When the Big 12 Tournament finishes with the championship match at heavyweight, five veteran coaches will file into a back room at Hilton Coliseum.  They will all have one shared objective, but they will all have their own agenda as the coaches try to pass the proverbial camel through the eye of a needle.      By WIN magazine's count forty Big 12 wrestlers are ranked in the top twenty.  Yet, only thirty-six wrestlers can get out of the tournament with NCAA All-American and Championships dreams alive.      As tournaments go, it is pretty much a given that upsets will happen.  One semifinal upset could easily throw the wild-card meeting into an uproar.  There is little room for error, and well-qualified wrestlers are going to get left-behind.      When it comes down to the qualifier formula hatched by the NCAA Wrestling Rules Committee, the Big 12 Conference is ample evidence that a change is needed.      With fifty wrestlers competing fourteen wrestlers will be tossed aside in the wildcard meeting.  Here is how the weights might shake out.    125 pounds:  Jason Powell has earned frontrunner status in this weight class where three of the Big 12 contingent receive national rankings.  Powell has held on to the top spot throughout the year with a 20-1 record.  His only loss is to a near nameless opponent from Wyoming.  He is joined by freshman Sam Hazewinkel, a Greco specialist, with a 28-4 mark.  The 9th ranked Hazewinkel will likely battle Cody Stites from Oklahoma State in the semis.      Lost in translation:    Austin Devoe, Missouri, sophomore, 12-14 overall and 1-6 in the Big 12  Grant Nakamura, Iowa State, sophomore, 13-10 overall and 1-3 in the Big 12    133 pounds:  All five athletes receive top twenty rankings.  Of course, most fans are expecting a Zach Roberson and Johnny Thompson showdown.  But, this weight class is why tournaments aren't wrestled on paper.  Thompson who can join the ranks of the truly elite this year by becoming a four-time NCAA finalist holds an un-Thompson like record of 22-6.  Even more startling was his latest failing against an Oklahoma freshman in the third Bedlam dual of the year.  Mimi Miller, 18th ranked with a 19-13 record topped Thompson 7-6 recently.  Throw in 9th ranked Matt Keller from the Husker state and sophomore Paul Collum from Missouri and the coaches will be hard pressed to leave any of these athletes behind.      Smiles all around-no one stays home.      141 pounds:  Oklahoma's Teyon Ware captured the NCAA at title at this weight last year as a true freshman.  Don't expect past accolades to impress the competition here with four of the five athletes ranked nationally.  Iowa State's Gallick blemished Ware's perfect record January 30th with a 3-2 win.  Gallick now sits with a #2 ranking just in front of Ware at #3.  Junior Matt Murray of Nebraska holds down the 11th ranking while freewheeling pinner J.P. Reese of Missouri grabs the 15th spot.  The odd man out at this weight seems to be Ronnie Delk a junior with a 14-14 overall record.      Home alone:    Ronnie Delk, Oklahoma State, junior, 14-14, 1-6 in the Big 12    149 pounds:  Too many elbows are at this dinner table with three of the competitors being ranked in the top four nationally.  Zack Esposito, the 2003 shining light that went dim early in Kansas City, seems to have attacked his sophomore season with a vengeance.  Only a headlock and pin at the Missouri Open early in the year kept this Cowboy from being undefeated.  Esposito certainly enters the conference tourney as the favorite having vanquished the competition en route to an 8-0 Big 12 campaign.  But from there, the fight for seconds at this five-person table gets ugly.  Jeff Eckloff the lowest ranked at #12 recently padded his 27-11 freshman record with an 11-8 victory over #4 ranked Travis Shuefelt of Nebraska. Throw in Iowa State's Trent Paulson with a 6th ranking and the veteran Jeremy Spates at #3 and the coaches will be hard pressed to take away anyone's dessert.      Full stomachs all around-everyone goes    Reaching the mid-way point of our argument into insanity, we started out with the untenable task of cutting away the fat from a very lean cow.  From my standards only three of the fourteen wrestlers needed to meet the NCAA formula have been identified.  So from here things will definitely get ugly.  Sorry boys we're use to quotas around wrestling and we will get there whether we have to cut to the bone.    157 pounds:  To put it plain 157 is a weak weight in the Big 12, more than a touch of sarcasm in that statement.  After all, only two of the wrestlers are ranked in the top ten and two more in the top fifteen.  Yet, no Big 12 157 pounder has crept into the top five.  It must be a weak weight---once again that's sarcasm.  But with six weights to go eleven wrestlers have to have frowns on their faces.      Johnny Hendricks is the best bet to capture the crown, having rallied a 5-0 performance in the Big 12.  Missouri's Kenny Burleson has his lone conference loss to the freshman from OSU piling up a 29-4 senior campaign.  Back in the pack but looming large are junior B.J. Wright of Nebraska at #11 and freshman Travis Paulson at #12.  Recently Paulson did his chances some good with a 7-5 victory over Wright from Nebraska.  One upset in the semis and things can easily unravel for all of the coaches walking into that seeding meeting.      Say it ain't so-these two have got to go???  B.J. Wright, Nebraska, junior, 17-8 overall, 1-3 in the Big 12  Travis Paulson, Iowa State, freshman, 23-5 overall, 2-2 in the Big 12    165 pounds:  Once again we have an odd-man out scenario with four of the five wrestlers ranked in the top twenty.  Tyrone Lewis is a lock for the title in most minds with a 27-1 record, a #1 ranking, and the momentum of a recent victory over #2 Troy Letters of Lehigh.  The two guys that finish 2nd and 3rd will be smiling but one nationally ranked wrestler will surely join Oklahoma's Charles Jones looking for comfort.  So who will it be?  Nick Passalano of Iowa State grabs the 8th ranking and Tyron Woodley a junior from Missouri comes in at 13, and finally Jacob Klein of Nebraska holds the 17th spot.      Voted off the island:  Charles Jones, Oklahoma, freshman, 9-10 overall, 2-3 in the Big 12  Jacob Klein, Nebraska, sophomore, 15-7 overall, 2-2 in the Big 12    174 pounds:  Little can be said at 174 except that Chris Pendelton outclasses the competition.  This should be the second lock of a title for the Cowboys.  Pendelton heads to Ames with a perfect 28-0 mark for his junior year.  The only wrestler that appears to have a shot at Pendelton is redshirt freshman Ben Askren of Missouri.  Askren will likely face E.K. Waldhaus of Oklahoma a 14th ranked 25-7 junior.      Turning in the equipment:  Grant Turner, Iowa State, freshman, 7-13, 1-3 in the Big 12   James Pummel, Nebraska, sophomore, 12-11 overall, 1-3 in the Big 12    184 pounds:  Jake Rosholt of Oklahoma State became America's most unlikely NCAA Champion last year as he capped an incredible run as a freshman.  This year he has had a strong sophomore campaign with a 17-3 mark and no losses against his Big 12 foes.  Rosholt holds a #4 ranking but has a win over #3 Travis Pascoe of Nebraska in dual competition 6-3.  Fighting it out for the necessary third place, "don't have to sweat the wild card meeting spot", will be 7th ranked Justin Dyer of Oklahoma, #14 Kurt Backes of Iowa State, and red-shirt freshman Matt Pell of Missouri who holds the most wins in the weight at 26-9.      The worst of times:  Matt Pell, Missouri, freshman, 26-9 overall, 5-2 in the Big 12  Kurt Backes, Iowa State, freshman, 22-9 overall, 1-3 in the Big 12    197 pounds:  Did I say 157 pounds was weak?  Well, in actuality, 197 is the weak weight of the conference.  Don't forget though the top three definitely go.  So that Bronze medal may feel like a Gold to one of these three wrestlers.  Rusty Blackmon of Oklahoma State, Jeff Foust of Missouri, and Joel Tapler of Oklahoma enter the meet unranked.  Tapler of Oklahoma may already have his ticket to the NCAA's---probably somewhere in the front of the Sooner section with a 8-9 overall