NJ.com will provide live updates, pairings and brackets from the NJSIAA sectional wrestling seeding meeting on Monday, January 30.
ROBBINSVILLE – The NJSIAA wrestling committee will seed the 2016-2017 team sectional tournament on Tuesday starting at 9 a.m.
NJ.com wrestling writer Joe Zedalis will be on hand and will provide the pairings for each section as they become available using the comments box below. Fans can follow along, make comments and provide their thoughts on the pairings by using the comments box or the hashtag #STATEMATS.
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NJ.com will have all the brackets available later Tuesday, so check back regularly.
Seedings are not official until Wednesday.
The seeding committee will place eight teams in each sectional bracket where applicable. The top 10, point-producing, in-state match results for each team count toward qualification.
Under tournament regulations, a team with a head-to-head victory over a higher seeded team may jump that team if it is pre-seeded immediately below the team it defeated.
All quarterfinals will be held on Feb. 6 with the following pairings: No. 8 vs. No. 1, No. 7 vs. No. 2, No. 6 vs. No. 3 and No. 5 vs. No. 4 at the higher seed.
The sectional semifinals state-wide will be on Feb. 8 with the winner of 8-1 vs. 5-4 and 6-3 vs. 7-2 winners meeting.
The highest ranked teams in the upper and lower brackets will host.
The sectional finals are Feb. 10 at the highest remaining seed.
The sectional final winners advance to the Group Championship at Pine Belt Arena on Sunday, Feb. 12.
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