Anywhere from 8 to 16 teams would qualify, depending upon the format and number of regional qualifiers that year.

In order to qualify for the tournament, teams would have to go through regional qualifiers.

The varsity wrestling team sent out two regional qualifiers in the 2009-2010 season.

Teams earned the right to participate in regional qualifiers.

The following is a list of all teams registered to participate in the regional qualifiers.

In future years, plans call for regional qualifiers leading to championships at various age levels.

A total of 39 teams registered to participate in the regional qualifiers.

The remaining seven of the 16 positions available in the tournament were filled by regional qualifiers.

In the event that there were more than one regional qualifiers, they played down to a single qualifier during the thirteenth week of the program.

By the 1990s, over 70 nations competed each year, and regional qualifiers were introduced in 1992.