The Midlands

[bluemountain1967]

The Midlands don't appear as competitive compared to past years. The best teams appear to be ASU, Northwestern, Pitt, Rutgers, Penn, Illinois, Princeton, Virginia, West Virginia, and Indiana. The bottom teams are Bloomsbury, F&M, Brown, Southern Illinois, Buffalo, George Mason, Central Michigan, Cleveland State, Northern Illinois, and Harvard. I wish the tournament was more competitive so the team can be really tested.

According to Wrestlestat our guys are projected as follows: 125 Peterson/Shaver 6th, 133 Heilmann 5th, 141 Sammy 2nd, 149 White 5th, 157 Clark 10th, 165 O'Neil 12th, 174 Turley 13th, 184 Soldano 1st, 197 Janzer 12th, Heavyweight Boone 7th

Clark, Turley, Janzer, and Boone should do better than projected.

Once the seeds are posted, let's project where each individual wrestler and the overall team will finish.

 

[SCNJ]

A lot of good teams went to Cliff Keen and some top teams are going to Journeyman duals. Assuming that played a role. Shame because Midlands a few years ago was almost like a psuedo mid year national championship.

 

[flyer1986]

i assume many of are guys are wrestling unaffiliated either at this tournament or others? any insight?

 

[Leonard23]

We should hit CKLV and/or Southern Scuffle for a change, or those lavish FL duals, if they still have them.

 

[SCNJ]

We should hit CKLV and/or Southern Scuffle for a change, or those lavish FL duals, if they still have them.

Believe it or not we’ve actually wrestled in both the Cliff Keen and Southern Scuffle more recently than the Midlands

 

[Leonard23]

Believe it or not we’ve actually wrestled in both the Cliff Keen and Southern Scuffle more recently than the Midlands

You're not counting the last minute replacement of the Midlands cancelled last year?

CKLV 2018, 2014

Midlands (and its replacement) 2022, 2021, 2017, 2016, 2015

Scuffle 2020

 

[SCNJ]

You're not counting the last minute replacement of the Midlands cancelled last year?

CKLV 2018, 2014

Midlands (and its replacement) 2022, 2021, 2017, 2016, 2015

Scuffle 2020

Right. The last time we were at the official midlands tournament was 2017

 

[PessimisticallyHopefulPragmatist]

TI wish the tournament was more competitive so the team can be really tested.

According to Wrestlestat our guys are projected as follows: 125 Peterson/Shaver 6th, 133 Heilmann 5th, 141 Sammy 2nd, 149 White 5th, 157 Clark 10th, 165 O'Neil 12th, 174 Turley 13th, 184 Soldano 1st, 197 Janzer 12th, Heavyweight Boone 7th

Those projections suggest plenty of competition.

 

[5sf]

I think we’ll improve on last years fifth place finish. We have the talent to match last years two first finishes and we are stronger at every weight class.