The Hypothetical Division I Wrestling Super League
by Christopher Miller
I'm not sure if any of you wrestling fans are soccer enthusiasts as well, but suffice to say, it's been a strange couple of weeks (and a public relations nightmare) in the soccer world.
On April 18, ESPN reported rumblings that 12 top clubs around Europe intended to form a breakaway Super League in which they'd compete, consequence-free, outside the UEFA Champions League where these teams were all currently competing.
Within a matter of days, this grandiose and revolutionary plan for a 15-team soccer Super League of sorts folded as teams pulled out in the face of public scrutiny and backlash.
While the soccer Super League is no more, it got me thinking....
If such a Super League were formed for college wrestling at the Division I level, who are the 16 teams that would make the cut?
For clarification, there is zero indication such a scenario would or could ever materialize, but here are the 16 teams I would want to break away from the NCAA and form a Super League if it were up to me.
The 16 teams I would choose (in alphabetical order) for my hypothetical Division I wrestling Super League.
The A-Team
- Arizona State
- Cornell
- Iowa
- Iowa State
- Lehigh
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Missouri
- NC State
- Northern Iowa
- Penn State
- Pitt
- Ohio State
- Oklahoma
- Oklahoma State
- Rutgers
- Army
- Clarion
- Edinboro
- Illinois
- Lock Haven
- Michigan State
- Navy
- Nebraska
- North Carolina
- North Dakota State
- Northwestern
- Oregon State
- Princeton
- Stanford
- Virginia Tech
- Wisconsin
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