2024 Heart Men's Wrestling Conference Championship
The Heart of America Athletic Conference will host the 2024 Heart Men's Wrestling Championship this Friday, February 16 and Saturday, February 17 at the Penn Activity Center on the campus of William Penn University in Oskaloosa, Iowa.
The championship will begin at 1 pm on Friday and tickets for the event are $10 per person and $6 for children 12 and under. All tickets much be purchased online, by clicking HERE.
The event will resume on Saturday at 10 am.
The following teams will be competing at the event, (RV) Baker, Benedictine, (RV) Central Methodist, (RV) Dickinson State, (RV) Graceland, No. 1 Grand View, No. 16 Missouri Valley, (RV) St. Ambrose, Waldorf and (RV) William Penn.
No. 1 nationally ranked and 11-time NAIA National Champion Grand View University is the defending conference champions and has won all eight Heart Men's Wrestling championships, dating back to 2016.
The Heart will also hand out some individual awards on Saturday, including the 2024 Heart Coach of the Year and Heart Conference Tournament Outstanding Wrestler award.
On Monday, February 19, the conference will announce the Heart All-Conference teams as well as the 2024 Heart Men's Wrestling Assistant Coach of the Year, Wrestler of the Year, Newcomer of the Year and Freshman of the Year awards.
Each conference tournament awards automatic bids per weight class based on the final regular-season poll, which can be seen HERE.
Each conference is awarded automatic berths based on the amount of wrestlers ranked in each weight class. Each conference is awarded a minimum of one automatic bid per weight class, which will go to the tournament champions, even if the conference did not have any wrestlers ranked in the final regular-season poll.
If a conference does not have an individual ranked in the final top 25 and allocation will be deducted from the original 25 to ensure each conference is represented at each weight class at the National Championships.
A total of 250 automatic qualifiers will move forward after the conference tournaments. Additionally, 30 at-large selections will be made, three from each weight class.
After the conference tournaments have concluded, a 16-member committee consisting of conference raters and oversight members will meet to select the remaining at-large qualifiers, which will be released Tuesday, February 20th by 5 p.m. (CST). The seeding and preliminary brackets will be announced on NAIA.org by 5 p.m. (CST) on Friday, February 23.
The NAIA coaches' poll is voted upon by a panel of head coaches representing each of the eight conferences. The top 25 individuals in each weight class is based on how each individual rater casts votes for the best individuals.
The Heart will earn 33 automatic qualifiers (AQ's) to the 2024 NAIA Men's Wrestling National Championship based on the following weight classes.
125-pound – 2 AQ's
133-pound – 3 AQ's
141-pound – 3 AQ's
149-pound – 4 AQ's
157-pound – 3 AQ's
165-pound – 2 AQ's
174-pound – 3 AQ's
184-pound – 5 AQ's
197-pound – 5 AQ's
285-pound – 3 AQ's
The entire Heart Championship will be live video streamed on all three mats with commentary. To watch the championship, please click here, LIVE VIDEO.
To view the official 2024 Heart Men's Wrestling Championship Tournament page, please click HERE.
For live results through Track Wrestling, please click HERE.
Full results from the championship, can be found on the Heart website as soon as they become available.