Brucki, Kolodzik, Glory Earn Top-7 Seeds; Princeton Set To Bring Six To 2019 NCAA Championships

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WEDNESDAY UPDATE: Three Princeton Tigers earned top-seven seeds at the NCAA Championships, which begin next Thursday morning at PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh.

197 - Despite being ranked #3 for the majority of the season, Midlands and EIWA champion Patrick Brucki will be the #4 seed next week and will take on Brandon Whitman of North Carolina in the opener. They didn't meet during the regular season.

149 - Two-time All-American Matthew Kolodzik is the fifth seed and will open against Michael Sprague of American; Kolodzik defeated Sprague 9-3 in the consolation round of the EIWA Championships last week.

125 - Freshman Patrick Glory will make his NCAA Championships debut as the 7-seed and will take on Malik Heinselman of Ohio State, who he didn't wrestle during the season.

157 - Freshman Quincy Monday is the 26th seed (every wrestler was seeded), and will take on #7 Larry Early of Old Dominion. They met in the first collegiate weekend of the season, when Early scored a 6-2 win over Monday in the Tiger Open semifinal.

174 - Freshman Travis Stefanik, one of two Princeton wrestlers to earn at-large bids, drew the #2 seed, Daniel Lewis of Missouri. They didn't meet during the season.

184 - Not only did junior Kevin Parker also earn an at-large bid, but he will also face the #2 seed at his weight; Parker will take on Penn State's Shakur Rasheed in the first round. They also did not meet this season.

TUESDAY UPDATE: Junior Kevin Parker and freshman Travis Stefanik will join Patrick Brucki, Patrick Glory, Matthew Kolodzik and Quincy Monday next week at the 2019 NCAA Championships, as both earned at-large selections Tuesday by the NCAA. The at-large selections were made by the NCAA Division I Wrestling Committee using the following selection criteria: head-to-head competition, quality wins, results against common opponents, winning percentage, rating percentage index, coaches ranking and conference tournament finish.

This will be the second-largest contingent of Princeton Wrestlers at an NCAA Championships in program history, trailing only the seven-Tiger team that competed at the 2017 Championships. Brucki and Glory earned their berths by winning their first EIWA titles last weekend, while both Kolodzik and Monday clinched spots at NCAAs by earning one of the automatic bids at their respective EIWA weight classes.

Stefanik and Parker had to play the waiting game, but both did their parts during both the regular season and EIWA Championships. Parker, who will make his NCAA Championships debut next week, went 21-12 against a daunting schedule, while Stefanik went 19-13 and knocked off third-seeded Ben Harvey of Army on his way to the EIWA semifinal. Both wrestlers finished one spot away from an automatic bid, and those efforts were rewarded with tickets to PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh, where the NCAA Championships will be held March 21-23.

Seeding and brackets will be unveiled during the Selection Show on NCAA.com Wednesday at 6 pm, and brackets will be posted on NCAA.com at the conclusion of the show. This page will also be updated Wednesday night with announcements of seeding and Princeton-specific bracket information.

The full NCAA field can be found here.

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