Big Ten Day 3 Prelims: Indiana Breaststrokers Swim to Top Five Seeds

The 2025 Big Ten Men’s Swimming and Diving Championships continued with the Day 3 prelims from Minneapolis.
The Day 3 events for prelims are the 100 butterfly, 400 IM, 200 free, 100 breaststroke and 100 backstroke.
Here is a look at what happened Friday morning:
Big Ten Men’s 100 Butterfly
Michigan junior Tyler Ray opened the day with a meet record to get the speed rolling in Minnesota.
Ray got to the wall in 44.30 to break the previous mark of 44.32 set by Tomer Frankel of Indiana last year.
Frankel finished third on Friday in 45.05, behind Ray and Indiana teammate Finlay Brooks (44.75).
Purdue senior Braden Samuels finished with the fourth seed (45.10), followed by Minnesota freshman Jacob Johnson (45.29), OSU freshman Matthew Klinge (45.39), USC sophomore Michal Chmielewski (45.40) and Michigan sophomore Colin Geer (45.61).
Event 8 Men 100 Yard Butterfly ================================================================== B1G Meet: ! 44.30 2/28/2025 Tyler Ray, MICH POOL: $ 42.80 3/23/2018 Dressel, Caeleb, Florida Name Year School Seed Prelims ================================================================== === Preliminaries === 1 Ray, Tyler JR MICH 45.31 44.30! r:+0.66 9.52 20.54 (11.02) 32.67 (12.13) 44.30 (11.63) 2 Brooks, Finlay SR Ind 45.15 44.75 r:+0.63 9.17 20.41 (11.24) 32.35 (11.94) 44.75 (12.40) 3 Frankel, Tomer 5Y Ind 45.11 45.05 r:+0.61 9.78 20.80 (11.02) 32.78 (11.98) 45.05 (12.27) 4 Samuels, Braden SR PUR 45.27 45.10 r:+0.66 9.40 20.49 (11.09) 32.65 (12.16) 45.10 (12.45) 5 Johnson, Jacob FR MINN 45.21 45.29 r:+0.61 9.73 20.76 (11.03) 33.05 (12.29) 45.29 (12.24) 6 Klinge, Matthew FR OSU 45.81 45.39 r:+0.72 9.74 20.77 (11.03) 32.95 (12.18) 45.39 (12.44) 7 Chmielewski, Michal SO USC 46.34 45.40 r:+0.64 10.00 21.27 (11.27) 33.04 (11.77) 45.40 (12.36) 8 Geer, Colin SO MICH 46.05 45.61 r:+0.61 9.89 21.16 (11.27) 33.43 (12.27) 45.61 (12.18) ----------------------------------------------------------------- 9 Seymour, Stuart SO NU 46.72 45.62 r:+0.62 9.54 21.38 (11.84) 33.30 (11.92) 45.62 (12.32) 10 Baganha, Victor SR PSU 46.56 45.75 r:+0.59 9.73 21.06 (11.33) 33.16 (12.10) 45.75 (12.59) 11 Bittner, Matthew JR PSU 46.57 45.94 r:+0.61 9.83 21.14 (11.31) 33.30 (12.16) 45.94 (12.64) 12 Eidam, Ole Mats FR MICH 47.96 45.95 r:+0.67 9.84 21.18 (11.34) 33.48 (12.30) 45.95 (12.47) 13 Morley, Cooper JR PSU 46.14 46.19 r:+0.69 10.02 21.49 (11.47) 33.74 (12.25) 46.19 (12.45) 14 Harabagiu, Davide SO MINN 46.68 46.25 r:+0.64 9.53 21.36 (11.83) 33.38 (12.02) 46.25 (12.87) 15 Fentress, William JR OSU 46.31 46.32 r:+0.69 9.93 21.31 (11.38) 33.55 (12.24) 46.32 (12.77) 16 Jones, Charles JR WISC 46.71 46.40 r:+0.71 9.98 21.69 (11.71) 33.69 (12.00) 46.40 (12.71)
Big Ten Men’s 400 IM
Ohio State junior Tristan Jankovics cruised to the top seed in 3:41.81. The time was four seconds off his seed time, and we will see what he has saved for finals.
Wisconsin junior Dominik Mark Torok grabbed the second seed in 3:42.45, just ahead of Michigan’s Lorne Wigginton (3:42.54) and USC’s Krzysztof Chmielewski (4:32.58).
Northwestern’s Deigo Nosack swam to the fifth seed in 3:43.20, followed by Indiana’s Zalan Sarkany (3:43.81), OSU’s William Bansberg (3:44.28) and Michigan’s Ryan Healy (3:44.46).
Event 9 Men 400 Yard IM ================================================================== B1G Meet: ! 3:38.03 2009 Tyler Clary, Michigan POOL: $ 3:28.82 3/23/2023 Marchand, Leon, Arizona State Name Year School Seed Prelims ================================================================== === Preliminaries === 1 Jankovics, Tristan JR OSU 3:37.96 3:41.81 r:+0.69 23.82 50.77 (26.95) 1:19.50 (28.73) 1:46.96 (27.46) 2:18.84 (31.88) 2:50.43 (31.59) 3:17.17 (26.74) 3:41.81 (24.64) 2 Mark Torok, Dominik JR WISC 3:41.57 3:42.45 r:+0.68 23.83 50.76 (26.93) 1:19.36 (28.60) 1:47.00 (27.64) 2:18.45 (31.45) 2:50.43 (31.98) 3:16.84 (26.41) 3:42.45 (25.61) 3 Wigginton, Lorne FR MICH 3:41.87 3:42.54 r:+0.65 23.54 50.30 (26.76) 1:19.96 (29.66) 1:48.14 (28.18) 2:19.55 (31.41) 2:51.54 (31.99) 3:17.37 (25.83) 3:42.54 (25.17) 4 Chmielewski, Krzyszto SO USC 3:47.14 3:42.58 r:+0.65 22.94 49.09 (26.15) 1:17.03 (27.94) 1:43.98 (26.95) 2:16.77 (32.79) 2:49.99 (33.22) 3:16.94 (26.95) 3:42.58 (25.64) 5 Nosack, Diego SO NU 3:45.11 3:43.20 r:+0.68 23.60 50.50 (26.90) 1:18.99 (28.49) 1:46.91 (27.92) 2:18.46 (31.55) 2:50.63 (32.17) 3:17.55 (26.92) 3:43.20 (25.65) 6 Sarkany, Zalan JR Ind 3:46.37 3:43.81 r:+0.66 23.60 51.30 (27.70) 1:19.98 (28.68) 1:47.94 (27.96) 2:20.17 (32.23) 2:52.84 (32.67) 3:18.70 (25.86) 3:43.81 (25.11) 7 Bansberg, William SR OSU 3:49.14 3:44.28 r:+0.67 23.41 50.54 (27.13) 1:19.18 (28.64) 1:47.05 (27.87) 2:18.67 (31.62) 2:50.56 (31.89) 3:17.73 (27.17) 3:44.28 (26.55) 8 Healy, Ryan SO MICH 3:49.33 3:44.46 r:+0.69 23.50 51.26 (27.76) 1:20.68 (29.42) 1:48.97 (28.29) 2:20.41 (31.44) 2:52.28 (31.87) 3:18.80 (26.52) 3:44.46 (25.66) ----------------------------------------------------------------- 9 Barnett, Toby SO Ind 3:41.41 3:45.20 r:+0.67 23.50 50.79 (27.29) 1:20.28 (29.49) 1:48.78 (28.50) 2:19.33 (30.55) 2:51.53 (32.20) 3:19.13 (27.60) 3:45.20 (26.07) 10 Edmund, Mason JR OSU 3:47.22 3:45.50 r:+0.76 24.11 51.22 (27.11) 1:20.56 (29.34) 1:48.49 (27.93) 2:20.80 (32.31) 2:53.61 (32.81) 3:20.46 (26.85) 3:45.50 (25.04) 11 Metzler, Alex SR OSU 3:45.94 3:45.57 r:+0.78 24.28 51.88 (27.60) 1:21.33 (29.45) 1:50.48 (29.15) 2:22.94 (32.46) 2:55.27 (32.33) 3:20.97 (25.70) 3:45.57 (24.60) 12 Tepper, Joseph 5Y MINN 3:47.61 3:46.39 r:+0.86 24.03 51.19 (27.16) 1:19.39 (28.20) 1:46.86 (27.47) 2:19.89 (33.03) 2:53.74 (33.85) 3:20.50 (26.76) 3:46.39 (25.89) 13 Savarese, William FR MICH 3:49.52 3:47.28 r:+0.64 24.51 51.47 (26.96) 1:20.96 (29.49) 1:49.79 (28.83) 2:21.61 (31.82) 2:54.30 (32.69) 3:21.78 (27.48) 3:47.28 (25.50) 14 Mackesy, Evan FR PUR 3:50.74 3:47.34 r:+0.69 24.31 51.54 (27.23) 1:20.19 (28.65) 1:48.24 (28.05) 2:20.34 (32.10) 2:53.63 (33.29) 3:21.24 (27.61) 3:47.34 (26.10) 15 Hernandez Garcia, Alb JR MINN 3:50.04 3:47.42 r:+0.71 23.79 51.12 (27.33) 1:19.83 (28.71) 1:48.33 (28.50) 2:19.99 (31.66) 2:53.54 (33.55) 3:21.12 (27.58) 3:47.42 (26.30) 16 Honey, Sean SO PSU 3:45.98 3:47.59 r:+0.70 23.78 51.67 (27.89) 1:20.44 (28.77) 1:48.43 (27.99) 2:20.94 (32.51) 2:54.73 (33.79) 3:21.49 (26.76) 3:47.59 (26.10)
Big Ten Men’s 200 Free
Michigan senior Gal Groumi dropped more than a second off his entry time to claim the top seed in the 200 free, getting to the wall in 1:32.54.
Just four hundredths of a second behind was OSU junior Tomas Navikonis (1:32.58), and nine hundredths behind was Michigan’s Eitan Ben-Shitrit (1:32.63) – the only swimmers to break 1:33.
Indiana senior Rafael Miroslaw took the fourth seed in 1:33.42, just ahead of Wisconsin’s Christopher Morris (1:33.45), who was followed by Indiana’s Dylan Smiley (1:33.62), USC’s Oliver Sogaard-Andersen (1:33.78) and Luke Maurer (1:33.88).
Event 10 Men 200 Yard Freestyle ================================================================== B1G Meet: ! 1:31.14 2/23/2018 Blake J Pieroni, Indiana POOL: $ 1:29.50 3/22/2018 Haas, Townley, Texas Name Year School Seed Prelims ================================================================== === Preliminaries === 1 Groumi, Gal SR MICH 1:33.71 1:32.54 r:+0.63 21.47 45.28 (23.81) 1:08.72 (23.44) 1:32.54 (23.82) 2 Navikonis, Tomas JR OSU 1:31.55 1:32.58 r:+0.71 21.86 45.65 (23.79) 1:09.19 (23.54) 1:32.58 (23.39) 3 Ben-Shitrit, Eitan JR MICH 1:33.21 1:32.63 r:+0.62 21.73 45.00 (23.27) 1:08.49 (23.49) 1:32.63 (24.14) 4 Miroslaw, Rafael SR Ind 1:31.73 1:33.42 r:+0.66 21.65 45.43 (23.78) 1:09.49 (24.06) 1:33.42 (23.93) 5 Morris, Christopher SR WISC 1:33.65 1:33.45 r:+0.65 21.52 45.11 (23.59) 1:09.29 (24.18) 1:33.45 (24.16) 6 Smiley, Dylan SO Ind 1:34.40 1:33.62 r:+0.67 21.79 44.91 (23.12) 1:09.11 (24.20) 1:33.62 (24.51) 7 Sogaard-Andersen, Oli FR USC 1:32.66 1:33.78 r:+0.66 21.31 45.18 (23.87) 1:09.52 (24.34) 1:33.78 (24.26) 8 Maurer, Luke 5Y USC 1:33.23 1:33.88 r:+0.71 22.03 46.24 (24.21) 1:10.14 (23.90) 1:33.88 (23.74) ----------------------------------------------------------------- 9 Frankel, Tomer 5Y Ind 1:33.71 1:33.98 r:+0.64 22.21 46.06 (23.85) 1:09.98 (23.92) 1:33.98 (24.00) 10 Vilchez, Jordi FR OSU 1:34.20 1:34.06 r:+0.71 22.05 45.81 (23.76) 1:09.67 (23.86) 1:34.06 (24.39) 11 Moraes, Eduardo JR MICH 1:33.97 1:34.13 r:+0.70 22.11 45.53 (23.42) 1:09.58 (24.05) 1:34.13 (24.55) 12 Soloveychik, Bar SR MINN 1:35.20 1:34.31 r:+0.66 22.16 46.12 (23.96) 1:10.23 (24.11) 1:34.31 (24.08) 13 Romano, Yoav FR WISC 1:34.23 1:34.65 r:+0.63 22.44 46.57 (24.13) 1:10.83 (24.26) 1:34.65 (23.82) 14 Eichel, Daniel FR MINN 1:36.80 1:35.05 r:+0.72 22.46 46.58 (24.12) 1:10.72 (24.14) 1:35.05 (24.33) 15 Slavica, Toni SO PSU 1:37.84 1:35.06 r:+0.63 21.60 45.42 (23.82) 1:09.81 (24.39) 1:35.06 (25.25) 16 Kim, Tylor SO PSU 1:35.17 1:35.07 r:+0.69 22.06 46.46 (24.40) 1:10.69 (24.23) 1:35.07 (24.38)
Big Ten Men’s 100 Breaststroke
Indiana stunningly claimed the top five seeds in the 100 breaststroke.
Senior Finlay Brooks took the top spot in 50.42, followed by fifth-year Caspar Corbeau (51.18), fifth-year Jassen Yep (51.25), senior Josh Matheny (51.30) and fifth-year Brian Benzing (51.59).
Michigan’s Ozan Kalafat was the sixth seed in 51.78, followed by USC’s Chun Ho Chan (52.17) and Benjamin Dillard (52.27).
Event 11 Men 100 Yard Breaststroke ================================================================== B1G Meet: ! 50.19 3/5/2021 Maxwell J McHugh, Minnesota POOL: $ 49.69 3/24/2018 Finnerty, Ian, Indiana Name Year School Seed Prelims ================================================================== === Preliminaries === 1 Brooks, Finlay SR Ind 51.13 50.42 r:+0.63 10.69 23.35 (12.66) 36.73 (13.38) 50.42 (13.69) 2 Corbeau, Caspar 5Y Ind 51.49 51.18 r:+0.68 10.56 23.52 (12.96) 37.59 (14.07) 51.18 (13.59) 3 Yep, Jassen 5Y Ind 51.59 51.25 r:+0.62 11.04 24.08 (13.04) 37.76 (13.68) 51.25 (13.49) 4 Matheny, Joshua SR Ind 51.15 51.30 r:+0.70 11.27 24.18 (12.91) 37.84 (13.66) 51.30 (13.46) 5 Benzing, Brian 5Y Ind 51.03 51.59 r:+0.64 10.93 23.81 (12.88) 37.71 (13.90) 51.59 (13.88) 6 Kalafat, Ozan JR MICH 52.60 51.78 r:+0.61 10.96 24.09 (13.13) 37.87 (13.78) 51.78 (13.91) 7 Chan, Chun Ho FR USC 51.79 52.17 r:+0.63 11.15 24.44 (13.29) 38.38 (13.94) 52.17 (13.79) 8 Dillard, Benjamin 5Y USC 52.11 52.27 r:+0.70 10.93 24.16 (13.23) 38.14 (13.98) 52.27 (14.13) ----------------------------------------------------------------- 9 O'Grady, Christopher SR USC 52.08 52.40 r:+0.67 10.94 24.26 (13.32) 38.05 (13.79) 52.40 (14.35) 10 Pinheiro, Filipe 5Y PSU 53.17 52.49 r:+0.64 10.86 24.60 (13.74) 38.43 (13.83) 52.49 (14.06) 11 Helmuth, Karl SR OSU 52.44 52.58 r:+0.67 11.19 24.44 (13.25) 38.47 (14.03) 52.58 (14.11) 12 Rudd, Joseph SR MINN 52.90 52.68 r:+0.68 11.21 24.97 (13.76) 38.49 (13.52) 52.68 (14.19) 13 Segal, Matthew SR WISC 53.82 52.75 r:+0.68 11.02 24.36 (13.34) 38.21 (13.85) 52.75 (14.54) 14 Lazzerini, Mariano JR PSU 52.52 52.78 r:+0.68 11.45 24.93 (13.48) 38.84 (13.91) 52.78 (13.94) 15 Gamilla, Jaeddan SO MICH 53.16 53.10 r:+0.65 11.49 24.99 (13.50) 38.81 (13.82) 53.10 (14.29) 16 Wiegand, Ben SR WISC 53.87 53.11 r:+0.67 11.14 24.85 (13.71) 38.69 (13.84) 53.11 (14.42)
Big Ten Men’s 100 Backstroke
The Hoosiers weren’t finish with their morning move. Indiana claimed the top two seeds in the 100 backstroke with Owen McDonald (44.50) and Luke Barr (45.02).
Northwestern went 3-4 with David Gerchik (45.25) and Stuart Seymour (45.30).
Michigan junior Jack Wilkening was the fifth seed in 45.34, followed by Penn State’s Matthew Bittner (45.48), Indiana’s Miroslav Knedla (45.60) and OSU’ s Cornelius Jahn (45.62).
================================================================== B1G Meet: ! 44.31 2/25/2022 Brendan A Burns, Indiana POOL: $ 43.61 3/24/2023 Burns, Brendan, Indiana Name Year School Seed Prelims ================================================================== === Preliminaries === 1 McDonald, Owen JR Ind 44.93 44.50 r:+0.50 10.69 21.62 (10.93) 33.22 (11.60) 44.50 (11.28) 2 Barr, Luke SR Ind 46.14 45.02 r:+0.50 10.40 21.63 (11.23) 33.37 (11.74) 45.02 (11.65) 3 Gerchik, David SO NU 46.07 45.25 r:+0.56 10.63 21.87 (11.24) 33.62 (11.75) 45.25 (11.63) 4 Seymour, Stuart SO NU 45.84 45.30 r:+0.53 10.97 22.13 (11.16) 33.87 (11.74) 45.30 (11.43) 5 Wilkening, Jack JR MICH 45.48 45.34 r:+0.56 10.58 21.68 (11.10) 33.65 (11.97) 45.34 (11.69) 6 Bittner, Matthew JR PSU 46.21 45.48 r:+0.50 10.69 21.74 (11.05) 33.58 (11.84) 45.48 (11.90) 7 Knedla, Miroslav FR Ind 45.27 45.60 r:+0.52 10.49 21.51 (11.02) 33.57 (12.06) 45.60 (12.03) 8 Jahn, Cornelius FR OSU 46.15 45.62 r:+0.60 10.78 22.14 (11.36) 34.01 (11.87) 45.62 (11.61) ----------------------------------------------------------------- 9 Chmielewski, Michal SO USC 47.00 45.83 r:+0.56 11.20 22.80 (11.60) 34.31 (11.51) 45.83 (11.52) 10 Wight, Gavin 5Y Ind 45.90 46.03 r:+0.56 10.83 22.00 (11.17) 33.93 (11.93) 46.03 (12.10) 11 Morley, Cooper JR PSU 45.72 46.39 r:+0.54 11.01 22.14 (11.13) 34.21 (12.07) 46.39 (12.18) 12 Stowe, Casey 5Y MINN 47.03 46.44 r:+0.57 10.74 22.32 (11.58) 34.30 (11.98) 46.44 (12.14) 13 Lorenz, Samuel FR WISC 47.14 46.46 r:+0.55 10.66 21.89 (11.23) 33.81 (11.92) 46.46 (12.65) 14 Scharff, Cooper JR WISC 47.39 46.62 r:+0.49 10.53 22.10 (11.57) 34.10 (12.00) 46.62 (12.52) 15 Danziger, Inbar FR MICH 48.14 46.88 r:+0.53 10.97 22.50 (11.53) 34.77 (12.27) 46.88 (12.11) 16 Welker, Nathan SO WISC 46.67 46.98 r:+0.55 11.11 22.65 (11.54) 34.89 (12.24) 46.98 (12.09)
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