Weekend outlook at the Midlands Championships

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Weekend outlook at the Midlands Championships

December 27, 2017 | Wrestling

#Midlands55 Top Contenders announced

Sixteen wrestlers will represent UW at the 55th annual tournament

MADISON, Wis.- After a small break over the holidays, Wisconsin wrestling is back in action heading to compete in the annual Midlands Championships on Friday and Saturday. In total, the Badgers will be facing 37 other Division I programs in the tournament's 55th showing.

"This weekend is great because we will run into a lot of competition that our guys will see at the NCAA tournament in March", Volunteer assistant coach Camden Eppert said. "Midlands is also really special in that we get to see a lot of redshirts and unattached competition looking to prove themselves to the country. We have three guys just like that and I cannot wait for them to get after it. This tournament will test all of our guys from their first match to their last and we want them to go into it like any other tournament; ready to battle and give their full effort no matter who steps on that other line."

UW will be sending 16 wrestlers to the tournament (13 attached and 3 unattached) across eight weight classes as follows:

Attached
125-Ethan Rotondo (Fr./ 7-5)
125-Johnny Jimenez (Sr./ 0-0)
133-Jens Lantz (RS-Jr./ 11-5)
133-Michael Cullen (RS-So./ 2-4)
141-Cole Martin (RS-So./ 9-4)
141-Eli Stickley (RS-So./ 13-4)
149-Patrick Spray (RS-Fr./ 2-3)
157-Andrew Crone (RS-Sr./ 10-5)
174-Ryan Christensen (RS-Jr./ 13-5)
174-Jacob Covaicu (RS-Fr./ 7-5)
197-Hunter Ritter (RS-So./ 11-5)
197-Mason Reinhardt (RS-So./ 7-4)
285-Ben Stone (RS-So./ 5-6)

Unattached
133-Paul Konrath (Fr./ 9-1)
157-Devin Bahr (Fr./ 6-1)
285-Trent Hillger (Fr./ 9-4)

The 55th annual Midlands Championships will be available for live stream through both BTN Plus and Flowrestling. Live brackets and updates can be found through Trackwrestling, while live updates will be on the official Twitter @BadgerWrestling.