Wrestling colleges in West Virginia (8)

West Virginia is a Division II state: 7 of the 8 listed programs are D2, and five of them wrestle in the MEC — Fairmont State, Glenville State, Davis & Elkins in Elkins, West Liberty and Wheeling. Bluefield State in the southern tip wrestles in Conference Carolinas, Salem competes as an independent, and the lone D3 program, Bethany (WV), is in the PAC.

Geographically the rooms fall into two clusters: north-central (Fairmont, Glenville, Salem, Elkins) and the Northern Panhandle (Wheeling, West Liberty and Bethany, all within a short drive of one another), with Bluefield State the outlier in the south. Four programs are public — Bluefield State, Fairmont State, Glenville State and West Liberty — and that shows up in cost: federal average net price runs from $9,032 at Fairmont State to $20,503 at Wheeling, one of the lowest ranges of any state in the directory. Enrollments are small everywhere; Fairmont State (about 2,600 undergraduates) is the largest, and Wheeling and Bethany are under 650.

Fairmont State, Salem, Wheeling and Bethany publish wrestling recruiting forms — the fastest first contact — while Bluefield State, Davis & Elkins and West Liberty use a general athletics form and Glenville State has none we could find. Five programs also field women's wrestling: Bluefield State, Fairmont State, West Liberty, Wheeling and Bethany. Recent conference finishes and NCAA qualifiers are not published in our data for these programs, so ask each coach directly; D2 wrestling scholarships explained covers what to ask about partial aid, and /compare puts the MEC schools side by side.