Ivy League Tournament Pre-Seeds

[Voice of the Quakers]

Pretty straightforward. Not that there won't be upsets, but happy to know there will be a lot less random "occurrences" in a 6 team tournament than an 18 team tournament.

https://ivyleague.com/news/2025/3/3/pre-seeds-and-brackets-set-for-inaugural-ivy-league-wrestling-tournament.aspx

125 Pounds (3 automatic bids)
1. Marc-Anthony McGowan, Princeton
2. Max Gallagher, Penn
3. Diego Sotelo, Harvard
4. Marcello Milani, Cornell
5. Sulayman Bah, Columbia
6. Jared Brunner, Brown
 
133 Pounds (2 automatic bids)
1. Tyler Ferrara, Cornell
2. Ryan Miller, Penn
3. Hunter Adrian, Brown
4. Danny Jones, Princeton
5. Logan Brzozowski, Harvard
6. Connor Smith, Columbia
 
141 Pounds (4 automatic bids)
1. CJ Composto, Penn
2. Joshua Sanders, Cornell
3. Eligh Rivera, Princeton
4. Lorenzo Frezza, Columbia
5. Ian Oswalt, Brown
6. Dante Frinzi, Harvard

149 Pounds (3 automatic bids)
1. Cross Wasilewski, Penn
2. Ethan Fernandez, Cornell
3. Ty Whalen, Princeton
4. Kai Owen, Columbia
5. Joey Iamunno, Brown
6. Jaden Pepe, Harvard
 
157 Pounds (3 automatic bids)
1. Meyer Shapiro, Cornell
2. Jude Swisher, Penn
3. Blake Saito, Brown
4. Jimmy Harrington, Harvard
5. Jacob Mann, Princeton
6. Richard Fedalen, Columbia
 
165 Pounds (2 automatic bids)
1. Julian Ramirez, Cornell
2. Cesar Alvan, Columbia
3. Blaine Bergey, Princeton
4. Keegan Rothrock, Brown
5. Andrew Troczynski, Penn
6. Cael Berg, Harvard
 
174 Pounds (2 automatic bids)
1. Simon Ruiz, Cornell
2. Jack McGill, Columbia
3. Nick Incontrera, Penn
4. Drew Clearie, Brown
5. Xavier Giles, Princeton
6. Haden Bottiglieri, Harvard

184 Pounds (4 automatic bids)
1. Chris Foca, Cornell
2. Maximus Hale, Penn
3. Kole Mulhauser, Princeton
4. Nick Fine, Columbia
5. Andrew Reall, Brown
6. Luka Rada, Harvard
 
197 Pounds (2 automatic bids)
1. Luke Stout, Princeton
2. Mikey Dellagatta, Cornell
3. Joe Curtis, Columbia
4. Max Agresti, Harvard
5. Thomas Sandoval, Brown
6. Nathan Taylor, Penn
 
285 Pounds (1 automatic bid)
1. Ashton Davis, Cornell
2. John Pardo, Penn
3. Sebastian Garibaldi, Princeton
4. Vincent Mueller, Columbia
5. Alex Semenenko, Brown
6. Logan Marissal, Harvard
 

[bracketbuster]

I didn't get to my predictions in time but here is the interative bracket for the the tournament: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OdkcElKLXNzwsy6Im5Esp2klyP_iyR5I/edit?gid=408008007#gid=408008007

Team Predictions (based off seeds and how ACC scored tournament last year, no bonus)
1. Cornell - 102.5
2. Penn - 74.5
3. Princeton - 55
4. Columbia - 37.5
5. Brown - 18
6. Harvard - 12.5

[Elevator]

So Cornell looks like the Penn State of the Ivies.   Penn looks like it has a path to 8 in the finals. 

Some may say this is the first Ivy Tourney, but the first one was in 1905 at Penn and started the EIWA tournament and probably collegiate wrestling tournaments.  Think it was Penn, Yale and Columbia.  Penn did not win the tournament until Syracuse in 1996 - 91 years but they stayed with it!   

[nhs67]

Ungar out, then?

[Ragu]

Just merged SoCon and MAC tournaments not too long ago why are we breaking up EIWA?

[D3 for LU]

2 hours ago, Ragu said:

Just merged SoCon and MAC tournaments not too long ago why are we breaking up EIWA?

IVY wanted their own qualifier. (So, they got it.)

Kind of ironic that they wanted to get out of the EIWA, since, like Elevator mentioned above, they started the EIWA tourney in the first place... run by the students even!

D3

[D3 for LU]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

(If memory served yours truly correct... it was started and run by the students before it was turned over to officials who ran the organization there on in.)

D3

Edited 17 hours ago by D3 for LU

[11986]

2 hours ago, Ragu said:

Just merged SoCon and MAC tournaments not too long ago why are we breaking up EIWA?

SoCon still stands alone, MAC and EWL merged a few years back. 

[Ragu]

I feel this decision to split will directly lead to multiple programs being cut

[SetonHallPirate]

53 minutes ago, Ragu said:

I feel this decision to split will directly lead to multiple programs being cut

Couldn't disagree more. Having the Ivy League schools in their own (home) conference makes it less likely, not more, that those schools will drop, and the EIWA dropping down to a more manageable number will make it more likely (moves the 0.01% over a decimal) that programs in the northeast region of the country will be able to start a program and find a conference immediately, something that (you probably recall) Morgan State had to wait a year to do.

[feet2back]

Over/under on fans attending 6 team Ivy League tounament is 84

[Jason Bryant]

Over/under on fans attending 6 team Ivy League tounament is 84

Over.