INDIVIDUAL TITLES. EVERY ERA.
Title map
Explore how wrestling’s great programs built their legacies, one champion at a time.
Individual titles by program and year
Individual weight-class titles, not team championships. Shaded gaps are years with no recorded results. Program and year selectors provide an alternative to the squares.
SELECTED TOURNAMENT
About the archive and its corrections
This visualization is built from Matches_D1_15JUL2025.xlsx and 2026 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships final brackets (NWHOF bracket id 96): 40,035 recorded bouts across 95 tournament years, ending in 2026. The calendar gaps are 1943–1945 and 2020. Every source dataset is listed in the release manifest with its checksum.
It contains 909 championship awards: 894 source finals plus 15 awards from archived placement lists for 1936 and 1948. Those tournaments used historical round formats with no bout labeled as a final.
Documented corrections use archived brackets. From the 1928 brackets: Arthur Holding won the 135-pound final, and the 158-pound final fall time was 9:05. From the 2019, 2022 and 2024 final brackets: a few seed numbers that had been crossed between similarly named wrestlers, and one 2019 bout moved to the round it was wrestled in. The original entries remain preserved in the archive.
Selected records were checked against archived brackets; this is not an exhaustive audit. Program names are normalized conservatively. Historical second-place bouts are separate from finals. A champion’s path shows recorded championship-side bouts, or numbered rounds for 1936/1948, and omits byes.
Seed numbers appear only where the archive records a positive value. See the glossary for what “TA” means. “Unlimited” corresponds to the source’s heavyweight code 450. Modern and historical scoring rules differ.
An independent historical data project. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the NCAA or the National Wrestling Hall of Fame.