STANFORD, Calif. - Eight Cardinal are headed to Cleveland for the NCAA Championships, held March 19-21 at Rocket Arena.
ACC runner-up Nico Provo is the highest-seeded Cardinal, earning the No. 7 seed in the 125-pound bracket. The redshirt junior, now a three-time NCAA qualifier, is 13-5 on the season and opens the tournament against No. 26 seed Cooper Flynn (18-4) of Chattanooga.
ACC champion Daniel Cardenas (17-3) received the No. 9 seed at 157 pounds. A three-time NCAA qualifier, he placed fourth at the 2024 NCAA Championships in Kansas City. The redshirt junior will take on No. 24 seed Javion Jones (19-9) of Little Rock in the first round.
True freshman Angelo Posada (16-5), who finished as the runner-up at the ACC Championships, will make his NCAA Championships debut as the No. 9 seed at 197 pounds. He will face No. 24 seed Brock Zurawski (22-5) of Rider in the opening round in Cleveland.
ACC champion Jack Consiglio (14-5) garnered the No. 10 seed at 141 pounds and will square off against No. 23 seed Dylan Chappell (21-10) of Bucknell in his debut at the national tournament.
Also receiving a No. 10 seed is redshirt freshman Aden Valencia, who is 16-7 on the season at 149 pounds. He will make his NCAA postseason debut against No. 23 seed Max Petersen (15-8) of North Dakota State.
Returning All-American Tyler Knox is the No. 15 seed at 133 pounds. At 14-5 on the season, the ACC runner-up will meet No. 18 seed Gunner Andrick (24-8) of West Virginia in the first round in Cleveland.
Making his NCAA Championships debut is redshirt freshman EJ Parco, the No. 27 seed at 165 pounds. Placing third at the ACC Championships, Parco will take on No. 6 seed LJ Araujo (18-8) of Nebraska in the opening round.
Redshirt sophomore Abraham Wojcikiewicz in the No. 28 seed at 184 pounds after a third-place finish at the conference tournament. He meets No. 5 seed Brock Mantanona (19-6) of Michigan in the first round.
The Cardinal's eight NCAA qualifiers matches last season’s total, and is one shy of the program high, which was set in 2017. Stanford has qualified at least five wrestlers to the NCAA championships for 13 consecutive seasons - its longest such streak in program history.