Rutgers went undefeated at home this season and put up their best Big Ten record to date.
We will now face off against one of our oldest rivals:
We will now face off against one of our oldest rivals:
OT: Wrestling National Duals Championships Series
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Like last year, will be a nail biter. At home I think Lehigh pulls it out unfortunately.
As my wrestling coach always said "We don't wrestle on paper".
not as knowledgeable on college wrestling but it appears this is an invitational weekend and not a tournament. Kind of like the B10 / ACC challenge. if a tourney it would be crazy for the #1 and #2 teams to face each other in the 1st round.
http://www.ncaa.com/news/wrestling/...-2017-nwca-national-duals-championship-series
http://www.ncaa.com/news/wrestling/...-2017-nwca-national-duals-championship-series
too bad, they should do a duals tourney
Maybe 24 teams
Top 8 seeds will host the round of 24 and round of 16. Top 8 get a bye to the round of 16.
Then the quarterfinals, semis, and championship will be over a weekend at 1 location.
Bracket:
http://www.printyourbrackets.com/pdfbrackets/24singleseeded-no-numbers.pdf
based on the rankings 13th ranked Rutgers would face 20th ranked Appalachian st in round 1 with the winner against 4th ranked Ohio St with both matches in Ohio St.
Rankings:
http://www.ncaa.com/rankings/wrestling/d1
Kind of a grey area as far as post season goes. It is an added on dual match that wasn't there in the beginning of the season. Only 8 teams from the B1G are invited to participate. I have seen some people refer to it as an equivalent of a bowl invite in football. I would consider it a post season event.
It an on going debate. Some think there should be while many think the individual tournament should be the focus. For years there was national duals which was a two day dual meet tournament like you proposed. Many top teams chose to skip it and focus on the individual championship.
Please.. no byes in such a post-season tournament... seeding and homefield are enough advantages. Make it 32 or 16 and go from there.
There's absolutely no reason in my mind for a national duals tournament. There's a big divide from teams 1 and 2 vs even teams 7 and 8. And generally the top schools play each other at some point in time, or at least meet up in various individual tournaments. To me, a tournament would be a waste of time. I think my view on this has changed even within the past number of years.
Exactly.
OT, but can't believe Iowa is wrestling at Edinboro. Buddy who lives in rural NW PA coaches their towns juniors and is taking them to the match. Awesome experience for those kids as it is only about 40 minutes away.
Legit shot, yes. It's not crazy to think we have guys wrestle to their full potential and pick up some upsets. We just aren't favored at this time. But Lehigh isn't fully healthy either.
http://intermatwrestle.com/rankings/college/Team2
In latest Intermat poll , RU 2 spots ahead of Lehigh in dual meet scoring rankings (very different from tourny scoring). Since the meet will be AT Lehigh, they will be favored in most of the toss up bouts. Last year when this match was AT Rutgers, Lehigh was the slight favorite, and RU pulled it out in the last match w a close win by Billy Smith at Heavyweight.
Wrestlers feed off a loud, raucous, large home crowd.
In latest Intermat poll , RU 2 spots ahead of Lehigh in dual meet scoring rankings (very different from tourny scoring). Since the meet will be AT Lehigh, they will be favored in most of the toss up bouts. Last year when this match was AT Rutgers, Lehigh was the slight favorite, and RU pulled it out in the last match w a close win by Billy Smith at Heavyweight.
Wrestlers feed off a loud, raucous, large home crowd.
That's why I said the next big step for the program is to claim a signature road win in a hostile environment like Lehigh. Its a shame they didn't move the match to Stabler. We need to claim 2 of the tossups at 133, 157, and 197 to have a legit shot at the upset. LU is banged up though so their coach might opt to bench some of their starters in favor of getting them healthy for EIWAs/NCAAs.
They've tried that in the past... Unfortunatly, it ties up 2 weekends and adds potentially up to 5 matches on a teams schedule... Tie in the fact that you couldn't get all the top teams in it and it became a hollow title... I actually like this format better, as u get basically the top 2 teams in the country facing each other (provided they're not both from same conference)
