National Duals-Hybrid?

[MSU158]

NWCA National Duals

DATE: Sunday, February 21, 2016 (Finals may be moved to Monday, February 22 to accommodate TV)

LOCATION: (8) Big Ten Schools (To be determined by Sunday, February 14, 2016)

FORMAT: On February 14, 2016, the top 8 BigTen teams will be selected to participate based on their NWCA Coaches Poll Rankings. The dual meet champion from the 7 “non bigTen” conferences will also receive an automatic bid to participate. One “non BigTen” wild card team will be chosen based on its coaches poll ranking to round out the field of 16 teams.

TICKETS: Will be sold by each individual Big Ten School

RESULTS:

TV/WEBCAST: TBA

I assume that means that all 8 B1G teams will host? The highest ranked B1G qualifiers will wrestle the highest ranked "non bigTen" conference champs in order? Would the Wild Card(who will undoubtedly be ranked higher than at least half the conference champs) automatically get the 8th B1G team? Or will they fit in where they are ranked? It looks like they are all going to be wrestled at the same time?

Without knowing all the answers, this looks to be the matchups by what the NWCA rankings are to date:

PSU vs. NCState
Iowa vs. Missouri
Rutgers vs OkState
Nebraska vs. Lehigh
Michigan vs. Oregon State(already happened so I see them finding a way for it not to)
Ohio St. vs App State
Illinois vs. Edinboro(not ranked but I assume they will win EWL)
Purdue vs Oklahoma/Virginia Tech/ISU/North Carolina/Cornell

Oklahoma is currently ranked 9th so I could see them bumping up to face Michigan. All in all, not a system that really looks to motivate fans...........................

 

[MSU158]

Only put this in a separate thread to make it easier to view the NWCA webpage.

 

[goiahawkeyes]

I have no idea how they're doing it, but it seems you have a pretty good grasp on it. If I'm making a bracket out of it I'd put the #1 seed against the lowest seed instead of matching the top Big Ten team against the top "Other" team. I'd seed the top 8 teams (no matter the conference) and start at the top and match them up against the lowest remaining seed and just make sure the first round is Big Ten vs Non Big Ten....that's how I'd do it with the "old" bracketing format. But if you're just looking for the best matchups, then I think MSU158 has it down.

Matchups
#1 Penn St vs Edinboro
#2 Iowa vs Appalachian St
#3 NC State vs Purdue
#4 Missouri vs Illinois
#5 Oklahoma St vs Ohio St
#6 Rutgers vs Oregon St
#7 Nebraska vs At Large (Oklahoma/VA Tech/ISU/UNC
#8 Lehigh vs Michigan

Big Ten Ranking
Penn St
Iowa
Rutgers
Nebraska
Michigan
Ohio St
Illinois
Purdue

Non Big Ten Ranking
NC State
Missouri
Oklahoma ST
Lehigh
At Large (Oklahoma/VA Tech/ISU/UNC
Oregon ST
Appalachian St
Edinboro

 

[pap17754]

I would put Michigan ahead of Rutgers

 

[Omahahawk86]

Missouri Iowa would be great. We've had seen ok state and nc state(at midlands). Mayes has quietly had a dominating year at 149...kind of the forgotten man.

 

[MSU158]

Pap,

The order listed is based off the Nwca rankings.

 

[burnsie1983]

It's not a bracket, to the best of my understanding. It's just one match per team.

 

[255]

Why fix what should not be broken.
Rank 'em, bracket them and wrestle.
As teams get better this event could be premier. Second only to NCAA.
We will see. As long as we wrestle and wrestle well, I am going to enjoy the show. A PSU/Iowa final would be great to watch and great for the sport this season.