Tournament Seeding Procedures

Team Dual Tournament

The District One Wrestling Chairman will organize the Seed Meeting for Team Duals.

The District One Wrestling Steering Committee members meet to determine which schools will participate in the District Dual meet tournament.  Schools interested in competing in the District Duals must notify their League representative and/or the Wrestling Chairman of their desire to participate.  Eligible schools will then be considered for entry into the tournament.  League representatives discuss their member school's qualifications and propose to rank them appropriately.

Seed meetings are open meetings.  However League appointed Wrestling Committee members are the only persons allowed to vote during this process.  Votes are counted and finalized by the District One Wrestling Chairman.

Dual Meet Tournament Seeds are final at the conclusion of the Seed Meeting.

Individual District Tournament 

All Wrestlers are to be seeded. A wrestler entered at the start of seeding is the entry for that weight class and cannot change weight class after this point.

A forfeit entered for seeding will remain a forfeit. Any injured or ill wrestler may be replaced prior to the beginning of weigh-in. If a coach believes an injured or ill wrestler will be available for the post season he should seed that wrestler.

A seeded wrestler cannot change weights.

All wrestlers will be seeded by the District 1 Wrestling Steering Committee according to the procedures outlined in manual.

When byes are required for the first round, they shall be placed by mutual consent or drawn so they are distributed evenly throughout the bracket.

No quarter-bracket or half-bracket shall have more than one bye in excess of its paired bracket.

Criteria #1 – Percentage record of this season’s varsity bouts – won/loss record.  District Duals, State Duals and League Tournament matches count for records but not seeding points.

  • Points:   1 point for win
  • Divide:   Points scored by total bouts

Example 1:  record 15 wins – 5 losses     15/20 = 0.75 or 75pts

Example 2:  record 12 wins – 17 losses   12/29 = 0.41 or 41pts

Example 3:  record 10 wins – 4 losses     10/14 = 71 – 20 = 51pts

  • Must have a minimum 18 bouts to get full points … if not, subtract 5 points for each bout under 18.

Example 3: record 10 wins – 4 losses   10/14 = 71 – 20 = 51

(note: points will round out two decimal points)

Criteria #2 – Prestige Points

Bonus Points awarded for the highest placed earned for last season’s post-season tournament.

A wrestler who transfers into PIAA D1 for this season and was a place winner last season in another state or National Preps, will be given Regional criteria points. District points will be awarded for State Prep placers.  This information must be sent to District 1 Wrestling Chairman to determine his prestige points from previous year. 

For the 2023-24 Girls post-season, points will be awarded for placement in the 2023 regional and state tournaments held for girls (even though they were not PIAA events).

State Champ  - 100

Reg. Champ - 60

Dist. Champ - 25

2nd – 95

2nd – 50

2nd – 20

3rd – 90

3rd – 45

3rd – 15

4th – 85

4th – 40

4th – 10

5th – 80

5th – 35

5th – 9

6th – 75

6th – 30

6th – 8

7th – 70

 

 

8th – 65

 

 

Criteria #3 – Caliber of wrestler’s competition this season

Bonus points are awarded for competing against last year’s medal winners (Regionals, States) Only for PIAA Wrestlers.

Points will be awarded for competition against last year’s medal winners in PA Regional and Districts.

Caliber points must earned in a match not a forfeit. 

States

Win

Loss

Champion

50

4

2nd

48

4

3rd

45

4

4th

43

4

5th

40

4

6th

38

4

7th

35

4

8th

33

4

 

Regionals

Win

Loss

Champion

30

3

2nd

25

3

3rd

23

3

4th

20

3

5th

18

2

6th

15

2

 

Criterion #4 - (0-0 Record):

Any wrestler with 0-0 record and no prestige points is automatically seeded last.

EXAMPLE FOR SEEDING:           

 

   Points

 

    Points

Wrestler 1 (18-0)

    100

         Wrestler 2 (19-1-0)

       95

Win v Regional 3rd Place

     23

Placed 2nd in Districts

       20

 

 

    Win v Regional 2nd Place

       25

 

 

         Loss to State 6th Place

         4

 

    123

 

      144

Tie Breaking Procedure: 

If points are exactly the same, the higher seed will be based on the following criteria: (a) Competition with each other; (b) Returning league, district, regional or state champion in not more than two weight classes above where he wrestled last season;(c) Common opponents; (d) Number of falls, forfeits and defaults; (e) Tech falls;(f) Draw-sticks correctly numbered with available seeds.

Substitute Wrestler:

When a wrestler is removed from the tournament and is:     

a Seeded wrestler, each wrestler seed below him moves up one place.

(in 3A ONLY) - All Substitutes for 3A Regionals from the 3A District Tournament will be determined by:

  1. The 5th place finisher will be selected first.
  2. The 6th place finisher will be selected second.
  3. The wrestler with the most seeding points coming into the district tournament is next.

Substitute wrestler may enter tournament due to illness/injury prior to seeding or prior to start of tournament up until weigh-ins.

If both wrestlers forfeit in either the consolation finals or championship finals, the third place and first place wrestler will be determined by record (points) coming into that tournament.

Wrestler Receiving Exceptional Seeding Approval

Notes:  Need criteria for seeding outstanding wrestler who missed season/seeding points (either previous or during season due to absence from the sport or injury/illness)

Suggested: no penalty for minus points missing match minimum.

D1 Wrestling Chairman and/or designated committee will vote to make exceptions and ultimate decisions as needed.

Any returning Regional medalist or greater from any previous season who wrestles in less than 12 matches (not including District/State Duals) in the current season can petition the District One Steering Committee to seed that wrestler by "human judgement" instead of solely based on points.  The points will be calculated for that wrestler, but the steering committee (or sub-committee appointed by the chairman) has the right to move that wrestler to where they feel is an accurate place in the bracket.

Girls who compete on a boys team for the regular season will be seeded based on multiple factors by a sub-committee, since they will have no record against girls. Coaches entering a female wrestler from a boys team into the girls post-season must notify the Wrestling Chairperson in writing which girls (and their weights) will be competing in the girls post-season.

A spreadsheet will be provided to all Coaches and Tournament Directors with all District One Wrestlers post-season points.  If coaches have concerns they may contact the D1 Chairman and/or D1 Seeding Coordinator if corrections need to be made.  These points will include the total points for each wrestler entered into District Tournaments for the post-season individual PIAA Championships. 

3A - SE Regional Tournament - Seeding Process (rev.2022)

What is changing?

All 16 wrestlers in each weight class of the South East AAA Regional tournament will be seeded based on a combination of how they placed in the qualifying tournament and a seeding points calculation.

Currently only the champions of the 4 qualifying tournaments are truly seeded, while all other qualifiers are placed into the bracket based on their placement in the qualifying tournaments.

Purpose of the Changes

The goal of the seeding changes is to seed all wrestlers in the tournament more accurately than the current system. The intent is to not only get the best 5 AAA wrestlers per weight to represent District 1 at the PIAA State Championships, but also to get them in the best order of finish as well.

This new procedure accounts for the qualifying tournaments not being balanced, since they were created purely by geography.

Main Seeding Changes

The new seeding will comprise of 2 main components:

  1. Placement in the qualifying tournament the week prior to the Regional
  2. Seeding points calculation

Adjusted Seeding Points Calculation

The points calculation that has been used for several seasons in District 1 will be used, with a minor adjustment. After the qualifying tournament, each wrestler will receive additional points for their placement in the qualifying tournament as well as for the caliber of competition they had in the qualifying tournament. The same criteria as the regular season formula will be used to determine those additional points.

The seeding formula used prior to the start of the post-season can be found here: https://www.piaad1.org/sports/winter-sports/wrestling-b/seeding-proceedures/

For example, Wrestler A has 125 points prior to the start of the post-season. Winning his qualifying tournament earns him an additional 25 points. During the qualifying tournament, he also beat a returning regional champ (which earns 30 more points) and lost to a returning state 5th placer (which earns 4 more points). Wrestler A’s seeding points for the regional tournament will be 184.

The steering committee can make adjustments in seeding points for “outstanding wrestlers” who missed parts of the season due to injury. The language for that eligibility is in the link above, but it may have to be altered slightly to account for this new regional seeding.

Key Notes

With these changes, there are a few items that should be noted.

  • Wrestlers cannot be seeded above anyone who placed higher than them in their qualifying tournament.
  • First round matchups could feature wrestlers from the same qualifying tournament.
  • One qualifying tournament could have the top 4 seeds (or the bottom 4 seeds) in a weight class.
  • Qualifying tournament champions could be seeded anywhere from #1 to #13.

Seeding all 16 wrestlers per weight class strictly via seeding points is not recommended as that takes away the importance of the qualifying tournament placement (ie: wrestlers could forfeit after advancing to the finals).

New Regional Seeding Procedure

All 16 wrestlers per weight class who qualify for the South East AAA Regional will be seeded. Should a wrestler withdraw from the regional for any reason, the entire bracket would be reseeded with the replacement.

Order for Wrestlers to Get Seeded

Wrestlers will be sorted by their placement in the qualifying tournament (higher place to lower place) and then by their seeding points (highest to lowest). This order will be used to determine when a wrestler is seeded.

Seeding Criteria

When seeding each wrestler, there are 2 main criteria used. Each wrestler will be seeded:

  1. AFTER the wrestler who placed just above him in their qualifying tournament
  2. BEFORE the highest seeded wrestler below the previous placer with fewer points than the wrestler being seeded