Wisconsin Wrestling: Badgers in the NCAA tournament

The Wisconsin Badgers are sending eight wrestlers to the NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships, led by Dean Hamiti, who received the 165-pound crown on the Massive 10 Championships final weekend.

The Badgers solely didn’t get a bid from the 174 or 184-pound weight class after Tyler Dow and Josh Otto went 0-3 and 0-2 respectively on the Massive 10 Championships.

Listed here are the seeds of the Badgers’ wrestlers and their first-round matchups.

125: Wisconsin’s Eric Barnett(ninth seed) vs Michigan’s Jack Medley(twenty fourth seed)

133: Wisconsin’s Taylor LaMont(twenty eighth seed) vs North Carolina State’s Kai Orine(fifth seed)

141: Wisconsin’s Joseph Zargo(thirty first seed) vs Northern Colorado’s Andrew Alirez(2nd seed)

149: Wisconsin’s Austin Gomez(fifteenth seed) vs Rider’s Quinn Kinner(18th seed)

157: Wisconsin’s Garrett Mannequin(nineteenth seed) vs Iowa’s Cobe Siebrecht(14th seed)

165: Wisconsin’s Dean Hamiti(third seed) vs Drexel’s Evan Barczak(30rd seed)

197: Wisconsin’s Braxton Amos (seventeenth seed) vs North Dakota State’s Owen Pentz(sixteenth seed)

285: Wisconsin’s Trent Hillger(eleventh seed) vs Virginia Tech’s Hunter Catka(twenty second seed)

The NCAA Championships start on Thursday, March sixteenth on the BOK Heart in Tulsa, Oklahoma.