EIWA Seed Guesses/Interactive Bracket

[bracketbuster]

Again, I am just a nobody wrestling fan so feel free to let me know where you think I went wrong. I will also add the caveat that I did this based primarily on head-to-head within the conference and the EIWA seems to have a different formula so I would not be shocked if some are drastically different but figured it would be fun anyway.

EIWA Interactive Brackets

Interactive Brackets: use the interactive brackets using the following letters: D, M, T, F (decision, major, tech, fall).

Seed changes: You can change those seeds on the 125R, 133R, 141R, etc. sheets and it will automatically update the team predictions based off of seeds with no bonus factored in.

125 lbs.
#1 Luke Stanich (LEH) (15-3, 2-0 EIWA): 5 WS
#2 Brett Ungar (COR) (15-6, 7-1 EIWA): 20 WS
#3 Diego Sotelo (HAR) (21-7, 5-3 EIWA): 25 WS
#4 Jack Maida (AMER) (13-2, 1-1 EIWA): 31 WS
#5 Ethan Bergnic (ARMY) (20-8, 4-1 EIWA): 32 WS
#6 Drew Heethuis (PRIN) (15-10, 5-3 EIWA): 49 WS
#7 Nick Babin (COL) (15-12, 5-3 EIWA): 22 WS
#8 Max Gallagher (PENN) (16-6, 3-3 EIWA): 28 WS
#9 Desmond Pleasant (DREX) (19-14, 5-3 EIWA): 50 WS
#10 Michael Joyce (BRWN) (4-5, 2-4 EIWA): 54 WS
#11 Carson Wagner (BING) (17-15, 5-7 EIWA): 55 WS
#12 Dylan Acevedo (HOF) (7-14, 2-2 EIWA): 64 WS
#13 Robbie Sagaris (LIU) (11-12, 2-6 EIWA): 56 WS
#14 Jake Ice (SH) (7-5, 1-2 EIWA): 63 WS
#15 Dayton DelViscio (NAVY) (8-12, 0-4 EIWA): 65 WS
#16 Eric Howe (F&M) (7-15, 0-4 EIWA): 69 WS
#17 Grayson McLellan (BUCK) (0-12, 0-2 EIWA): 77 WS

133 lbs.
#1 Ryan Crookham (LEH) (15-0, 4-0 EIWA): 3 WS
#2 Vito Arujau (COR) (10-1, 6-1 EIWA): 1 WS
#3 Michael Colaiocco (PENN) (15-8, 5-4 EIWA): 13 WS
#4 Kurt Phipps (BUCK) (22-3, 3-1 EIWA): 25 WS
#5 Angelo Rini (COL) (8-3, 0-0 EIWA): 29 WS
#6 Mason Leiphart (F&M) (22-9, 6-5 EIWA): 19 WS
#7 Braden Basile (ARMY) (19-11, 2-1 EIWA): 38 WS
#8 Micah Roes (BING) (22-9, 6-3 EIWA): 37 WS
#9 Andrew Fallon (SH) (14-3, 2-1 EIWA): 47 WS
#10 Sean Pierson (PRIN) (14-12, 3-3 EIWA): 36 WS
#11 Coleman Nogle (HAR) (17-15, 3-8 EIWA): 42 WS
#12 Brendan Ferretti (NAVY) (10-9, 2-4 EIWA): 34 WS
#13 Max Leete (AMER) (14-9, 0-2 EIWA): 54 WS
#14 Hunter Adrian (BRWN) (12-13, 1-5 EIWA): 59 WS
#15 John Hildebrandt (DREX) (12-10, 4-3 EIWA): 50 WS
#16 Dylan Ryder (HOF) (12-10, 0-3 EIWA): 55 WS
#17 Kaelen Francois (LIU) (2-11, 0-3 EIWA): 72 WS

141 lbs.
#1 Josh Koderhandt (NAVY) (18-6, 5-1 EIWA): 4 WS
#2 Vince Cornella (COR) (13-7, 4-0 EIWA): 14 WS
#3 Malyke Hines (LEH) (15-5, 8-2 EIWA): 19 WS
#4 CJ Composto (PENN) (17-7, 4-2 EIWA): 25 WS
#5 Dylan Chappell (BUCK) (18-8, 4-2 EIWA): 39 WS
#6 Pat Phillips (F&M) (21-10, 7-1 EIWA): 34 WS
#7 Devin Matthews (LIU) (16-10, 5-1 EIWA): 54 WS
#8 Jordan Soriano (DREX) (18-8, 5-2 EIWA): 52 WS
#9 Michael Jaffe (HAR) (5-5, 2-2 EIWA): 43 WS
#10 Logan Brown (ARMY) (20-11, 3-4 EIWA): 47 WS
#11 Nathan Lucier (BING) (14-11, 2-5 EIWA): 58 WS
#12 Kai Owen (COL) (14-9, 2-3 EIWA): 30 WS
#13 Tyler Vazquez (PRIN) (10-13, 1-7 EIWA): 49 WS
#14 Ian Oswalt (BRWN) (11-16, 1-8 EIWA): 57 WS
#15 Vincent Milazzo (SH) (10-16, 0-4 EIWA): 68 WS
#16 Cael McIntyre (AMER) (7-13, 0-4 EIWA): 73 WS
#17 Alex Turley (HOF) (7-18, 0-5 EIWA): 70 WS

149 lbs.
#1 Ethan Fernandez (COR) (19-7, 7-0 EIWA): 16 WS
#2 Jude Swisher (PENN) (21-6, 3-1 EIWA): 9 WS
#3 Matthew Williams (ARMY) (23-7, 5-2 EIWA): 37 WS
#4 Kelvin Griffin (LEH) (22-11, 5-3 EIWA): 18 WS
#5 Jack Crook (HAR) (13-7, 4-3 EIWA): 39 WS
#6 Eligh Rivera (PRIN) (14-10, 3-4 EIWA): 26 WS
#7 Dominic Findora (DREX) (21-10, 4-0 EIWA): 38 WS
#8 Riley Bower (BUCK) (11-12, 3-3 EIWA): 66 WS
#9 Richard Fedalen (COL) (6-13, 2-4 EIWA): 57 WS
#10 Jack Nies (AMER) (6-6, 0-2 EIWA): 58 WS
#11 Kaemen Smith (NAVY) (22-11, 1-1 EIWA): 36 WS
#12 Drew Witham (LIU) (11-15, 4-3 EIWA): 63 WS
#13 Noah Tapia (HOF) (20-13, 2-2 EIWA): 47 WS
#14 Michael Zarif (BING) (8-11, 1-3 EIWA): 68 WS
#15 Josh Hillard (F&M) (12-16, 1-4 EIWA): 61 WS
#16 Sam McMonagle (BRWN) (2-9, 1-6 EIWA): 71 WS
#17 Mike McGhee (SH) (4-9, 0-5 EIWA): 76 WS

157 lbs.
#1 Meyer Shapiro (COR) (19-2, 6-0 EIWA): 1 WS
#2 Lucas Revano (PENN) (19-8, 5-2 EIWA): 21 WS
#3 Max Brignola (LEH) (17-6, 5-2 EIWA): 25 WS
#4 Nathan Lukez (ARMY) (23-9, 4-1 EIWA): 29 WS
#5 Blake Saito (BRWN) (19-10, 5-2 EIWA): 36 WS
#6 Jaden Le (COL) (9-10, 1-1 EIWA): 49 WS
#7 Jonathan Ley (NAVY) (8-9, 2-2 EIWA): 50 WS
#8 Rocco Camillaci (PRIN) (13-14, 3-5 EIWA): 57 WS
#9 Jimmy Harrington (HAR) (10-9, 2-5 EIWA): 53 WS
#10 Tyler Williams (DREX) (12-16, 5-4 EIWA): 56 WS
#11 Carter Baer (BING) (14-15, 1-6 EIWA): 61 WS
#12 Rhise Royster (LIU) (12-14, 3-3 EIWA): 62 WS
#13 Jurius Clark (HOF) (12-7, 1-2 EIWA): 60 WS
#14 Ethan Szerencsits (AMER) (4-5, 0-0 EIWA): 63 WS
#15 Aiden Davis (BUCK) (9-12, 0-2 EIWA): 58 WS
#16 Dominic Wheatley (F&M) (4-13, 1-3 EIWA): 73 WS
#17 Connor MacDonald (SH) (5-8, 0-4 EIWA): 76 WS

165 lbs.
#1 Julian Ramirez (COR) (18-2, 4-0 EIWA): 4 WS
#2 Andrew Cerniglia (NAVY) (19-4, 4-1 EIWA): 15 WS
#3 Brevin Cassella (BING) (24-6, 7-1 EIWA): 17 WS
#4 Jake Logan (LEH) (8-9, 2-4 EIWA): 38 WS
#5 Noah Mulvaney (BUCK) (25-4, 4-1 EIWA): 20 WS
#6 Gunner Filipowicz (ARMY) (21-7, 2-2 EIWA): 19 WS
#7 Cody Walsh (DREX) (23-9, 5-2 EIWA): 37 WS
#8 Jake Slotnick (HOF) (10-10, 2-2 EIWA): 63 WS
#9 James Johnston (LIU) (10-15, 3-2 EIWA): 67 WS
#10 Kaya Sement (PENN) (13-12, 1-5 EIWA): 42 WS
#11 Joshua Kim (HAR) (13-7, 3-4 EIWA): 40 WS
#12 Blaine Bergey (PRIN) (12-12, 2-6 EIWA): 50 WS
#13 Kyle Mosher (COL) (10-9, 3-2 EIWA): 28 WS
#14 Keegan Rothrock (BRWN) (6-13, 2-5 EIWA): 59 WS
#15 Josh Palmucci (F&M) (12-16, 1-3 EIWA): 72 WS
#16 Calvin Pineda (SH) (7-15, 0-3 EIWA): 77 WS
#17 Ryan Zimmerman (AMER) (8-18, 0-2 EIWA): 71 WS

174 lbs.
#1 Phillip Conigliaro (HAR) (20-1, 6-0 EIWA): 8 WS
#2 Nick Incontrera (PENN) (21-3, 5-1 EIWA): 6 WS
#3 Lennox Wilcox (COL) (11-5, 5-2 EIWA): 13 WS
#4 Ben Pasiuk (ARMY) (17-4, 6-1 EIWA): 11 WS
#5 Danny Wask (NAVY) (20-9, 6-1 EIWA): 18 WS
#6 Noah Fox (F&M) (25-8, 5-0 EIWA): 36 WS
#7 Myles Takats (BUCK) (21-11, 5-3 EIWA): 32 WS
#8 Connor Herceg (LEH) (7-6, 2-4 EIWA): 52 WS
#9 Benny Baker (COR) (15-11, 1-3 EIWA): 40 WS
#10 Ross McFarland (HOF) (12-6, 2-3 EIWA): 42 WS
#11 Jack Janda (DREX) (16-11, 3-6 EIWA): 53 WS
#12 Dimitri Gamkrelidze (BING) (16-12, 3-6 EIWA): 46 WS
#13 Jonathan Conrad (BRWN) (13-13, 1-4 EIWA): 57 WS
#14 Mikey Squires (PRIN) (10-12, 0-5 EIWA): 65 WS
#15 Lucas White (AMER) (11-12, 0-5 EIWA): 61 WS
#16 Corey Connolly (LIU) (8-12, 1-4 EIWA): 55 WS
#17 Owen Ayotte (SH) (1-13, 0-3 EIWA): 76 WS

184 lbs.
#1 Chris Foca (COR) (17-4, 6-2 EIWA): 4 WS
#2 Jacob Nolan (BING) (20-4, 6-1 EIWA): 22 WS
#3 James Conway (F&M) (26-7, 5-3 EIWA): 28 WS
#4 Nate Dugan (PRIN) (19-6, 6-2 EIWA): 19 WS
#5 Max Hale (PENN) (19-5, 4-4 EIWA): 21 WS
#6 Aaron Ayzerov (COL) (15-9, 5-2 EIWA): 9 WS
#7 David Key (NAVY) (13-10, 4-1 EIWA): 31 WS
#8 Michael Bartusch (BUCK) (20-9, 3-4 EIWA): 41 WS
#9 Leonardo Tarantino (HAR) (9-8, 2-4 EIWA): 51 WS
#10 Anthony D'Alesio (LIU) (16-11, 6-4 EIWA): 32 WS
#11 Jack Wilt (LEH) (12-11, 2-7 EIWA): 46 WS
#12 Ethan Wilson (DREX) (10-7, 0-1 EIWA): 53 WS
#13 Daniel Lawrence (ARMY) (9-12, 0-3 EIWA): 69 WS
#14 Connor Bourne (AMER) (8-9, 0-1 EIWA): 62 WS
#15 Will Conlon (HOF) (8-14, 1-5 EIWA): 64 WS
#16 Colby Isabelle (BRWN) (1-7, 1-3 EIWA): 65 WS
#17 Hunter Perez (SH) (4-7, 0-4 EIWA): 67 WS

197 lbs.
#1 Michael Beard (LEH) (22-1, 8-0 EIWA): 3 WS
#2 Louie DePrez (BING) (19-1, 6-1 EIWA): 5 WS
#3 Jacob Cardenas (COR) (19-5, 4-2 EIWA): 7 WS
#4 Luke Stout (PRIN) (18-5, 3-4 EIWA): 14 WS
#5 Cole Urbas (PENN) (13-8, 4-3 EIWA): 28 WS
#6 John Crawford (F&M) (20-9, 5-0 EIWA): 29 WS
#7 Jack Wehmeyer (COL) (17-9, 5-2 EIWA): 30 WS
#8 Logan Deacetis (BUCK) (17-11, 5-2 EIWA): 31 WS
#9 Cael Crebs (NAVY) (7-8, 2-1 EIWA): 47 WS
#10 Wolfgang Frable (ARMY) (13-16, 3-9 EIWA): 48 WS
#11 Ibrahim Ameer (DREX) (12-14, 5-5 EIWA): 51 WS
#12 Nikolas Miller (HOF) (9-14, 2-3 EIWA): 50 WS
#13 John Dusza (LIU) (13-11, 3-6 EIWA): 46 WS
#14 Liam Volk-Klos (AMER) (10-15, 0-5 EIWA): 67 WS
#15 Alex Whitworth (HAR) (4-11, 2-5 EIWA): 63 WS
#16 Lear Quinton (BRWN) (2-12, 1-4 EIWA): 74 WS
#17 Jake Trovato (SH) (3-13, 0-6 EIWA): 75 WS

285 lbs.
#1 Nathan Taylor (LEH) (19-3, 7-0 EIWA): 7 WS
#2 Cory Day (BING) (22-5, 9-1 EIWA): 13 WS
#3 Grady Griess (NAVY) (20-8, 4-3 EIWA): 16 WS
#4 Keaton Kluever (HOF) (13-3, 4-1 EIWA): 18 WS
#5 Lewis Fernandes (COR) (17-9, 5-3 EIWA): 14 WS
#6 Lucas Stoddard (ARMY) (21-11, 4-5 EIWA): 29 WS
#7 Dorian Crosby (BUCK) (20-8, 6-3 EIWA): 25 WS
#8 Matthew Cover (PRIN) (13-7, 4-6 EIWA): 32 WS
#9 Vincent Mueller (COL) (14-10, 1-2 EIWA): 43 WS
#10 John Stout (PENN) (13-10, 3-2 EIWA): 52 WS
#11 William Jarrell (AMER) (16-13, 2-4 EIWA): 35 WS
#12 Alex Semenenko (BRWN) (9-13, 2-6 EIWA): 58 WS
#13 Santino Morina (DREX) (11-14, 2-7 EIWA): 62 WS
#14 Aeden Begue (LIU) (12-9, 4-3 EIWA): 65 WS
#15 Harrison Shapiro (F&M) (4-14, 0-3 EIWA): 73 WS
#16 Nick Marcenelle (HAR) (1-4, 1-2 EIWA): 66 WS
#17 Marc Berisha (SH) (1-12, 0-7 EIWA): 75 WS

Team Standings (Based on seeds; no bonus projections)
1. Cornell - 143
2. Lehigh - 129
3. Penn - 92.5
4. Navy - 68.5
5. Army - 67
6. Binghamton - 64
7. Bucknell - 54.5
8. Columbia - 50
9. Princeton - 49
10. Franklin & Marshall - 48
11. Harvard - 44.5
12. Hofstra - 19
13. Drexel - 18.5
14. American - 14
15. Brown - 13
16. LIU - 8.5
17. Sacred Heart - 2

[FanOfPurdueWrestling]

17 schools in the EIWA is nuts. Seems that getting rid of the ivy schools will just share wealth and hopefully encourage Dartmouth and Yale to get on board with wrestling.

[bracketbuster]

1 hour ago, FanOfPurdueWrestling said:

17 schools in the EIWA is nuts. Seems that getting rid of the ivy schools will just share wealth and hopefully encourage Dartmouth and Yale to get on board with wrestling.

It will be interesting if the EIWA schools start to schedule more conference duals or develop a conference schedule when they have 11 schools as opposed to right now where it looks like teams just choose who they want to wrestle based on how they view themselves competitively.

I know Kenny Monday (Morgan State HC) said in an interview after the Penn match that they would like to get in the EIWA based on geography and they have wrestled a lot of those schools this year. I feel like Morgan State fits better with the MAC from a school profile but we will see. Although, the MAC though will have more teams (13 - 11) than the EIWA after this year with Morgan State a TBD.

I believe Bellarmine is already accepted into the SoCon and it seems obvious to me on geography and that they are in the same conference (Atlantic Sun) in other sports as Bellarmine that the SoCon would also be the fit for Queens College which would give the SoCon 10 schools. I think those are the only three schools who are not in a conference or eligible for the NCAA Tournament this year but are "moving into" the Division I ranks. Now I just got angry because I remembered Lindenwood who probably could have also slid into the MAC or even opened the possibility for the MAC to split and give those schools more a chance to compete for NCAA Tournament spots.

[Red Blades]

Great pass at this, Bracketbuster!  I think EIWA has to be just nuts to try and seed - so many wrestlers, and so often no head-to-head or even common opponents.

I'm going to miss this tournament after this year...

[FanOfPurdueWrestling]

14 hours ago, bracketbuster said:

It will be interesting if the EIWA schools start to schedule more conference duals or develop a conference schedule when they have 11 schools as opposed to right now where it looks like teams just choose who they want to wrestle based on how they view themselves competitively.

I know Kenny Monday (Morgan State HC) said in an interview after the Penn match that they would like to get in the EIWA based on geography and they have wrestled a lot of those schools this year. I feel like Morgan State fits better with the MAC from a school profile but we will see. Although, the MAC though will have more teams (13 - 11) than the EIWA after this year with Morgan State a TBD.

I believe Bellarmine is already accepted into the SoCon and it seems obvious to me on geography and that they are in the same conference (Atlantic Sun) in other sports as Bellarmine that the SoCon would also be the fit for Queens College which would give the SoCon 10 schools. I think those are the only three schools who are not in a conference or eligible for the NCAA Tournament this year but are "moving into" the Division I ranks. Now I just got angry because I remembered Lindenwood who probably could have also slid into the MAC or even opened the possibility for the MAC to split and give those schools more a chance to compete for NCAA Tournament spots.

That does suck about Lindenwood, but they weren’t D1 yet and appeared to be less than competitive so far. There are much bigger schools that screwed over wrestling for worse reasons imo.

 

It’ll be interesting to see how it all shakes out with conferences. I think being competitive at a conference level is more important (at least until they get better) than on a national level to these smaller teams. Less EIWA teams allows them to share the wealth and the Ivys can have their tournament to get autoqualifiers. 

[FanOfPurdueWrestling]

2 hours ago, Red Blades said:

Great pass at this, Bracketbuster!  I think EIWA has to be just nuts to try and seed - so many wrestlers, and so often no head-to-head or even common opponents.

I'm going to miss this tournament after this year...

It’ll still be around and plus then you get another tournament, the battle of the nerds! 

[Elevator]

5 minutes ago, FanOfPurdueWrestling said:

It’ll still be around and plus then you get another tournament, the battle of the nerds! 

hurtful

[Elevator]

15 hours ago, FanOfPurdueWrestling said:

17 schools in the EIWA is nuts. Seems that getting rid of the ivy schools will just share wealth and hopefully encourage Dartmouth and Yale to get on board with wrestling.

would it were

I think the chance of Dartmouth is extremely low

[FanOfPurdueWrestling]

8 minutes ago, Elevator said:

would it were

I think the chance of Dartmouth is extremely low

Why’s that? I’m purely talking out my ass, but it would make sense having their own tournament would encourage the others to create a team. It’s not like they don’t have the money. 

[FanOfPurdueWrestling]

1 minute ago, FanOfPurdueWrestling said:

Why’s that? I’m purely talking out my ass, but it would make sense having their own tournament would encourage the others to create a team. It’s not like they don’t have the money. 

I just looked. They sponsor Squash for godsake, some schools are so dumb with the sports they choose and don’t choose to sponsor.

[FanOfPurdueWrestling]

2 minutes ago, FanOfPurdueWrestling said:

I just looked. They sponsor Squash for godsake, some schools are so dumb with the sports they choose and don’t choose to sponsor.

Last time I’ll quote myself. In 2020 they cut Men’s and women’s swimming and diving, men’s and women’s golf, and men’s lightweight rowing.

 

I now see wrestling as a far off pipe dream.

 

but Yale…. Let’s get those dweebs wrestling. 

[Elevator]

2 minutes ago, FanOfPurdueWrestling said:

Why’s that? I’m purely talking out my ass, but it would make sense having their own tournament would encourage the others to create a team. It’s not like they don’t have the money. 

smaller school, NH and New England are not hotbeds of wrestling, doubt they are interested in funding the infrastructure or annual budget or that any alums are pushing for it.  Dartmouth has not had wrestling in a very long time - unlike Yale that had it until the 1980's.  Some of the reasons I think they would not add it.

[Show_Me]

On 2/27/2024 at 3:04 PM, FanOfPurdueWrestling said:

That does suck about Lindenwood, but they weren’t D1 yet and appeared to be less than competitive so far.

How competitive did you expect them to be while transitioning to D1 ? 

What a terrible uninformed take.

[FanOfPurdueWrestling]

3 minutes ago, Show_Me said:

How competitive did you expect them to be while transitioning to D1 ? 

What a terrible uninformed take.

I didn’t expect them to be competitive, obviously it requires growth. But also it’s not like we lost a perennial powerhouse. 
 

I may have been mean to the Lindenwood team, but I didn’t say anything incorrect. 

[gimpeltf]

Actual preseeds will be released publicly by tomorrow. By preseeds I mean there might be replacements after that. Coaches checking them out as we speak.

[ugarles]

 

On 2/27/2024 at 4:04 PM, FanOfPurdueWrestling said:

It’ll be interesting to see how it all shakes out with conferences. I think being competitive at a conference level is more important (at least until they get better) than on a national level to these smaller teams. Less EIWA teams allows them to share the wealth and the Ivys can have their tournament to get autoqualifiers. 

Was curious about the Ivy/non-Ivy split in allocations and, using @SetonHallPirate as a reference, this is what I get: 

125: Ivy 2, Non 3
133: Ivy 2, Non 3
141: Ivy 2, Non 2
149: Ivy 2, Non 2
157: Ivy 2, Non 1
165: Ivy 1, Non 4
174: Ivy 3, Non 3
184: Ivy 4, Non 3
197: Ivy 3, Non 3
285: Ivy 2, Non 6

Both sides of the split earned allocations at every weight. I think both sides are going to be fine but I'm still going to miss the big conference when my little six-team cluster holds a one-day tournament (but maybe a little less if they hold it close to my house more often than EIWA did).

Edited March 4 by ugarles

[ugarles]

On 2/26/2024 at 11:31 PM, bracketbuster said:

Again, I am just a nobody wrestling fan so feel free to let me know where you think I went wrong...

#2 Jude Swisher (PENN) (21-6, 3-1 EIWA): 9 WS

Honestly, this is really the only big one (though I expect more will be wrong because you aren't Rain Man. 

I don't think EIWA will consider his record at 157, so his resume is going to be thin. This is probably not wrong about where he would be ranked non-statistically, but his seeding will probably take a hit from the late-season weight change.

[jdalu75]

On 2/26/2024 at 11:31 PM, bracketbuster said:

Again, I am just a nobody wrestling fan

I was like that, then they made me the EIWA SID.  Keep posting and annoying people, it can happen to you.

[jdalu75]

4 hours ago, ugarles said:

Honestly, this is really the only big one (though I expect more will be wrong because you aren't Rain Man. 

I don't think EIWA will consider his record at 157, so his resume is going to be thin. This is probably not wrong about where he would be ranked non-statistically, but his seeding will probably take a hit from the late-season weight change.

I haven't been involved with the EIWA seeding since 2022, which means I probably wouldn't recognize the current process if I saw it.  Looking at the 2022 process and assuming that they've just changed some details (weightings of criteria, not the criteria themselves) though, Swisher might receive a decent seed.

Quality wins (over someone appearing in the CP or RPI rankings) -- Swisher has beaten Crook and Rivera.

Final CP Ranking -- he's 28th, which is worth a few points.

Final RPI Ranking -- nope.

Div I win % at weight -- Swisher has the best WP of anyone at this weight.  Doesn't matter that it's just 9 bouts.

Earned an allocation for the conference -- yep.  Remember when we were thinking that the EIWA would have just one spot at 149 (maybe you had to read the Lehigh forum)?  Got four now.

Just a guess -- he draws the 4th or 5th seed.  Whoever gets #1 (Ethan Fernandez?) should begin reviewing video of Swisher's bouts.

[BigRedFan]

26 minutes ago, jdalu75 said:

I haven't been involved with the EIWA seeding since 2022, which means I probably wouldn't recognize the current process if I saw it.  Looking at the 2022 process and assuming that they've just changed some details (weightings of criteria, not the criteria themselves) though, Swisher might receive a decent seed.

Quality wins (over someone appearing in the CP or RPI rankings) -- Swisher has beaten Crook and Rivera.

Final CP Ranking -- he's 28th, which is worth a few points.

Final RPI Ranking -- nope.

Div I win % at weight -- Swisher has the best WP of anyone at this weight.  Doesn't matter that it's just 9 bouts.

Earned an allocation for the conference -- yep.  Remember when we were thinking that the EIWA would have just one spot at 149 (maybe you had to read the Lehigh forum)?  Got four now.

Just a guess -- he draws the 4th or 5th seed.  Whoever gets #1 (Ethan Fernandez?) should begin reviewing video of Swisher's bouts.

Fernandez is the guy who beat Swisher, and yes, he should review that match!

[Elevator]

15 hours ago, BigRedFan said:

Fernandez is the guy who beat Swisher, and yes, he should review that match!

it was a close match if memory serves

[ugarles]

7 minutes ago, Elevator said:

it was a close match if memory serves

7-6 or 8-7. i think fernandez had the early lead and held on.

[Quaker118]

7 minutes ago, ugarles said:

7-6 or 8-7. i think fernandez had the early lead and held on.

8-7. Swisher coming on strong at the end. 125 should be very entertaining. 5 spots qualified and Gallagher missed by 1 win. 8 competitive guys anything can happen. I think 125 is one of the most entertaining weights ever in the NCAA. We are all looking forward to lots of upsets. 

[BigRedFan]

8 minutes ago, ugarles said:

7-6 or 8-7. i think fernandez had the early lead and held on.

This.  Fernandez got the first two takedowns, was in deep about three more times, and gave up a very late takedown.  The ref failed to give Fernandez back points on the first takedown.  Swisher really only had that one TD attempt the whole match, it seemed.

[gimpeltf]

Preseeds released to EIWAsite

 

https://eiwawrestling.org/sports/wrest/2023-24/releases/20240305kn3fa2