Redshirt junior Andrew Romanchik has earned an at-large to the NCAA Tournament as the selection committee releases brackets
The NCAA Division I Wrestling Committee released the brackets for the upcoming NCAA Tournament, which included Ohio 184-pound redshirt junior Andrew Romanchik as one of the 71 at-large bids.
The inclusion of Romanchik to the field of 330 wrestlers upped the Bobcats’ total number of qualifiers to six. He will not have a seed in the tournament.
Romanchik joins 149-pound redshirt junior No. 11 Tywan Claxton, unseeded redshirt junior Spartak Chino, 165-pound redshirt senior No. 16 Harrison Hightower, 174-pound redshirt junior No. 9 Cody Walters, and 197-pound redshirt junior No. 14 Phil Wellington.
A few Ohio wrestlers expressed their disappointment in the NCAA Tournament brackets via Twitter.
Junior KeVon Powell, who has been sidelined this season due to injury, tweeted: “The seeds at 174 (pounds) are very dumb.”
Junior Kagan Squire responded with his own jab, replying: “(I) can’t think of one weight class where they did even a mediocre job.”
This may be in response to Cody Walters earning a nine-seed despite his 30-1 record. For comparison, the two-seed, Penn State’s Matthew Brown had a 24-3 record.
The tournament begins next Thursday with the championship rounds concluding on Saturday evening.
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