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The 5 Most Surprising NCAA Wrestling Championship Seeds

Check out a breakdown of the most surprising seeds at the 2025 NCAA Wrestling Championships.
The 2025 NCAA brackets are here! Check out the below article to see a breakdown of the top 5 most surprising seeds at this year’s NCAA Tournament.
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141 lbs – Andrew Alirez, #8 Seed
2023 NCAA Champ Andrew Alirez got the #8 seed with a 16-1 record with his only loss coming to Tagen Jamison at the Big 12 Tournament. Alirez will have Bellarmine’s AJ Rallo in his opening match and then will likely wrestle Jacob Frost in round 2. The match against Frost is a rematch of the third place at Big 12s where Alirez won 8-2.
The real story here is that Alirez will likely wrestle Big 10 champ and top seed Brock Hardy in the quarterfinals! Hardy had a phenomenal Big Ten’s defeating both Jesse Mendez and Vance Vombaur on his way to gold. Alirez and Hardy have never wrestled in their college careers and this match has the potential to be one of the best quarters of the tournament.
157 lbs – Jacori Teemer, #18 Seed
Returning NCAA runner-up Jacori Teemer is the #18 seed! This means that if Teemer wins his first match, he’ll likely wrestle #2 Meyer Shapiro in the second round. Shapiro and Teemer have never wrestled before but at the beginning of the year, no one would have predicted the 2024 2nd and 3rd place finishers would meet in the second round at NCAAs!  Teemer is only 8-4 this year and finished 7th at Big Ten’s … more at … https://www.flowrestling.org/articles/13914438-the-5-most-surprising-ncaa-wrestling-championship-seeds

March 15, 2025 - Posted by The TakeDown Report | Uncategorized