AWN /TOM preseason rankings . thanks V !!

[r.payton@att.net]

Note: *Redshirt Record
125

Rank	Wrestler	Grade	School	Record	Last
1	Matt McDonough	Sr	Iowa	36-1
2	Nico Megaludis	So	Penn State	28-8
3	Jesse Delgado	So	Illinois	34-8
4	Steve Bonanno	Sr	Hofstra	32-9
5	Jarrod Garnett	Sr	Virginia Tech	21-4*
6	Anthony Zanetta	Sr	Pittsburgh	29-6
7	Alan Waters	Jr	Missouri	29-4
8	Nikko Triggas	Sr	Ohio State
9	Trent Sprenkle	Sr	North Dakota State	33-12
10	Levi Mele	Sr	Northwestern	31-8
11	Joe Roth	Jr	Central Michigan	35-9
12	Matt Snyder	Sr	Virginia	24-5
13	David Thorn	Jr	Minnesota	14-2
14	Pat Rollins	So	Oregon State	26-17
15	Jon Morrison	Jr	Oklahoma State	21-10
16	Ryak Finch	So	Iowa State	15-10
17	Jared Germaine	Jr	Eastern Michigan	24-11
18	Camden Eppert	Jr	Purdue	14-10
19	Shane Young	Sr	West Virginia	24-8
20	Nick Soto	So	Chattanooga	26-8

133

Rank	Wrestler	Grade	School	Record	Last
1	Logan Steiber	So	Ohio State	33-2
2	Tony Ramos	Jr	Iowa	33-4
3	Scott Sentes	Sr	Central Michigan
4	Chris Dardanes	So	Minnesota	28-12
5	Steven Keith	Sr	Harvard	34-11
6	Joe Colon	Sr	Northern Iowa	27-4
7	AJ Schopp	So	Edinboro	39-6
8	Shelton Mack	Jr	Pittsburgh	23-10
9	Cashe Quiroga	Jr	Purdue	22-8
10	Zach Zehner	So	Wyoming	29-13
11	Nate McCormick	Sr	Missouri	16-7
12	Mason Beckman	So	Lehigh	31-13
13	Naryman Arujau	Jr	Cornell	6-7
14	Jordan Thome	Sr	Army	28-13
15	Ridge Kiley	Sr	Nebraska	17-16
16	Garrett Frey	Sr	Princeton	27-11
17	Geoff Alexander	So	Maryland	22-14
18	Nathan Pennesi	Jr	West Virginia	29-10
19	Brian Owen	Sr	Boise State	9-3
20	Scott Festejo	Jr	Old Dominion	23-16

141

Rank	Wrestler	Grade	School	Record	Last
1	Kendric Maple	Jr	Oklahoma	32-3
2	Michael Mangrum	Sr	Oregon State	38-5
3	Hunter Stieber	So	Ohio State	28-7
4	Tyler Graff	Sr	Wisconsin
5	Mike Nevinger	Jr	Cornell	33-12
6	BJ Futrell	Sr	Illinois	30-9
7	Nick Dardanes	So	Minnesota	21-10
8	Zach Niebert	Jr	Virginia Tech	22-12
9	Mitchell Port	So	Edinboro	30-10
10	Jake Sueflohn	So	Nebraska	25-11
11	Tyler Small	Jr	Kent State	32-11
12	Luke Vaith	Jr	Hofstra	24-10
13	Justin LaValle	Sr	Old Dominion	27-16
14	Stephen Dutton	Jr	Michigan	20-7
15	Josh Kindig	Jr	Oklahoma State	16-10
16	Adam Krop	Jr	Princeton	31-12
17	Matt Nelson	Sr	Virginia	19-7
18	Nick Hucke	Sr	Missouri	16-14
19	Mike Morales	So	West Virginia	18-4
20	Luke Goettl	So	Iowa State	12-13

149

Rank	Wrestler	Grade	School	Record	Last
1	Dylan Ness	So	Minnesota	24-9
2	Donnie Vinson	Jr	Binghamton	40-5
3	Jason Chamberlain	Sr	Boise State
4	Jordan Oliver	Sr	Oklahoma State	28-2
5	Cam Tessari	So	Ohio State	28-11
6	Justin Accordino	Sr	Hofstra	26-14
7	Scott Sakaguchi	Jr	Oregon State	38-7
8	Nick Lester	Jr	Oklahoma	23-13
9	Derek Valenti	Sr	Virginia	15-2
10	Andrew Alton	So	Penn State	11-1*
11	Cole Von Ohlen	Sr	Air Force	37-4
12	Eric Grajales	Jr	Michigan	20-8
13	Steve Santos	Sr	Columbia	26-11
14	David Habat	So	Edinboro	36-8
15	Ivan Lopouchanski	Sr	Purdue	16-8
16	Kaleb Friedley	Jr	Northwestern	22-13
17	Kyle Bradley	Jr	Missouri	25-13
18	Taylor Walsh	So	Indiana	29-12
19	Nick Brascetta	So	Virginia Tech	22-6
20	Shane Welsh	Sr	Lehigh	24-7

157

Rank	Wrestler	Grade	School	Record	Last
1	Kyle Dake	Sr	Cornell	35-0
2	Derek St. John	Jr	Iowa	21-3
3	Dylan Alton	So	Penn State	30-6
4	Jason Welch	Sr	Northwestern	27-3
5	James Fleming	Sr	Clarion	33-4
6	James Green	So	Nebraska	34-9
7	Walter Peppleman	Sr	Harvard	30-7
8	Steven Monk	Jr	North Dakota State	35-9
9	Frank Hickman	Sr	Bloomsburg	31-7
10	Jesse Dong	Sr	Virginia Tech
11	Josh Kreimier	Jr	Air Force	26-16
12	RJ Pena	Jr	Oregon State	30-9
13	David Bonin	Sr	Northern Iowa	30-9
14	Matt Lester	Jr	Oklahoma	21-11
15	Josh Demas	So	Ohio State	22-15
16	Aaron Sulzer	Sr	Eastern Michigan	20-11
17	John Nicholson	Jr	Old Dominion	27-8
18	Drake Houdashelt	So	Missouri	28-7
19	George Ivanov	Sr	Boise State	22-8
20	Jake O’Hara	Sr	Columbia	28-15

165

Rank	Wrestler	Grade	School	Record	Last
1	David Taylor	Jr	Penn State	32-0
2	Tyler Caldwell	Sr	Oklahoma State
3	Peter Yates	Sr	Virginia Tech	28-7
4	Josh Asper	Sr	Maryland	32-7
5	Conrad Polz	Sr	Illinois	24-6
6	Robert Kokesh	So	Nebraska	30-7
7	Patrick Graham	Sr	Oklahoma	19-14
8	Mike Evans	So	Iowa	26-8
9	Cody Yohn	Sr	Minnesota	19-11
10	Nick Sulzer	So	Virginia	27-9
11	Scott Winston	Sr	Rutgers	19-8
12	Marshall Peppelman	So	Cornell	21-17
13	Tristan Warner	Jr	Old Dominion	27-16
14	Joe Booth	Sr	Drexel	24-7
15	Corey Lear	Sr	Bucknell	18-11
16	Mike Ottinger	So	Central Michigan	23-10
17	Mark Lewandowski	Sr	Buffalo	29-8
18	Pierce Harger	Jr	Northwestern	22-14
19	Zach Toal	Jr	Missouri	21-11
20	Lorenzo Thomas	So	Penn	23-10

174

Rank	Wrestler	Grade	School	Record	Last
1	Chris Perry	Jr	Oklahoma State	31-1
2	Jordan Blanton	Sr	Illinois	30-9
3	Nick Heflin	Jr	Ohio State	28-10
4	Logan Storley	So	Minnesota	26-9
5	Ethen Lofthouse	Jr	Iowa	29-9
6	Jimmy Sheptock	Jr	Maryland	30-8
7	Oscar Huntley	Sr	Navy	24-12
8	Matt Brown	So	Penn State	26-2
9	John-Martin Cannon	Sr	Buffalo	21-4*
10	Turtogtokh Luvsandorj	Sr	Citadel	32-11
11	Lee Munster	So	Northwestern	24-12
12	Ryan LeBlanc	Jr	Indiana	31-16
13	Tyler Koehn	Sr	Nebraska	19-14
14	Jon Fausey	Jr	Virginia	24-5
15	Greg Zanetti	Sr	Rutgers	31-6
16	Lance Bryson	Jr	West Virginia	25-16
17	Patrick Martinez	Jr	Wyoming	35-12
18	Jim Resnick	Sr	Rider	19-6
19	Dominic Kastl	So	Cal Poly	14-5
20	Dan Yates	Jr	Michigan	24-10

184

Rank	Wrestler	Grade	School	Record	Last
1	Steve Bosak	Sr	Cornell	33-4
2	Ed Ruth	Jr	Penn State	31-0
3	Robert Hamlin	Sr	Lehigh	33-3
4	Kevin Steinhaus	Jr	Minnesota	32-6
5	Ben Bennett	Sr	Central Michigan	34-6
6	Josh Inhen	Sr	Nebraska	26-7
7	Ryan Loder	Jr	Northern Iowa	35-6
8	Mike Larson	Sr	Missouri	24-6
9	Tony Dallago	Jr	Illinois	25-13
10	Jacob Swartz	Jr	Bosie State	21-6
11	Nate Schiedel	Sr	Binghamton	30-10
12	Grant Gambrall	Sr	Iowa	12-12
13	Casey Newburg	Sr	Kent State	30-13
14	Braden Atwood	So	Purdue	25-15
15	Ryan Garringer	Jr	Ohio	18-15
16	Cody Magrum	Sr	Ohio State	19-6
17	Victor Avery	So	Edinboro	24-15
18	Boaz Beard	Jr	Iowa State	10-7
19	MacKain Stoll	Sr	North Dakota State	24-14
20	Diego Bencomo	Sr	Duke	12-5

197

Rank	Wrestler	Grade	School	Record	Last
1	Dustin Kilgore	Sr	Kent State
2	Matt Wilps	Sr	Pittsburgh	34-5
3	Quentin Wright	Sr	Penn State	30-4
4	Alfonso Hernandez	Sr	Wyoming	40-8
5	Micah Burak	Sr	Penn	24-6
6	Brent Haynes	Sr	Missouri	25-8
7	Blake Rosholt	Jr	Oklahoma State	19-3
8	Mario Gonzalez	Jr	Illinois	26-9
9	Andrew Campolattano	So	Ohio State	23-14
10	Scott Schiller	So	Minnesota	31-4
11	Christian Boley	Jr	Maryland	32-5
12	Taylor Meeks	So	Oregon State	20-8
13	Rich Perry	Jr	Bloomsburg	33-12
14	Brent Chriswell	Sr	Boise State	14-4
15	Maxwell Huntley	So	Michigan	15-14
16	Dan Mitchell	Sr	American	21-13
17	Cody Reed	Jr	Binghamton	25-18
18	Dan Rinaldi	Sr	Rutgers	26-8
19	Brandon Palik	Jr	Drexel	25-15
20	James Fox	So	Harvard	21-13

285

Rank	Wrestler	Grade	School	Record	Last
1	Tony Nelson	Jr	Minnesota	32-2
2	Alan Gelogaev	Sr	Oklahoma State	24-1
3	Jarod Trice	Sr	Central Michigan
4	Mike McMullan	So	Northwestern	29-11
5	Dom Bradley	Sr	Missouri
6	Bobby Telford	So	Iowa	30-9
7	Jeremy Johnson	Jr	Ohio	35-7
8	Nick Gwiazdowski	So	North Carolina State	30-9
9	Levi Cooper	Sr	Arizona State	28-12
10	Chad Hanke	Sr	Oregon State
11	Odie Delaney	Sr	Citadel	29-4
12	Spencer Myers	Jr	Maryland	22-9
13	Connor Medbery	Fr	Wisconsin	16-1
14	Ben Apland	Sr	Michigan	23-11
15	Matt Gibson	Sr	Iowa State	27-10
16	Adam Chalfant	Jr	Indiana	24-13
17	Zac Thomusseit	Sr	Pittsburgh	7-2
18	Peter Capone	Jr	Ohio State	15-17
19	Ernest James	Jr	Edinboro	30-12
20	Mike McClure	Sr	Michigan State	16-11

[BlueBloodLion]

Wow, some really tough top 4's, I'd put the three toughest as:
141, 157 and 184 off the top of my head. Some other crazy thoughts-

Jordan Oliver as a preseason #4 at any weight! and I'm not even saying that;s one of the toughest top-4 weights. I think he is underseeded.

Hard to imagine Andrew Alton and Matt Brown finishing as low as they are listed here. Both seem top 3 to me.

I realize Bosak won the weight last year, but he seems generally weaker that Ruth. (Strange calling a returning champ "weaker", but Ruth is an undefeated returning champ and I think #2 Hodge vote-getter)

Heavy looks really fun right now!

[JensenS]

Hard to imagine Andrew Alton and Matt Brown finishing as low as they are listed here. Both seem top 3 to me.

Rankings, not predictions.

[BlueBloodLion]

Would you view the preseason rankings more as how they should be ranked day 1 of the season, or as how they will be toward/at the end of the season?

Option 1 seems uninspiring.

[JensenS]

Uninspiring, but its the way they've always been.

Its the difference between like I said, rankings and predictions.

[Badcat]

Kudos to Edinboro for having 5 wrestlers on the list. Not too bad for such a small school. The Bruce is doing a damn fine job up there.

[Zapp Brannigan]

Not saying that Matt Brown CAN'T get top 3, but a preseason #8 ranking seems pretty generous for a guy who has accomplished next to nothing at the D1 level. Same goes for Schiller.

[ban basketball]

Not that it matters that much, but Colon is only a junior this year and not a senior.

He actually only wrestled at Iowa Central for one year, won the JUCO title, and went to UNI for his sophomore season.

[TomWright25]

Kudos to Edinboro for having 5 wrestlers on the list. Not too bad for such a small school. The Bruce is doing a damn fine job up there.

By Bruce I assume you mean Baumgartner. Isn't Tim Flynn still the coach there? Unless I'm missing something.