PSU Big Ten PreSeeds
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First glance you were highly accurate. Loved the accuracy of 133 and 141. Loved how you called out putting Joey Silva at the 8 in the comments as he was out and then Joey Silva winds up being the 8
125 lbs. (8 NCAA qualifiers)
1. Spencer Lee, IOWA
2. Devin Schroder, PUR
3. Patrick McKee, MN
4. Justin Cardani, IL
5. Jack Medley, MI
6. Michael DeAugustino, NU
7. Liam Cronin, IN
8. Nic Aguilar, RUT
9. Eric Barnett, WI
10. 10. Alex Thomsen, NEB
11. Malik Heinselman, OSU
12. Logan Griffin, MSU
13. Brandon Cray, MD
14. Brandon Meredith, PSU
133 lbs. (7 qualifiers)
1. Seth Gross, WI
2. Roman Bravo-Young, PSU
3. Austin DeSanto, IOWA
4. Travis Piotrowski, IL
5. Sebastian Rivera, NW
6. Ridge Lovett, NEB
7. Sammy Alvarez, RUT
8. Joey Silva, MI
9. Crayden Rooks, IN
10. Garrett Pepple, MSU
11. Boo Dryden, MN
12. Travis Ford-Melton, PUR
13. King Sandoval, MD
14. Jordan Decatur, OSU
141 lbs. (8 qualifiers)
1. Nick Lee, PSU
2. Luke Pletcher, OSU
3. Max Murin, IOWA
4. Chad Red, NEB
5. Tristan Moran, WIS
6. Mitch McKee, MINN
7. Dylan Duncan, ILL
8. Parker Filius, PUR
9. Cole Mattin, MICH
10. Alec McKenna, NU
11. Joe Aragona, RU
12. Matt Santos, MSU
13. Eddie Bolivar, IND
14. Hunter Baxter, MD
149 lbs. (10 qualifiers)
1. Sammy Sasso, OSU
2. Pat Lugo, IOWA
3. Brayton Lee, MINN
4. Kanen Storr, MICH
5. Graham Rooks, IND
6. Cole Martin, WIS
7. Collin Purinton, NEB
8. Jarod Verkleeren, PSU
9. Yahya Thomas, NU
10. Griffin Parriott, PUR
11. Gerard Angelo RU
12. Alex Hrisopoulos, MSU
13. Mousa Jodeh, ILL
14. Ryan Garlitz, MD
157 lbs. (6 qualifiers)
1. Ryan Deakin, NU
2. Kaleb Young, IOWA
3. Kendall Coleman, PUR
4. Will Lewan, MICH
5. Ryan Thomas, MINN
6. Jake Tucker, MSU
7. Peyton Robb, NEB
8. Eric Barone, ILL
9. Michael VanBrill, RU
10. Jahi Jones, MD
11. Elijah Cleary, OSU
12. Garrett Model, WIS
13. Bo Pipher, PSU
14. Fernie Silva, IND
165 lbs. (8 qualifiers)
1. Vincenzo Joseph, PSU
2. Alex Marinelli, IOWA
3. Evan Wick, WIS
4. Isaiah White, NEB
5. Ethan Smith, OSU
6. Shayne Oster, NU
7. Dan Braunagel, ILL
8. Bailee O’Reilly, MINN
9. Drew Hughes, MSU
10. Kyle Cochran, MD
11. Brett Donner, RU
12. Tyler Meisiner, MICH
13. Tanner Webster, PUR
14. Diego Lemley, IND
174 lbs. (9 qualifiers)
1. Michael Kemerer, IOWA
2. Mark Hall, PSU
3. Dylan Lydy, PUR
4. Devin Skatzka, MINN
5. Mikey Labriola, NEB
6. Kaleb Romero, OSU
7. Joseph Gunther, ILL
8. Layne Malczewski, MSU
9. Tyler Morland, NU
10. Willie Scott, RU
11. Jared Krattiger, WIS
12. Phillip Spadafora, MD
13. Max Maylor, MICH
14. NO ENTRY, IND
184 lbs. (10 qualifiers)
1. Aaron Brooks, PSU
2. Cameron Caffey, MSU
3. Abe Assad, IOWA
4. Taylor Venz, NEB
5. Billy Janzer, RU
6. Rocky Jordan, OSU
7. Zach Braunagel, ILL
8. Owen Webster, MINN
9. Johnny Sebastian, WIS
10. Jelani Embree, MICH
11. Max Lyon, PUR
12. Jack Jessen, NU
13. Jake Hinz, IND
14. Kyle Jasenski, MD
197 lbs. (6 qualifiers)
1. Kollin Moore, OSU
2. Eric Schultz, NEB
3. Jacob Warner, IOWA
4. Christian Brunner, PUR
5. Lucas Davison, NU
6. Shakur Rasheed, PSU
7. Jordan Pagano, RU
8. Jackson Striggow, MICH
9. Jaron Smith, MD
10. Hunter Ritter, MINN
11. Matt Wroblewski, ILL
12. Nick May, MSU
13. Taylor Watkins, WIS
14. Nick Willham, IND
285 lbs. (7 qualifiers)
1. Mason Parris, MICH
2. Gable Steveson, MINN
3. Tony Cassioppi, IOWA
4. Trent Hilger, WIS
5. David Jensen, NEB
6. Gary Traub, OSU
7. Seth Nevillis, PSU
8. Thomas Penola, PUR
9. Luke Luffman, ILL
10. Alex Esposito, RU
11. Christian Rebottaro, MSU
12. Jake Kleimola, IND
13. Jack Heyob, NU
14. Parker Robinson, MD
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Thank you. Also, can I just say, I'm a huge fan! The new Jumanji movie was hilarious!
Assuming these hold, and they typically do with a few random exceptions...
125 Seems right. Meredith will need to pull off an upset or two to finish in the top 8.
133 they put Sebastian Rivera 5th despite having no resume this year, but still makes some sense because it'd be unfair to whoever would have to face him in a pigtail if they slotted him 14th. So Gross has to get through Rivera or Piotrowski, and RBY DeSanto the other potential semi.
141 Seems like Lee and Pletcher in the finals is a very safe bet
149 Verk should face Sasso again in the quarters, and he wrestled him pretty well in the dual. 149 has 10 B1G slots, so Verk seems like a safe bet to get in here.
157 Bo Pipher has his work cut out from him at 13 with the B1G only getting 6 slots. That should put him against Will Lewan, who had a good year but keeps the scores low.
165 Cenzo set to face Isaiah White again in semis, and then likely Marinelli again in finals.
174 Hall (2) and Dylan Lydy in semis. Lydy's only loss is to Kemerer 8-4, but he needed SV to beat Joey Gunther recently. He also went to SV in wins over Jacob Covaciu, Ben Harvey, Bryce Steiert, and Mikey Labriola. All scores 3-1. I'm confident Hall can take him down, though. Then it'd be a rematch vs Kemerer in the finals.
184 Aaron Brooks debuts at the top seed and is on course to face Taylor Venz in the semis, Brooks' only loss. Venz has many other B1G losses though. Caffey and Aasad are on the other side of the bracket.
197 Shak gets the 6 seed, which seems generous given the 5-4 record, but the only guys he's lost to are seeded ahead of him. He'll have to go through Jacob Warner again. B1G only gets 6 slots, so Shak will need to wrestle to seed to ensure a ticket to Minnesota.
HWT At the 7 seed Seth will see Gable Steveson in the quarters. B1G got 7 slots so he'll need to wrestle to seed or better.
125 Seems right. Meredith will need to pull off an upset or two to finish in the top 8.
133 they put Sebastian Rivera 5th despite having no resume this year, but still makes some sense because it'd be unfair to whoever would have to face him in a pigtail if they slotted him 14th. So Gross has to get through Rivera or Piotrowski, and RBY DeSanto the other potential semi.
141 Seems like Lee and Pletcher in the finals is a very safe bet
149 Verk should face Sasso again in the quarters, and he wrestled him pretty well in the dual. 149 has 10 B1G slots, so Verk seems like a safe bet to get in here.
157 Bo Pipher has his work cut out from him at 13 with the B1G only getting 6 slots. That should put him against Will Lewan, who had a good year but keeps the scores low.
165 Cenzo set to face Isaiah White again in semis, and then likely Marinelli again in finals.
174 Hall (2) and Dylan Lydy in semis. Lydy's only loss is to Kemerer 8-4, but he needed SV to beat Joey Gunther recently. He also went to SV in wins over Jacob Covaciu, Ben Harvey, Bryce Steiert, and Mikey Labriola. All scores 3-1. I'm confident Hall can take him down, though. Then it'd be a rematch vs Kemerer in the finals.
184 Aaron Brooks debuts at the top seed and is on course to face Taylor Venz in the semis, Brooks' only loss. Venz has many other B1G losses though. Caffey and Aasad are on the other side of the bracket.
197 Shak gets the 6 seed, which seems generous given the 5-4 record, but the only guys he's lost to are seeded ahead of him. He'll have to go through Jacob Warner again. B1G only gets 6 slots, so Shak will need to wrestle to seed to ensure a ticket to Minnesota.
HWT At the 7 seed Seth will see Gable Steveson in the quarters. B1G got 7 slots so he'll need to wrestle to seed or better.
What the PSU guys would need to do to qualify (assuming no crazy upsets)
125: Meredith loss to McKee in opening round likely puts him in consolation with Heinselman (OSU). Win that and beat the loser of the likely #4/5 semifinal (Cardini/Medley) and he would finish in top 8.
133: Bye and then beat #7 Alvarez/#10 Pepple winner to guarantee a top six place by getting to semifinals
141: Bye then beat #8 Fillius/#9 Mattin winner to get to semifinals and guarantee a top six.
149: If beats both Thomas of Northwestern and Sasso he is in. Beats Thomas and Losses to Sasso, he has the loser of Purriton and Parriott for a top eight finish. Loss there and he would go into 9th/10th place bracket. Loss to Thomas in first round, he would get a consolation bye and he would likely have to beat the winner of Purriton/Parriott who likely losses to Lugo in the semifinals.
157: This is a tough ask. Gets Lewan. With loss, would likely have to beat Model, Tucker, and Robb if all seeds hold. With only six spots, he will likely have to beat two of the #5-8 seeds.If he can beat Lewan and Thomas that gets him to semis. If he beats Lewan, losses to Thomas, would have Cleary/Silva and then also need to beat most likely the winner of Barone and Van Brill from prelims.
165: Bye and then wins against O'Reilly/Hughes winner gets him to semi (top six guarantee)
174: Bye and then win over Gunther/Scott winner gets him to semi (top six guarantee)
184: Bye and then win over Webster/Sebastian winner gets him to semi (top six guarantee)
197: Wroblewski in round 1, wins that and beats Warner he makes semi (guarantee qualifier in top 6). Losses to Warner and he would have likely have May/Watkins winner, Striggow/Smith winner, needs to win both for top six.
285: Esposito in round 1, win that and he gets Steveson. Dropped into consis and would likely have Penola/Luffman loser and then Traub to get in top six. Loss to Traub and he would likely have Penola/Luffman winner for 7th and final spot.
125: Meredith loss to McKee in opening round likely puts him in consolation with Heinselman (OSU). Win that and beat the loser of the likely #4/5 semifinal (Cardini/Medley) and he would finish in top 8.
133: Bye and then beat #7 Alvarez/#10 Pepple winner to guarantee a top six place by getting to semifinals
141: Bye then beat #8 Fillius/#9 Mattin winner to get to semifinals and guarantee a top six.
149: If beats both Thomas of Northwestern and Sasso he is in. Beats Thomas and Losses to Sasso, he has the loser of Purriton and Parriott for a top eight finish. Loss there and he would go into 9th/10th place bracket. Loss to Thomas in first round, he would get a consolation bye and he would likely have to beat the winner of Purriton/Parriott who likely losses to Lugo in the semifinals.
157: This is a tough ask. Gets Lewan. With loss, would likely have to beat Model, Tucker, and Robb if all seeds hold. With only six spots, he will likely have to beat two of the #5-8 seeds.If he can beat Lewan and Thomas that gets him to semis. If he beats Lewan, losses to Thomas, would have Cleary/Silva and then also need to beat most likely the winner of Barone and Van Brill from prelims.
165: Bye and then wins against O'Reilly/Hughes winner gets him to semi (top six guarantee)
174: Bye and then win over Gunther/Scott winner gets him to semi (top six guarantee)
184: Bye and then win over Webster/Sebastian winner gets him to semi (top six guarantee)
197: Wroblewski in round 1, wins that and beats Warner he makes semi (guarantee qualifier in top 6). Losses to Warner and he would have likely have May/Watkins winner, Striggow/Smith winner, needs to win both for top six.
285: Esposito in round 1, win that and he gets Steveson. Dropped into consis and would likely have Penola/Luffman loser and then Traub to get in top six. Loss to Traub and he would likely have Penola/Luffman winner for 7th and final spot.
To be fair about what each wrestler needs to do to qualify: RBY, Nick, Cenzo and Hall only need to wrestle 1 match. When at large is awarded, there are no wrestlers with criteria higher than them, let alone 3-4 of them.
Brooks does need to wrestle thru to the qualifying placing because nationally there are several with better criteria BUT....they would all have to flop out.....and since that won’t happen, he doesn’t really need to either. That said....better to just qualify and not leave it to chance.
Good work tho...thanks. Always good to know a pathway.
Feel like Brooks got some hard luck with the way 184 turned out. Most difficult semi of the top 3 seeds
Stole this from HR of all places:
IOWA 145.5
PSU 105
NEB 86.5
OSU 86
MINN 65
PUR 60.5
MICH 60
WIS 60
NU 53
ILL 49.5
MSU 27.5
RUT 24.5
IND 14.5
MD 0
I’m sure HR has a few armchair PhD mathematicians extrapolating ten Top-3 seeds and predicting 200+ for Iowa.
Yeah, noticed that myself. I can buy the Rutgers score, maybe. But 0 for Maryland? I'm admittedly too lazy to do the calcs
Brunner was injured in late January and hasn't wrestled since. I'm surprised he is listed. Possible he is a scratch, or that he goes at far less than 100%. Could give Shak a bump/boost.
That's some serious effort. Good job and ty for posting.
Double edged sword. Davison is a more winnable quarters match. However, Brunner's spot would get thrown back into the at large pool, B10 would only get 5.
