1. The NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships are the third highest largest grossing Championships, only behind NCAA basketball and football. Madison Square Garden had 23,000 people at the finals of the NCAA championship in 2016 and sold over 110,000 tickets.
2. Sun Devil Wrestling is ranked No. 9 as a team going into the NCAA Wrestling Championships. The team started the season ranked anywhere between No. 22 and No. 29.
3. Redshirt freshman Zahid Valencia is in the race for the Hodge Award, considered to be the "Heisman Trophy" of wrestling, moving up to No.