Oklahoma State Seeds Released With Brackets for the NCAA Championships
STILLWATER – The NCAA released the seeds and the brackets on Wednesday night March 11 for the upcoming NCAA Wrestling Championships at Rocket Arena in Cleveland, Ohio starting March 19-21. The big news was at 133 pounds where Oklahoma State’s mid-year enrollee and US Senior Open champion from this past summer that wrestled for the USA in the World Championships Jax Forrest was seeded No. 1. He should be as Forrest is a perfect 13-0 since starting his college career in January with a pin in Bedlam.
Here are all the seeds for Oklahoma State for the NCAA Championships and more information.
| Weight | Oklahoma State Wrestler - record | NCAA Seed | Internet Ranking | Top Seed at the Weight | First Round Opp. |
| 125 | Troy Spratley - 16-3 | 5th | 4th | Luke Lilledahl - PSU | Andrew Binni - Navy |
| 133 | Jax Forrest - 13-0 | 1st | 3rd | Forrest | Pigtail winner |
| 141 | Sergio Vega - 19-0 | 2nd | 2nd | Jesse Mendez - OhSt | Billy DeKraker - NW |
| 149 | Casey Swiderski - 14-5 | 8th | 6th | Shayne Van Ness - PSU | Michael Gioffre - Ill. |
| 157 | Landon Robideau - 16-2 | 5th | 5th | P.J. Duke - PSU | Gavin Drexler - NDSU |
| 165 | Dee Lockett - 16-2 | 5th | 5th | Mitchell Mesenbrink - PSU | Cody Goebel - Wis. |
| 174 | Alex Facundo - 16-6 | 8th | 8th | Levi Haines - PSU | Sergio Desiante - VaTech |
| 184 | Zack Ryder - 12-8 | 22nd | 11th | Rocco Welsh - PSU | S. Cartagena-Walsh - Rut. |
| 187 | Cody Merrill - 17-4 | 7th | 7th | Josh Barr - PSU | Ben Vanadia - Pur. |
| Hwt. | Konner Doucet - 17-3 | 7th | 6th | Younger Bastida - IaSt | Luke Luffman - Ill. |
The average seed for Oklahoma State is 7.2 and the average seed for Penn State is 3.3 with the Nittany Lions having seven top seeds. I predicted the seeds earlier this week and I nailed five of those including projecting Forrest as a top seed.
Jax Forrest will open with the winner of the pigtail between Oklahoma’s Carter Schmidt and Central Michigan’s Andrew Austin. It was Schmidt that Forrest pinned in his first ever collegiate match in the Bedlam dual.
