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Posted By: Poker Star College Wrestling Elligibility - 04/30/05 10:13 PM
I heard that if you do not wrestling in College as a freshman or sophmore that you are not elligible to try out for a college wrestling team as a Junior. Does anyone know if this is true or not?

Thanks for your help
Posted By: Mike Furches Re: College Wrestling Elligibility - 05/01/05 12:19 AM
Not true.
Posted By: ike Re: College Wrestling Elligibility - 05/01/05 12:20 AM
In NCAA Div. 1 you start a clock on your 5 years of eligibility as soon as you enroll full time in college. You can choose to sit out as many of those years as you like, but you only get 5 from the time you first enrolled. I believe D2's and D3's are the same but I may be wrong. If you are going to be in your third year next year, you would have 3 years of eligibility. There are exceptions to eligibility issues, but that is the standard as I understand it.

Ike Wennihan
Posted By: Poker Star Re: College Wrestling Elligibility - 05/01/05 10:05 AM
Thanks for your replies. The individual who told me this nows says that one of those remaining 3 years would have to be a reshirt year. Is he full of BS again?

Thanks
Posted By: Mike Furches Re: College Wrestling Elligibility - 05/01/05 11:54 AM
What level are you looking at? There is a huge difference between NCAA, NAIA etc... It also depends as the previous poster mentioned, when you entered school.
Posted By: smokeycabin Re: College Wrestling Elligibility - 05/01/05 11:58 AM
Not true only if you transferred and were not released by another program. There are some exceptions to the 5 year rule such as an olympic redshirt, military leave, some guys do a four or eight year stint or longer in the military and then go to college and wrestle and still have their 5 years.
Posted By: Aaron Sweazy Re: College Wrestling Elligibility - 05/01/05 06:07 PM
I didn't wrestled freshman or sophomore year because the school I went to didn't have wrestling. I then went to UCO where I was told I had 3 years eligibility.
Posted By: Dr. Bailey.... Re: College Wrestling Elligibility - 05/02/05 12:24 PM
So what if you wrestle two years at juco, graduate, take two years off to work then start back to school again??
Posted By: JaRenfro Re: College Wrestling Elligibility - 05/04/05 03:46 PM
5 consecutive years begining at the time you first enrolled as a full time student unless you get some kind of hardship. All yours is used up by now. But I think our conversation a few weeks ago is a done deal. Let me know if you are interested.
Posted By: Dr. Bailey.... Re: College Wrestling Elligibility - 05/06/05 12:52 PM
Thanks for killing my dream coach... Very interested just let me know.. I'll give you a call this weekend more than likely. Couldn't be at labette yesterday because of the whole birthday deal. Thanks coach,
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Posted By: Poker Star Re: College Wrestling Elligibility - 05/07/05 12:46 AM
Thank you all for your replies. I have been gone for a week in Baltimore, for a family passing so I couldnt reply until now, but really appreciate the info.

I'm looking at wrestling at the D2 level. So I assume the NCAA DI rules would still apply.

I'll let you know who I am after the first season if I dont get totally hammered.

Thanks
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