It’s tournament time wrestling fans. The Iowa Hawkeyes will be competing at the 2025 Big Ten Wrestling Championships in Evanston, Illinois on Saturday and Sunday March 8-9.
Welsh-Ryan Arena has been renovated and should be a great venue for Big Tens. Home of Midlands Hawkeye fans are familiar with this arena.
The Big Ten is by far the most dominant conference in the country. The matchups in the first round at some weights will find both wrestlers ranked in the top 33 in the country.
Big Tens is an intense two-day tournament that will prepare wrestlers for Nationals unlike any other conference tournament.
For this blog I am previewing 125-157 with a listing of ranked wrestlers from the Tuesday, February 25 InterMat Rankings.
Joey Cruz has done real well in the Big Ten and should have 5 or 6 seed at 125.
Drake Ayala will be the top seed at 133. Ranked #2 nationally at 133 Ayala will have the #3-5-6 wrestlers in the country. The semifinals will be tough.
Iowa does not have a ranked wrestler at 141.
Kyle Parco will be the #2 seed at 149. Another tough weight with the national ranked #2-3-4-and 7 in the country.
You always have a few really stacked weights in the Big Ten. For the first five weights 157 is beyond loaded. This weight has the #1-3-4-5-7-8-9-11-16-29-30 ranked wrestler in the entire country. All together in one conference tournament. Impressive.
That is beyond loaded. Jacori Teemer is ranked #3 in the country and I really do not know where he will be seeded.
I will publish my preview for 165-Hwt. tomorrow.
Pre-Seeds for Big Tens should be released on Monday.
I will keep you up to date right here on my Iowa Wrestling Fan Blog.
Let’s get ‘em in the middle.
InterMat Rankings from February 25
Big Ten
125
1. Matt Ramos – Purdue
7. Caleb Smith – Nebraska
8. Luke Lilledahl – Penn State
11. Dean Petersen – Rutgers
15. Joey Cruz – Iowa
16. Cooper Flynn – Minnesota
17. Nicolar Rivera – Wisconsin
20. Jacob Moran – Indiana
21. Brendan McCrone – Ohio State
33. Dedrick Navarro – Northwestern
133
2. Drake Ayala – Iowa
3. Lucas Byrd- Illinois
5. Braxton Brown – Maryland
6. Braeden Davis – Penn State
11. Dylan Shawver – Rutgers
13. Nic Bouzakis – Ohio State
15. Zan Fugitt – Wisconsin
16. Jacob Van Dee – Nebraska
19. Tyler Wells – Minnesota
28. Angelo Rini – Indiana
141
2. Beau Bartlett – Penn State
3. Jesse Mendez – Ohio State
6. Brock Hardy – Nebraska
8. Vance Vombaur – Minnesota
12. Sergio Lemley – Michigan
13. Joey Olivieri – Rutgers
17. Danny Pucino – Illinois
26. Henry Porter – Indiana
28. Greyson Clark – Purdue
149
2. Shayne Van Ness – Penn State
3. Kyle Parco – Iowa
4. Ridge Lovett – Nebraska
7. Dylan D’Emilio – Ohio State
16. Kannon Webster – Illinois
19. Andrew Clark – Rutgers
26. Dylan Gilcher – Michigan
27. Sam Cartella – Northwestern
31. Kal Miller – Maryland
32. Drew Roberts – Minnesota
157
1. Tyler Kasak – Penn State
3. Jacori Teemer – Iowa
4. Antrell Taylor – Nebraksa
5. Ethen Miller – Maryland
7. Joey Blaze – Purdue
8. Tommy Askey – Minnesota
9. Trevor Chumbley – Northwestern
11. Brandon Cannon – Ohio State
16. Chase Saldate – Michigan
29. Conner Harer – Rutgers
30. Jason Kraisser – Illinois
2025 Big Ten Championships
Northwestern – Evanston, Illinois
Welsh-Ryan Arena
Saturday, March 8
Session I – 10 AM
Session 2 through Semifinals – 5 PM
Sunday, March 9
Session 3 Consolations – Noon
Session 4 Finals – 4:30 PM
*Times listed are CST
It is great to be an Iowa Wrestling fan.
Go Hawks!
