March, Mat Madness Begins for WrestlersMarch, Mat Madness Begins for Wrestlers
Charles Jischke

March, Mat Madness Begins for Wrestlers

Minnesota will play host to the Big Ten Championships at Williams Arena starting Saturday.

TOURNAMENT INFORMATION
Big Ten Championships
Saturday, March 9 to Sunday, March 10 / Williams Arena / Minneapolis, Minnesota

Big Ten Championships Hub

MINNEAPOLIS - The entire season comes down to what happens over the course of two days at the Big Ten Wrestling Championships. Purdue's wrestlers will go to battle on four mats at Minnesota's Williams Arena in the first of two sessions Saturday starting at 11 a.m. ET. Their goal: qualify for the NCAA Championships in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 

The Big Ten Championships Hub on PurdueSports.com is the go-to spot for everything related to the tournament:

• Schedule
• Brackets
• Live streaming links to each mat
• Match notes, stats
• Purdue match results, upcoming matches

Tournament pre-seeds were released Monday. Voted on by the conference's coaches, the top-eight wrestlers are ranked in three weight classes (149, 197, 285), along with all 14 starters in seven weight classes due to the Big Ten receiving nine or more NCAA Championships qualifier allocations at those weights.

Seeds are finalized at Friday's coaches meeting and will be announced in conjunction with the release of tournament brackets.
 
PURDUE LINEUP
WEIGHT PRE-SEED NCAA COACHES' RANK NAME YEAR RECORD
125 9 18 Devin Schroder RS So. 17-8
133 7 20 Ben Thornton RS Sr. 18-7
141 10 27 Nate Limmex RS Jr. 17-12
149 Parker Filius RS Fr. 9-18
157 9 13 Griffin Parriott RS So. 13-9
165 14 Cole Wysocki RS Jr. 9-19
174 3 10 Dylan Lydy RS Jr. 23-6
184 8 29 Max Lyon So. 20-10
197 4 12 Christian Brunner Jr. 19-7
285 Jacob Aven RS Sr. 10-18