What was your take on the tournament? I thought ESPN did a good job with the coverage. I had a TV next to my laptop so I could watch the TV broadcasts and bring up two ESPN+ streams, to get a page with the multiview of all eight mats, and another page with the individual bout I wanted to watch at the time. I also had a page with Trackwrestling so I could keep up with the scoring and brackets. I got a lot of enjoyment out of all three days of the action.
I had seen a few projections with OkState getting a 6th place team finish, and I was hoping they would do better. My only reason for pessimism was mspart's analysis of the Big 12 tournament, and his suggestion that OkState's wrestlers have trouble wrestling up to their seeds. I wanted to see how that worked out this time, and came up with the following:
Seed Finish
125 #21 DNP, lost to #12 and #19
133 #1 #2
149 #4 #4
157 #33 #8
165 #10 #4
174 #18 DNP, lost to #2 and #16
184 #11 #5
197 #4 #1
285 #29 DNP, lost to #4 and #9
The way I figure it, the only failure to wrestle up to seed was at 133. But Fix's 21.0 team points were a major contributor to the satisfaction I got from seeing OkState finish in 3rd place. I was also relieved that the only wrestler I heard about getting punished for bad language was not one of OkState's guys.
I hope everyone enjoyed watching the tournament as much as I did. I would be happy for anyone else to post a seeding performance chart like mine for their favorite team.