Rutgers Wrestling headed to the 2026 National Duals Invitational
Rutgers Wrestling has been invited to the National Duals Invitational, competing for a purse of $1.2 million dollars.
Wrestling Rutgers Wrestling headed to the 2026 National Duals Invitational
- Thread starter Richie O
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Some schools that qualified ahead us(including the Ivies) have exams at that time and opted out. It’s a great opportunity for us.
Ok.... So what? They ranked based on Nationals.... If they ranked based on duals...(which these are) we're easily in....
Rutgers was picked over others. Imagine it has to do with brand
They were also a top dual meet team this year.
They did the right thing actually considering the duals aspect too..
The criteria was for NCAA finish again and Rutgers had 7 points and tied with George Mason and Utah Valley
Correct, which is why I’m shocked RU got an invite.. sometimes just hard criteria is not enough and a little human judgement is needed. Get some team failed to show but really stunned they really decided to invite RU.
Being reported that Iowa and Nebraska declined do to exams. The dates for the duals are not the best. At least 6 teams that qualified won’t participate do to exams. Plus the date is within one week of the CKLV, the premier early season tournament. The National Duals are great. Doesn’t make sense to schedule at a time that conflicts with student educational requirements. Last year’s date was much better and included the best teams except for Penn State.
Is it true Nebraska and Iowa are out this year? Is that what opened for door for Rutgers ?
They should just move wrestling to the 2nd semester and run the national duals the week in between the NFL conference finals and Super Bowl but that would give wrestling a huge opportunity to draw eyes during a dead time on the sports calendar so naturally it won’t happen.
For the most part, aside from losing to Oklahoma and Princeton. Like, what was that.
I hope Rutgers gets a shot at a non BIG opponent. Plenty of time second semester for Big 10 wrestling. It would be nice to measure against some non conclference teams
My God that was a brain fart. Sorry!we didnt lose to princeton!
Good for RU. I hope we can show some sort of fight. The BTA results from NC State the last few years would be something I'd like to shake out of memory if we are going to face an out of conference team.
How many teams have been announced as accepting an invite?
Founded the following 9 teams with their projected WrestleStat rankings.
Does anyone know when entire field will be announced?
Oklahoma State #2
Ohio State #3
Va. Tech #6
Iowa State # 7
Stanford #9
Missouri #11
Minnesota #15
Wyoming #16
Rutgers # 26
Founded the following 9 teams with their projected WrestleStat rankings.
Does anyone know when entire field will be announced?
Oklahoma State #2
Ohio State #3
Va. Tech #6
Iowa State # 7
Stanford #9
Missouri #11
Minnesota #15
Wyoming #16
Rutgers # 26
Wrestling Selected for 2026 National Duals Invitational - Rutgers University Athletics
PISCATAWAY, N.J. – The first piece of Rutgers wrestling's 2026-27 schedule has been finalized, as the Scarlet Knights will compete in the prestigious Nationa...
Last year they seeded top 4 and then random draws from there..
Arizona State, Little Rock, Maryland, NC State, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pittsburgh, and Rutgers round out the field of 16.
Iowa State, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio State, Oklahoma State, Stanford, Virginia Tech, and Wyoming had already declared their intentions to compete in the event.
Of these 16 teams how many of them do you guys think we got a realistic chance to beat?? Do we got a chance to place among the top 8 teams??
Iowa State, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio State, Oklahoma State, Stanford, Virginia Tech, and Wyoming had already declared their intentions to compete in the event.
Of these 16 teams how many of them do you guys think we got a realistic chance to beat?? Do we got a chance to place among the top 8 teams??
Would be a very nice early season matchup between Endene and P’Nut..
We have seen plenty of elite 197ers move up to hwt and do fine and training w Little every day I don’t think Endene would randomly turn into a scrub at hwt.. I suspect he will still be a AA contender, in a depleted hwt class, but we will see. If P’Nut beats Endene would be huge imo.
The answer depends on how good the Harers are and what we’re doing at 141 and 174.
We will be elite at 125 and we’re solid at 133, 165, and 184. We should be very good at 197 and 285. If the Harers are both quality guys then we’re gonna be a tough out. 174 should be alright if Ford fills out his frame. 141 probably our weak spot.
We will be elite at 125 and we’re solid at 133, 165, and 184. We should be very good at 197 and 285. If the Harers are both quality guys then we’re gonna be a tough out. 174 should be alright if Ford fills out his frame. 141 probably our weak spot.
On paper I think it is though a case can be made for SCW. I don’t expect little Harer to do much out of the gate. Hoping Connor jumped a level in redshirt. Wouldn’t be surprised in Connor is in the mix to be our 3rd/4th best guy but it’ll be 18 months since his last true match once our season gets started.
Yeah I was going to ask why you think RU is stronger at 285 over 184, 165, and 133… I guess your logic is Herrera was a freshman NQ but so were SCW, Barbosa, and Ungar.. w Ungar being a R12 as a freshman. Barbosa beat the #2 Blaze but he had a bad nationals 0-2(same as Herrera). I think all 4 weight are relatively similar but dunno why u think Herrera has more upside/better then Barbosa when he proved he can beat #2 guy.
I hope you are wrong about little Harer not expecting much out of the gate.. if that’s true it will be a bad sign..
The only thing I can think of is the competition at HWT is not as deep as 133, 165 and or 184.
Huge percentage of the top 285 guys graduate. Going to be a lot of change, and we’ve done well with the upper weights. Herrera might not be our 3rd best guy but probably has the 3rd highest upside. I think Ungar, Barbosa, even SCW are R12-R16 guys at best.