I know basketball is the focus in March, but the NCAA wrestling tournament is this weekend and it's a big deal to some of us.

There is a wrestler who has "qualified" for the NCAA tournament, but he's entirely out of eligibility. He knows it, his coaches know it, his conference knows it, and I assume the NCAA knows it - but nothing is happening.

Tyler Brennan wrestles for the University of Arkansas at Little Rock at 174 pounds, he wrestled for them and exhausted his eligibility in 2020, 2022, 2023, and 2024. When the 2025 season started, there he was again, dressed and competing for his team..... He's 16-8 on the year, won a conference championship at his weight (not hard, they're in the Pac12 with three other teams ha ha!), and is now the 29 seed for the NCAA tournament in Philly this weekend.

*The 2021 season was cancelled part way through the season. If you wrestled that season (which Brennan did not), the NCAA granted you an additional year. So, SOME wrestlers out there do have 5 years under their belt. Parker Keckeisen has won five B12 individual titles, and Carter Starocci is about to be the only person ever who will win five individual NCAA titles. Brennan did not qualify for this extra year.

No one really noticed until a wrestling podcast mentioned it in passing on air, and now EVERYONE knows. But nothing is being done. I don't expect him win any matches, maybe he will, but it's crazy that he hasn't been removed and his team/coaches haven't been reprimanded. His team wouldn't have won their conference championship without his two wins, and his presence in the bracket shafts the four wrestlers seeded below him as well as a hypothetical fifth wrestler who could be in the bracket were it not for him....