Projected Southern Scuffle Team Scores

We project team scores at the 2018 Southern Scuffle wrestling tournament based off the preseeds.

Dec 31, 2017 by Andrew Spey

It's just about time to Scuffle! But before we do, let's take the preseeds that just came out and use them to project the team scores for this week's tournament.

Our methodology is the same for this exercise as it is for the top 20 team rankings. It's also the same method we used for the CKLV and the Midlands team score projects. All the usual caveats apply.

So how might things shake out in Chattanooga, TN, on Monday and Tuesday if we DIDN'T wrestle the matches and ONLY decided who wins based on preseeds? We will tell you!

RANK	SCHOOL	POINTS
1	Penn State	166
2	Lehigh	110
3	Northern Iowa	75.5
4	Navy	61.5
5	Virginia	56.5
6	Stanford	52.5
7	Duke	49.5
8	Cal State Bakersfield	46.5
9	Lock Haven	39.5
10	Oklahoma State (UNA)	38.5
11	Chattanooga	33.5
12	Northern Colorado	28
13	Drexel	19
14	Nothern Iowa	16
15	Virginia Tech (UNA)	15.5
16	Northern Iowa (UNA)	13.5
17	Hofstra	13.5
18	Air Force	12.5
19	Unattached	12
20	Appalachian State	12
21	North Carolina State	11
22	Penn State (UNA)	10
23	North Carolina State (UNA)	10
24	Appalachian St. (UNA)	9
25	Oklahoma State	6.5
26	Cleveland State	6.5
27	Gardner Webb	5.5

No surprise that Penn State is the favorite. The Nittany Lions did have seven No. 1 preseeds after all. Lehigh has a big lead on everyone else for second, then things get more interesting.

Of course, we DON'T settle things on a computer screen two days before the tournament officially ends. So make sure you tune in, LIVE ON FLO, to see what actually happens!