🚨Seeds are OUT🚨#Hokies 🦃 lead the way with 3 No. 1 seeds 👊MORE 👇https://t.co/fb8sFjfQJC pic.twitter.com/qRf5QlVHcS— Virginia Tech Wrestling (@HokiesWrestling) March 5, 2019
🗣 O N E W E E K❗️Some of the nation's best wrestlers will invade Blacksburg on March 9 for the @ACCWrestling Championships. Get your tickets now 👊 #Hokies 🦃🎟 >> https://t.co/3CoaTWUSSk pic.twitter.com/IMOESmTkK3— Virginia Tech Wrestling (@HokiesWrestling) March 2, 2019
For those lucky enough to be in Blacksburg this weekend, the wrestling team is poised to snag another ACC championship in Cassell.
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Why does wrestling not count towards the Commonwealth Clash? Does UVA not field a varsity team?
we already got our clash point when we beat them in the head to head duals meet. Winning the championship will help us in case of a tie
See here
Makes sense - should have referred to that post. Thanks for clarifying.
In addition to the ACC Championship, keep an eye on how many we get to take to Pittsburgh. You can't score if you aren't there. The top # wrestlers at each weight class in (poorly formated) chart below go to National tournament, along with some at large invitations.
Conference 125 133 141 149 157 165 174 184 197 285 Total
Atlantic Coast Conference 2 4 4 4 4 4 3 5 4 3 37
Big 12 Conference 5 5 6 7 1 6 5 5 7 6 53
Big Ten Conference 9 8 9 6 9 9 8 8 5 7 78
Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association 4 4 3 5 6 4 5 6 6 4 47
Eastern Wrestling League 1 2 1 1 1 3 1 1 1 2 14
Mid-American Conference 4 3 4 1 5 1 2 2 1 4 27
Pacific-12 Conference 3 2 1 2 2 1 1 1 2 2 17
Southern Conference 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 2 1 13
TOTAL QUALIFIERS 29 29 29 28 29 29 27 29 28 29 286
So does this mean that the top two finishers in the 125 lb weight class at the ACC tourney get to go or that the two highest ranked 125 lb wrestlers in the ACC after the tournament get to go to nationals?
Top 2 at the acc tournament
What metric is used to decide that the top 9 125# from Big10 go, but only top 2 from ACC? Something similar to FIFA divvying up World Cup slots but maybe less bribery?
Is the 9th best in the Big10 better than the 3rd in the ACC?
Honestly I would say the seeding is a pretty legitimate and fair system. The B1G is by far the top wrestling conference the last 12 straight NCAA champions have come from the B1G and all 14 universities have a wrestling team. The ACC only has 6 universities with wrestling (VT, NC State, Pitt, UVA, UNC, Duke) and VT was the first ACC team to ever win a team trophy (which means a Top 4 finish) in 2016. So yeah, it's very possible that the B1G has 9 wrestlers better than the 3rd best wrestler in the ACC for a given weight class (actually based on the ranking systems, they have 10). The NCAA release about qualifier allocations and the rankings used is linked below.
NCAA Division I wrestling qualifier allocations for 2019 championships, coaches' panel rankings and RPI announced
To summarize, if every VT wrestler performs to seed then we would qualify at every weight except 125.
If a wrestler doesn't finish in the necessary place at the conference tournament to earn the automatic qualification, there are a limited number of at-large bids to the NCAA tournament that are given out as well (ultimately there are 33 total qualifiers for the NCAA tournament at each weight class). Regardless of ACC tournament finish, VT wrestlers would be expected to earn an at-large bid at 133, 165, 174, 184, 197, and 285. Next most likely at-large bids would be 141, 157, 149, and 125 in that order. If it comes down to it, I'd feel mostly confident about an at-large bid at 141, decent at 157, getting nervous at 149, and unlikely at 125. This all depends on how all conference tournaments and automatic qualifications shake out at each weight class though, as more upsets hurt our chances for at-large bids.