Moline's Musings

Big Ten Wrestling Bracket

Posted by: Brian Moline

Friday, March 6, 2009 3:52 PM

The Big Ten wrestling coaches met earlier today to decide final seeds for this weekend's Big Ten Championships, and they made no changes to the preliminary seeds released earlier this week.  All ten Illinois wrestlers earned top 8 seeds in this weekend's tournament.

Here is the official bracket for this weekend.  The opening round (or pigtail) matches are determined randomly by computer.  Three of the ten Illini will be wrestling in these opening rounds: B.J. Futrell (125), Jimmy Kennedy (133) and John Wise (Hwt).  Wise and Kennedy will be heavily favored in their opening matches, while Futrell has a rematch with Michigan State's Eric Olanowski, who he narrowly defeated 9-7 in the season's final dual meet against the Spartans.

The tournament gets started tomorrow morning at 10 am central time.  You can get live updates via Penn State's website.  The second session is tomorrow at 5 pm.  Sunday's action gets started at 11 am with the 7th place matches.  The championship, 3rd place and 5th place matches will be televised live on the Big Ten Network starting at 1 pm on Sunday.

bmoline@wdws.com

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