The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, without Brandon Wright and Jake Young, two wrestlers that would have been seeded to Saturday night’s championship finals, was still accorded top-seeded slots for Bucky Johnson (125), Josh Statum (133), Josh Condon (157) and Niko Brown (197). Second-seeded were Dean Pavlou (149) and Tom Minwell (285).
Jason McCroskey (184) is a No. 3 seed and replacements Jeremy Sandoval (141), Bond Davis (165) and Alex Hudson (174) received No. 6 seeds.
The tournament begins at 11 a.m. Saturday and championship finals are scheduled to begin at 7. UTC won the regular season championship for the sixth consecutive year and will be seeking its sixth tournament championship as well.