Three Buckeyes will wrestle for Big Ten titles Sunday, and five more will wrestle in placement matches after battling through the consolation brackets.
It was a big first day of the conference tournament for Ohio State, as all but two members of the team earned automatic bids to the NCAA Wrestling Championships.
Tom Ryan knew his team faced an uphill battle trying to earn automatic bids to the NCAA tournament for all 10 wrestlers in the lineup. The Buckeyes have qualified all 10 each of the past two seasons, a feat that is no small achievement.
“We need some bracket busters,” he told reporters Thursday before flying to New Jersey for the Big Ten tourney.