This year's seeding meeting criteria:
1. 2015 head to head
2. Farthest advancement in last year's state series
3. Current year common opponents and record against common opponents
4. Highest placement in last year's Al Smith
5. Overall record/win percentage
Past years' seeding meeting criteria:
1. Al Smith Classic Wrestling Invitational Place in previous year
2. Varsity record winning percentage
3. Varsity record wins
4. State Place in previous year.
5. Has had 5 match(es) towards Varsity record
6. State Qualifier in previous year.
Almost any tournament anywhere will have top criteria being previous year placement in THAT tournament. Some even get really picky and state that it has to be in the same weight class as well.
I assume that isn't the case this year, because that criteria would be extremely unfair to the new team(s) joining the tournament.
Head to head being first: certainly. But I don't understand how you can rely on placement in another tournament to determine the seeding for your tournament, especially when kids have far different roads to earning that placement.
(Before its perceived that this is a rant, it's not. I have no problem with how 106 was seeded. This is merely an example.) Kavanaugh and Demein have no head to head. Next criteria is last year's placement in the state tournament. Tanner placed, Kory did not. A very good arguement could be made that if Kory went through the Fort Wayne Semi State and Tanner through Merrillville, the placements would have been reversed. Kory placed 4th last year at Al Smith, Tanner 5th. Just one example that caught my eye immediately, I'm sure there's others.