This season is here! The 2025-26 NCAA D1 men's college wrestling season that is! 

As usual, the season starts the day after Halloween. Which means when Saturday, November 1st rolls around it's time to put your spooky decorations away and fire up your FloWrestling app to start watching college wrestling!

And what's on the docket for live NCAA wrestling for the first time since Wyatt Hendrickson shocked the free world with his wiin over Gable Steveson at the NCAA finals in Philadelphia? 

November 1

How about some dual meets? They never go out of style! Five duals are on D1 schedules for Saturday, November 1st. Two of these post-Monster Mash matches will be streamed live on Flo!

Purdue at Cal Poly (link)

Potential ranked wrestlers:

133: #19 Blake Boarman, Purdue

141: #6 Zeth Romney, Cal Poly

141: #22 Greyson Clark, Purdue

165: #3 Joey Blaze, Purdue

174: #18 Brody Baumann, Purdue

184: #25 James Rowley, Purdue

184: #28 Ceasar Garza, Cal Poly

197: #26 Ben Vanadia, Purdue

285: #23 Trevor Tinker, Cal Poly

285: #32 Hayden Filipovich, Purdue

This is shaping up to be a very competitive dual that will kick things off on the West Coast. Potential ranked matchups at 141 (with Romney up a weight from last year), 184 and 285. Plus your first look at NCAA finalist Joey Blaze who is also up a weight class. Not a bad way to start the season! 

Stanford at Utah Valley (link)

Potential ranked wrestlers:

125: #11 Nico Provo, Stanford

133: #6 Tyler Knox, Stanford

141: #24 Haiden Drury, Utah Valley

149: #22 Aden Valencia, Stanford

149: #23 David Evans, Utah Valley

174: #17 Lorenzo Norman, Stanford

Following right on the heels of Purdue at Cal Poly, or potentially starting before the latter finishes, is a western showdown between Stanford and Utah Valley at UVU. A ranked matchup between David Evans, who transferred from Penn State in the offseason, and Aden Valencia, who is a blue chip recruit coming off redshirt, is the marquee matchup. 

Two Cardinal wrestlers we won't see at this dual are #4 Daniel Cardenas and #4 Hunter Garvin, who will be at another event kicking off the season that you can also watch live on Flo. Which makes for a convenient opportunity to mention the NWCA All-Star Classic, which is, in fact, the event where you can watch Cardenas and Garvin!

NWCA All-Star Classic (link)

Bout Order:

Women’s Matches

138: #1 Zaynah McBryde, Life vs #1 Katie Lange, Grand Valley

145: #1 Esther Kolawole, William Penn vs #2 Reese Larramendy, Iowa

160: #1 Latifah McBryde, Life vs #1 (145) Bella Mir, North Central

117: #1 Sage Mortimer, Grand Valley vs #2 Salyna Shotwell

D2 vs D3 Match

141: #1 Mark Samuel, Roanoke vs #1 Khyvon Grace, West Liberty

NCAA D1 Men’s Matches

149: #3 Lachlan McNeil, Michigan vs #5 Casey Swiderski, Oklahoma State

174: #3 Simon Ruiz, Cornell vs #8 Lenny Pinto, Rutgers

197: #3 Joey Novak, Wyoming vs #4 Stephen Little, Little Rock

125: #4 Eddie Ventresca, Virginia Tech vs #5 Sheldon Seymour, Lehigh

157: #4 Daniel Cardenas, Stanford vs #5 Ty Watters, West Virginia

165: #4 Hunter Garvin, Stanford vs #7 Max Brignola, Lehigh

184: #4 Jaxon Smith, Maryland vs #7 Zack Ryder, Oklahoma State

285: #3  Yonger Bastida, Iowa State vs #4 Taye Ghadiali, Michigan

133: #1 Lucas Byrd, Illinois vs #7 Dylan Shawver, Rutgers

141: #1 Jesse Mendez, Ohio State vs #7 Anthony Echemendia, Iowa State

What more can you say about all those awesome matchups? Quite a lot, actually. Go to our 'news' section of that event hub and read all our previews! There're heaps of them!

This will be one of the premier events of the season. There will be much pomp and oodles of circumstance. And you know Rutgers and the wise and learned people of New Jersey know how to host a wrestling event!

November 2

With the first "week" starting on a Saturday, we will only get two days of wrestling before the start of week 2. But there will still be plenty of rad wrestling on the Sunday of week 1!

Rutgers is hosting some post-ASC duals and CSU-Bakersfield is hosting the Boilermakers as they continue their California excursion. There will also be tournaments at Princeton and Navy that will feature quality competition. And live on Flo? Two more excellent tournaments!

Clarion Open (link)

Expected Teams: 

• #5 Ohio State
• #14 Cornell
• #49 Edinboro
• #50 Clarion
• #50 Air Force
• #50 Buffalo
• #50 Bellarmine
• #50 SIUE

Cornell and Ohio State are expected to bring their starters, which should make for loaded brackets. Additionally, expect to see some of the best high schoolers in the country entered, such as Bo Bassett, Melvin Miller, and Jayden James!

Southeast Open (link)

Expected Teams:

• #9 Virginia Tech
• #10 Minnesota
• #16 West Virginia
• #19 Maryland
• #21 Wisconsin
• #31 North Carolina
• #38 Ohio
• #39 The Citadel
• #49 Franklin & Marshall
• #50 VMI
• #50 Campbell
• #50 Davidson
• #50 Presbyterian

Click here to see all registered wrestlers with nationally ranked competitors highlighted!

Here we'll get a preview (of sorts) of the National Duals Invitational first-round matchup between Virginia Tech and Minnesota. But they'll also have to contend with West Virginia, Maryland, Wisconsin, and North Carolina, who could have multiple ranked All-American contenders in Salem, Virginia, where the event will be held. 

That's a lot of wrestling for two days. Are you ready? Better be, the weekend will be here whether you are prepared or not!