UNI Wrestling: Schwarm Moves Up in 2019 Seeding

No. 14 UNI wrestling at 2019 NCAA Division I Championships
THURSDAY

11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. CT (ESPNU / ESPN3) – Mat 1 | Mat 2 | Mat 3 | Mat 4 | Mat 5 | Mat 6 | Mat 7 | Mat 8 | Scoreboard (a mix)
6 to 9:30 p.m. CT (ESPN / ESPN3) – Mat 1 | Mat 2 | Mat 3 | Mat 4 | Mat 5 | Mat 6 | Mat 7 | Mat 8 | Scoreboard (a mix)

FRIDAY

10 a.m. to 1 p.m. CT quarterfinals (ESPNU / ESPN3) – Mat 1 | Mat 2 | Mat 3 | Mat 4 | Mat 5 | Mat 6 | Mat 7 | Mat 8 | Scoreboard (a mix)
7 to 10 p.m. CT semifinals (ESPN / ESPN3) – Mat 1 | Mat 2 | Mat 3 | Mat 4 | Mat 5 | Mat 6 | Scoreboard (a mix)

SATURDAY

10 a.m. to 1 p.m. CT medal round (ESPNU / ESPN3) – Mat 1 | Mat 2 | Mat 3 | Scoreboard (a mix)
5:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. CT – "Off the Mat" premeet show (ESPN3)
6 to 10 p.m. CT – Championships (ESPN / ESPN3) – 1 mat

COMPLETE BRACKETS | COMPLETE NOTES

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa — UNI wrestling's Jay Schwarm moved up a seed in the 2019 NCAA Division I Championship field, bumping him to the other side of the bracket.

Arizona State's No. 15 seed Ryan Millhof suffered an injury in practice that will prevent him from competing this weekend. The forfeit moves in Trey Chalifoux of Army into the final spot and slightly shifts the bracket.

Schwarm now faces Old Dominion's Michael McGee, a sophomore. This will be the first meeting between the two. Schwarm's three falls at the Big 12 Championships, pushed him into the top 10 in the nation for the most falls among all Division I wrestlers. He has pinned 11 other Division I wrestlers this season. That is the most falls among any NCAA qualifier at 125 pounds.

WRESTLING ON ESPN

ESPN will once again be airing every match for fans to stream. Every mat will be streamed on ESPN3 from the start of the tournament. ESPNU will be broadcasting the morning sessions and switch to ESPN for the evening competitions.

SEEDED PANTHERS

Five Panthers earned a top-15 seed at the 2019 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships set for next weekend.

Josh Alber leads the way for UNI with a No. 4 seed at 141 pounds and will face Corey Shie of Army in the first round. The two have not met previously. Shie is a freshman at West Point. Alber will be making his fourth trip to the NCAA championships.

Two-time Big 12 champion and All-American Drew Foster earned the No. 6 seed and faces an unfamiliar foe in Christian LaFragola of Brown at 184 pounds. LaFragola is a junior making his third trip to nationals. He took seventh at the 2017 tournament.

At 174 pounds, Taylor Lujan earned the No. 8 seed and will face No. 25 Hayden Hastings of Wyoming. The two have missed each other in Big 12 competition so far but will face each other in the first round of the national tournament. Hastings is a redshirt freshman who earned an at-large bid after he placed sixth at the Big 12 Championships. He has a trio of top-12 wins, including one over Kimball Sebastian of Utah Valley. Lujan has earned automatic bids to all three of his previous appearances at nationals.

Bryce Steiert earned his third trip to the NCAA championships coming off a redshirt year. The junior earned the 11^th seed and faces two-time NCAA qualifier No. 22 Bryce Martin of Indiana at 165 pounds.

No. 15 Max Thomsen is looking for his second All-America honor at 149 pounds against No. 18 Jared Prince of Navy. Thomsen won a matchup with Prince earlier this year by 12-6 decision to take seventh at the Cliff Keen Invite. It was Thomsen's opening competition of the season. Thomsen joined Foster on the podium with a fifth-place finish at nationals in 2017.

Final rank (seed) / RPI:

125 | #22 (21) / 26: Jay Schwarm
141 | #8 (4) / 4: Josh Alber
149 | #15 (15) / 11: Max Thomsen
165 | #11 (11) / 10: Bryce Steiert
174 | #7 (8) / 7: Taylor Lujan
184 | #9 (6) / 2: Drew Foster

2019 NCAA DIVISION I CHAMPIONSHIPS

The 2019 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships takes place at PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh March 21-23.

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Buyers also can get their tickets knowing the tickets are authentic and guaranteed at http://www.ncaa.com/tickets/wrestling/d1

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