Following the opening match, UTC (5-5-1) will take on either fifth-seeded North Carolina or Cal State-Davis. Other teams in the Mocs' upper bracket include top-seeded Indiana, No. 8-seeded Bloomsburg, Old Dominion and Virginia Tech.
The bottom bracket includes seeded teams No. 2 Penn, No. 3 West Virginia, No. 6 Ohio State, No. 7 Drexel, The Citadel, North Dakota State, Rider and Virginia.
Head Coach Joe Seay will take a team of 13 wrestlers to Virginia for the competition. Leading the way is junior Matt Keller, a 133-pounder whose national ranking this week improved to No. 6 nationally in the NWCA/Intermat collegiate rankings. He is ranked No. 8 by Wrestling International Newsmagazine. UTC has also returned to the team national rankings at No. 24 in W.I.N.'s top-25 poll.
Keller is coming off a 4-0 performance at the Lone Star Duals last week where he was voted the Outstanding Wrestler of the meet. Keller defeated Wisconsin's No. 1-ranked wrestler, Tom Clum, and led the Mocs to a 19-18 victory over the No. 18 Badgers.
Also set to compete for the Mocs are Javier Maldonado at 125 pounds, Adam Rains at 133, Michael Keefe at 141, Aaron Martin at 149 and Jake Yost at 157. Daniel Peterson and Justin Otis will split time at 165 pounds, T.J. Sayers will compete at 174, John Davis at 184, Lloyd Rogers and Nick Lorenzano at 197 and Israel Silva at 285.
The Mocs went 2-2 at the Virginia Duals in 2005, defeating Old Dominion, 44-0, and No. 12 Missouri, 19-16. UTC lost to Indiana, 30-14 and to Cal State-Bakersfield, 25-11.
CHATTANOOGA PROBABLE LINEUP
125 Javier Maldonado (Soph., Kissimmee, Fla., 13-6)
133 Matt Keller (Jr., McDonald, Tenn., 22-7)
133 Adam Rains (Sr., Cleveland, Tenn., 7-6)
141 Michael Keefe (Jr., Ringgold, Ga., 22-6)
149 Aaron Martin (Jr., Pataskala, Ohio, 0-2)
157 Jake Yost (Jr., Soddy Daisy, Tenn., 14-13)
165 Dan Peterson (Sr., Pittsburg, Kansas, 12-8)
165 Justin Otis (Soph., Martinez, Ga., 2-3)
174 T.J. Sayers (Jr., Hueytown, Ala., 8-9)
184 John Davis (Sr., Gainesville, Fla., 8-7)
197 Lloyd Rogers (Soph., Palm City, Fla., 4-11)
197 Nick Lorenzano (Jr., St. Cloud, Fla., 0-5)
285 Israel Silva (Sr., Marysville, Wash., 3-5)
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