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In elementary school, Sammy Sasso was JV to Jarred Papcsy

Here is my theory as of now, especially since he also did it last year. Brands disagrees with the rule, and believes he has a chance to make the committee look like fools for imposing it. Eventually, Brands would like to be able to take advantage of mixing and matching and mixing signals on who is going where - because as a top five program they typically have the depth where they do have some decisions to make. Maybe I've given him too much credit. But if Teske upsets Bouzakis right off the scale, Brands can bank on having Tom Ryan and the boys from Columbus on his side for changing the rule

Thanks for sharing. I wrestled for St. Mark's a long time ago

I'm starting to get curious then - surely Brands knew this. It would seem counter-productive to do something like this intentionally. So then why.

must have something to do with match count or another factor I haven't considered

Michael Spangler out and Blaine Frazier in for Indiana? Spangler must be hurt or something because he seemed to be clearly better than Frazier

The way they listed it made it seem like Teske would be seeded last for some reason - any color on that?

Good explanation. I suppose that in an ideal world you could ask each seed - starting with the first - whether they want the bye- and then go down the list. But it would be a logistical nightmare and so the rotating seeds seems like a far more practical solution. Thanks for clearing it up

Yep thats what it looks like to me brother

It's very inconsistent which seeds are getting a bye. How is that decided? For example - Daton Fix - number one overall seed - doesn't have a first round bye, but 8th seeded Garret Ricks does...

https://big12sports.com/documents/2024/3/4/Big_12_Brackets.pdf

I had no clue they were releasing pre-seeds in 30 minutes. How exciting

well last time all the of the money got lost in the Silicon Valley Bank failure, but we still had a good time, so I wouldn't worry about it.

I'd get involved in some big ten action. The setup would be as complicated as we make it I would think.

I paid bro!

Same for me. I think I'll be on a plane - so as long as they have wi-fi like they're supposed to

So Chittum hasn't actually used a redshirt yet and Gaitan could move down to 165. Echemendia used his red shirt previously and also used the free year, but this was otherwise his first year of eligibility used. I'm gonna place the year of eligibility after the name for clarity. 2024: 141: Echemendia1 149: Swiderski2 157: Chittum1 2025: 141: Echemendia2 149: Johnson3 / Swiderski RS 157: Chittum2 2026: 141: Echemendia3 149: Swiderski3 157: Johnson4 / ChittumRS 2027 141: Echemendia4 149: Swiderski4 157: Chittum3

In order to make room for Echemendia, Swiderski, and Johnson, he has to

I thought Burley or Caruso, but neither would prompt folks to throw things at poor Gimp

He probably had enough wrestling. Moved onto bowling or badminton

Is Robert Allman one? I had to search quite painstakingly to find that

Makes good greco sense.

It's a pretty tough top ten to be honest. 197 has to b e one of the strongest weight classes this year (for a change) 197lbs RANK WRESTLER SCHOOL CLASS CONFERENCE RECORD LAST 1 Aaron Brooks Penn State Senior Big Ten 14-0 1 2 Trent Hidlay NC State Senior ACC 22-0 2 3 Michael Beard Lehigh Junior EIWA 22-1 3 4 Jaxon Smith Maryland Sophomore Big Ten 15-3 4 5 Tanner Sloan South Dakota State Senior Big 12 19-1 5 6 Stephen Buchanan Oklahoma Senior Big 12 22-1 6 7 Louie DePrez Binghamton Senior EIWA 19-1 9 8 Jacob Cardenas Cornell Senior EIWA 19-5 7 9 Stephen Little Little Rock Freshman Pac-12 19-2 8 10 Rocky Elam Missouri Junior Big 12 9-2 10 11 Zach Glazier Iowa Junior Big Ten 21-1 11 12 Luke Stout Princeton Junior EIWA 18-6 12 13 Silas Allred Nebraska Sophomore Big Ten 20-5 13 14 Evan Bockman Utah Valley Senior Big 12 16-5 14 15 Mac Stout Pittsburgh Freshman ACC 17-5 15 16 Luke Surber Oklahoma State Junior Big 12 12-4 16 17 Nick Stemmet Stanford Junior Pac-12 24-7 17 18 Levi Hopkins Campbell Junior SoCon 24-6 18 19 Joey Novak Wyoming Freshman Big 12 18-10 19 20 Garrett Joles Minnesota Senior Big Ten 18-6 20 21 Luke Geog Ohio State Freshman Big Ten 12-6 21 22 John Poznanski Rutgers Sophomore Big Ten 12-2 22 23 Max Shaw North Carolina Junior ACC 16-4 23 24 Wyatt Voelker Northern Iowa Freshman Big 12 14-4 24 25 Cole Urbas Pennsylvania Senior EIWA 13-8 25 26 Justin Rademacher Oregon State Freshman Pac-12 16-8 28 27 Andy Smith Virginia Tech Junior ACC 15-7 26 28 Jack Wehmeyer Columbia Sophomore EIWA 17-9 27 29 Sam Mitchell Buffalo Junior MAC 19-5 29 30 Kael Wisler Michigan State Freshman Big Ten 23-12 30 31 John Crawford Franklin & Marshall Senior EIWA 20-9 31 32 Ben Smith Cleveland State Senior MAC 18-5 32 33 Gabe Sollars Indiana Sophomore Big Ten 20-12 33

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