Highest Seeded Team Of All Time

[Wrestleknownothing]

Right now PSU has ten top 7 wrestlers in both Intermat and Flo. If their ranks wound up being their seeds I have to believe this is the highest seeded team ever (sum of seeds = 33 on Intermat and 32 on Flo).

I started looking at seeding for the era after we locked into 10 weights and 12 seeds (1970 - present) to see if this year's PSU team has a shot at being the highest seeded team ever. To qualify a team has to have sent all 10 wrestlers.

Last year's PSU squad had a seed total of 40 (1, 10, 2, 7, 1, 2, 9, 6, 1, 1).

I took a look at some of the old greats and the closest I found was 1985 Iowa. But there is a complication. One of their ten was unseeded. Seeds went to 12 that year. The other nine had a total of 25 (8, 1, 3, 2, 2, 1, 2, 5, 1).

So if you assume 13 or 14 for the unseeded wrestler then 1985 Iowa beats out 2024 PSU.

Assume 15 and it is a tie. Anything higher goes to PSU.

So probably PSU.

Can anyone think of a team seeded better overall than either of those two teams? I didn't feel like going through all the brackets, so I thought I would crowd source.

[ionel]

5 minutes ago, Wrestleknownothing said:

Right now PSU has ten top 7 wrestlers in both Intermat and Flo. If their ranks wound up being their seeds I have to believe this is the highest seeded team ever (sum of seeds = 33 on Intermat and 32 on Flo).

I started looking at seeding for the era after we locked into 10 weights and 12 seeds (1970 - present) to see if this year's PSU team has a shot at being the highest seeded team ever. To qualify a team has to have sent all 10 wrestlers.

Last year's PSU squad had a seed total of 40 (1, 10, 2, 7, 1, 2, 9, 6, 1, 1).

I took a look at some of the old greats and the closest I found was 1985 Iowa. But there is a complication. One of their ten was unseeded. Seeds went to 12 that year. The other nine had a total of 25 (8, 1, 3, 2, 2, 1, 2, 5, 1).

So if you assume 13 or 14 for the unseeded wrestler then 1985 Iowa beats out 2024 PSU.

Assume 15 and it is a tie. Anything higher goes to PSU.

So probably PSU.

Can anyone think of a team seeded better overall than either of those two teams? I didn't feel like going through all the brackets, so I thought I would crowd source.

Maybe check the seeds in 1928.  

[jchapman]

I would argue that it would make them the lowest seeded team.

[Wrestleknownothing]

7 minutes ago, jchapman said:

I would argue that it would make them the lowest seeded team.

Potato, tomatoe

[Truzzcat]

I doubt they beat out either team but the 2021 Iowa team I think had Lee,Eierman,kemerer,Eierman seeded 1 and desanto and cass seeded 3 it probably falls off a cliff a bit after that though.

[Wrestleknownothing]

4 minutes ago, Truzzcat said:

I doubt they beat out either team but the 2021 Iowa team I think had Lee,Eierman,kemerer,Eierman seeded 1 and desanto and cass seeded 3 it probably falls off a cliff a bit after that though.

I looked at them too. Their total is 48 (1, 4, 1, 12, 6, 1, 1, 12, 5, 5).

 

The 2020 Iowa team had a lower total, 45 (1, 6, 7, 1, 8, 1, 2, 11, 5, 3)