aligned. So that shouldn’t be a factor.
Why would any pa schools be in the Mideast? Also the southeast is an absolute joke. Some of the schools in there should be thankful they don’t have to wrestle in the Mideast. Honestly if the NCAA is going for equal spread among regions this still doesn’t do it. Adding more bad teams to an already uncompetitive region (southeast) makes things worse. Hillarious. Qualifying for NCAA’s out of the southeast is far easier than in the Mideast and it will be reflected at nationals.
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