Eight Nittany Lions earned top-three seeds in this weekend’s Big Ten Wrestling Championships, as the tournament brackets were finalized and released Friday.
Zain Retherford (149 pounds), Mark Hall (174) and Bo Nickal (184) each earned the top seeds, while Nick Lee (141) Jason Nolf (157), and Shakur Rasheed (197) are seeded second, and Vincenzo Joseph (165) and Nick Nevils (heavyweight) got third.
Corey Keener picked up the sixth seed at 133 pounds, while fellow senior transfer Carson Kuhn is 14th at 125.
Retherford, Nickal and Keener will need just one win apiece to reach the semifinals, as they each will start out the tournament with a bye.