Playoff timeline: The WIAA will release its 224-team playoff field at about midnight Friday, and is expected to have each of the seven 32-team divisions further broken down into four groupings of eight teams each by 2 a.m. Saturday. The complete playoff brackets — with matchups for each game — will be posted at about noon Saturday. The first of five rounds of playoff games will begin Oct. 19, with the higher-seeded school as the host in most cases.
The pressure is on: Area teams that must win to clinch a playoff berth are Baraboo and Reedsburg (who meet Friday in Reedsburg), Stoughton (vs.