In a high school regional tournament with eight teams, how many wrestlers are seeded? I checked with the rules and found this information regarding byes and seeds.

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. After seeded wrestlers have been placed on the bracket and the byes drawn, remaining wrestlers shall be placed by draw.

My thought on an eight man bracket with one or more byes is that they would seed the top four and draw in the byes and remaining wrestlers. Is this correct or do they seed all wrestlers that are competing?


Lee Girard