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Day 1 Final Brackets

By Region
Upper Midwest 18
Lower Midwest 17
Northeast 15
Southeast 11
Central 10
Mideast 9

125

• Joziah Fry of Johnson & Wales University (Rhode Island)
• Jacob Decatur of Baldwin Wallace University
• Christian Guzman of North Central College
• Jake Craig of University Of Southern Maine
• Zac Blasioli of Millikin University
• Mason Barrett of Averett University
• Brady Koontz of University Of Dubuque
• Joey Lamparelli of Muhlenberg College

133

• Robbie Precin of North Central College
• Jaden Hinton of Baldwin Wallace University
• Dalton Rohrbaugh of York College (Pennsylvania)
• Tyler Fleetwood of University Of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
• Luke Kowalski of Gettysburg College
• Ty Bisek of Concordia-Moorhead
• Dylan Koontz of University Of Dubuque
• Chase Randall of U.S. Coast Guard Academy

141

• Jacob Reed of Ohio Northern University
• Domenic Difrancescantonio of The College Of New Jersey
• Ethan Harsted of Wheaton College (Illinois)
• Sam Stuhl of Augsburg University
• Zayren Terukina of Wartburg College
• Josh Wilson of Greensboro College
• Kyle Slendorn of Stevens Institute Of Technology
• James Rodriguez of Castleton University

149

• Michael Petrella of Baldwin Wallace University
• Hayden Brown of Johnson & Wales University (Rhode Island)
• Hunter Gutierrez of Stevens Institute Of Technology
• Javen Estrada of North Central College
• Thomas Monn of McDaniel College
• Charlie Stuhl of Augsburg University
• Chase Sumner of Ohio Northern University
• Chase Parrott of Springfield College

157

• David Hollingsworth of Wartburg College
• Nolan Hertel of University Of Wisconsin-La Crosse
• Zeke Smith of Loras College
• Tyler Shilson of Augsburg University
• Ryan Smith of Stevens Institute Of Technology
• Ryan Luth of Washington And Lee University
• Peter Kane of Williams College
• Jake Deguire of Springfield College

165

• Nathan Lackman of Rhode Island College
• Matt Lackman of Alvernia University
• Noah Leisgang of University Of Wisconsin-La Crosse
• Nicholas Sacco of The College Of New Jersey
• Nathan Fuller of Wartburg College
• Cooper Willis of Augsburg University
• Cooper Pontelandolfo of New York University
• Jordan Hardrick of Ohio Northern University

174

• Zane Mulder of Wartburg College
• Jared Stricker of University Of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
• Charlie Grygas of Oswego State
• LJ Richardson of Coe College
• Seth Brossard of University Of Wisconsin-La Crosse
• Stefan Major of Stevens Institute Of Technology
• Seth Goetzinger of Augsburg University
• Anson Dewar of Muhlenberg College

184

• Jaritt Shinhoster of University Of Wisconsin-Whitewater
• Shane Liegel of Loras College
• Donovan Corn of Luther College
• Bentley Schwanebeck-Ostermann of Augsburg University
• David McCullough of U.S. Coast Guard Academy
• Charles Baczek of Wabash College
• Colby Giroux of Rochester Institute Of Technology
• Mahlic Sallah of Roanoke College

197

• Coy Spooner of U.S. Coast Guard Academy
• Massoma Endene of Wartburg College
• Chibueze Chukwuezi of Ithaca College
• Tyler Hannah of University Of Wisconsin-Platteville
• Doug Byrne of Baldwin Wallace University
• Beau Yineman of University Of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
• Dylan Harr of Johnson & Wales University (Rhode Island)
• Josh Harkless of Rochester Institute Of Technology

285

• Jack Heldt of Wabash College
• Donovan King of Olivet College
• Kaleb Reeves of Coe College
• Tyler Kim of Augsburg University
• Jake Peavey of University Of Southern Maine
• Michael Douglas of University Of Wisconsin-La Crosse
• Carl DiGiorgio of U.S. Coast Guard Academy
• Darryl Aiello of University Of Dubuque

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Just one weight class had the potential for a #1 vs #2 matchup at the regional this year. Returning 285 runner-up Donovan King of Olivet faced off in the Central region final against returning 197 runner-up Jack Heldt of Wabash. Both had not lost in DIII this year before this matchup. Heldt used a pair of takedowns and tough riding to prevail 5-2 and take over the #1 spot. That win was on the second decision win for Heldt this season to go along with 30 falls so far. King has 18 of his own and will work toward a rematch in Roanoke.

Kaleb Reeves of Coe and Tyler Kim of Augsburg are the top returning finishers after King. They have not met this season, but Reeves pinned Kim in the 3rd place match in 2022. Reeves has only lost to King this year, while Kim lost to Ferrum’s Rayshawn Dixon. Both won their respective regional tournaments. Dixon dropped his quarterfinal match in the Southeast but came back for third. Michael Dooley from Stevens, the champ in the Southeast, has qualified for the NCAA tournament at his third weight after making it at 184 in 2019 and 197 in 2020.

There are not as many returning qualifiers at 285 as in some other weights, but Northeast champ Jake Peavey of Southern Maine is one of them. He was a match away from placing last season. One reason for fewer returning qualifiers is the fact that the 6th-10th ranked wrestlers coming into the regional weekend did not qualify for the tournament.

Heavyweight can be unpredictable sometimes. Last year, the undefeated number one seed went 0-2. The 7th seed made the finals after pinning the 2nd seed in the quarters, the 3rd seed failed to place, and the 5th seed won the tournament. Will the fact that five ranked wrestlers failed to qualify make the tournament unpredictable or will it mean that the top five ranked wrestlers will cruise through the bracket? Fortunately, we only have to wait until tomorrow to begin finding out.

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Half of last year’s field returns and is led by returning third place finisher Beau Yineman of UW-Oshkosh. Yineman dropped his regional final to Tyler Hannah of UW-Platteville after beating him twice earlier this year. His only other DIII loss is to Ben Kawczynski of UW-La Crosse who did not qualify. Hannah also reversed an earlier loss to Parker Venz of Augsburg in the semifinals. He does have a loss to Jared Voss of Coe, the third place finisher in the Lower Midwest. Almost anything could happen in this weight, as there are a lot of wrestlers with the potential to win up and down the bracket.

Coy Spooner of Coast Guard was 5th last year and is undefeated entering the tournament for the second year in a row. He has wins over Pellot and Harr. Camden Farrow of York was 4th last season as an unseeded entry and split with Spooner at the tournament. He has lost this season to Chibueze Chukwuezi, an All-American at 184 last season and Mideast champ. Also coming from the Mideast is Demitreus Henry, and All-American two weights down at 174 a year ago. Third in the region was 2022 qualifier Josh Harkless of RIT who was eliminated from the tournament by Hannah last season.

After missing out on the postseason last year as a late regional scratch, Doug Byrne of Baldwin Wallace was the seventh of seven regional finalists for his team this year. Byrne has just one loss to Massoma Endene of Wartburg and just four of his 29 wins came without bonus points. Dylan Wellbaum of Adrian and Jared Setliff of Otterbein are the other qualifiers from Central region, and both qualified last year, though neither won a match.

Massoma Endene of Wartburg was the 2022 NJCAA runner-up for Iowa Lakes CC and is 23-1 on the season. Like Yineman, his only DIII loss is to Kawczynski. He has wins over Byrne, Harr, Linahon, Venz, and Voss in the field. Wartburg has done well with transfers in the top half of lineup, as Fuller, Mulder, and Endene are all highly-ranked qualifiers above 157 who started elsewhere.

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The NCAA tournament could be the site of the rubber match between Jaritt Shinhoster of UW-Whitewater and Shane Liegel of Loras. Last year, they split a pair of match with Liegel winning early and Shinhoster winning in the NCAA semifinal. This year, Liegel won in the Concordia finals for the second year in a row, but Shinhoster got revenge at the National Duals. Each has just that one loss in DIII this year, with Shinhoster taking his second loss to a DI opponent in the Midlands finals. Shinhoster dominated the NCAA tournament last year with three major decisions and a 6 point win in the finals. Can Liegel, or anyone else, slow him down this year?

Mideast runner-up Isaac Cory became Penn College’s first ever NCAA qualifier since joining DIII in 2018. Cory was a Pennsylvania state champion last year, joining Castleton’s 125 Gavin Bradley as PA AA state champs to qualify as freshmen this year. Colby Giroux of RIT defeated Cory for the second event in a row in the regional final to run his record to 31-4. Jack Ryan of Oneonta took the third spot in the Mideast, and the seventh seeded Red Dragon has to beat the top two seeds to do it.

Charles Baczek of Wabash is the next highest returning finisher behind Shinhoster and Liegel. Baczek was 5th as a freshman last year and is 20-2 so far with his only DIII loss coming to Upper Midwest third place finisher Kalyn Jahn of UW-La Crosse at the National Duals. The other returning All-Americans at this weight are Bentley Schwanebeck-Ostermann of Augsburg who placed at 197 and was runner-up to Shinhoster in the region along with 184 7th place finisher Mahlic Sallah of Roanoke. Sallah was upset by Blizard in the regional semifinal but fought back to earn a chance to podium in front of the home crowd.

Like Schwanebeck-Ostermann, Donovan Corn of Luther is down at 184 after qualifying at 197 last season. Corn has defeated the Augsburg wrestler this year and avenged an earlier loss to Wartburg to earn his spot in the regional final. His only DIII losses this year that he has not turned around are to the top three wrestlers in rankings: Shinhoster, Liegel, and Baczek. Northeast champ David McCullough of Coast Guard is undefeated so far this season including two wins over 2022 qualifier Edwin Morales of Bridgewater State. Those are the only two losses so far for Morales in 2022-2023.

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Seven wrestlers return at this weight and two others are up from qualifying at 165 last year, making half the bracket returning 2022 qualifiers. Tops among these is returning NCAA runner-up Mike Ross of Johnson & Wales. Ross is 10-1 in a half season of work. His one loss came to Augsburg’s Seth Goetzinger in the National Duals final when he reversed Ross to his back and picked up a late fall while trailing. He outscored his regional opponents 48-0 in three matches before forfeiting the finals. He has earned the top ranking primarily with a 6-2 win over Zane Mulder of Wartburg in the National Duals semis. He also defeated Mulder 10-8 in last year’s national semifinal.

Mulder went on to place 4th in the national tournament last year after a runner-up finish in the 2021 NWCA tournament. Now in his third season at Wartburg since transferring from Iowa State, Mulder is 22-1, losing only to Ross, and has defeated five of the other wrestlers in the bracket including Brossard, Hopkins, Arebalo, Richardson, and Goetzinger. Second in the Lower Midwest is LJ Richardson of Coe. His only win over a wrestler in the field was against the third place finisher Jacob Sherzer who has not yet defeated a qualified wrestler, though he will get a chance to remedy that shortly.

Two qualifiers return from the Southeast region. Stefan Major of Stevens finished 7th last year as the third returning All-American at the weight after Ross and Mulder. He has dropped matches to Brossard and Stricker but comes in as the Southeast champ. Alex Turley of Averett qualified at 165 last year, finished 7th at the 2021 NWCA tournament, and now has a chance to aim for the podium at 174 lbs. He has taken an untraditional route to college wrestling as a 28 year old junior. Region runner-up Colby Morris took his first DIII loss of the season to Major in the regional final.

In the Upper Midwest, region champ Jared Stricker is 38-2 this season, losing only to Fleming and Brossard. He won Wheaton and the WIAC, and has wins over four other in the field. Seth Brossard of UW-La Crosse decided to sit out the regional final rather than face Stricker for the second time this season. His only losses this year are to Mulder, and he has defeated six wrestlers in the field. Both Stricker and Brossard were in the tournament last season. Stricker fell in the All-American round at this wight while Brossard finished in 7th place at 165.

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There are several sets of brothers in this tournament but just one in the same weight class. 2022 NCAA 157 lbs. champion Nathan Lackman has moved up to 165 where his brother Matt was an All-American last season. With the top three at this weight all gone from last season, Nathan slotted into the top spot in his new weight and has gone undefeated save three DI losses at the Midlands where he placed 6th. He capped his regional title with a win over returning All-American Cooper Pontelandolfo of NYU. Matt is undefeated and dominated his region with three falls and a tech fall.

Austin Lamb of RIT joins Matt Lackman and Pontelandolfo as returning placewinners at this weight. Lamb came into the region with a single injury default loss to Sacco on his record and finished in second place, dropping a 4-0 decision to Sacco in the finals. Sacco has not lost since December and has defeated both Lower Midwest finalists this season. Brian Schneider of Elizabethtown joined teammate Ganon Smith to give his team qualifiers for the first time since 2018 while leading the team to its best regional finish in a decade.

Returning 2022 157 lbs. All-American Luke Reicosky lost a 3-1 overtime match in the Central semis to Altman before bouncing back with a 3-1 overtime victory to make the tournament again. His only prior loss this season was to Lamb in the RIT finals, though he missed a chunk of the season between the Citrus Invitational and February 7th. Altman forfeited the Hardrick of ONU in the regional final after Hardrick had to go deep into the rarely seen second set of tiebreakers to earn his spot in the finals.

Gabe Fiser of Loras was a perhaps unexpected champ in the Lower Midwest region, entering the tournament with 10 losses on an admittedly tough schedule. He did qualify last year and place 4th at the 2021 NWCA tournament, so getting to Roanoke is not as much of a shock as defeating the top seed and 5th ranked Fuller to earn his finals spot then prevailing over Cervantes in that math. Fuller has just two losses in his first season for the Knights after transferring from Minnesota, and both are to wrestlers from Loras.

Thanks to Jason Bryant’s work collecting hometowns of the 180 qualifiers, it is possible to see how far from home they have traveled to go to school. There is a new tab on this spreadsheet entitled “Distance from Home” that has the raw data. To generate the distance from home, I used the geography tools in Excel to calculate latitude and longitude for the hometown and school of each qualifier. This will necessarily be a rough calculation, since only the city was used and not exact addresses. The distance from home to school was calculated using trigonometry along with the assumption that the earth is a perfect sphere with a constant radius. This gave a value for straight line (or as the crow flies) distance on a curved surface. It is not the same as driving distance.

The average distance for a 2023 NCAA qualifier from home is 167.3 miles. However, if you remove the five qualifiers who are over 1,000 miles from home, the average drops to 113.7 miles. The median distance for all qualifiers is 79 miles, meaning half the qualifiers are 79 miles or less from home. 59% of qualifiers are within 100 miles, and just 16% are more than 200 miles from home.

98 qualifiers (59%) attend school in the same state where they live. There are 25 wrestler who are within 100 miles of school but live in a different state. There are 13 qualifiers who attend a state school outside of their home state. There are four qualifiers who attend a state school in a state that does not border their home state: Jake Burford, UW-Whitewater (Indiana), Gavin Bradley, Castleton, (Pennsylvania), James Rodriguez, Castleton (New Jersey), and Edwin Morales, Bridgewater State (Pennsylvania).

Five wrestlers over 1,000 miles from home:
Christian Guzman, North Central, 1193.5 miles
Donovan Corn, Luther, 1283.1 miles
Coy Spooner, Coast Guard, 1497.8 miles
Chase Randall, Coast Guard, 2242.3 miles
Zayren Terukina, Wartburg, 4007.2 miles

Five wrestlers from the same town as school:
Darryl Aiello, Dubuque
Josh, Wilson, Greensboro
Brandon Williams, Greensboro
Chase Sumner, Ohio Northern
Colby Morris, Waynesburg

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Sorting out the top of 157 is quite the ordeal, as nobody has gotten through the season unscathed. Hollingsworth beat Zeke Smith in the regional final after losing earlier and gave Hertel one of his two losses. Shilson lost to Smith, beat Hollingsworth, and dropped 2 of 3 to Hertel, losing most recently in the Upper Midwest final. Luth was the last undefeated wrestler standing at this weight until getting upset by Rezac in the Southeast semis. Shilson is the top returning placer, winning over Luth in the third place match last year. Hertel took a forfeit win over Hollingsworth for 5th place in the same weight class.

Shilson and Hollingsworth both had a rough National Duals. Shilson lost to Zeke Smith, Nolan Hertel, and Hayden Brown of JWU, who is now at 149. Without that weekend, Shilson is sitting on one loss to Hertel, who he has also beaten. Hollingsworth just once that weekend, but his loss came to the 7th place finisher in the Northeast region. He went on to lose his next two matches to Shilson and Zeke Smith, but got himself together and cruised through the Lower Midwest region.

Patrick McGraw qualified at 165 last year but swapped weights with his teammate and 2022 All-American at 157 Luke Reicosky. He reversed an earlier loss to Thomas West of Baldwin Wallace, winning 8-7 on a late stalling call in the Central final. Both of them lost to Augsburg backup Blake Jagodzinske who must be one of the top reserves in DIII and also has a win over Peter Kane of Williams. Third in the Central was 2020 qualifier Ryan Whitten. Whitten missed out on the tournament last year and spend most of this season at 165 before dropping down to earn his second trip to the tournament and first since his freshman year.

Matt Sacco is back in the tournament for TCNJ after a second place finish in the Mideast. He lost for the second time to Wenchard Pierre-Louis of Ithaca in the regional final, though he defeated top seed and third place finisher, and 2022 149 lbs. qualifier, Brandon Bowles of Muhlenberg in the semifinals. Ryan Smith of Stevens won the Southeast region without having to face the top-seeded Luth, though he did have to turn around an earlier loss to Alvarado of Averett in the semifinals to punch his ticket through to Roanoke. Northeast champ Jake Deguire of Springfield has 24 falls, including 3 at the regional.

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Michael Petrella has followed up last year’s runner-up finish with a 29-0 season that includes wins over seven other wrestlers in the bracket including Brown, Burford, Babb, Rumph, McDonough, Estrada, and Sumner. He has just five regular decision wins this season, and all of those opponents are in the bracket with him in Roanoke. His regional finals opponent, Chase Sumner of Ohio Northern, took a first week loss to Eli Sims of Brockport but has only lost to Petrella since then (save an injury default to Beyer at Budd Whitehill).

Also undefeated this season is freshman Thomas Monn of McDaniel. He won the Southeast region to become McDaniel’s first NCAA qualifier since 2016. He has wins over Beyer, Perry, and 3x qualifier Siu. Nearly, but not quite, undefeated is Northeast champ Hayden Brown of JWU. He took an opening weekend loss to Petrell and has run the table since. He has defeated five qualifiers at this weight and a couple more at 157 for good measure.

Kristian Rumph made the rankings difficult when he took the mat starting in January. The 2022 All-American and 2021 NWCA runner-up started his season by losing three in a row and getting pinned twice. Two of those losses were to Petrella and Brown, a tough draw for your first matches of the year. He has not lost since, capping a dominant regional tournament with a first period pin over Estrada. Even with the regional under his belt, Rumph is just 7-3 with five events on his schedule.

Charlie Stuhl of Augsburg and Hunter Gutierrez of Stevens won the Upper Midwest and Southeast, respectively. Stuhl has just four losses this year with two to Rumph and one to Estrada. He won by injury default against Burford in the regional final before the match really had a chance to get going. Gutierrez has beaten Siu, Burford, Estrada, and Beyer while losing just to Brown in this field along with twice to wrestlers who did not qualify. He gave up a pair of early takedowns in the regional final but followed that up with one of his own and a turn to get the fall late in the first period over Siu.

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The 2nd, 3rd, and 4th place finishers all return from 2022 at this weight, and they were lined up as the top three spots in the rankings before the regional. #4 Josh Wilson of Greensboro muddied the seeding waters with his first period pin over #3 Kyle Slendorn of Stevens. Wilson’s only DIII loss is to James Rodriguez of Castleton, the 8th place finisher at this weight a year ago.

Zayren Terukina of Wartburg and Jacob Reed of Ohio Northern finished 2nd and 3rd last year. They never met, both losing to the champion Jordin James. This season, they have gone wire-to-wire as #1 and #2 as both have gone undefeated. Reed picked up his 40th win in the regional final, though that 40th win was his first match against another wrestler in the field. Terukina is 23-0 with a win over Slendorn and three other wrestlers in the tournament, though he did forfeit the regional final.

There are seven wrestlers in the bracket who were also at this weight last year. Terukina (2nd), Reed (3rd), Slendorn (4th), and Rodriguez (8th) are the returning placewinners that are joined by qualifiers Xavier Pena of Centenary, Domenic Difrancescantonio of TCNJ, and Sam Stuhl of Augsburg. Pena is undefeated in DIII so far while Difrancescantonio is just 14-2 but has squeezed matches against six other qualifiers in already (not counting his forfeit to Pena in the regional). He has wins over Rosen, Perlleshi, Rodriguez, Donovan, and Burge to go along with a loss to Kinkaid.

Cameron Johnson won the Upper Midwest region for Aurora to give the team its first national qualifier since bringing the team back last season. He was a semifinalist in the region in 2022 where he was injured and withdrew from the tournament. He’s wrestled a limited schedule this year and is just 13-2, but he has defeated Lower Midwest champ Rosen and Wheaton’s Ethan Harsted.

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Robbie Precin is the defending champion, and nothing has happened yet this season to suggest anyone here can keep him off the top of the podium again. He advanced his record to 31-0 at the Lower Midwest regional, defeating Ohio State transfer Dylan Koontz of Dubuque in the finals. Koontz avenged an earlier loss against Joe Pins of Wartburg in the semifinals to earn the right to face Precin. Pins, a 2022 All-American, came back to get the third spot in the region.

Last year’s runner up and the #2 ranked wrestler in this weight came out of the Central region. #2 Jaden Hinton has only lost to Precin this year and has a win over Andrew Perelka, the 2022 runner-up. Perelka was set to face off against Hinton in the regional final, but Hinton opted not to wrestle the match. Perelka’s only other DIII loss this season is to Ty Bisek of Concordia-Moorhead in the Wheaton finals.

Bisek had not lost to a DIII opponent prior to the regional tournament, and he still has not lost to anyone in the field. He dropped his quarterfinal match to the 8th seed before fighting back to beat the same wrestler in the consolation finals. Along the way, he defeated 2022 All-American Zach Thompson of UW-Platteville, the 5th ranked wrestler at the weight, in the consolation semifinals. The champion in the Upper Midwest, Dominik Mallinder of UW-Whitewater, defeated Tyler Fleetwood of UW-Eau Claire in the rubber match of their three match season series. He also defeated Fleetwood in the WIAC finals after dropping a match to him early in the season.

Dalton Rohrbaugh was third for York last year at this weight after coming in as the #2 seed. His only losses this year are to Jayden Cardenas of Cortland and Jaden Hinton, both of whom will be in Roanoke. He won a narrow 9-8 decision over Nico Diaz of Stevens early on and decided to sit out the regional final rather than have a rematch. Finishing third in the region was Luke Kowalski of Gettysburg. He dropped his quarterfinal match but won four in a row to earn a second trip to the tournament. Gettysburg had just one placer in the region, but it was enough to get them to Roanoke.

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Defending champion Jacob Decatur of Baldwin Wallace is back to seek a second 125 title. He began his season in the second semester and took a loss on his first day back. He has been perfect since then, though his only match against another wrestler in the field was the regional final against James Day of Wabash. Day has three losses. His other two defeats came to wrestlers who did not make the field, and he has wins over the Southeast, Lower Midwest, and Upper Midwest champions.

Despite the presence of last year’s champion, the wrestler to beat here is likely Joziah Fry of Johnson & Wales. The Campbell transfer is 39-0 with 31 bonus point wins. He has defeated seven of the other qualified entries and has dominated a strong schedule wrestling back in his home state of Rhode Island. He won the Northeast Region ahead of a pair of tough freshman in the ranked Jake Craig of Southern Maine and 4x Pennsylvania high school placewinner Gavin Bradley of Castleton.

Another freshman surprised with a run to the Lower Midwest title. Christian Guzman of North Central defeated a pair of top-ten wrestlers on his way to the Outstanding Wrestler award at the region. He turned around a prior loss against #2 ranked Zac Blasioli of Millikin in the finals after having dispatched Ohio State transfer Brady Koontz in the semifinals. Koontz came back to get third, so there will be two former Ohio State wrestlers in this bracket as Koontz and Decatur shared two seasons on the Buckeye roster.

Four ranked wrestlers entered the Southeast Region, but just two qualified for the NCAA tournament. Top seed and returning All-American Riley Parker of Washington & Lee lost his first match to unseeded Jacob Blair of Delaware Valley who then made a run all the way to the regional final to punch his ticket to Roanoke despite a loss to #9 Mason Barrett of Averett. The 5th ranked Parker made the consolation final against #6 Hoerle who had just defeated #7 Kuhns to earn his spot in the match. Hoerle came out on top to get the last spot in the Southeast.

More info to come when the brackets are released next week.

Teams per region with a qualifier (68 out of 119 total teams)
Lower Midwest – 10 of 19 (180 individual entries)
Upper Midwest – 11 of 19 (169 entries)
Central – 9 of 20 (184 entries)
Mideast – 13 of 21 (192 entries)
Northeast – 13 of 19 (177 entries)
Southeast – 12 of 21 (193 entries)
180 of 1,095 regional entries qualified (16.4%)
1,066 regional entries in 2022 (+29 in 2023)

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Number seeded by region
Lower Midwest – 18
Upper Midwest – 16
Central – 14
Southeast – 11
Northeast – 11
Mideast – 10

Seed Breakdown by Region

Relative Seed Strength (8 points for 1st seed down to 1 for 8th)
Lower Midwest – 92
Central – 71
Upper Midwest – 67
Northeast – 56
Southeast – 42
Mideast – 32

Seeded Region Champs – 43
Seeded Region 2nd – 26
Seeded Region 3rd – 11

Non-region champs to be seeded
Lower Midwest – 10 (4 3rd place)
Upper Midwest – 8 (2 3rd place)
Northeast – 5 (2 3rd place)
Southeast – 5 (2 3rd place)
Central – 4 (1 3rd place)
Mideast – 3

Unseeded Region Champs – 17 total
Northeast – 4
Southeast – 4
Mideast – 3
Central – 2
Lower Midwest – 2
Upper Midwest – 2

Full List of Individual Qualifiers

Central at CWRU – team champ Baldwin Wallace Preview | Results | Home Page

Northeast at Southern Maine – team champ Johnson & Wales Preview | Results | Home Page

Southeast at York – team champ Stevens Preview | Results | Home Page

Upper Midwest at Concordia Wisconsin – team champ Augsburg Preview | Results | Home Page

Mideast at Ithaca – team champ TCNJ Preview | Results | Home Page

Lower Midwest at Millikin – team champ Wartburg Preview | Results | Home Page