Weekly Review of Rankings for 1/29/24

Tom McAndrew

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Week 11 of the Weekly Review for the 2023-24 season.

Not a lot of movement. The freshman are still giving the rankings some trouble, in terms of where to rank them. @SetonHallPirate's Dual Impact Index keeps getting closer to reality, as Kasak finally made it into the rankings. I'm still not sure he has it right with Starocci or with Nagao. WrestleStat is also getting closer to reality, but still has some surprises.

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 - 3rd (4th)
133: Aaron Nagao - 5th (5th)
141: Beau Bartlett - 2nd (2nd)
149: Tyler Kasak - 12th (12th)
157: Levi Haines - 1st (1st)
165: Mitchell Mesenbrink - 7th (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)


FloWrestling
125: Braeden Davis - 2nd (3rd)
133: Aaron Nagao - 5th (5th)
141: Beau Bartlett - 2nd (2nd)
149: Tyler Kasak - 17th (17th)
157: Levi Haines - 1st (1st)
165: Mitchell Mesenbrink - 7th (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)
P4P: Starocci - 1st (1st), Brooks - 3rd (3rd), Kerk - 8th (8th), Haines - 14th (14th)


The Open Mat
125: Braeden Davis - 11th (15th)
133: Aaron Nagao - 5th (5th)
141: Beau Bartlett - 2nd (2nd)
149: Tyler Kasak - 13th (13th)
157: Levi Haines - 1st (1st)
165: Mitchell Mesenbrink - 7th (7th)
174: Carter Starocci - 1st (1st)
184: Bernie Truax - 4th (4th)
197: Aaron Brooks - 1st (1st)
285: Greg Kerkvliet - 1st (1st)
Tournament - 1st (1st)
Dual - 1st (1st)


WIN Magazine
125: Braeden Davis - 9th (12th)
133: Aarno Nagao - 5th (5th)
141: Beau Bartlett - 2nd (2nd)
149: Tyler Kasakk - 12th (13th)
157: Levi Haines - 1st (1st)
165: Mitchell Mesenbrink - 3rd (3rd)
174: Carter Starocci - 1st (1st)
184: Bernie Truax - 4th (4th)
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
125: Braeden Davis - 7th (8th)
133: Aaron Nagao - 5th (5th)
141: Beau Bartlett - 2nd (2nd)
149: Tyler Kasak - 11th (11th)
157: Levi Haines - 1st (1st)
165: Mitchell Mesenbrink - 8th (8th)
174: Carter Starocci - 1st (1st)
184: Bernie Truax - 4th (4th)
197: Aaron Brooks - 1st (1st)
285: Greg Kerkvliet - 1st (1st)


The College Wrestling Report
125: Braeden Davis - 6th (7th)
133: Aaron Nagao - 5th (5th)
141: Beau Bartlett - 2nd (2nd)
149: Tyler Kasak - 16th (16th)
157: Levi Haines - 1st (1st)
165: Mitchell Mesenbrink - 7th (7th)
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 - 9th (8th), Gary Steen - 22nd (21st), Robbie Howard - 51st (50th)
133: Aaron Nagao - 20th (20th), Baylor Shunk - 75th (77th)
141: Beau Bartlett - 3rd (3rd), David Evans - 15th (15th)
149: Tyler Kasak - 8th (not ranked), David Evans - 12th (not ranked @ 149), Connor Pierce - 54th (54th)
157: Levi Haines - 1st (1st)
165: Mitchell Mesenbrink - 4th (3rd), Matt Lee - 13th (12th)
174: Carter Starocci - 4th (1st), Brian Borden - 63rd (not ranked), Aurelius Dunbar - 74th (73rd)
184: Bernie Truax - 5th (5th), Josh Barr - 8th (10th), Jack Kelly - 61st (not ranked)
197: Aaron Brooks - 1st (1st), Lucas Cochran - 12th (not ranked)
285: Greg Kerkvliet - 1st (1st)
P4P: Greg Kerkvliet - 2nd (1st), Aaron Brooks - 7th (13th), Mitchell Mesenbrink - 11th (5th), Beau Bartlett - 13th (17th), Levi Haines - 16th (24th), Carter Starocci - 31st (4th), Bernie Truax - 58th (60th), Tyler Kasak - 75th (not ranked), Braeden Davis - 109th (97th), Aaron Nagao - 186th (197th)
Dual Results - 1st (1st)
Dual Component - 1st (1st)
Roster Component - 1st (1st)
Tournament Strength - 1st (1st)

WrestleStat
125: Braeden Davis - 7th (8th), Kurt McHenry - 53rd (51st), Gary Steen - 59th (57th), Robbie Howard - 63rd (61st), Brendan Wentzel - 188th (186th), Marco Vespa - 246th (244th)
133: Aaron Nagao - 6th (6th), Karl Shindledecker - 159th (158th), Baylor Shunk - 166th (165th), Sean Wang - 212th (209th), Kyison Garcia - 214th (211th)
141: Beau Bartlett - 3rd (3rd),
149: Shayne Van Ness - 5th (4th), Tyler Kasak - 12th (13th), David Evans - 18th (40th @ 141), Connor Pierce - 93rd (89th), Imran Heard - 166th (161st), Timothy Levine - 168th (162nd)
157: Levi Haines - 3rd (3rd)
165: Mitchell Mesenbrink - 8th (8th), Terrell Barraclough - 15th (13th), Alex Facundo - 17th (16th), Matt Lee - 48th (46th), Erik Gibson - 239th (236th)
174: Carter Starocci - 1st (1st), Joe Lee - 65th (59th), Brian Borden - 90th (106th), Aurelius Dunbar - 141st (138th)
184: Bernie Truax - 4th (5th), Josh Barr - 23rd (26th), Donovan Ball - 80th (77th), Jack Kelly - 89th (123rd)
197: Aaron Brooks - 1st (1st), Lucas Cochran - 31st (37th), AJ Fricchione - 140th (187th)
285: Greg Kerkvliet - 2nd (2nd)
Tournament - 1st (1st)
Dual - 1st (1st)

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 - 6th (8th)
133: Aaron Nagao - 5th (5th)
141: Beau Bartlett - 2nd (2nd)
149: Tyler Kasak - 13th (13th)
157: Levi Haines - 1st (1st)
165: Mitchell Mesenbrink - 6th (6th)
174: Carter Starocci - 1st (1st)
184: Bernie Truax - 4th (4th)
197: Aaron Brooks - 1st (1st)
285: Greg Kerkvliet - 1st (1st)
Tournament - 1st (1st)

Average With Computer Rankings
125: Braeden Davis - 7th (8th)
133: Aaron Nagao - 7th (7th)
141: Beau Bartlett - 2nd (2nd)
149: Tyler Kasak - 13th (14th)
157: Levi Haines - 1st (1st)
165: Mitchell Mesenbrink - 6th (6th)
174: Carter Starocci - 1st (1st)
184: Bernie Truax - 5th (5th)
197: Aaron Brooks - 1st (1st)
285: Greg Kerkvliet - 1st (1st)
Tournament - 1st (1st)












 
Oct 26, 2021
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If you look at Nagao’s wins, he doesn’t have any significantly above him (would say above him at all, but I don’t have the raw data in front of me). 20 likely isn’t an accurate representation of where he should be ranked, but I can at least understand why the abacus put him there.

Starocci? I’m as confused as Cael would have been watching the other guy get his hand raised during his collegiate matches.
 
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