NDSU’s Clay Ream is pre seeded 1st at 157 pounds

Clay Ream is North Dakota State’s lone top seed at this weekends Big 12 tournament in Kansas City, MO.  Ream, a redshirt senior from Wentzville, MO who has qualified for NCAA’s three times, would become NDSU’s first Big 12 champion.  This is the third year in the conference for Roger Kish’s squad after moving over from the Western Wrestling Conference.  The next highest seeded Bison is 165 Andrew Fogarty at fourth

North Dakota State’s pre-seeds by weight class (with number of automatic qualifiers from each weight in parenthesis):
125 — #7 Paul Bianchi  (7)
133 — #6 Cam Sykora (5)
141 — #10 McGwire Midkiff (3)
149 — #7 Kyle Gliva (5)
157 — #1 Clay Ream (3)
165 — #4 Andrew Fogarty (6)
174 — #9 Dylan Urbach (5)
184 — #10 Tyler McNutt (4)
197 — #10 Cordell Eaton (4)
285 — #5 Dan Stibral (3)