This weekend, Northwestern Wrestling will head to Las Vegas for the annual Cliff Keen invitational, their first invitational of the year.
With 133 star Sebastian Rivera (3-0) being absent in order to wrestle with Puerto Rico’s national team, three Wildcat wrestlers enter the tournament with top-10 pre-seeds in their respective divisions.
Yahya Thomas (2-1) is the 8th seed at 149, a class that will be stacked with experienced wrestlers. At 157, Ryan Deakin (3-0) is the 2nd seed, placed only behind NC State’s Hayden Hidlay (8-0), the consensus #1 wrestler at that class. Finally, at 197, R-FY Lucas Davison (3-0) has been given the 10th pre-seed.