2026 NCAA Wrestling Selection Show
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133 - Forrest with the #1 seed
2 - Davino
3 - Blaze
4 - Seidel
2 - Davino
3 - Blaze
4 - Seidel
141 - Vega with the #2 seed as expected.
Bailey in the QF, Hardy in the SF if it goes to chalk.
Bailey in the QF, Hardy in the SF if it goes to chalk.
Horrible spot in the bracket for Spratley. 2nd round Robinson and Lillidahl in semi's if he makes it there. Not good.
Sparky is going to have to exorcise his demons in round 2 and then take on the field.
Might as well start upsetting some Penn State guys if we want the title.
Byrd is the 7 seed as the returning champ and only 2 losses but Ayala, with 8 losses, gets the 6. What in the world is going on?
Not a lot of favorable bracket for our guys except Jax.
I think Doucet got the best draw we could've hoped for—great chance to make the semis.
125 and 157 got some rough draws. I wish they would've split up Jax and Siedel since we've already seen it. They gifted Welsh the finals at 184
Yeah they really went out of their way to screw him.
Overall not good seeds. Too many of the guys not seeded 1 or 2 are on the same side as #1 for one thing. Really wanted Lockett opposite Messenbrink. Troy hooting Robinson and Lilledahl before finals is really rough. LRob hitting Larkin and Duke before the finals is really bad.
Do they favor teams/wrestlers/matchups to influence results and viewership? Lotta folks complaining elsewhere too not just OSU
Right, Angelo Ferrari is the most inexplicable seed imo. Was seeded 8th in big tens, wrestled to his seed, and then moves up to 7 in NCAA seeding to be opposite Welsh
Committee is putting emphasis on the conference tournament they changed it to 15 and coaches to 10 for a reason
Luke, Eddie , Seymour are all conference champs with less losses. No idea why Bouzakis is over Sprately. He is not conference champ.
Troy is the only one I feel like has a bad draw. Next comparable is Landon but 57 is a meat grinder. You have to beat the guys to be the guy. Just go out thier an lay it on the line. You win and you advance if you loose do work on the backside. We shouldn’t put much stock In Ryder he’s a wounded horse. He maybe 1-2 at best!
everyone else has a good chance to make noise just go out one match at a time. Will their be let downs - Absolutely every team has them but their will be more good than bad. Let’s just enjoy the scrap and give it all we got.
everyone else has a good chance to make noise just go out one match at a time. Will their be let downs - Absolutely every team has them but their will be more good than bad. Let’s just enjoy the scrap and give it all we got.
Dean Peterson loss probably didn't help. And I imagine coaches had Bouzakis higher and he has a higher winning %
Overall I think they look pretty decent. Everyone is in a position to wrestle to finish above seeds save Jax. Lockett has to get to the semi first. Does it matter if he faces MM in the semi vs the final. One thing to learn from recent history is you dont want to face PSU wrestlers in the final, better chance to knock them off in the qrt or semi. You don't want to give Carl an extra day to work on the plan.
I’ll look at these harder, but this is complete BS at a glance.
Can this stuff be challenged and redrawn?
Can this stuff be challenged and redrawn?
No challenges or redraws . Only way they change now is if someone drops out then the alternate becomes the #33 and everyone else would move up 1 spot