[pin2win]

Ranked Teams:

No. 1 Iowa
No. 7 Illinois
No. 10 Lehigh
No. 11 Oklahoma
No. 13 Maryland
No. 14 Virginia Tech
No. 16 Rutgers
No. 17 Northwestern
No. 19 Central Michigan
No. 22 Penn
No. 24 American


Non Ranked Teams:

Bakersfield
Bucknell
Cal Poly
Cal State
Clarion
Eastern Michigan
Edinboro
Harvard
Iowa State
North Dakota State
Northern Illinois
Northern Iowa
Princeton
Purdue
Rider, South Dakota State
Stanford
Utah Valley
Wisconsin

[pumpdog20]

VT is doing both Midlands and Southern Scuffle? OK St. skipping both? Same with OSU. Good overall tournament, though the SS is more top heavy.

[AFHawk86]

There are some great individual match ups at Midlands this year! The top seed at each weight is ranked in the top 3 (assuming these teams show up and no one is injured).

[AFHawk86]

Here are the seeds using Intermat rankings. Assumes everyone wrestles at their ranked weights. Injuries will change this a bit, as I know Dong is out for the season. All top seeds are ranked in the top 3!

125
1. McD Iowa
2. Patterson Oklahoma
3. Delgado Illinois
4. Mele NW
5. Finch ISU
6. Sprenkle ND State
7. Roth CMU
8. Germaine East Mich
9. Iwamura CS Bakersfield

133
1. Ramos Iowa
2. Futrell Illinois
3. Carter VT
4. Quiroga Purdue
5. Schopp Edinboro
6. Keith Harvard
7. Mango Stanford
8. Keller Oklahoma
9. Ortenzio Penn

141
1. Marion Iowa
2. Kemmerer Penn
3. Novachkov Cal Poly
4. Dutton Lehigh
5. Maple Oklahoma
6. Mariacher American
7. Port Edinboro

149
1. Mason Rutgers
2. Terrazas Illinois
3. Lopouchanski Purdue
4. Schmitt Wisconsin
5. Habat Edinboro
6. Lester Oklahoma
7. Wilson Utah Valley

157
1. DSJ Iowa
2. Welch NW
3. Sanjaa American
4. Dong VT
5. Fleming Clarion
6. Peppelman Harvard
7. Lester Oklahoma
8. John Maryland
9. Monk ND State

165
1. Asper Maryland
2. Sorenson ISU
3. Winston Rutgers
4. Abdurakhmanov Clarion
5. Hatchett Lehigh
6. Yates VT
7. Evans Iowa
8. Jordan Wisconsin

174
1. Amuchastegui Stanford
2. DesRoches Cal Poly
3. Spangler ISU
4. Lofthouse Iowa
5. Blanton Illinois
6. Resnick Rider
7. Munster NW
8. Zannetti Rutgers
9. Sheptock Maryland

184
1. Hamlin Lehigh
2. Gambrall Iowa
3. Loder UNI
4. Bennett CMU
5. Beard ISU
6. Schmidtke Oklahoma
7. Dickehaus N. Ill

197
1. Honeycutt Edinboro
2. Kennedy Lehigh
3. Burak Penn
4. Boley Maryland
5. Mitchell American
6. Kissel Purdue
7. Gonzalez Illinois
8. Thomas Clarion

Hwt
1. Flores American
2. Rey Lehigh
3. Sturgeon CMU
4. Telford Iowa
5. Myers Maryland
6. Disney Cal Poly
7. Gibson ISU

[Hawkeye11en1]

Good stuff. Will there be any stream for this? Wonder if I can watch it somehow...

[AFHawk86]

The finals will be on BTN. I doubt any other video will be streamed for this event. BTN doesn't work well with others.

[DrZiodberg]

Great read up thank you fellas. Would love to see our guys win this time around. To good health! Cheers
Go Hawks!

[HerkeyHawk]

Originally Posted by AFHawk86

The finals will be on BTN. I doubt any other video will be streamed for this event. BTN doesn't work well with others.

I'm sure you have no clue AF, but do you think BTDN would show the rest of the tournament by chance?

[AFHawk86]

Herkey - I don't know for certain, but I highly doubt it. I've emailed Coach Pariano at NW the past two years and I understand he's frustrated they haven't been able to make this work. I've also asked people much closer to these processes than I am, and I haven't gotten a positive response (i.e. they're frustrated as well).

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news...but maybe we'll be pleasantly surprised.

[HerkeyHawk]

Originally Posted by AFHawk86

Herkey - I don't know for certain, but I highly doubt it. I've emailed Coach Pariano at NW the past two years and I understand he's frustrated they haven't been able to make this work. I've also asked people much closer to these processes than I am, and I haven't gotten a positive response (i.e. they're frustrated as well).

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news...but maybe we'll be pleasantly surprised.

Dang, I figured as much. Thanks anyway!

[brett108]

Originally Posted by AFHawk86

The finals will be on BTN. I doubt any other video will be streamed for this event. BTN doesn't work well with others.

These matches have usually ended up on flowrestling after the fact. that not going to be the case this year?

[AFHawk86]

Originally Posted by brett108

These matches have usually ended up on flowrestling after the fact. that not going to be the case this year?

Not if BTN has any say in the matter. Lots of wrestling video can be found on the internet, but some of it isn't legal. I don't know how hard BTN pressures flo about this issue, but I do know they have repeatedly refused to let others provide coverage of B1G events--even when BTN is not providing coverage. I'm certain that if enough $$ was offered BTN would allow other organizations/individuals to show video.

[AFHawk86]

Here's my prediction on who Iowa will bring to Midlands (18 total):

125 McD
133 Clark, Ramos
141 M. Ballweg, Marion
149 J. Ballweg, Grothus, Kelly
157 DSJ
165 N. Moore, Evans
174 Lofthouse
184 Fahler, Wagner
197 Gambrall, Lira
Hwt Rasing, Telford

[pumpdog20]

So basically we're not going to be surprised with how well Carew does in March?

[AFHawk86]

Pumpdog - for some reason Carew doesn't appear to be in the discussion any longer. Brands mentioned every 149lber candidate but him in recent interviews. Also, I read that he re-injured his knee although I don't know if that's true. Would love for him to be in the mix as I've heard lots of great things about his style and ability...but at this point it doesn't seem likely.