The exception is Fresno State, which was a charter WWC member but dropped the sport before conference competition started, revived the sport in 2017 as a Big 12 associate member, and dropped wrestling again after the 2020–21 season.

[3] On October 22, 2006, the conference logo, designed by Flint Communications of Fargo, North Dakota, was introduced.

[5] In 2012, Northern Iowa became an associate member of the Mid-American Conference, reducing the WWC membership to six.

[7] The Big 12 Conference had been wrestling with only four teams since Nebraska moved to the Big Ten in 2011, but the NCAA had annually granted a waiver for its conference championships to be recognized and its champions and runners-up to be granted automatic qualification to the national championships.

As a result, Big 12 wrestlers advanced to the NCAA Championships only as at-large invitees.