Related Clues:
- School paper
- Doctoral paper, perhaps
- Fights before the big one
- Degree requirement, sometimes
- Need for a third degree?
- Degree requirement, perhaps
- Grad student's project
- Doctorate requirement, often
- Tourney starters
- Early heats
- Grad student's work
- Qualifying bouts, for short
- Tourney rounds
- One of Luther's 95
- Degree seeker's draft