2020 BIG 10 Preview = 149 lbs

What an incredibly tough weight class full of some off the wall parity.  I see as many as eleven allocations given given at this weight, with a twelfth wrestler capable of an upset. 

I think the #1 seed would have to go to Ohio State's Sammy Sasso who avenged a 6-4 loss to Brayton Lee of Minnesota turning it into a 4-2 victory & defeated Iowa's Pat Lugo in a tiebreaker 2-1.

Looking over the rest of the weight class, let me illustrate some of the parity I speak of.

Cole Martin of Wisconsin majored Graham Rooks of Indiana  12-3 earlier this season and then lost to him 4-3 more recently.

Collin Purinton of Nebraska lost to Griffin Parriott of Purdue 7-3 & he's beaten him 13-6.

Then of course another real question concerning Purdue is if they even wrestle Parriott.  I think they would take a 14-8 Parriott over a 10-7 Nate Limmex but no guarantee. Parriott I would think has already allotted a spot.  Limmex for what it is worth owns a 9-5 victory over Rutger's Gerard Angelo. 

Kanen Storr of Michigan, Jarod Verkleeren of Penn State, and Yahya Thomas of Northewestern also come into the mix.    As you can see within the photo above, it's absolute shenanigans.

If that isn't enough Michigan State's Alex Hrisopoulos poses somewhat of a threat of an upset.

I could theoretically seed this eight different ways and no matter what order I put these guys in I'd have someone with legitimacy in their argument wanting to question mine.

The best I could do after giving it a lot of thought?

#1 Sammy Sasso freshman Ohio State
#2 Pat Lugo senior Iowa
#3 Brayton Lee freshman Minnesota
#4 Kanen Storr junior Michigan
#5 Graham Rooks freshman Indiana
#6 Collin Purinton senior Nebraska
#7 Gerard Angelo freshman Rutgers
#8 Jarod Verkleeren sophomore Penn State
#9 Cole Martin senior Wisconsin
#10 Yahya Thomas junior Northwestern
#11 Griffin Parriott junior Purdue

In all sense of reality I can see some of these guys meeting twice in the same tournament & splitting matches with one another.  Losing 4-1 on Saturday & then coming back to avenge the loss on Saturday by major decision.