If past years' results aren't taken into account, there's no way to account for a veteran wrestler recovering from an injury late in the season. There's one wrestler in the entries who'll be coming in with an 0-0 record this year. How does any system account for that? In the 2020 season Teague Moore was the head of the coaches' seeding committee -- he told me that his nightmare was that Yianni would end his Olympic redshirt year very late and show up at EIWAs with a record of something like 1-0.FloridaGuy wrote: ↑Mon Mar 04, 2024 9:40 pm >>>>>>>>>The guys that will be seeded in the top 3 are not dark horses in my book. On a side note, Hopefully the seeding process will be significantly improved from last year’s fiasco.
In seeding there are several objectives that sometimes interfere with each other. The fans and the coaches want to see the marquee matchups late in the tournament. Define "marquee". Everyone agrees that wrestlers should be rewarded for successful hard work with higher seeds. Placing Yianni randomly because he didn't wrestle during the year penalizes those wrestlers with the higher seeds, because one of them will draw him in the first round. Placing Yianni at the top ignores the principle of rewarding the successful hard work, and it also penalizes first-year competitors because they've had no opportunity to accumulate Yianni's past success. Follow one of those objectives, you block another one.
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