Preliminary Brackets (PDF)
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa --- The first Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (IIAC) championship of the 2012-2013 academic year gets underway this weekend as Luther College plays host to the Iowa Conference Men's Tennis Individual Tournament in Decorah.
Champions will be crowned in five flights --- three singles and two doubles --- with play being split between the Wulfsberg Tennis Courts on the Luther College campus and the City Courts across from Decorah High School.
On Friday, Flights A & B singles will be held at the Luther Courts with Flight C singles to be held at the City Courts. Flight A Doubles and the top half of the Flight B Doubles draw (lines 1-16) will be held at Luther with the bottom half of the Flight B Doubles draw (lines 17-32) will be held at the City Courts. Play will be contested through the quarterfinals in all flights.
On Saturday, all semifinal, third-place and championship matches will be held at the Luther courts with singles being contested before doubles.
Defending Flight A singles champion Noah Sprinkel of Coe is this year's top seed in Flight A with 2011 fourth-place finisher Nick Garcia of Dubuque seeded second. Luther's Ramesh Karki, last year's runner-up, is seeded third while teammate Nick Mozena is seeded fourth after reaching the quarterfinals last year.
In Flight B, Central's Tim Kahl is the top seed after placing third a year ago. Coe's Alex Klaas is seeded second. He finished fourth last year, falling to Kahl in the Flight B third-place match. Coe's Scott Kleymann, the 2011 Flight C singles champion, has moved up to Flight B, but runner-up Dylan Hogan of Simpson is this year's top seed in Flight C. Buena Vista's Drake Swanson is seeded second after qualifying for the quarterfinals last season.
In doubles, the top four teams in Flight A return intact with defending champions Sprinkel and Curtis Newman of Coe claiming the top seed followed by 2011 runners-up Ramesh Karki and Quinn Foley of Luther taking the No. 2 seed. Third-place finishers Nick Garcia and Demetrius Johnson of Dubuque are seeded third while fourth-place finishers Matt Knutson and Sam Cychosz return but are unseeded. 2011 quarterfinalists Nick Mozena and James Ayer of Luther are seeded fourth. Flight A quarterfinalists Matt Bellio and Torstein Jystad are unseeded in this year's Flight A draw.
Coe's Jeff Damisch and Michael Woolf, last year's Flight B champions, have moved up to Flight A. Teammates Alex Klaas and Daken Starkenburg, last year's Flight B runners-up, are this year's top seeds in the flight.
