Why aren't there more foreign wrestlers in NCAA wrestling?

[peanut]

With NIL money on the table, why aren't more foreign wrestlers competing in NCAA wrestling? Echemendia and Bastida have done just fine for Iowa State. Imagine what a guy like Masanosuke Ono could do.

[ionel]

Academics ... you know that college stuff.  

[Tripnsweep]

33 minutes ago, peanut said:

With NIL money on the table, why aren't more foreign wrestlers competing in NCAA wrestling? Echemendia and Bastida have done just fine for Iowa State. Imagine what a guy like Masanosuke Ono could do.

They only have to wrestle now and get paid for doing just that. If they came here they'd probably take a pay cut, be wrestling a style they don't know very well, and have to at least pretend to go to class. Not worth it. 

[Animal197]

I believe a visa for a foreign undergraduate student may prevent them from having a job (I realize NIL isn’t exactly employment, but it is income reportable to the IRS) while they are a student in the US. 

[flyingcement]

2 minutes ago, Animal197 said:

I believe a visa for a foreign undergraduate student may prevent them from having a job (I realize NIL isn’t exactly employment, but it is income reportable to the IRS) while they are a student in the US. 

correct -student visas limit the number of hours a person can work.  of course, many still do it under the table