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West Virginia University freshman Peyton Hall is on a hot streak heading into the Big 12 Wrestling Championship this weekend at the BOK Center, in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Hall has won seven of his last eight matches to claim the No. 2 seed at 165 pounds. A four-time state champion at Oak Glen High School, Hall is tied for the team lead in wins with a 10-2 mark and is 5-1 against Big 12 foes.
Hall, ranked 20th in the nation in his weight class, will square off against Utah Valley's Koy Wilkinson in the first round. He hopes to meet No. 1-seed Travis Wittlake of Oklahoma State in the conference championship and avenge his lone Big 12 loss of the season.
The Mountaineers, who finished 10th at the 2020 Big 12 Championship, have five wrestlers seeded inside the top six of their respective weight classes.
All 12 conference schools will place a wrestler in each weight class. The seeds, as voted on by an independent five-person panel for the first time, will compete over two days for 45 automatic qualifying bids -- including five at 165 pounds -- to the NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships.
Action starts Saturday with preliminary and quarterfinal rounds set for a noon ET start. The semifinals and consolation quarterfinals will take place at 6 p.m. ET.
The consolation semifinals, as well as the third- and fifth-place matches will start at 11 a.m. ET on Sunday, with the championship matches set for 6 p.m. ET. The championship matches will be televised live on ESPN2.