BOONE, N.C. — With an automatic berth already secured by SoCon champion
Stephan Monchery, the at-large selections for the NCAA Championships announced Tuesday included App State Wrestling's
Will Miller and
Carson Floyd.
Miller is seeded 13th at 165 pounds, while Floyd (No. 33 at 197 pounds) and Monchery (No. 32 at heavyweight) will open competition in No. 32-vs.-No. 33 pigtail matches.
The NCAA Championships run from March 20-22 at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia.
App State head coach
JohnMark Bentley has now produced 64 national qualifiers in his 16 seasons, including 32 national qualifiers in the last six seasons.
It's the third NCAA berth for Miller, previously an automatic qualifier as a SoCon runner-up at 174 pounds in 2023 and SoCon champion at 165 pounds in 2024. He was the runner-up at 165 pounds during the 2025 SoCon Championship tournament that concluded Saturday in Asheville.
The top-seeded senior from Helena, Ala., has a 21-2 record this season following a last-second loss in the 165 final to Thomas Snipes from The Citadel with only one automatic NCAA berth allocated at that weight.
Miller's 83-31 career record includes one win at the 2024 NCAA Championships and a 4-2 record this season against national qualifiers at 165 pounds. Entering the SoCon Championship tournament with a national ranking of No. 7, he was the league's only wrestler with a national ranking higher than 20th in his weight class.
Floyd, who was ranked No. 32 in the final NCAA Coaches' Rankings, received one of four at-large berths available at 197 pounds. At the SoCon Championship tournament, he took third place at 197, a weight that had three ranked wrestlers but was allocated only two automatic NCAA berths.
Floyd is 28-8 this season with 14 pins among his 23 bonus-point victories. His top wins this season occurred against Patrick Brophy, the SoCon runner-up who earned the league's second automatic berth, and Christian Knop from NC State.
Monchery, a true freshman heavyweight from Middletown, N.Y., improved to 19-9 this season by going 3-0 at the SoCon Championship tournament as the No. 2 seed. He clinched a dramatic team title for App State on Saturday by winning a 6-5 decision over The Citadel's Jonathan Chesser in the heavyweight final, taking a 4-0 lead on a second-period takedown and erasing a 5-4 deficit on a reversal with 14 seconds left.
Monchery had a 6-6 record a little over a month into his first collegiate season, but he is 13-3 with two losses to ranked ACC opponents since mid-December. He has eight pins and four major decisions among his 19 victories.
The Coaches' Rankings and RPI were two of several criteria evaluated during the at-large selection process, along with head-to-head competition, quality wins, conference tournament placement, results versus common opponents and win percentage. In addition to Miller and Floyd, App State had one other ranked wrestler entering the SoCon Championship tournament in
Luke Uliano (No. 28 Coaches' Ranking/No. 32 RPI at 174 pounds).
The top-seeded Uliano (23-8) was the runner-up following a ranked showdown in the final at 174 pounds, a weight that was allocated only one automatic NCAA berth. The Division I conference tournaments concluded with four NCAA at-large berths available at 174, and five wrestlers with Coaches' Rankings higher than 28th didn't earn automatic berths.
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