2025-26 Preseason Ivy League Preview

Our preseason conference previews began out west, but now moves across the country to check out the Ivy League. March of 2025 marked the first time that the Ivy League qualified for the NCAA Championship as its own conference rather than part of the EIWA. It was a big change for those who have been following college wrestling for any length of time, but it was one that the Ivy League teams enjoyed and preferred. Rather than a massive conference tournament that could include 18 entrants, there were only six teams.

Those six teams combined to send 29 wrestlers to the 2025 NCAA Championships. Three wrestlers ended up on the NCAA podium and those three wrestlers came from two teams (Cornell/Penn).

This is a very interesting conference from a coaching standpoint. You have the longest-tenured DI coach in the nation (Jay Weiss/Harvard), along with a lot of new blood. Matt Valenti is heading into his first year at the helm at his alma mater, Penn. Donny Pritzlaff is in his second year leading Columbia. Joe Dubuque was elevated to Princeton’s head coaching position in the fall of 2023, while Jordan Leen was hired by Brown in 2022, and Mike Grey took over the reins at Cornell in 2021. There are lots of new faces in the conference, and many new rivalries are developing.

Here’s our look at the Ivy League Conference for 2025-26

InterMat’s Preseason First-Team All-Ivy League

125 lbs: #17 Marc-Anthony McGowan (Princeton)

133 lbs: #25 Brett Ungar (Cornell)

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