The NCAA released the brackets for the 2016 national championships and three Iowa wrestlers will be No. 2 seeds in the tournament.
Eight of the nine qualified wrestlers will be seeded, with 165-pounder Patrick Rhoads being the lone exception. The Hawkeyes’ seeds and first round opponents are listed below.
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125 — Thomas Gilman: No. 4 seed, faces Central Michigan’s Brent Fleetwood
133 — Cory Clark: No. 2 seed, faces Utah Valley’s Jade Rauser
149 — Brandon Sorensen: No. 2 seed, faces Eastern Michigan’s Nick Barber
157 — Edwin Cooper Jr.: No. 13 seed, faces Nebraska’s Tyler Berger
165 — Patrick Rhoads: unseeded, faces Stanford’s No. 13 Jim Wilson
174 — Alex Meyer: No. 13 seed, faces Lehigh’s Gordon Wolf
184 — Sammy Brooks: No. 2 seed, faces Chattanooga’s John Lampe
197 — Nathan Burak: No. 4 seed, faces Northern Colorado’s Trent Noon
285 — Sam Stoll: No. 11 seed, faces Gardner Webb’s Boyce Cornwell
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The full bracket can be found/saved/printed from the NCAA’s official website.
—Jordan Hansen