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The Daily Iowan

Brooks, Sorensen, and Clark land No. 2 seeds

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The NCAA released the brackets for the 2016 national championships and three Iowa wrestlers will be No. 2 seeds in the tournament.

Eight of the nine qualified wrestlers will be seeded, with 165-pounder Patrick Rhoads being the lone exception. The Hawkeyes’ seeds and first round opponents are listed below.

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125 — Thomas Gilman: No. 4 seed, faces Central Michigan’s Brent Fleetwood

133 — Cory Clark: No. 2 seed, faces Utah Valley’s Jade Rauser

149 — Brandon Sorensen: No. 2 seed, faces Eastern Michigan’s Nick Barber

157 — Edwin Cooper Jr.: No. 13 seed, faces Nebraska’s Tyler Berger

165 — Patrick Rhoads: unseeded, faces Stanford’s No. 13 Jim Wilson

174 — Alex Meyer: No. 13 seed, faces Lehigh’s Gordon Wolf

184 — Sammy Brooks: No. 2 seed, faces Chattanooga’s John Lampe

197 — Nathan Burak: No. 4 seed, faces Northern Colorado’s Trent Noon

285 — Sam Stoll: No. 11 seed, faces Gardner Webb’s Boyce Cornwell

The full bracket can be found/saved/printed from the NCAA’s official website.

—Jordan Hansen

 

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