Ohio State enters this weekend’s Big Ten Championships without a top-seeded wrestler for the first time since 2011.

Tom Ryan hasn’t had the Ohio State lineup he might have envisioned eight months ago, but his Buckeyes navigated their way through the dual season filled with unexpected obstacles.

Another Ironman bracket lined with accolades and bonafide studs top to bottom. That's exactly what we will get at 132 lbs this weekend in Akron, Ohio. This bracket includes 7 wrestlers ranked in the top 10 in the country, World Champions, Fargo champions, along with a bunch of under-the-radar guys who are ready to make an impact. Let's take a look at everything you need to know about the 132-pound bracket this weekend at Ironman.

126 pounds is one of the marque weights to watch at the 2023 Ironman Wrestling Tournament. This weight class is one of the deepest in high school wrestling currently and here we have a bracket with six top-20-ranked wrestlers, including two top-10 pound-for-pound ranked guys, so you can expect there to be fireworks. Here's everything you need to know about the 126-pound bracket at Ironman.

Tom Ryan and the Ohio State Buckeyes knew what they were up against Friday night at Virginia Tech.

A handful of nagging injuries forced Ohio State coaches to get creative during the first half of the season, now they’re hoping their stars can get healthy.

After taking the freestyle 16U National Dual title and finishing as the runner-up in the Junior National Duals, Team Ohio is looking to improve on their finishes from last year in Fargo. Ohio is bringing a solid squad in both the 16U and Junior Divisions with nearly 15 ranked wrestlers as well as several just outside of the national rankings.

Stepping off the mat after winning the Big Ten Championship at 149 pounds last March, Sammy Sasso wasn’t thinking about himself and how badly he wanted to win an individual national title.

Ohio State had a down year last season by its own lofty standards. The Buckeyes finished ninth at the 2021 NCAA Championships with three team members earning All-America honors.

When wrestlers entered Ohio State’s Jennings Family Wrestling Facility this week, it marked the first time in more than 32 weeks that Buckeye or Ohio RTC athletes had drilled in the space. Shuttered by the University as part of its COVID-19 mitigation strategy since mid-March, the reopening of the facility was a big moment for the staff and especially for the competitors.

Plenty of questions abound when it comes to the 2020-21 college wrestling season as the fallout from COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc on the collegiate sports landscape. For the teams looking forward to competing again on the mat, there are all the usual questions, too, including how incoming recruits fit into the lineup, and which upperclassmen will move up or down a class to find a better shot at winning a title or helping the team win meets.

NCAA Wrestling is done for the season, and Luke Pletcher got me thinking about Hank Williams Jr. and some folkstyle fans from somewhere around Ithaca.

For each of the past two seasons, Ohio State has sent a full squad of 10 men to the NCAA Wrestling Championships. The odds of doing so for the third year in a row are a bit longer than they were in years past, with just seven of 10 Buckeyes projected to earn automatic qualifications according to their seeding.

As postseason competition gets underway in the next two weeks, fans and writers naturally start thinking about what next year’s lineup might look like for a given team. Nomad took a crack at predicting Ohio State’s 2019-20 lineup last April; comparing what looked like a pretty solid stab at projecting a Buckeye roster to the lineup Tom Ryan will field next month in Piscataway paints a pretty good picture of what this season has been like for his team.

Since 2010, Ohio State has finished outside of the top five in the Big Ten just once, winning at least a share of the conference crown three times and finishing in the top three every year since 2015.