The Big Ten conference released pre-seeds for the 2020 Big Ten Champions on Monday ahead of this weekend’s tournament.
Minnesota enters the week with six wrestlers seeded top-six of their weight classes. All weight-classes were seeded top-to-bottom regardless of allocations for the first time this season.
The Gophers’ seeding is as follows: 125 3-seed Patrick McKee 133 11-seed Boo Dryden 141 6-seed Mitch McKee 149 3-seed Brayton Lee 157 5-seed Ryan Thomas 165 8-seed Bailee O’Reilly 174 4-seed Devin Skatzka 184 8-seed Owen Webster 197 10-seed Hunter Ritter Hwt 2-seed Gable Steveson
Seeding will be finalized at Friday’s coaches’ meeting.
The tournament marks the first postseason experience for P. McKee, Lee, Thomas, and O’Reilly. Dryden and Webster will get their first Division I action after previously competing at the NJCAA and Division III levels respectively.
Each weight at the championships has a set amount of allocations where Big Ten wrestlers can automatically earn spots at the Big Ten Championships. These allocations are based on the coaches rankings, RPI, and wrestler winning percentage.
Below are the automatic allocations for Big Ten wrestlers: 125: 8 133: 7 141: 8 149: 10 157: 6 165: 8 174: 9 184: 10 197: 6 Hwt: 7
The Big Ten Championships, hosted by Rutgers, begin on Saturday, March 7 at 9:00 am CT. The tournament runs through the final session on Sunday, March 8 at 2:30 pm CT.
Big Ten Wrestling Championships Pre-Seeds:
125 lbs.
Spencer Lee, IOWA
Devin Schroder, PUR
Patrick McKee, MINN
Justin Cardani, ILL
Jack Medley, MICH
Michael DeAugustino, NU
Liam Cronin, IND
Nicolas Aguilar, RU
Eric Barnett, WIS
Alex Thomsen, NEB
Malik Heinselman, OSU
Logan Griffin, MSU
Brandon Cray, MD
Brandon Meredith, PSU
133 lbs.
Seth Gross, WIS
Roman Bravo-Young, PSU
Austin DeSanto, IOWA
Travis Piotrowski, ILL
Sebastian Rivera, NU
Ridge Lovett, NEB
Sammy Alvarez, RU
Joey Silva, MICH
Cayden Rooks, IND
Garrett Pepple, MSU
Boo Dryden, MINN
Travis Ford-Melton, PUR
King Sandoval, MD
Jordan Decatur, OSU
141 lbs.
Nick Lee, PSU
Luke Pletcher, OSU
Max Murin, IOWA
Chad Red, NEB
Tristan Moran, WIS
Mitch McKee, MINN
Dylan Duncan, ILL
Parker Filius, PUR
Cole Mattin, MICH
Alec McKenna, NU
JoJo Aragona, RU
Matt Santos, MSU
Eddie Bolivar, IND
Hunter Baxter, MD
149 lbs.
Sammy Sasso, OSU
Pat Lugo, IOWA
Brayton Lee, MINN
Kanen Storr, MICH
Graham Rooks, IND
Cole Martin, WIS
Collin Purinton, NEB
Jarod Verkleeren, PSU
Yahya Thomas, NU
Griffin Parriott, PUR
Gerard Angelo, RU
Alex Hrisopoulos, MSU
Mousa Jodeh, ILL
Ryan Garlitz, MD
157 lbs.
Ryan Deakin, NU
Kaleb Young, IOWA
Kendall Coleman, PUR
Will Lewan, MICH
Ryan Thomas, MINN
Jake Tucker, MSU
Peyton Robb, NEB
Eric Barone, ILL
Michael VanBrill, RU
Jahi Jones, MD
Elijah Cleary, OSU
Garrett Model, WIS
Bo Pipher, PSU
Fernie Silva, IND
165 lbs.
Vincenzo Joseph, PSU
Alex Marinelli, IOWA
Evan Wick, WIS
Isaiah White, NEB
Ethan Smith, OSU
Shayne Oster, NU
Danny Braunagel, ILL
Bailee O’Reilly, MINN
Drew Hughes, MSU
Kyle Cochran, MD
Brett Donner, RU
Tyler Meisinger, MICH
Tanner Webster, PUR
Diego Lemley, IND
174 lbs.
Michael Kemerer, IOWA
Mark Hall, PSU
Dylan Lydy, PUR
Devin Skatzka, MINN
Mikey Labriola, NEB
Kaleb Romero, OSU
Joey Gunther, ILL
Layne Malczewski, MSU
Tyler Morland, NU
Willie Scott , RU
Jared Krattiger, WIS
Philip Spadafora, MD
Max Maylor, MICH
NO ENTRY, IND
184 lbs.
Aaron Brooks, PSU
Cameron Caffey, MSU
Abe Assad, IOWA
Taylor Venz, NEB
Billy Janzer, RU
Rocky Jordan, OSU
Zac Braunagel, ILL
Owen Webster, MINN
Johnny Sebastian, WIS
Jelani Embree, MICH
Max Lyon, PUR
Jack Jessen, NU
Jake Hinz, IND
Kyle Jasenski, MD
197 lbs.
Kollin Moore, OSU
Eric Schultz, NEB
Jacob Warner, IOWA
Christian Brunner, PUR
Lucas Davison, NU
Shakur Rasheed, PSU
Jordan Pagano, RU
Jackson Striggow, MICH
Jaron Smith, MD
Hunter Ritter, MINN
Matt Wroblewski, ILL
Nick May, MSU
Taylor Watkins, WIS
Nick Willham, IND
285 lbs.
Mason Parris, MICH
Gable Steveson, MINN
Tony Cassioppi, IOWA
Trent Hillger, WIS
David Jensen, NEB
Gary Traub, OSU
Seth Nevills, PSU
Thomas Penola, PUR
Luke Luffman, ILL
Alex Esposito, RU
Christian Rebottaro, MSU
Jake Kleimola, IND
Jack Heyob, NU
Parker Robinson, MD
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