2025 NCAA Wrestling Championships Fast Facts: 5th-10th Place
2025 NCAA Wrestling Championships Fast Facts: 5th-10th Place
Our multi-part series on notable facts and figures from the 2025 NCAA Championships continues with a look at the teams that finished 5th through 10th.

The 2025 NCAA Championships provided us with historic feats, upsets and dozens of notable facts and figures. Flowrestling's Andy Hamilton and Andrew Spey took a dive into some of the compelling stats that came out of the national tournament in Philadelphia with some assistance from the Mat Talk Almanac. The multi-part series continues with a look at the performance of teams that finished fifth through tenth.
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— Cornell had three All-Americans. It was the 21st consecutive trip to the NCAA Championships in which the Big Red have accomplished that feat.
— NC State returned to the top 10 after finishing tied for 11th a year ago. The Wolfpack have finished inside the top 10 five of the last seven years at the national tournament.
— Pat Popolizio took over the reins of the Wolfpack wrestling program in April of 2012. He got his first All-American in March of 2014. He’s had 27 All-Americans since, including three in Philadelphia.
— Vincent Robinson became NC State’s ninth NCAA champion, the school’s first freshman national champ and first for the Wolfpack at 125 pounds.
— Northern Iowa returned to the top 10 for the first time since 1992, and the ninth-place finish was the highest the Panthers have finished in the team standings at the D1 level since they were fifth in 1962.
— Parker Keckeisen and Cael Happel reached the podium for the Panthers. With that, Doug Schwab has now coached 17 All-Americans since he took over in Cedar Falls in the spring of 2010.
— Keckeisen is the first Northern Iowa wrestler to reach the finals in three straight years since Keith Young (1949-51).
— Illinois returned to the top 10 for the first time since 2016.
— Lucas Byrd won Illinois’ 25th national title and the first since Isaiah Martinez in 2016.