INDIANAPOLIS— The Colorado Mesa University Mavericks will have four individual swimmers, a diver and both of their 200-yard medley relay teams in Wednesday night's championship finals and have qualified three other swimmers for the consolation heats through the preliminary rounds that were contested earlier in the day.
 
Here's a breakdown of the early action from Wednesday.

Results and the Wednesday night program can be seen at the links above.
 
The finals will begin at 5:30 p.m. EDT (3:30 p.m. Mountain) and will be streamed on NCAA.com.
 
200 Individual Medley
 
Senior Sophia Bains reached the consolation final, placing 14^th in the morning preliminary round with a time of 2:03.48 to lead a group of three CMU women in the event.
 
Freshman Taylar Hooton made her NCAA Championship debut, placing 29^th in 2:05.58, just off her altitude-adjusted career-best of 2:05.26.  She was seeded 38^th coming in.  Tori Bartusiak also made her NCAA debut, finishing 38^th in 2:06.98.
 
On the men's side, Marcos Otero finished 20^th with a time of 1:48.38, a one spot improvement over his No. 21 position on the pre-meet psych sheet at 1:47.70.  He was one of six Mavs in the field.
 
Max Ayres finished 29^th at 1:49.09, just off his pre-meet seed time of 1:48.71, which had him ranked 35^th coming in.
 
Senior John Walgast finished 30^th with a time of 1:49.29 in his first NCAA Championship race.
 
Mauricio Posadas was 35^th in 1:49.56 while Ben Vester took 41^st in 1:51.00.  Both of those Mavs were also swimming in an NCAA Championship race for the first time.
 
50 Free

Agata Naskret finished ninth in the preliminary heats to earn the top seed for the consolation finale.  She turned in a time of 23.03 seconds.  Freshman Reagan Horn finished 18^th in 23.28 in her first NCAA Championship race and is the second alternate for Wednesday's finals.
 
Kendyll Wilkinson and Ada Qunell, who both helped the Mavs take third in Tuesday afternoon's 800 free relay, were also in the field and placed 51^st (23.83) and 52^nd (23.88), respectively.
 
Richard Schmiedefeld, who earned first team all-America honors in the 800 Free Relay on Tuesday, claimed a lane in the consolation finals.  He tied for 12^th with a career-best time of 19.93 seconds and will have a chance to earn points after coming into the meet ranked 23^rd on the psych sheets.
 
Kuba Kiszczak, who also swam on the Mavs' eighth place 800 Free Relay team on Tuesday, finished 24^th in 20.09 seconds, just off his career-best time of 20.05.  He was seeded 29^th coming into the meet.
 
1000 Free
 
The Maverick women will have two representatives in the evening session as Olivia Hansson and Hanna Sasivarevic are seeded fifth and sixth, respectively.  The top eight seeds swim at night while the others competed at the end of the morning preliminary session in a timed final format.
 
Sydnee O'Neil stands in  tenth place after posting a time of 10:11.09 and will hope for three or more of the top seeded swimmers go slower than that in the evening session in order to score team points.
 
Haven Hinkle, who was making her NCAA championship debut, finished 25^th in 10:24.81.
 
The Maverick men will also have a representative in the evening session as Jacob Troescher is seeded eighth.
 
Three other Maverick men competed in the morning. 

Gavyn Tatge, seeded 27^th out of 33 on the pre-meet pscyh sheets will finish no lower than 17^th after posting a career-best time of 9:14.62, which has him in ninth place with the top eight still to swim.  He won his heat and moves up four spots to fifth on the Mavs' all-time performers list.
 
He will hope for at least one of the top-seeded swimmers to go slower than his time on Wednesday evening, which would allow him to earn a first career All-America honor.
 
Gavin Anderson is currently in 19^th place finisher finishing in 9:20.48.    Freshman Braden Felio, who like Tatge, was making his NCAA debut, is in 25^th after swimming to a time of 9:36.81.
 
1m Diving

Mimi Licht, who barely missed on all-America honors last year, will earn first team honors after placing eighth in the preliminary round with an 11-dive score of 388.60 points.
 
Kenya Meyer finished 17^th with 362.30 points while Talia Datilio was 20^th with 341.95 points.
 
200 Medley Relays
 
The Maverick women are the top seed with their school-record time of 1:39.38 from earlier this season.  Indianapolis (1:39.42) and Nova Southeastern (1:39.46) have seed times just off that.  The Mavs will swim in the third and final heat of the timed final event.
 
The CMU men will look to improve upon their No. 13 seed at 1:27.55 and will swim in the first of two heats to cap the night.