Dropped College Wrestling Teams

by Jason Bryant | Feb 23, 2017

List of all known dropped wrestling programs. A school's division listed is at the time of the drop. If you know a year when a school dropped its program and its in this list with a zero in the year field, you can send that information to jason@bryantwrestling.com so this list may be updated.

For a list of new and reinstated programs since 2000, click here.

Records are continually updated to correctly identify what past and present level of competition the schools are classified.

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Dropped :

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Former Name :

id	School	State	Current	Dropped	Drop Yr.	Former Name	First App.	closed	merged	active	Notes
1	Arkansas State	AR	1		1953					NO
2	Wake Forest	NC	1	University	1960		1955			NO
3	Birmingham-Southern	AL	CLOSED	NAIA	1961		1958			NO
4	Eagle Grove CC	IA	CLOSED	NJCAA	1966			YES		NO	SCHOOL CLOSED
5	Kansas	KS	1		1966					NO
6	Denver	CO	1		1967					NO
7	Methodist	NC	3		1971					NO
8	Nevada	NV	1		1971		1961			NO
9	Parsons	IA	CLOSED		1973		1959	YES		NO	Announced AWN Vo. 31, No. 2
10	Idaho	ID	1		1973					NO	Big Sky
11	UNC Wilimington	NC	1		1973					NO
12	Holy Cross	MA	1		1974					NO
13	Seattle Pacific	WA	2		1974		1957			NO
14	Cal State-Northridge	CA	1		1975	San Fernando Valley State				NO
15	Consumnes River	CA	CCCAA	CCCAA	1975					NO
16	Kansas State	KS	1		1975					NO
17	Morehead State	KY	1		1975					NO
18	Central Oregon CC	OR	NO SPORTS		1975					NO
20	St. Francis	PA	3		1975					NO
21	UW-Milwaukee	WI	1		1975	Wisconsin State	1956		YES	NO	Merger between Wisconsin State & Wisconsin Extension
22	Eastern Kentucky	KY	1		1976					NO
23	Washington	MD	3		1976		1947			NO
24	St. Louis CC-Florissant Valley	MO	NJCAA		1976		1971			NO
25	Dartmouth	NH	1		1976		1956			NO
26	Cal State East Bay	CA	3		1977	Cal State-Hayward, Alameda State College				NO
27	UC Santa Barbara	CA	1		1977		1958			NO
28	Hawaii	HI	1		1977		1961			NO
29	Butler	IN	1		1977					NO
30	North Carolina A&T	NC	1	2	1977					NO
31	Lehigh County CC	PA	NJCAA		1977					NO
32	South Dakota	SD	1	2	1977		1958			NO
33	Louisiana-Lafayette	LA	1		1978	Southwest Louisiana State				NO
34	Western Carolina	NC	1		1978					NO
35	Xavier	OH	1		1978					NO
36	Alabama	AL	1		1979		1958			NO	March 29, 1979
37	California	CA	1		1979					NO
38	Florida	FL	1		1979					NO
40	Eastern Mennonite	VA	3	3	1978		1967			NO
41	Gonzaga	WA	1		1979					NO	Did not score in Big Sky 1976*
42	Chattahoochee Valley CC	AL	NJCAA		1980					NO	Started in 1976
43	Allan Hancock	CA	CCCAA	CCCAA	1980					NO
44	UCLA	CA	1		1980					NO
45	Colorado	CO	1		1980					NO
46	Georgia	GA	1		1980		1961			NO	December 18, 1979
47	CCBC-Catonsville	MD	NJCAA		1980					NO
48	North Carolina Central	NC	2		1980					NO
49	Marietta	OH	3		1980					NO
50	Middle Tennessee State	TN	1	1	1980					NO
51	Utah	UT	1		1980					NO
52	Washington	WA	1		1980					NO	Dropped 1941. Re-Added 1956.
53	Gateway Technical	WI	NJCAA		1980					NO	Eliminated all athletics
54	Milwaukee Area Technical	WI	NJCAA		1980					NO
55	Southwest Tech-Fennimore	WI	NJCAA		1980					NO
56	UW-Platteville Richland	WI	CLOSED		1980	UW-Richland	1978	2023		NO
57	Western Wisconsin Technical	WI	NJCAA		1980					NO	Eliminated all athletics
58	Auburn	AL	1	1	1981	Alabama Polytechnic Institute	1946			NO	Ranked 9th
59	Jacksonville State	AL	1	2	1981					NO
60	Arizona	AZ	1		1981		1957			NO
61	American River	CA	CCCAA	CCCAA	1981					NO
62	Cal State-Stanislaus	CA	3		1981					NO
63	Long Beach City	CA	CCCAA	CCCAA	1981		1958			NO
64	Ohlone	CA	CCCAA	CCCAA	1981					NO
65	Orange Coast	CA	CCCAA	CCCAA	1981					NO
66	Connecticut	CT	1	1	1981		1958			NO
67	Evansville	IN	1		1981					NO
68	Lincoln	MO	2		1981					NO
69	Southeast Missouri State	MO	1		1981					NO
70	East Carolina	NC	1		1981					NO
71	Wayne State	NE	2		1981					NO
72	Akron	OH	1	1	1981					NO
73	Rhode Island	RI	1	1	1981					NO
74	Dakota State	SD	NAIA		1981	General Beadle	1962			NO
75	Tennessee Tech	TN	1		1981					NO
76	Richmond	VA	1		1981					NO
77	Cabrillo	CA	CCCAA	CCCAA	1982					NO
78	Chaffey	CA	CCCAA	CCCAA	1982					NO
80	San Mateo	CA	CCCAA	CCCAA	1982		1959			NO
81	Black Hawk	IL	NJCAA		1982	Black Hawk-Moline	1968			NO
82	Southern Illinois	IL	1		1982	SIU-Carbondale				NO
83	Ball State	IN	1	1	1982		1958			NO
84	Hanover	IN	3		1982					NO
85	Kentucky	KY	1	1	1982					NO
86	Western Michigan	MI	1		1982					NO
87	Winona State	MN	2		1982					NO
88	Missouri-St. Louis	MO	2		1982					NO
89	Colgate	NY	1		1982					NO
90	Bowling Green	OH	1		1982					NO
91	Central State	OH	2	NAIA	1982					NO
92	Cincinnati	OH	1	1	1982		1952			NO
93	East Tennessee State	TN	1		1982					NO
94	Virginia Commonwealth	VA	1	1	1982					NO
95	Marshall	WV	1	1	1982					NO
96	Calvin	MI	3	3	1983					NO
97	Washington	MO	3		1983					NO
99	Long Beach State	CA	1		1985		1958			NO
100	Porterville	CA	CCCAA	CCCAA	1984					NO
101	San Diego City	CA	CCCAA	CCCAA	1984					NO
102	San Jose City	CA	CCCAA	CCCAA	1984					NO
104	Hope	MI	3	3	1984					NO
105	Kalamazoo	MI	3	3	1984					NO