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The 2019 NCAA Division I Championships mark the first time that all 330 wrestlers — 33 at each weight class — will all be seeded.
For the previous 70 seasons, at least half of the field of wrestlers were unseeded, and 838 of those wrestlers earned All-American honors.
This includes 18 wrestlers who won championships; the last coming from Mark Branch in 1994.
Mark Branch entered the 1994 NCAA tournament with a losing record but left Chapel Hill, N.C. that March with an individual championship at 167 pounds.
Those wrestlers are listed by:
Ranking of Schools with unseeded wrestlers;
Complete list of unseeded wrestlers by year;
Mike Finn, who became editor of WIN Magazine in 2003, has been covering amateur wrestling for the past 33 years. He can be reached at mikef@win-magazine.com.
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