Penn State battled Oklahoma State in the finals of the 2017 NWCA National Duals (Photo/Mark Lundy, Lutte-Lens.com)The National Wrestling Coaches Association's National Duals for NCAA Division I teams will not take place in 2018.
NWCA executive director Mike Moyer cited a need to resolve ongoing issues with the event, including timing and format.
"At the very least, we're going to take a year off," Moyer told Trackwrestling.com Thursday. "There needs to be a lot more discussion around this topic. The challenges are this: Our coaches have such varied circumstances and it's very challenging trying to get them to agree to a standardized format. A lot of coaches have great ideas on how it should be done, but it's just proven to be more challenging to get everyone to agree to a single idea."
The National Duals had been a staple of the college wrestling calendar for nearly three decades, with the NWCA taking over the management of the event in 1992. For most of the history of the National Duals, it included programs from all college wrestling divisions. For a number of years, the event was held at the UNI-Dome at University of Northern Iowa every January until 2011, when the Division I National Duals was spun off from the multi-divisional event.
While the NWCA Division I National Duals is taking a break for the upcoming season, the NWCA Multi Divisional National Duals, featuring wrestling programs from NCAA Division II, Division III, NAIA (National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics), NJCAA (National Junior College Athletic Association), and WCWA (Women's College Wrestling Association) tournaments, will still be held in Fort Wayne, Indiana in 2018.
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