Qualification for the 2012 United States Men's Curling Championship took place in two rounds in January at various locations throughout the nation.
The number of entrants to the national championships was cut down to eleven teams through a playdown system of regional qualifiers and a challenge round.
The two teams that qualified automatically to the championships were chosen based on the Order of Merit upon the conclusion of the Curl Mesabi Cash Spiel.
[1] This year, the teams were those skipped by Tyler George and Craig Brown.
[1] The qualification rounds were all held with the double knockout provision in place.
Two other teams that were not qualified to either the nationals or the challenge round were then invited based on their Order of Merit points.
[1] The number of teams invited from each qualifier were determined using the strength of field system.
At the conclusion of the round robin, the top three teams were chosen to qualify to the nationals.
This year, those teams were those skipped by Eric Fenson, Mike Farbelow, and Todd Birr.
Two teams, skipped by Tyler George and Craig Brown, qualified directly to the nationals by virtue of their Order of Merit rankings.
[4] The team skipped by John Shuster qualified directly to the Nationals by winning the A Event, and the team skipped by Owen Sampson qualified directly to the Nationals by winning the B Event.
[2] Teams skipped by Eric Fenson, Peter Stolt, Ryan Berg, and Todd Birr qualified to the challenge round.
The teams skipped by Eric Fenson, Mike Farbelow, and Todd Birr advanced to the nationals.