TEMPE, Ariz.— The Pac-12 wrestling championships will take place on the campus of Stanford University on Sunday, Feb. 26, 2017. The championships will be held at Maples Pavilion (655 Campus Drive, Stanford, CA 94305). All times listed on below schedules are PT.
Notably, ASU moved this week into the top 10 in the TrackWrestling Division I team poll while undefeated Zahid Valencia is now the consensus No. 1 among six major wrestling polls including TrackWrestling, Intermat, Flowrestling, WIN Magazine, The Open Mat, as well as in the NCAA Coaches' Panel rankings used to determine seeding for the NCAA championships.
Schedule
9:30 am Gates Open
10:30 am Session 1
1 pm Break - Arena Closed
3 pm Gates Open
4 pm Session 2
6 pm Championship Finals
8:10 pm Team Awards (estimated time)
8:30 pm ASU Team Social (The Patio - http://www.thepatiopa.com)
412 Emerson St. Palo Alto, CA 94301
Social Agenda
8:45 pm Welcome
8:50 pm Introduce coaches, wrestlers, support staff, executive board
8:55 pm Pac-12 Individual Champion introductions
9:00 pm Honor memory of Grace Strand (Casey Strand and family)
9:05 pm Coach Jones recaps Pac-12 performance, previews NCAA's
Hotel Information
Sheraton Palo Alto Hotel
625 El Camion Real
Palo Alto, CA 94301
(650) 328-2800
www.starwoodhotels.com
Ticket Information (All seats general admission)
Group (min. 10) $10.00
Public $25.00
Seniors (62+) $15.00
Students $15.00
Youth (2-17) $15.00
To purchase tickets by phone, call (800) STANFORD or (650) 723-1021. To purchase online, visit www.gostanford.com, click on the "Tickets" tab and click on "Wrestling".
Television/Streaming
All 3 mats for Session 1 and Session 2 will be broadcast on Stanford's athletics website, www.gostanford.com. The championship finals round Sunday evening will be broadcast on the Pac-12 Networks (Arizona, Los Angeles, Bay Area, and Oregon).
UP NEXT
After this weekend's Pac-12 championships, the NCAA Championships take place Mar. 16-18 in St. Louis, Mo.
THE ROAD TO UNDEFEATED
After finishing the regular season a perfect 31-0, redshirt freshman Zahid Valencia enters this weekend's championships still undefeated in his first year of competition. Since freshmen were allowed to compete starting in 1969, according to the National Wrestling Hall of Fame, Cael Sanderson (Iowa State) and Isaiah Martinez (Illinois) are believed to be the only freshmen to go undefeated during a full collegiate season.
PAC-12 NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS ALLOCATIONS
Among all #NCAAWrestling Division I conferences, Pac-12 wrestlers have the third hardest road to get to the championships with the third fewest allocations (21), including the hardest road among Power 5 Conferences. The Big Ten Conference (77) leads the way followed by the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association (43), Big 12 (38), Mid-American Conference (37), ACC (31), Pac-12 (21), Southern Conference (17), and Eastern Wrestling League (17). Allocations at each weight class for the Pac-12 are as follows:
125 - 1, 133 - 1, 141 - 3, 149 - 3, 157 - 2, 165 - 2, 174 - 2, 184 - 1, 197 - 3, HWT - 3
CORRECTION: NCAA releases updated qualifier allocations: https://t.co/pz5cTybDPs pic.twitter.com/N3bLxkDmZl
— NCAA Wrestling (@ncaawrestling) February 23, 2017
UPDATED RPI (AS OF FEB. 19)
In the updated Ratings Percentage Index (RPI) through matches of Feb. 19, Josh Maruca (No. 23), Josh Shields (No. 4), Anthony Valencia (No. 4), Zahid Valencia (No. 1), and Tanner Hall (No. 6) are all predicted to have spots at the 2017 NCAA championships.
PAC-12 RANKINGS
In the final Pac-12 conference rankings, released every two weeks leading up to the conference championships, five Sun Devils top their weight classes: Josh Maruca (149), Josh Shields (157), Anthony Valencia (165), Zahid Valencia (174), Tanner Hall (HWT). Michael Nguyen (125) is ranked second, Ted Rico (133), Nikko Villarreal (141), and Jacen Petersen (184) fifth and Austyn Harris (197) sixth.