It is not possible to have an athletic scholarship for wrestling and walk-on for football. The NCAA guidelines state that, if a scholarship athlete is participating in multiple sports (one of which being football), the scholarship must be counted against the institution's allotted football scholarship count (85 for FBS, 63 FCS).HFO wrote: ↑Sat Mar 16, 2024 8:13 amThere was interest. Iowa and Penn State on a wrestling scholarship were prepared for him to be a preferred walk-on for football. Both schools wanted him at center or guard. Kinney wants to play defensive side of the ball at DT. The family also wants to see him compete, so for the most part, it would be a school within 200 miles of Nazareth that would have landed him. However, I believe Lehigh football did extend an offer.
Lafayette Club Wrestling could be a beneficiary.
It will take me longer to dig up the NCAA rulebook guidelines, so pardon the Wikipedia citation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCAA_Divi ... t_athletes
Rules for multi-sport athletes
The NCAA also has rules specifying the sport in which multi-sport athletes are to be counted, with the basic rules being:
- Anyone who participates in football is counted in that sport, even if he does not receive financial aid from the football program. An exception exists for players at non-scholarship FCS programs who receive aid in another sport.
- Participants in basketball are counted in that sport, unless they also play football.
- Participants in men's ice hockey are counted in that sport, unless they also play football or basketball.
- Participants in both men's swimming and diving and men's water polo are counted in swimming and diving, unless they count in football or basketball.
- Participants in women's (indoor) volleyball are counted in that sport unless they also play basketball.
- All other multi-sport athletes are counted in whichever sport the school chooses.
UPDATE: Found the citation in the 2023-24 NCAA manual (covered on pages 201-202):
https://www.ncaapublications.com/p-4673 ... anual.aspx