Indiana University Athletics
Hoosiers Open New Year at Southern Scuffle
12/30/2011 12:00:00 AM | Wrestling
Dec. 30, 2011
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - Hoosier Wrestling starts 2012 at the Southern Scuffle, one of the nation's largest regular season tournaments. The Scuffle will be held in Chattanooga, Tenn., this season and welcome a 22-team field to the competition.
Each school can enter 15 wrestlers to count towards the team standings, with the option of additional unattached individuals competing as well. Indiana's Matt Powless, ranked fourth nationally, has been awarded the No. 3 seed in the 197-lbs. division.
Complete brackets were released in advance. Click here 
to see the Hoosiers' path to titles.
EVENT COVERAGE
• Updated Brackets (search: 'scuffle')
• Intermat Live Blog
• Finals will be streamed live through MocsVision at GoMocs.com
Of the 22 teams scheduled to appear, 15 are currently ranked in the Intermat College Rankings Top-54 and eight are listed in the NWCA/USA Today Division I Team Coaches Top-25. Highlighted by defending NCAA Champion and fifth-ranked Penn State, the field also includes No. 3 Minnesota, No. 4 Cornell and No. 10 Missouri. No. 11 Oregon State, No. 15 Virginia Tech, No. 21 Virginia and No. 25 Hofstra round out those from the top-25.
Other ranked teams include No. 32 (t) Indiana, No. 32 (t) Ohio, No. 43 Appalachian State, No. 44 Navy, No. 49 (t) North Carolina, No. 49 (t) Old Dominion and No. 54 The Citadel. UTC is among the seven remaining teams, along with Army, Campbell, Cleveland State, Duke, Gardner-Webb and N.C. State.
Individually, over a quarter of all the ranked wrestlers in the nation will compete at the Southern Scuffle. There are 52 ranked in the current Intermat Top-20, including 25 in the top-10 of the 10 weight classes.
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