[Wrestling] NCAA Championships

[Chris '03]

First round starts at 11 am this morning on ESPN3.com

Brackets: http://www.ncaa.com/sites/default/files/files/2011-DI-Brackets%281%29.pdf
Broadcast info: http://www.ncaa.com/news/wrestling/2011-03-14/di-wrestling-championships-central
Stats: http://www.nwcaonline.com/nwcaonline/CompetitionResultNCAA.aspx


Team Standings through Thursday:
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1. Penn State     30.5 (7 in champ/1 Cons.)
2. Cornell        29.0 (5/4)
3. Iowa           25.0 (5/4)
   OK State       25.0 (4/4)
5. American       23.5 (3/2)

Through 149 Quarters (aka here come Iowa)
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1. Penn State     34.5 (6 in champ/1 Cons.)
2. Cornell        30.0 (4/3)
   Iowa           30.0 (5/4)
4. OK State       29.5 (3/5)
5. Michigan       27.0 (1/5)
   Wisconsin      27.0 (4/2)
 
Through All Quarters  
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1. Cornell        61.0 (4 in champ/2 Cons.)
2. Penn State     60.5 (4/3)
3. Iowa           51.0 (3/5)
4. American       47.0 (3/2)
5. OK State       43.5 (2/6)

Through Friday Morning
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1. Cornell        61.0 (4 in champ/1 Cons.)
2. Penn State     60.5 (4/3)
3. Iowa           52.0 (3/4)
4. American       49.0 (3/1)
5. OK State       44.5 (2/4)


Through Friday
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1. Penn State     92.5 (3 in champ/2 Cons.)
2. Cornell        75.0 (1/4)
3. Iowa           74.0 (1/4)
4. OK State       65.5 (2/1)
5. American       56.0 (1/2)

Final Standings
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1. Penn State     107.5 (1 National Champion/2 Runners up)
2. Cornell        93.5 (1 (Kyle Dake at 149)/0)
3. Iowa           86.5 (0/1)
4. OK State       65.5 (1/1)
5. American       56.0 (0/1)

[Al DeFlorio]

First round starts at 11 am this morning on ESPN3.com

Brackets: http://www.ncaa.com/sites/default/files/files/2011-DI-Brackets%281%29.pdf
Broadcast info: http://www.ncaa.com/news/wrestling/2011-03-14/di-wrestling-championships-central
Stats: http://www.nwcaonline.com/nwcaonline/CompetitionResultNCAA.aspx


I'm no expert at reading the bracket but it looks like Manson is in one of the first matches of the day.

We're heading for the Wells Fargo Center as I write this.  I can see it from our hotel window.  I'm expecting this to be very close among Cornell, Penn State, Iowa, and maybe Oklahoma State.

[Chris '03]

Manson lost his pigtail 8-3 to a guy from Boise. Wasn't particularly close.

[ugarte]

In the first round:

125: #11 Perrelli escapes with a 4-3 win over NDSU. Will face #6 Bedelyon (VA Tech)

133: #8 Grey wins 11-5 over Oregon State. Will face #9 Carter (VA Tech)

141: Manson loses his pigtail to BSU. He'll face (Millersville) in the consolation pigtail; willer to face (Utah Valley State). Both unranked. (The wrestler who beat Manson was pinned in his first round match. Ugh.)

149: #4 Dake MD 9-0 over CMU. He'll face Gillespie (Edinboro)

157: Meagher loses 1-4 to #1 Hall (BSU) (tough draw). He is going to face Sulzer (EMU), who was destroyed 13-4 by a wrestler Meagher beat earlier this year.

165: #9 Kerber wins 2-1 over Abdurakhmanov (Clarion) on a late penalty point for fleeing the mat. He'll face #8 Winston (Rutgers), who beat him at EIWA.

174: #3 Lewnes wins 7-2 over Meys (Screw BU). He'll face Nick Purdue (Ohio).

184: #3 Bosak TF 15-0 over Dieckhaus (NIU). He'll face Meredith (Arizona St.)

197: #1 Simaz wins 6-2 over Smith (Cal Poly). He'll face Johnson (Nebraska).

That wraps up the first round. Cornell goes 7-2 with a couple of close calls and only one disappointing loss.

[nyc94]

What's a pigtail?

[ugarte]

What's a pigtail?

It is the inverse of a bye; instead of getting a pass into the next round, a few wrestlers have an extra match before the first round. Imagine a bracket with 33 wrestlers; in order to get down to 32, two wrestlers are placed in a pigtail round to go to the "first" round.

[RichH]

What's a pigtail?

I had to look it up myself. Looks to be basically a "play-in" game to get to a regular bracket.  Like the 64-65 game that the squeakball tournament decided to have a couple years ago or the play-in game that the ECAC did for a few years in Lake Placid for their Championship weekend.

I think I heard squeakball did something different this year, but I'm not paying a lick of attention to that tournament.

[Beeeej]

What's a pigtail?

I had to look it up myself. Looks to be basically a "play-in" game to get to a regular bracket.  Like the 64-65 game that the squeakball tournament decided to have a couple years ago or the play-in game that the ECAC did for a few years in Lake Placid for their Championship weekend.

I think I heard squeakball did something different this year, but I'm not paying a lick of attention to that tournament.

Squeakball did four pigtail games this year, for a total of 68 teams in the tournament.

The Div. III hockey tournament, incidentally, also involves three pigtails - it's an eleven-team field, which strikes me as odd, given that Div. III has over seventy teams, while Div. I only has 58.

[ugarte]

The Div. III hockey tournament, incidentally, also involves three pigtails - it's an eleven-team field, which strikes me as odd, given that Div. III has over seventy teams, while Div. I only has 58.

Maybe there are a lot of autobids and they didn't want to push out the at-large bids from the traditionally stronger conferences?

[Beeeej]

The Div. III hockey tournament, incidentally, also involves three pigtails - it's an eleven-team field, which strikes me as odd, given that Div. III has over seventy teams, while Div. I only has 58.

Maybe there are a lot of autobids and they didn't want to push out the at-large bids from the traditionally stronger conferences?

I meant that I thought it was strange that they don't have a 16-team tournament, not strange that they don't have an 8-team tournament.

[jkahn]

That wraps up the first round. Cornell goes 7-2 with a couple of close calls and only one disappointing loss.

Iowa went 9-1 in the first round.  Oklahoma State went 5-5.

[Trotsky]

Is team scoring a simple function of x points for advancing to this round, y for this round, etc?

[Jacob '06]

Is team scoring a simple function of x points for advancing to this round, y for this round, etc?

It also figures how the match was won, more points for a win by 8 or more points, even more for a technical fall (15 points), and the most points for a pin.

[Trotsky]

Found it.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Team Standings after round 1