Pre-Seeds Announced for Big Ten Wrestling Championships

EAST LANSING, Mich. – The Big Ten Conference announced pre-seedings for this week's B1G Wrestling Championships on Monday afternoon, as Michigan State landed five wrestlers with top-6 seeds.

The pre-seeds, as voted on by the conference's coaches, rank 14 starters in all 10 weight classes.

The highest-seeded Spartan is redshirt senior Cameron Caffey, coming in at No. 3 for the 197-pound class after being the fourth seed at last season's conference championships.

Redshirt senior 133-pounder Rayvon Foley is the No. 4 seed in his weight class, as the former NCAA All-American enters the week at No. 7 in the national rankings.

At 165 pounds, sophomore Caleb Fish has earned the No. 5 seed for his first B1G Championships after going 5-3 in conference dual-meets this year.

A pair of Spartans are No. 6 seeds, as sophomore Chase Saldate was seeded sixth in his second conference tournament after being the No. 7 seed at 157 pounds last season, while 184-pound redshirt junior Layne Malczewski will be the No. 6 seed in his third B1G Championships.

Sophomore Tristan Lujan was seeded at No. 11 for the 125-pound weight class, while graduate student Matt Santos checked in as the No. 12 seed at 141 pounds.

The 149-pound redshirt sophomore Peyton Omania will be the No. 13 seed, as will redshirt senior Brad Wilton at heavyweight, while redshirt junior Nathan Jimenez is the No. 14 seed in the 174-pound weight class.

The complete tournament brackets and official seeds are set to be released Friday afternoon following the Big Ten's coaches meeting.

No. 15 Michigan State heads to Lincoln, Nebraska for the 2022 Big Ten Wrestling Championships, on Saturday and Sunday, March 5-6, at Pinnacle Bank Arena, hosted by Nebraska.

Action gets going on Saturday with Session I at 10 a.m., before Session II at 5:30 p.m. Championship Sunday gets underway with Session III at 11 a.m. and Session IV at 3:30 p.m. All times are in Central and subject to change

The Big Ten Wrestling Championships will air on the Big Ten Network and be streamed via Big Ten Plus.

Michigan State has won eight Big Ten team titles, while the Spartans have won 67 Big Ten individual titles in their program history.

For more information on the 2022 Big Ten Wrestling Championships visit bigten.org.

Michigan State University Athletics

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Players Mentioned

Cameron Caffey

Caleb Fish

Rayvon Foley

Nathan Jimenez

Tristan Lujan

Layne Malczewski

Peyton Omania

Chase Saldate

Matt Santos

Brad Wilton

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