Top heavy much, B1G?

[Conewago]

16 - or 80 percent - of yesterday's 20 Big Ten finalists came from three schools: Ohio State, Penn State, and Michigan

All but one champion (Martinez) came from one of those three schools.

It's probably the same level of dominance down through the place winner spots, with some more participants there from Iowa, Illinois, and Minnesota

Honestly, I hope this changes a bit next year. It's a little boring when only three teams - out of 14! - are in serious contention for individual medals, let alone the team race.

Northwestern, Nebraska, Wisconsin are young; Purdue has a decent coach; Minnesota is rebuilding. So maybe there's hope for more tourney parity in the future.

 

[Just another PSU Fan]

that's the funniest post I've ever read! OMG ...

not long ago, the Hawks had 9 champs ... NINE ... and you want to give power back to the midwest? F that ... dominate from the East!

 

[psumacw]

16 - or 80 percent - of yesterday's 20 Big Ten finalists came from three schools: Ohio State, Penn State, and Michigan

All but one champion (Martinez) came from one of those three schools.

It's probably the same level of dominance down through the place winner spots, with some more participants there from Iowa, Illinois, and Minnesota

Honestly, I hope this changes a bit next year. It's a little boring when only three teams - out of 14! - are in serious contention for individual medals, let alone the team race.

Northwestern, Nebraska, Wisconsin are young; Purdue has a decent coach; Minnesota is rebuilding. So maybe there's hope for more tourney parity in the future.

14 of yesterday's 20 EIWA finalists came from three schools: Lehigh, Cornell, and Princeton.

All but one champion (Scheidel) came from one of those three school.


14 of yesterday's 20 Big 12 finalists came from four schools: Oklahoma State, Northern Iowa, South Dakota State, and Wyoming

All champions came from one of those four schools.

 

[86PSUPaul]

There were 1,000 team points scored, 43% by the top three. Now granted, with advancement points they can’t all go to three teams, but when almost half are earned by three that shows something.

Interesting that according to PSWC both PSU and Iowa left a possible three points behind, due to the double forfeit for 6th place.

 

[Chickenman Testa]

that's the funniest post I've ever read! OMG ...

not long ago, the Hawks had 9 champs ... NINE ... and you want to give power back to the midwest? F that ... dominate from the East!

Exactly. It’s about time the real wrestling states started to dominate

 

[Conewago]

that's the funniest post I've ever read! OMG ...

not long ago, the Hawks had 9 champs ... NINE ... and you want to give power back to the midwest? F that ... dominate from the East!

Didn't say I wanted the Midwest to WIN, did I? But competition is a healthy thing. And right now Iowa, et al, aren't even competing.

Which makes for BORING wrestling like Sorensen not bothering to try to score against Zain....

And for that matter, if the other Big Ten schools had been able to do us a solid and beat a few Buckeyes, we might have won yesterday instead of OSU getting seven (!) finalists.

 

[nitlion6]

Didn't say I wanted the Midwest to WIN, did I? But competition is a healthy thing. And right now Iowa, et al, aren't even competing.

Which makes for BORING wrestling like Sorensen not bothering to try to score against Zain....

And for that matter, if the other Big Ten schools had been able to do us a solid and beat a few Buckeyes, we might have won yesterday instead of OSU getting seven (!) finalists.

I did not find the tournament nor the wrestling boring.

 

[El-Jefe]

I look forward to Ohio State having fewer champs.

But seriously: demographics say PSU and OSU should have the most champs, followed by Rutgers and Illinois, then by Michigan.

Resources add in Iowa, maybe Goofers and Nebraska.

 

[NoVa Lion]

I did not find the tournament nor the wrestling boring.

Absolutely agree, although there were individual matches were boring. Hayes running away from Zain comes to mind. Not sure what the point of the OP was but the top teams dominating a conference tournament is nothing new.

 

[Just another PSU Fan]

I believe in my GUT the B1G will dominate at the NCAAs, but I wouldn't count out OK State --- Picc has a better than an outside shot at winning 125, depends how the brax shake up. Big12 isn't 110% at 133, but Gross is in the drivers seat ... 141 is a great weight class for the Big 12 & EIWA

so,NCAA Champs coming from conference IMHO - don't hate me for my opinion
125 B1G
133 Big 12
141 EIWA
149 B1G
157 B1G
165 B1G
174 PAC12
184 B1G
197 B1G
285 B1G

that's 70% of the champions predicted to come from 1 conference ... I'm OKAY with that ...