Reconstruction · 2019 NCAA Championships

2019 team scores

The team standings fans should quote are the NCAA’s published ones. This page shows the working behind them: every program’s points recomputed from the recorded match rows, and how close that comes to the published total.

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Reconstructed points against the published standings

Points are recomputed from the 2019 recorded match rows under the 2016 rules: advancement (including byes), bonus, guaranteed-place increments, and any curated adjustments. 56 of 70 programs match the published total exactly; 14 differ; 8 are not listed in the published standings.

2019 reconstructed team scores with published place, points and difference
Rank	Program	Reconstructed	Advancement	Bonus	Placement	Published place	Published points	Difference
1	Penn State	138.5	28.5	28	82	1	137.5	+1
2	Ohio State	96.5	25	16.5	55	2	96.5	0
3	Oklahoma State	84	22.5	16.5	45	3	84	0
4	Iowa	77	23	13	41	4	76	+1
5	Missouri	63	17	15	31	6	62	+1
6	Michigan	62.5	18	14.5	30	5	62.5	0
7	Cornell (NY)	59.5	15.5	4	40	7	59.5	0
8	Minnesota	53.5	18	12.5	23	8	53.5	0
9	Nebraska	52	16.5	7.5	28	10	51	+1
10	Rutgers (NJ)	51.5	11.5	8	32	9	51.5	0
11	Virginia Tech	50	15	9	26	11	50	0
12	Arizona State	44	10	8	26	12	42	+2
13	Northern Iowa	41.5	12.5	10	19	T13	40.5	+1
14	Lehigh (PA)	40.5	14.5	4	22	T13	40.5	0
15	Princeton (NJ)	35	9.5	3.5	22	15	35	0
16	Iowa State	33	12.5	10.5	10	16	32	+1
17	North Carolina State	32.5	13	10.5	9	17	31.5	+1
18	North Carolina	29.5	9.5	4	16	19	28.5	+1
19	Lock Haven (PA)	29	10	5	14	18	29	0
20	Oregon State	27.5	7	10.5	10	20	28	-0.5
21	Wisconsin	27	10	5	12	21	27	0
21	Northwestern (IL)	27	8.5	2.5	16	22	26	+1
23	Virginia	20.5	5.5	3	12	23	20.5	0
24	Duke (NC)	19	5.5	4.5	9	24	19	0
25	Oklahoma	18.5	7.5	2	9	25	18.5	0
26	Illinois	17	8	2	7	26	16	+1
27	Maryland	13	3	4	6	27	13	0
28	Central Michigan	12.5	4	4.5	4	28	12.5	0
29	Fresno State (CA)	11.5	3.5	1	7	T29	11.5	0
29	Purdue (IN)	11.5	9.5	2	0	T29	11.5	0
29	Utah Valley	11.5	6.5	5	0	T29	11.5	0
32	Old Dominion (VA)	11	5.5	2.5	3	32	11	0
33	Michigan State	10.5	4	2.5	4	33	10.5	0
34	Pittsburgh (PA)	9.5	6.5	3	0	T34	9.5	0
34	Wyoming	9.5	6.5	3	0	T34	9.5	0
36	Army (NY)	7.5	5.5	2	0	36	7.5	0
36	North Dakota State	7.5	4	3.5	0	39	6.5	+1
38	Navy (MD)	7	4	3	0	T37	7	0
38	Rider (NJ)	7	4	3	0	T37	7	0
40	Stanford (CA)	5.5	4.5	1	0	40	5.5	0
41	Binghamton (NY)	5	3	2	0	T41	5	0
41	California-Bakersfield	5	2	3	0	T41	5	0
43	West Virginia	4.5	3.5	1	0	43	4.5	0
43	Campbell (NC)	4.5	2.5	2	0	T45	3.5	+1
45	Brown (RI)	4	2	2	0	44	4	0
46	Pennsylvania	3.5	2	1.5	0	T45	3.5	0
47	Appalachian State (NC)	3	1	2	0	47	3	0
48	California-Poly	2	2	0	0	48	2	0
49	American (DC)	1.5	1.5	0	0	T49	1.5	0
49	Bucknell (PA)	1.5	1.5	0	0	T49	1.5	0
49	George Mason (VA)	1.5	1.5	0	0	T49	1.5	0
49	Northern Colorado	1.5	0.5	1	0	T49	1.5	0
53	Buffalo (NY)	1	1	0	0	T53	1	0
53	Indiana (IN)	1	1	0	0	T53	1	0
53	Ohio	1	1	0	0	T53	1	0
56	Air Force (CO)	0.5	0.5	0	0	T56	0.5	0
56	Columbia (NY)	0.5	0.5	0	0	T56	0.5	0
56	Drexel (PA)	0.5	0.5	0	0	T56	0.5	0
56	Kent State (OH)	0.5	0.5	0	0	T56	0.5	0
56	Northern Illinois	0.5	0.5	0	0	T56	0.5	0
56	Southern Illinois Edwardsville	0.5	0.5	0	0	T56	0.5	0
56	Tennessee-Chattanooga	0.5	0.5	0	0	T56	0.5	0
63	Bloomsburg (PA)	0	0	0	0	not listed	not listed	not listed
63	Citadel (SC)	0	0	0	0	not listed	not listed	not listed
63	Clarion (PA)	0	0	0	0	not listed	not listed	not listed
63	Edinboro (PA)	0	0	0	0	not listed	not listed	not listed
63	Franklin & Marshall (PA)	0	0	0	0	not listed	not listed	not listed
63	Gardner-Webb (NC)	0	0	0	0	not listed	not listed	not listed
63	South Dakota State	0	0	0	0	not listed	not listed	not listed
63	Virginia Military	0	0	0	0	not listed	not listed	not listed

Difference is the reconstruction minus the published total. Rank is the program’s position among reconstructed totals, which can differ from its published place.

Published standings: NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships Records Book, All-Time Team Results, 2019. Programs the book lists without an archive entry that year are not shown.