OLYMPIA, Wash. – The Evergreen State College men's wrestling team is set to compete this weekend in the 2026 Cascade Collegiate Conference Men's Wrestling Championships, presented by U.S. Bank. The tournament will be hosted by Corban University on Friday, Feb. 20 and Saturday, Feb. 21 at the Salem Amory Auditorium in Salem, Oregon.

All 11 CCC teams will be participating in the championship event. Six of the teams were ranked in the NAIA Men's Wrestling Final Poll, and three additional teams received votes.

Action will start on Friday at 12 p.m. PST. On Saturday, matches will get underway at 10 a.m., and the championship matches will begin at 5 p.m. Tickets can be purchased at the door to the Redding Civic Auditorium.

Entries by weight class for Evergreen are:

125 pounds – Joseph Davis (Fr.)
141 pounds – Horacio Godinez (So.)
141 pounds – Gerardo Hernandez (Fr.)
149 pounds – Alex Fenwick (Fr.)
149 pounds – Orion Rhinehart (So.)
157 pounds – Hassan Abdi (Jr.)
157 pounds – Jayms Vilona (Fr.)
174 pounds – Andrew Walker Campbell (Fr.)
285 pounds – Savion Galloway (So.)

The Cascade Collegiate Conference and other conferences award automatic bids to the 2026 NAIA Men's Wrestling Championships per weight class based on the final regular season poll. The automatic awards are based on the number of wrestlers ranked in each weight class. The CCC received the highest number of automatic qualifiers for the NAIA Championships with a total of 47. The CCC allocations by weight class are:  125 pounds, 6; 133 pounds, 3; 141 pounds, 6; 149 pounds, 4; 157 pounds, 6; 165 pounds, 4; 174 pounds, 4; 184 pounds, 3; 197 pounds, 4; 285 pounds, 5.

A total of 254 automatic qualifiers nationwide will move forward to the NAIA Championships. In addition, 66 at-large selections are scheduled to complete the national field.

All weight classes at the NAIA Championships will consist of 32 wrestlers. The national championship event will be held at Heartland Credit Union Arena in Wichita, Kansas.