Brackets were released for the 2023 Big Ten Wrestling Championships. There were no changes between the pre-seeds and the finals seeds for Iowa Wrestlers. Iowa has two wrestlers seeded #1 in Spencer Lee (125) and Real Woods (141).
The Big Tens will be in Ann Arbor, Michigan this Saturday and Sunday, March 4-5. Session I begins tomorrow at 9 AM CST.
The Big Ten was awarded 88 of the 284 automatic qualifiers to the 2023 NCAA National Championships in Tulsa, Oklahoma on March 16-18. There will also be 46 at-large bids for all of the qualifiers. Each of the ten weight classes at Nationals will have 33 wrestlers seeded out 1-33.
First Round matches:
125 – #1 Spencer Lee (UI) vs. #8 Dean Peterson (RU)/#9 Jack Medley (UM)
133 – #8 Brody Teske (UI) vs. #9 RayVon Foley (MSU)
141 – #1 Real Woods (UI) vs. #8 Parker Filius (PUR)/#9 Dylan D’Emilio (OSU)
149 – #4 Max Murin (UI) vs. #13 Payton Omania (MSU)
157 – #5 Cobe Siebrecht (UI) vs. #12 Paddy Gallagher (OSU)
165 – #3 Patrick Kennedy (UI) vs. #14 John Best (MD)
174 – #7 Nelson Brands (UI) vs. #10 Jackson Turley (RU)
184 – #5 Abe Assad (UI) vs. #12 Ben Vanadia (PUR)
197 – #5 Jacob Warner (UI) vs. #12 Andrew Davison (NU)
285 – #3 Tony Cassioppi (IA) vs. #14 Austin Emerson (NEB)
The brackets are also available on TrackWrestling.
https://bigten.org/documents/2023/3/3//2023_B1G_Brackets_Initial.pdf?id=7878
Big Ten Championships
Saturday, March 4
Session I – 9 AM
Session II
Consolations and Wrestlebacks – 4:30 PM
Semifinals – 6:30 PM
Sunday, March 5
Session III Consolation Semifinals and 7th place – Noon
Session IV 1st/3rd/5th place matches – 3:30 PM
*****All times listed are CST
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