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

Not true.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

So what if you wrestle two years at juco, graduate, take two years off to work then start back to school again??

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.

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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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