Weekly Review of Rankings for 1/15/24

Tom McAndrew

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Oct 27, 2021
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Week 9 of the Weekly Review for the 2023-24 season.

Last week, Davis and Kasak appeared for the 1st time in some rankings, and moved up a good bit in other rankings, but were not in Intermat's rankings, which many programs and telecasts use as the definitive ranking. This week, both made it into Intermat's rankings. They now are in all the rankings with the exception of Davis still not making into WIN Magazine's rankings. Mesenbrink was the only other PSUer to move in the non-computer rankings, though that seemed to be more a reflection of losses by those previously ranked ahead of him. @SetonHallPirate's Dual Impact Index is getting closer to reality, though Kasak is still not ranked by him, and Nagao's ranking seems to be out of whack.

A reminder that: 1) different services treat freshman (RS or True) differently at the beginning of the season, 2) different services rank a differing number of prospects per weight class, and 3) computer generated rankings (Dual Impact Index and WrestleStat) usually are off a good bit at the beginning of the season.

I'll post a reply indicating that the Review is fully updated when all of the rankings have been posted.

InterMat
125: Braeden Davis - 14th (no PSUer)
133: Aaron Nagao - 4th (4th)
141: Beau Bartlett - 2nd (2nd)
149: Tyler Kasak - 12th (no PSUer)
157: Levi Haines - 1st (1st)
165: Mitchell Mesenbrink - 9th (10th)
174: Carter Starocci - 1st (1st)
184: Bernie Truax - 5th (5th)
197: Aaron Brooks - 1st (1st)
285: Greg Kerkvliet - 1st (1st)
Tournament - 1st (1st)
Dual - 1st (1st)


FloWrestling
125: Braeden Davis - 14th (15th)
133: Aaron Nagao - 4th (4th)
141: Beau Bartlett - 2nd (2nd)
149: Tyler Kasak - 17th (17th)
157: Levi Haines - 1st (1st)
165: Mitchell Mesenbrink - 8th (9th)
174: Carter Starocci - 1st (1st)
184: Bernie Truax - 5th (5th)
197: Aaron Brooks - 1st (1st)
285: Greg Kerkvliet - 1st (1st)
Tournament - 1st (1st)
Dual - 1st (1st time I noticed they had this)
P4P: Starocci - 1st (1st), Brooks - 3rd (3rd), Kerk - 8th (8th), Haines - 14th (14th)


The Open Mat
125: Braeden Davis - 19th (19th)
133: Aaron Nagao - 4th (4th)
141: Beau Bartlett - 2nd (2nd)
149: Tyler Kasak - 13th (16th)
157: Levi Haines - 1st (1st)
165: Mitchell Mesenbrink - 7th (8th)
174: Carter Starocci - 1st (1st)
184: Bernie Truax - 5th (5th)
197: Aaron Brooks - 1st (1st)
285: Greg Kerkvliet - 1st (1st)
Tournament - 1st (1st)
Dual - 1st (1st)


WIN Magazine
125: No PSUer (no PSUer)
133: Aarno Nagao - 4th (4th)
141: Beau Bartlett - 2nd (2nd)
149: Tyler Kasakk - 13th (no PSUer)
157: Levi Haines - 1st (1st)
165: Mitchell Mesenbrink - 6th (7th)
174: Carter Starocci - 1st (1st)
184: Bernie Truax - 5th (5th)
197: Aaron Brooks - 1st (1st)
285: Greg Kerkvliet - 1st (1st)
Tournament - 1st (1st)
Dual - 1st (1st)


National Wrestling Coaches Association Coaches Poll
PSU 1st (1st)


Amateur Wrestling News -- (the parenthesis are from a few weeks ago)
125: Braeden Davis - 14th (no PSUer)
133: Aaron Nagao - 4th (4th)
141: Beau Bartlett - 2nd (2nd)
149: Tyler Kasak - 11th (no PSUer)
157: Levi Haines - 1st (1st)
165: Mitchell Mesenbrink - 9th (8th)
174: Carter Starocci - 1st (1st)
184: Bernie Truax - 5th (2nd)
197: Aaron Brooks - 1st (1st)
285: Greg Kerkvliet - 1st (1st)


The College Wrestling Report
125: Braeden Davis - 9th (10th)
133: Aaron Nagao - 4th (4th)
141: Beau Bartlett - 2nd (2nd)
149: Tyler Kasak - 16th (16th)
157: Levi Haines - 1st (1st)
165: Mitchell Mesenbrink - 7th (8th)
174: Carter Starocci - 1st (1st)
184: Bernie Truax - 11th (11th)
197: Aaron Brooks - 1st (1st)
285: Greg Kerkvliet - 1st (1st)

Dual Impact Index
125: Braedon Davis - 13th (15th), Gary Steen - 23rd (21st), Robbie Howard - 51st (52nd)
133: Aaron Nagao - 12th (8th), Baylor Shunk - 77th (77th)
141: Beau Bartlett - 3rd (3rd), David Evans - 17th (14th)
149: Connor Pierce - 56th (56th)
157: Levi Haines - 2nd (1st)
165: Mitchell Mesenbrink - 5th (6th), Matt Lee - 10th (9th)
174: Carter Starocci - 1st (1st), Aurelius Dunbar - 72nd (69th)
184: Bernie Truax - 6th (5th), Josh Barr - 11th (11th)
197: Aaron Brooks - 1st (2nd)
285: Greg Kerkvliet - 1st (1st)
P4P: Greg Kerkvliet - 1st (1st), Carter Starocci - 5th (4th), Aaron Brooks - 8th (12th), Mitchell Mesenbrink - 9th (15th), Beau Bartlett - 18th (20th), Levi Haines - 34th (17th), Bernie Truax - 87th (72nd), Braeden Davis - 134th (135th), Aaron Nagao - 138th (102nd), Connor Pierce - 514th (516th)
Dual Results - 1st (3rd)
Dual Component - 1st (1st)
Roster Component - 1st (1st)
Tournament Strength - 1st (1st)

WrestleStat
125: Braeden Davis - 13th (16th), Kurt McHenry - 50th (50th), Gary Steen - 55th (57th), Robbie Howard - 60th (61st), Brendan Wentzel - 186th (185th), Marco Vespa - 245th (247th)
133: Aaron Nagao - 4th (4th), Karl Shindledecker - 160th (161st), Baylor Shunk - 165th (169th), Sean Wang - 207th (209th), Kyison Garcia - 209th (211th)
141: Beau Bartlett - 3rd (3rd), David Evans - 42nd (40th)
149: Shayne Van Ness - 4th (4th), Tyler Kasak - 13th (20th), Connor Pierce - 89th (88th), Imran Heard - 159th (159th), Timothy Levine - 160th (160th)
157: Levi Haines - 3rd (3rd)
165: Mitchell Mesenbrink - 9th (9th), Terrell Barraclough - 16th (15th), Alex Facundo - 18th (16th), Matt Lee - 46th (45th), Erik Gibson - 231st (230th)
174: Carter Starocci - 1st (1st), Joe Lee - 60th (62nd), Brian Borden - 105th (103rd), Aurelius Dunbar - 137th (133rd)
184: Bernie Truax - 6th (6th), Josh Barr - 26th (29th), Donovan Ball - 80th (77th), Jack Kelly - 125th (125th)
197: Aaron Brooks - 1st (1st), Lucas Cochran - 38th (39th), AJ Fricchione - 188th (190th)
285: Greg Kerkvliet - 2nd (2nd)
Tournament - 1st (1st)
Dual - 1st (1st)

Also, I've decided to bring back the Averages, which was a long-time feature of the Weekly Review, but something I haven't done the past few years. As a reminder, it's Average Without Computer Rankings, and Average With Computer Rankings. The Average Without is an average of everything except the Dual Impact Index, and WrestleStat. The Average With includes the aforementioned. Also, while it's not a factor at this point, the criteria is that a wrestler must be listed in at least half of the rankings to be included in the Averages.

Average Without Computer Rankings
125: Braeden Davis - 14th
133: Aaron Nagao - 4th
141: Beau Bartlett - 2nd
149: Tyler Kasak - 13th
157: Levi Haines - 1st
165: Mitchell Mesenbrink - 8th
174: Carter Starocci - 1st
184: Bernie Truax - 5th
197: Aaron Brooks - 1st
285: Greg Kerkvliet - 1st
Tournament - 1st

Average With Computer Rankings
125: Braeden Davis - 14th
133: Aaron Nagao - 5th
141: Beau Bartlett - 2nd
149: Tyler Kasak - 14th
157: Levi Haines - 1st
165: Mitchell Mesenbrink - 8th
174: Carter Starocci - 1st
184: Bernie Truax - 6th
197: Aaron Brooks - 1st
285: Greg Kerkvliet - 1st
Tournament - 1st












 
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