INDIANAPOLIS – The reigning Great Lakes Valley Conference Champions UIndy wrestling were voted by the seven GLVC head coaches as the favorite for the 2022-23 season. The poll featured the league's seven wrestling schools, with the Greyhounds receiving 35 points and five first-place votes (coaches are not permitted to vote for their own team).
 
The Greyhounds are coming off their first-ever GLVC Championship in the 2023-23 season. The Hounds also bring back reigning GLVC Wrestler of the Year, and NCAA All-American Derek Blubaugh, alongside a slew of national qualifiers. At the helm of the Hounds is Jason Warthan, the reigning GLVC Coach of the Year, who returns for his 15th year.

"We know we have a good team on paper, so it's nice going into the season we have high expectations for this team, but at the same time its early so you don't put that much into that [poll]," Warthan said. "The guys know that after the last couple years you have high expectations and what comes with that is a target on your back, but we expect that."
 
Last season, the Greyhounds landed seventh at the NCAA Division II National Championships behind a trio of All-Americans in Blubaugh, Logan Bailey (157) and Cale Gray (285). Alongside the trio, UIndy returns All-GLVC Second Team Selection Jackson Hoover and Third Team selections Aidan Sprague, Ray Rioux and Owen Butler.
 
The complete poll can be found below.
 
2023-24 GLVC PRESEASON POLL

RK.	SCHOOL	PTS (1st-Place Votes)
1.	UIndy	35 (5)
2.	McKendree	32 (2)
3.	Upper Iowa	26
4.	Drury	19
5.	Maryville	18
6. 7.	Quincy Davenport	9 8