Missouri Receives Big 12 Championship Seeding
2/28/2022 2:30:00 PM | Wrestling
The Tigers have five top-four seeds.
COLUMIBA, Mo. – The University of Missouri wrestling team will have nine seeded competitors at the 2022 Big 12 Championships, the conference announced Monday afternoon. The conference championship tournament will run March 5-6 in Tulsa, Okla.
Freshman Keegan O'Toole and redshirt sophomore Zach Elam were seeded highest amongst Mizzou's entries. O'Toole will be the No. 1 seed at 165 pounds and Elam will be the No. 2 seed at 285 pounds.
Also seeded in the top-4 are juniors Allan Hart (No. 4 at 141 pounds) and Jarrett Jacques (No. 4 at 149 pounds), as well as freshman Josh Edmond (No. 4 at 149 pounds).
Freshman Rocky Elam (No. 5 at 197 pounds), redshirt freshman Noah Surtin (No. 5 at 125 pounds) and redshirt sophomores Peyton Mocco (No. 6 at 174 pounds) and Jeremiah Kent (No. 6 at 184 pounds) round out the seeded Missouri wrestlers. At 133 pounds, redshirt junior Connor Brown is the Tigers' lone unseeded competitor.
Missouri will be competing for 10 of the Big 12's 58 total automatic bids. The conference will send no less than four wrestlers per weight to the NCAA Championships in Detroit March 17-19.
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