OREM, Utah – Terrell Barraclough treks to Philadelphia this week for the 2025 NCAA Wrestling Championships at the Wells Fargo Center. He is the 48
th qualifier in UVU's history and will look to become the sixth All-American in program history.
THE SCHEDULE
Session I – Pigtails and Preliminaries | Thursday, Mar. 20 at 10:00 a.m. MT
Session II – Prelims and wrestle-backs | Thursday, Mar. 20 at 5:00 p.m. MT
Session III – Quarterfinals and wrestle-backs | Friday, Mar. 21 at 10:00 a.m. MT
Session IV – Semifinals and wrestle-backs | Friday, Mar. 21 at 6:00 p.m. MT
Session V – Consolation finals | Saturday, Mar. 22 at 9:00 a.m. MT
Session VI – Championship finals | Saturday, Mar. 22 at 5:00 p.m. MT
BROADCAST PLANS
The entire tournament will air on the ESPN family of networks, with individual mat streams and multicast options on ESPN+. ESPNU will be home to the morning sessions, while ESPN will have the evening sessions, including the Championship finals on Saturday, Mar. 22, at 5:00 p.m. MT.
Shawn Kenney, Rock Harrison, Tim Johnson, and Quint Kessenich will call the Day session action, with Mike Couzens, Rock Harrison (Thursday), Daniel Cormier (Friday/Saturday), Jordan Burroughs, and Kessenich calling the night session. Shane Sparks and Trent Hidlay will have the action on MatCast.
TrackWrestling will have live brackets and results for the Championships. Utah Valley Wrestling's X account will have live score and match information.
THE ROAD TO PHILADELPHIA
Barraclough enters Philly with a 27-2 record and is coming off a third-place finish at the 2025 Big 12 Championships. This season, he has earned ten victories against ranked foes, starting on opening weekend, where he defeated No. 3 Hunter Garvin of Stanford. As November continued, he added wins over Nebraska's No. 12 Bubba Wilson and No. 5 Cameron Amine (Oklahoma State) before knocking off his first-round opponent on Thursday, Derek Fields (NC State), to end November.
At December's Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational, he suffered one of his two defeats during the season to Northern Iowa's No. 28 Jack Thomsen, but that did not keep him down. He bounced back to place third at CKLV with one of the best runs in school history, finishing 6-0 with wins over No. 3 Sammy Sasso (Ohio State), Garvin, Wilson, No. 12 Brock Mantanona (Michigan), and No. 28 Cesar Alvan (Columbia).
Barraclough picked right back up where he left off in December, going 4-0 in January, with three of his four wins coming by bonus points during the stretch. As the season wrapped up, he returned to his old stomping grounds at Layton High School for a Top 5 showdown against No. 3 Peyton Hall of West Virginia. The UVU redshirt senior came out on top that night with a last-second takedown that brought the home crowd to their feet.
In the 2025 Big 12 Championships, he defeated NCAA qualifiers Tate Picklo (Oklahoma) and No. 8 seeded Aiden Riggins of Iowa State to make the semifinals, where he battled Missouri's Cam Steed to sudden victory but fell. Once again, Barraclough bounced back, staring down a rematch with Amine to determine his placement match, where his second-period reversal was the difference for his second win over the returner All-American who transferred to Oklahoma State for this season.
In the third-place bout, he defeated Riggins for the second time in two days, this time the difference being an escape in the second period, after Barraclough chose bottom. He would hold for the 1-0 decision.
