Seeding Set for NCAAs
March 13, 2024 | Wrestling
CORVALLIS, Ore. – With the Pac-12 Championships behind the Oregon State wrestling team, attention is focused is on the NCAA Championships next week for Brandon Kaylor (125), Cleveland Belton (141), Trey Munoz (184), Justin Rademacher (197) and Boone McDermott (HWT) in Kansas City, Mo.
A 2022 All-American, Kaylor is making his fourth consecutive trip to the NCAA Championships, all in the 125-lb. classification. Seeded 21st, the Pac-12's runner-up and an at-large qualifier, he will meet 21st-seeded Anthony Noto of Lock Haven in the opening round.
Making his second consecutive trip to the NCAAs, Belton earned the 26th seed in this year's tournament. He will face Northern Iowa's Cael Happel, seeded seventh, in the first round. Belton had a runner-up finish at the Pac-12 Championships and clinched his ticket to Kansas City via Pac-12 allocation.
Following his third consecutive Pac-12 championship, Trey Munoz will make his fourth-straight trip to the NCAAs and his third with the Beavers. In last season's edition, the Californian secured his first All-American finish with a trip to the national semifinals. For the second consecutive season, he will enter the tournament as a four seed. He'll face Gardner-Webb's Jha'Quan Anderson in the first round.
Rademacher – making his NCAA Championships debut – will compete as the 29th seed and meet Lehigh's Michael Beard, who is tabbed fourth. A Beaver State product (West Linn, Ore.), Rademacher wasted little time making his presence known in his freshman season and quickly worked his way to the lineup.
Making his second consecutive trip to the NCAAs and first with Oregon State, McDermott will represent the Beavers as the 14th seed and meet Bucknell's Dorian Crosby, who is seeded 19th. The graduate student is looking to bookend his career with another national title, joining his 2019-20 NJCAA crown he won at Iowa Central CC.
The 2024 NCAA Championships are slated for next week, March 20-22nd from the T-Mobile Center in Kansas City, Mo.
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