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Six Kent State Wrestlers Earn Top-8 Seed for MAC Championships

TDR Editor’s Notes : The MAC Championships will be broadcasted live on Friday and Saturday. Check over the article find the links for accessing your chance to follow the action. Keep following wrestling!
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KENT, OHIO- The Golden Flashes will head east to Lawrenceville, New Jersey and Rider University for this weekend’s 2021 Mid-American Conference Wrestling Championships.
The two-day event will start on Friday morning at 11 a.m. eastern. The championship meet will be held without spectators, but Rider will provide a stream for each of the four mats for Friday’s opening round, quarterfinals and semi-finals. On Saturday, the coverage starts at noon eastern with the consolation quarterfinals and semi-finals. The championship round is scheduled for a 2:30 p.m. start on Saturday. A full schedule of the championships can be seen below. Links to watch can be found on the wrestling schedule page.
The NCAA announced that 35 bids to the NCAA Championships have been allocated to the Mid-American Conference. The MAC will receive four bids at 133-pounds, three bids at 125, 141, 149 and 157. Two spots have been allocated at 174, 184, 197 and 285 pounds, respectfully while one bid is up for grabs at 165 pounds.
The Flashes are coming off a strong showing on Friday, February 12^th when they hosted Edinboro and Northern Illinois in a round-robin. Six wrestlers will hold a top-8 ranking in this weekend’s tournament. If seeding holds Kent State would send five wrestlers to the NCAA Championships. … rest of the story and lnks at _{^{https://kentstatesports.com/news/2021/2/24/wrestling-six-wrestlers-earn-top-8-seed-for-mac-championships.aspx}}

February 26, 2021 - Posted by The TakeDown Report | Uncategorized