We prove a stability of weakly almost conformal mappings in W-1,W-p(Om
ega; R-n) for p not too far below the dimension n by studying the W-1,
W-p-quasiconvex hull of the set C-n of conformal matrices. The study i
s based on coercivity estimates from the nonlinear Hedge decomposition
s and reverse Holder inequalities from the Ekeland variational princip
le.