West Regional

[roadwarrior]

The west regional will be held at the BBF at NDSU on Saturday March 7th.

The NCAA awarded 19 automatic qualifiers to the national tournament to the regional:

The breakdown of the 19 automatic bids per weight are as follows: 125 (5), 133 (1), 141 (1), 149 (1), 157 (1), 165 (2), 174 (2), 184 (2), 197 (2) and 285 (2).

[bisonaudit]

The west regional will be held at the BBF at NDSU on Saturday March 7th.

The NCAA awarded 19 automatic qualifiers to the national tournament to the regional:

The breakdown of the 19 automatic bids per weight are as follows: 125 (5), 133 (1), 141 (1), 149 (1), 157 (1), 165 (2), 174 (2), 184 (2), 197 (2) and 285 (2).

Wow. Super stacked at 125. Weird.

[BisoninNWMN]

The west regional will be held at the BBF at NDSU on Saturday March 7th.

The NCAA awarded 19 automatic qualifiers to the national tournament to the regional:

The breakdown of the 19 automatic bids per weight are as follows: 125 (5), 133 (1), 141 (1), 149 (1), 157 (1), 165 (2), 174 (2), 184 (2), 197 (2) and 285 (2).


Rodriquez, Bengtson, Julson, Zillmer and Knutson should all make the NCAAs.

Bison have no shot at 133, 157, 165 and 197. 149...maybe.

[Hammersmith]

Wow. Super stacked at 125. Weird.

Is the WWC stacked at 125 or are the other conferences that weak?

[BisoninNWMN]

Is the WWC stacked at 125 or are the other conferences that weak?


The # of positions granted is based on ranked wrestlers in the weight class from your conference.....I think!

At 125, the WWC has 4 guys ranked in the top 20.

Tyler Cox, WYO #12
Josh Martinez, AFA #14
Chasen Tolbert, UVU #15
Josh Martinez, NDSU #16

[Bisonwinagn]

These are the top wrestlers:
Weight Class - Wrestler (Institution) RPI/Coaches' Panel
125 - Tyler Cox (Wyoming) 11th/11th
125 - Chasen Tolbert (Utah Valley) 12th/17th
125 - Josh Rodriguez (North Dakota St.) 14th/16th
125 - Josh Martinez (Air Force) 18th/15th
125 - Trey Andrews (Northern Colorado) 25th/24th
133 - Jade Rauser (Utah Valley) 21st/25th
141 - Mitchell Bengtson (North Dakota St.) 33rd/29th
149 - Clayton Ream (North Dakota St.) 24th/NR
149 - Jake Elliott (Wyoming) 30th/33rd
157 - Cody Pack (South Dakota St.) 10th/6th
157 - Archie Colgan (Wyoming) 28th/NR
165 - Jesse Stafford (Air Force) 16th/16th
165 - Dakota Friesth (Wyoming) 29th/22nd
165 - Mitchell Polkowske (Northern Colorado) NR/25th
174 - Andy McCulley (Wyoming) 12th/14th
174 - Kurtis Julson (North Dakota St.) 21st/26th
184 - Hayden Zillmer (North Dakota St.) 9th/8th
184 - Ben Stroh (Wyoming) 17th/18th
197 - Shane Woods (Wyoming) 12th/14th
197 - Trent Noon (Northern Colorado) 25th/NR
197 - Nathan Rotert (South Dakota St.) 29th/27th
285 - Tanner Harms (Wyoming) 15th/22nd
285 - Evan Knutson (North Dakota St.) 18th/13th

[Bisonwinagn]

Wyoming will be really tough to beat in the team score.

[Big Bird]

5 number 1 seeds http://www.gobison.com/news/2015/3/4/WR_0304155801.aspx

[Bisonwinagn]

5 number 1 seeds http://www.gobison.com/news/2015/3/4/WR_0304155801.aspx

They will likely need all 5 to win in order to have a shot at the Championship. Ream has really come on at 149 and is the #1 seed.

[Bisonwinagn]

Why the fuck is this not working on trackwrestling? And the video on Go Bison is down. What an embarrassment NDSU is when it comes to media and webcast. I'm so sick and tired of this school not spending even one cent on a good webcast. It's been an absolute joke for 10 years.

[RadioBison]

At least the video is back up now. On the one hand, I am happy that I get to watch this at all. But on the other hand, it does seem like they come up with a lot of this broadcast as they go. (Video of one mat, then split screen, then clocks, then scores, then sound, ...)

[17>1]

Just got here in time to see Mitch wrestle. Great match that went to OT. Mitch came out on top. Bison 2-0 in the semis.

[Da Bison]

Bison sending 6 to the finals.

[BadlandsBison]

6 in the finals huh, I like it

[Tatanka]

Niiiiiiiiiice.
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[herdmember]

When are the finals?

[BYZEN]

4:00 they start
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[onbison09]

Rodriguez and Bengston with Ws in the finals.

[Christopher Moen]

After Ream's win, NDSU has three in so far and a 8.5 team lead over Wyoming!

[Christopher Moen]

Julson makes it four in!

[Christopher Moen]

Zillmer makes it five and NDSU has a 10.5 point lead with two weight classes to go!

[Tatanka]

Crush em Bison!!!!!
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[BYZEN]

We win by 4.5 points after a disappointing loss by EK
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[Christopher Moen]

Knutson loses and will have to wrestle Harms for True-Second to qualify for Nationals.

[BYZEN]

Knutson hurt his ankle I think. He should have won.

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[RadioBison]

Knutson loses and will have to wrestle Harms for True-Second to qualify for Nationals.

With the way he was favoring his ankle, this could be a tough match.

[RadioBison]

Julson makes it four in!

Anyone know what the default was for? I don't remember seeing any problems with the UVU wrestler in the semis.

[Christopher Moen]

Anyone know what the default was for? I don't remember seeing any problems with the UVU wrestler in the semis.

Can't tell as I'm following the tournament on my phone through TrackWrestling.

[Big Bird]

His leg looked to be injured, not sure if it was the knee or ankle. He was really limited by it though, and does not lose that match if he doesn't get hurt. He'll still get into NCAAs as a wildcard but now he goes from likely being seeded 10-13 to possibly going unseeded and getting drawn in, which could be a tough blow.

Great performance as a team though. Peterson beat Rotert in the first round, which was a huge upset and was great to see. Nehring is much improved from early in the year and does a couple things really well. He could develop into something very nice.

The 5 that won all looked anywhere from pretty good to great. Nice to see Rodriguez avenge his loss to Tolbert. He deserved the outstanding wrestling award. Bengston wasn't great, but he did what he had to do. Great job to battle back in the finals and get the takedown with 15 seconds left to take the lead. He can be a tough matchup for some guys at NCAAs. Ream looked great. I would not want to get drawn to face him in NCAAs. Hopefully he gets drawn into a good spot and makes a run. Julson didn't have to do much. Zillmer wasn't great but added another quality win. Hopefully Knutson gets seeded decently, with a couple wins over Evarard overriding his loss.

Congrats to Kish on the coach of the year award.

[Chris]

Does anyone know how the heavyweight qualifiers were determined? The bracket showed a need for a true second match between Knutson and the WYO guy. However, the bracket didn't show a result for that match, if it happened. Can anyone shed some light on this?

[BYZEN]

Does anyone know how the heavyweight qualifiers were determined? The bracket showed a need for a true second match between Knutson and the WYO guy. However, the bracket didn't show a result for that match, if it happened. Can anyone shed some light on this?

Knutson was hurt and opted not to wrestle the true second match. Instead he will trust the NCAA to look at his 24-8 record and his past wins over Harms to put him in the Tournament as an "at-large" pick IIRC. It means he won't be seeded and instead will get a shitty draw in the brackets.

[BYZEN]

Nice write up that you won't find in the foolum, from InterMat.
http://www.intermatwrestle.com/articles/14267?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
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[Bisonwinagn]

Knutson was hurt and opted not to wrestle the true second match. Instead he will trust the NCAA to look at his 24-8 record and his past wins over Harms to put him in the Tournament as an "at-large" pick IIRC. It means he won't be seeded and instead will get a shitty draw in the brackets.

Are the At-Large's not seeded or just thinking that may happen?

[Big Bird]

I think they're seeded if deemed good enough. Otherwise, with B12 getting no AQ spots and all of there guys having to get in through wild card spots, you could see a high seed get drawn to face Alex Dieringer, which would be brutal and unfair. Also:

"On March 9, wrestlers in each weight class will receive an updated Win %, RPI and coaches’ ranking that includes all
competition through the qualifying events." from the ncaa manual.

[onbison09]

Nice write up that you won't find in the foolum, from InterMat.
http://www.intermatwrestle.com/articles/14267?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
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Schnnepf had a write up http://www.inforum.com/sports/bison/3695137-bison-take-first-place-west-regional-wrestling-tournament-winning-five

[BYZEN]

Are the At-Large's not seeded or just thinking that may happen?

Just thinking that it may hurt his seeding.