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1977 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships

American collegiate wrestling tournament

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 25, 2025
Entity authorityQ48854275 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1977 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships were the 47th NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships to be held. The University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma hosted the tournament at McCasland Field House.

Iowa State took home the team championship with 95.5 points and one individual champion.

Nick Gallo of Hofstra was named the Most Outstanding Wrestler and Johnnie Jones of Iowa State received the Gorriaran Award.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “1977 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships” as american collegiate wrestling tournament. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1977—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where NCAA, Division and Wrestling can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as american collegiate wrestling tournament. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 25, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q48854275. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1977.

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This entry incorporates text from “1977 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.