INDIANAPOLIS--- The NCAA announced the 52 at-large selections for the 2009 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships.

These wrestlers, listed in alphabetical order by weight class, join the other 278 student-athletes that qualified automatically through their conference and regional qualifying tournaments. The at-large selections were made by the NCAA Division I Wrestling Committee using the selection criteria without priority order, which consists of head-to-head competition, qualifying event placement, quality wins, results against common opponents, winning percentage, rating percentage index, coaches ranking and number of matches contested at that weight class.

A full video description of the entire selection protocol is available at http://web1.ncaa.org/web_video/newmedia/wrestling10-21.html or you can review appendix C of the 2009 Division I Wrestling Championships Handbook which is available at http://web1.ncaa.org/web_files/champ_handbooks/wrestling/2009/1_wrestling_handbook.pdf .

The list of all 330 qualifiers is available at www.ncaa.com.

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