Battle of Waterloo Wrestling Tournament 2026

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How the 32-Team Dual Wrestling Tournament Works

DAY 1

On Thursday, December 17, The 2026 BOW 24-Team Girls Division will compete. The girls teams will compete in 3 8-Team Brackets starting at 10:00AM and then will be placed in 3-Team pools based on the place in the Bracket Competition.  There will be 8 pools consisting of 3 1st place teams, 3 2nd place teams, through 8th place teams. The pool matches will take place Thursday afternoon/evening.

DAY 2

On Friday, December 18, teams will be seeded and placed in one of four standard eight-team brackets. Two of these brackets will compete in a morning session of matches at 9:00 a.m., 11 a.m., and 1 p.m. The other two brackets compete at 4 p.m., 6 p.m., and 8 p.m. The three matches will determine each team’s place in the second day’s round-robin championship brackets.

DAY 3

On Saturday, December 19, each of the four qualifying teams will compete in a round-robin Division I group to determine 1-4 tournament positions. The four runner-up teams from the qualification tournament will compete in Division 2 for 5-8 positions and so on. Groups 1-4 will wrestle on Saturday afternoon. Groups 5-8 will compete Saturday morning.