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    Josh Lowe •

    Photo: Photo/Austin Bernard

    Lowe: Junior National Duals Overview

    The Junior National Duals kick off this morning at the Cox Business Center in Tulsa, Okla., with the Greco-Roman competition. Preliminary brackets (double elimination with possibility for true second place) will be contested today, four of them involving eight teams each, to create the round-robin pools for Thursday. The top two finishers in each preliminary bracket will advance to the championship pools, while there will be other pools for teams finishing in lower places this afternoon.

    Below are the opening round matchups for the Junior Greco-Roman Duals:

    Pool A: Illinois vs. Texas 2, Nebraska 2 vs. Pennsylvania; Ohio vs. North Dakota 2, Kansas 2 vs. Arizona

    Pool B: California 1 vs. Tennessee, Michigan 2 vs. Missouri; Colorado vs. Minnesota 2, Louisiana vs. Iowa

    Pool C: Utah vs. Indiana, North Carolina vs. Florida; Kansas 1 vs. North Dakota 1, Texas 1 vs. Washington

    Pool D: Oklahoma vs. Nebraska 1, South Carolina vs. Georgia; Michigan 1 vs. South Dakota, California 2 vs. Minnesota 1

    Michigan is the defending champion in Greco-Roman, as they bested Oklahoma in last year's championship match. However, the top seed for this year's tournament is Illinois; and an analysis of the entered rosters would suggest that they are the favorites.

    Tomorrow, the round-robin pools will be as follows: A1, B2, C2, D1; A2, B1, C1, D2.

    Placement matches will be cross-pool, which means the champion of each pool will meet for first place, and so forth.

    Joe Smith picked up a key technical fall shutout for Oklahoma in last year's Junior National Duals championship match (Photo/Austin Bernard, OklahomaWrestling.com)
    The main event of the tournament is the freestyle competition, which will be held on Friday and Saturday. It is one of the must follow events on the wrestling calendar, with the caliber of wrestler taking to the mats. Again, preliminary brackets on Friday, with championship pools on Saturday. In the freestyle event, the host Oklahoma is your defending champion, as they upended Minnesota in last year's final.

    Close to 50 wrestlers that are (or were in the case of the Class of 2015) ranked within their respective grade levels will be taking to the mat in the freestyle competition. That is of course subject to change with the registration/check-in for freestyle not taking place until Thursday evening. Those grade-level ranked wrestlers sorted by state:

    Arizona: Roman Bravo-Young (113)

    Illinois: Dylan Duncan (132), Austin O'Connor (145), Isaiah White (160), Jacob Warner (170), Kamal Bey (170), Eric Schultz (195), Austin Marsden (220)

    Iowa: Brock Rathbun (126), Cash Wilcke (195), Ethan Andersen (220), Carter Isley (285)

    Kansas: Jon Trowbridge (138)

    Michigan: Ian Parker (126), Ben Freeman (132), Lincoln Olson (132), Brandon Whitman (182), Trent Hillger (220)

    Minnesota: Mitch McKee (132), Brady Berge (152), Owen Webster (182), Keegan Moore (195), Gable Steveson (220)

    Missouri: Canten Marriott (160)

    New Jersey: Matthew Kolodzik (138), Kyle Bierdumpfel (145), Jordan Kutler (152), David McFadden (160), Joe Grello (170), Kevin Mulligan (195), Chase Singletary (195)

    Ohio: Ben Darmstadt (182), Kevin Vough (285)

    Oklahoma: Dalton Duffield (120), Montorie Bridges (120), Daton Fix (120), Kaden Gfeller (126), Kaid Brock (132), Boo Lewallen (138), Wyatt Sheets (152), Joe Smith (160)

    Pennsylvania: Jared Verkleeren (145), Hayden Hidlay (152)

    Tennessee: Michael Murphy (138)

    Utah: Taylor LaMont (132), Wyatt Koelling (195)

    Washington:Tate Orndorff (285)
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