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B1G Wrestling Championship: Predicting winners for each weight class

By Chris Snyder

STATE COLLEGE, PA - FEBRUARY 5: A view of the crowd in the arena during a match between the Penn State Nittany Lions and the Ohio State Buckeyes on February 5, 2016 at Recreation Hall on the campus of Penn State University in State College, Pennsylvania. Penn State won 24-14. (Photo by Hunter Martin/Getty Images)
STATE COLLEGE, PA - FEBRUARY 5: A view of the crowd in the arena during a match between the Penn State Nittany Lions and the Ohio State Buckeyes on February 5, 2016 at Recreation Hall on the campus of Penn State University in State College, Pennsylvania. Penn State won 24-14. (Photo by Hunter Martin/Getty Images) /
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Ryan Deakin of the Northwestern Wildcats wrestles Kendall Coleman of the Purdue Boilermakers during the Big Ten Championships(Photo by Hunter Martin/Getty Images)
Ryan Deakin of the Northwestern Wildcats wrestles Kendall Coleman of the Purdue Boilermakers during the Big Ten Championships(Photo by Hunter Martin/Getty Images) /

157

Finally we’ve reached the portion of the brackets where I have absolutely no clue who’s going to win. It’s potentially anyone’s ballgame.

157 B1G Pre-Seeds
1. Ryan Deakin, Northwestern
2. Kaleb Young, Iowa
3. Brayton Lee, Minnesota
4. Kendall Coleman, Purdue
5. Brady Berge, Penn State
6. Will Lewan, Michigan
7. Chase Saldate, Michigan State
8. Garrett Model, Wisconsin
9. Elijah Cleary, Ohio State
10. Caleb Licking, Nebraska
11. Michael Doetsch, Maryland
12. Johnny Mologousis, Illinois
13. Luke Baughman, Indiana

Of the brackets I have the least clue about who’s going to win, the 157 group is the one I’m most confident I have the least amount of cluelessness Or, something like that.

Clearly Deakin is the cream of the crop at 157, however he has only hit the mat 3 times this season. He wrestled twice on February 14th against Wisconsin in both a regular dual match and an extra match. His last match was against Minnesota’s Brayton Lee where Deakin was able to outclass the Sophomore in a 12-0 major decision.

Deakin is also the reigning B1G Champion at 157, but I’m not going to crown him just yet. The 2021 wrestling season has been weird and something tells me the 157 bracket will have some weirdness of its own.

My pick for the finals, based on no empirical evidence or anything tangible, are Penn State’s Brady Berge and Minnesota’s Brayton Lee. And I’m going to say Lee wins it all to claim the title at 157.

I too like to live dangerously.

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