Big 12 Conference

BIG 12

CONFERENCE

The Big 12 Conference’s wrestling landscape has gone through many changes in the past decade to stay among the top conferences in the nation In addition to legacy institutions Iowa State, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, and West Virginia offering wrestling, the conference absorbed the former Western Wrestling Conference in 2015, adding affiliate schools Air Force, North Dakota State, Northern Colorado, South Dakota State, Utah Valley and Wyoming to the wrestling rotation The conference now stands at 13 teams with the additions of Northern Iowa in 2017, Missouri in 2021 and California Baptist in 2022 To begin each year, the Big 12 consistently lands five or more programs within the NWCA Division I Wrestling Preseason Coaches’ Poll This year includes No 3 Missouri, No 9 Iowa State, No 11 Oklahoma State, No 19 North Dakota State, and No 22 Northern Iowa, along with South Dakota State (16), WVU (7), and Wyoming (5) all receiving votes