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Title: Big 12 Will Have 10 Wrestling Teams Starting in 2015-2016
Post by: Wisconsin Wrestling Fan on February 13, 2015, 10:55:37 PM
https://oklahomastate.rivals.com/showmsg.asp?fid=2193&tid=210216898&mid=210216898&sid=932&style=2

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Title: Re: Big 12 Will Have 10 Wrestling Teams Starting in 2015-2016
Post by: Wisconsin Wrestling Fan on February 13, 2015, 11:10:05 PM
rumor has it they will add 2 more... not sure who...
Title: Re: Big 12 Will Have 10 Wrestling Teams Starting in 2015-2016
Post by: Huckfinn on February 14, 2015, 12:37:15 PM
All they've done is create another weak conference.   Most of the teams they added have little chance of fielding much of a team.  It's a bizarrely top heavy, unbalanced conference.   A conference with West Virginia and Utah Valley is odd.

The Big 12 had to merge with the MAC, pull-in Northern Iowa and Missouri, to make a meaningful conference.   Adding EIWA would have been  OK.

Disappointing, only good thing is it adds Wyoming to Big 12.

Edit: maybe they can pick-off Boise State from Pac-12.  That would help a bit, at least create some regional rivalries.