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Wrestling: Three Buckeyes Earn No.1 Big Ten Pre-Seeds

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Curt Heinrichs's picture
February 28, 2017 at 2:15am
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With the Big Ten tournament this weekend, the Big Ten announced the pre-seeds for the event and a trio of Buckeyes each earned the top spot in their respective weight class. Nathan Tomasello, Bo Jordan, and Kyle Snyder earned the No. 1 pre-seeds at 133, 174, and HWT, respectively, while four of their teammates also earned top five spots. 

Kollin Moore earned the No. 2 pre-seed at 197, while Micah Jordan earned the No. 3 spot at 149. Myles Martin (184) and Luke Pletcher (141) round out the Buckeyes in the top five as they earned the No. 4 and No. 5 seeds. 

The rest of the Buckeye pre-seeds and each weight's top-seed are as follows. 

Big Ten Tournament Pre-seeds
Wt Wrestler's pre-seed Top-seeded wrestler
125  #8 Jose Rodriguez Thomas Gilman (Iowa)
133 #1 Nathan Tomasello Tomasello
141  #5 Luke Pletcher Anthony Ashnault (Rutgers)
149 #3 Micah Jordan Zain Retherford (Penn State)
157 #11 Jake Ryan Jason Nolf (Penn State)
165 Cody Burcher (unseeded) Isaiah Martinez (Illinois)
174 #1 Bo Jordan Jordan
184 #4 Myles Martin Bo Nickal (Penn State)
197 #2 Kollin Moore Brett Pfarr (Minnesota)
HWT #1 Kyle Snyder Snyder

The 2017 Big Ten Tournament runs on March 4-5, and wrestlers will vie for spots at the upcoming NCAA tournament. 

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