I came up with a still simpler re-imagination of the seeding process.

1)  Assign bye teams to regionals:

East:  BC #2
       NoDak #4
West:  MSU #1
       SCSU #3

2)  Assign #5-#12 slots in order of presumed desirability according to the usual pattern, based on the PWR rankings:
1W MSU #1 vs (4W #8 vs 5W #9) winner
1E BC #2 vs (4E #7 vs 5E #10) winner
2W SCSU #3 vs (3W #6 vs 6W #11)
2E NoDak #4 vs (3E #5 vs 6E #12)

3)  Fill these spots in order of desirability with the team highest rated in the PWR.  Exceptions to be made when a team MUST be assigned to its home region for attendance purposes*.  In this case, the team falls to the next acceptable slot**.

*Probably exceptions would also have been made to avoid first-round intraconference match-ups, but this doesn't come up.

**This means a team getting the advantage of being moved to its home region does so only at loss of presumed desirability of its seed.

That's it.  #5 Michigan can't be assigned to the East regional, so they drop to the #6 3W slot, and CC moves up.  Maine, at #8, can't be in the West regional, so they drop to the next available slot in the East regional, the #10 (5E) seed, moving Wisconsin from #9 to #8 (5W to 4W) and Providence from #10 to #9 (5E to 5W).

-Pam