The Iowa Hawkeye baseball team opens the Big Ten Tournament in Omaha Wednesday afternoon against Michigan. The fifth seeded Hawkeyes will send junior standout Brody Brecht (brekt) to the mound against the fourth seeded Wolverines. Sophomore Cade Obermueller (oh-bir-myool-ir) will start game two.

That’s Iowa coach Rick Heller. The Wolverines won two of three games against the Hawkeyes in Iowa City during the regular season.

Iowa’s side of the bracket also including top seed and regular season champion Illinois and eighth seeded Penn State.

With two of their top three hitters out with injury the Hawkeyes have had to revamp their offense. They scored 31 runs in win their last two games over Florida International. Iowa second baseman Gable Mitchell.