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Byes (alterable)
SECTION 21. Byes shall be determined for each individual weight class.
The first round for each weight class shall be determined based on the
number of byes for that weight class. At no time shall there be equal or
more byes than the number of competitors in a weight class. When the
number of competitors is four, eight, 16, 32, 64 or another power of two,
there shall be no byes in the first round.
When the number of competitors is not equal to a power of two, the
number of byes shall be equal to the difference between the number of
competitors and the next higher power of two. This establishes the bracket
size and the bracket’s first round. The number of pairs that meet in the
first round shall be equal to the difference between the number of competitors
and the next lower power of two.
There shall be no byes after the first round, and no further drawing is
necessary for the championship or wrestle-back rounds. The byes, if even
in number, shall be divided equally between top and bottom. When byes
are required for the first round, they shall be placed by mutual consent or
drawn so that they are distributed evenly throughout the bracket. No 1/2,
1/4, 1/8, etc. bracket shall have more than one more bye than its paired
bracket. (See 5-4-b.)
Examples:
• Weight class 125 has 20 wrestlers; there shall be 12 byes and four pairings.
• Weight class 133 has eight wrestlers; there shall be no byes and four
pairings.
• Weight class 141 has 14 wrestlers; there shall be two byes and six pairings.
Contestants Eligible

Example 1 above 125lbs - 6 byes in the top half of bracket and six byes in the bottom half drawn in.
Example 3 above 141 lbs - 1 bye in the top half of bracket and 1 buy in the bottom half drawn in.

Bracketing should not have anything to do with OW under the current rules. The buys are drawn in first and then the unseeded wrestlers are drawn in for the available first round matches.