Day one has four eight-team brackets to determine placements from first through eighth. Then on day two, there are eight four-team pools involving round-robin competition between teams finishing in the same place on day one. Teams will wrestle three dual meets on each day of the competition.
Anchoring this year's edition of The Clash are ten teams that finished in the Fab 50 national team rankings during the 2014-15 season: Oak Park River Forest, Ill., Archer, Ga., Buchanan, Calif., St. Edward, Ohio, Apple Valley, Minn., St. Michael-Albertville, Minn., Glenbard North, Ill., Tuttle, Okla., Mesa Mountain View, Ariz., and Marmion Academy, Ill.
Teams from 14 different states are featured in the field. Nine schools from the host state of Minnesota mark the most, while five schools from Illinois -- including Lincoln Way Central -- are second most.
There are three teams from California, while two teams each come from California, Arizona, Missouri, and Oklahoma. Single teams in the field are from Georgia, North Dakota, New Mexico, Oregon, Ohio, Wisconsin, Alabama, and Utah.
Among the final two teams in the field, Park Hill, Mo. is the more notable. The Trojans return six wrestlers with state tournament experience from last season led by state champion Canten Marriott (152) and Sean Hosford (160), a state champion in 2013 and 2014. Two other wrestlers return after state placement finishes last year for Park Hill, Kelvin Eblen (106) and Weston DiBlasi (126), while Josh Steele (113) and Lucky Brockman (145) also made it to state. The Trojans were big-school state champions last year in Missouri's Class 4.
Lincoln-Way Central has made three consecutive appearances in the Illinois Class 3A team state tournament. The last two years have resulted in quarterfinal appearances, while it was a fourth place finish in 2013. From an individual standpoint, they return three state qualifiers, led by third place finisher Bryan Ditchman (285); Vinnie Piunti (120) and Jake Dudeck (182) also made the state tournament.
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