INDIANAPOLIS – The NCAA Wrestling selection committee announced the recipients of the at-large bids to the 2024 NCAA Wrestling Championships on Mar. 21-23 in Kansas City. UVU's Evan Bockman earned his third trip to the Championships.
 
Bockman is 18-7 overall this season and came in this week at No. 23/24 in the InterMat and FloWrestling polls. He was especially tough in dual competition this year, finishing 8-1, with wins over ranked foes No. 27 Julien Broderson (Iowa State), No. 19 Wyatt Voelker (UNI), and No. 19 Joey Novak (Wyoming). His only loss in dual action came to 2024 Big 12 Champion No. 5 Tanner Sloan (South Dakota State) in a 5-0 decision in February.
 
In the early season tournaments, he had wins over Franklin & Marshall's No. 30 John Crawford, No. 27 Campbell's Levi Hopkins, Binghamton's Cayden Bevis, and Stanford's No. 17 Nick Stemmett. All four of these opponents earned at large bids.
 
At last week's Big 12 Championship, Bockman finished with a 2-2 record after falling to No. 21 UNI's Voelker in the quarterfinals. He came back to defeat Calvin Sund (Air Force) before a loss to No. 16 Surber (Oklahoma State), which moved him to the seventh-place match, where he picked up a victory over Xavier Vasquez.
 
The seeds and brackets for the 2024 NCAA Championships will be announced at 6:00 p.m. MT on ncaa.com. The Championships will be held on Mar. 21-23 at T-Mobile Arena in Kansas City, Mo. TV coverage will air on the ESPN family of networks.