CHICAGO - On Monday night during their weekly B1G Wrestling & Beyond show, the Big Ten Conference revealed the pre-seeds for the upcoming 2024 Big Ten Wrestling Championships in College Park, Md. The projected seeds put Matt Ramos in the top spot in the 125 pound weight class and gave four more Boilers spots inside the top-10.
Ramos, who also holds the unanimous No. 1 spot across all of the national polls, becomes the first Boilermaker to enter the Big Ten tournament as the top seed in his weight class since Colton Salazar in 2010 at 157 pounds. He is also just the fourth to earn that No. 1 seed since 1965. This tournament is his chance to become the program's first Big Ten Champion since Ryan Lange in 2004 and the 41st all-time.
Head coach Tony Ersland saw four more of his wrestlers secure top-10 spots in Stoney Buell (No. 7 at 165), Joey Blaze (No. 8 at 157), Ben Vanadia (No. 9 at 197) and Brody Baumann (No. 10 at 174). They represent career-high seeds for both Buell and Vanadia in their second career tournaments. Blaze's spot is the highest for a Purdue true freshman since the 2017 tournament when Christian Brunner checked in a No. 8 at 197.
The next-highest seeded Boilermakers are Dustin Norris and Marcos Polanco, who check-in at No. 11 at 133 and 165 respectively. True freshman Greyson Clark is slated to return from injury and will take a No. 12 seed along with James Rowley. Despite only wrestling one match at heavyweight in his career (his most recent one), redshirt-sophomore Hayden Filipovich will step up and represent the old gold and black as the No. 14 seed at 285 on the big stage this weekend.
Official brackets will be released closer to the start of the tournament. The action begins on Saturday, March 9 at 10:00 a.m. ET on BTN.
Ramos, who also holds the unanimous No. 1 spot across all of the national polls, becomes the first Boilermaker to enter the Big Ten tournament as the top seed in his weight class since Colton Salazar in 2010 at 157 pounds. He is also just the fourth to earn that No. 1 seed since 1965. This tournament is his chance to become the program's first Big Ten Champion since Ryan Lange in 2004 and the 41st all-time.
Head coach Tony Ersland saw four more of his wrestlers secure top-10 spots in Stoney Buell (No. 7 at 165), Joey Blaze (No. 8 at 157), Ben Vanadia (No. 9 at 197) and Brody Baumann (No. 10 at 174). They represent career-high seeds for both Buell and Vanadia in their second career tournaments. Blaze's spot is the highest for a Purdue true freshman since the 2017 tournament when Christian Brunner checked in a No. 8 at 197.
The next-highest seeded Boilermakers are Dustin Norris and Marcos Polanco, who check-in at No. 11 at 133 and 165 respectively. True freshman Greyson Clark is slated to return from injury and will take a No. 12 seed along with James Rowley. Despite only wrestling one match at heavyweight in his career (his most recent one), redshirt-sophomore Hayden Filipovich will step up and represent the old gold and black as the No. 14 seed at 285 on the big stage this weekend.
Official brackets will be released closer to the start of the tournament. The action begins on Saturday, March 9 at 10:00 a.m. ET on BTN.
| Wt. | Wrestler | Seed |
| 125 | Matt Ramos (R-Jr.) | 1 |
| 133 | Dustin Norris (R-So.) | 11 |
| 141 | Greyson Clark (Fr.) | 12 |
| 149 | Marcos Polanco (R-Sr.) | 11 |
| 157 | Joey Blaze (Fr.) | 8 |
| 165 | Stoney Buell (R-So.) | 7 |
| 174 | Brody Baumann (R-Fr.) | 10 |
| 184 | James Rowley (R-Fr.) | 12 |
| 197 | Ben Vanadia (R-So.) | 9 |
| 285 | Hayden Filipovich (R-So.) | 14 |