Weekly Review of Rankings for 1/7/25

Tom McAndrew

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Week 8 of the Weekly Review. When all of the services have posted their rankings, I'll post a reply indicating that the Review is complete.

PSU's starters haven't wrestled during the past two rankings, so any movement is likely to be the result of how other wrestlers did since the last ranking. Also, a note that The College Wrestling Report tweeted out their rankings this week, but as of 9:15 pm EST on Tuesday, they had not posted them to their web site.

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 usually are off a good bit at the beginning of the season.

InterMat
125: Luke Lilledahl - 12th (11th)
133: Braeden Davis - 5th (5th)
141: Beau Bartlett - 3rd (3rd)
149: Shayne Van Ness - 2nd (2nd)
157: Tyler Kasak - 3rd (4th)
165: Mitchell Mesenbrink - 1st (1st)
174: Levi Haines - 2nd (2nd)
184: Carter Starocci - 1st (1st)
197: Josh Barr - 4th (4th)
285: Greg Kerkvliet - 2nd (2nd)
Tournament - 1st (1st)
Dual - 1st (1st)


FloWrestling
125: Luke Lilledahl - 17th (17th)
133: Braeden Davis- 6th (6th)
141: Beau Bartlett - 3rd (3rd)
149: Shayne Van Ness - 2nd (2nd)
157: Tyler Kasak - 3rd (3rd)
165: Mitchell Mesenbrink - 1st (1st)
174: Levin Haines - 2nd (2nd)
184: Carter Starocci - 1st (1st)
197: Josh Barr - 4th (4th)
285: Greg Kerkvliet - 2nd (2nd)
Tournament - 1st (1st)
Dual - 1st (1st)
P4P: Starocci - 2nd (2nd), Kerkvliet - 6th (6th), Haines - 7th (7th), Bartlett - 10th (10th), Mesenbrink - 12th (12th), Van Ness - 19th (19th)


The Open Mat
125: Luke Lilledahl - 5th (6th)
133: Braeden Davis - 8th (8th)
141: Beau Bartlett - 3rd (3rd)
149: Shayne Van Ness - 2nd (2nd)
157: Tyler Kasak - 1st (1st)
165: Mitchell Mesenbrink - 1st (1st)
174: Levi Haines - 2nd (2nd)
184: Carter Starocci - 1st (1st)
197: Josh Barr - 4th (4th)
285: Greg Kerkvliet - 2nd (2nd)
Tournament - 1st (1st)
Dual - 1st (1st)


WIN Magazine (the parentheses are from 2 weeks ago, as they didn't post rankings last week)
125: Luke Lilledahl - 7th (6th)
133: Braeden Davis - 8th (8th)
141: Beau Bartlett - 3rd (3rd)
149: Shayne Van Ness - 2nd (2nd)
157: Tyler Kasak - 1st (1st)
165: Mitchell Mesenbrink - 1st (1st)
174: Levi Haines - 2nd (2nd)
184: Carter Starocci - 1st (1st)
197: Josh Barr - 4th (5th)
285: Greg Kerkvliet - 2nd (2nd)
Tournament - 1st (1st)
Dual - 1st (1st)


National Wrestling Coaches Association Coaches Poll (the parentheses are from 2 weeks ago, as they didn't post rankings last week)
PSU - 1st (1st)


Amateur Wrestling News
125: Luke Lilledahl - 7th (9th)
133: Braeden Davis - 5th (5th)
141: Beau Bartlett - 2nd (2nd)
149: Shayne Van Ness - 2nd (2nd)
157: Tyler Kasak - 2nd (2nd)
165: Mitchell Mesenbrink - 1st (1st)
174: Levi Haines - 2nd (2nd)
184: Carter Starocci - 1st (1st)
197: Josh Barr - 4th (4th)
285: Greg Kerkvliet - 2nd (2nd)

The College Wrestling Report
125: Luke Lilledahl - 14th (14th)
133: Braeden Davis - 9th (9th)
141: Beau Bartlett - 3rd (3rd)
149: Shayne Van Ness - 2nd (2nd)
157: Tyler Kasak - 3rd (3rd)
165: Mitchell Mesenbrink - 1st (1st)
174: Levi Haines - 2nd (2nd)
184: Carter Starocci - 1st (1st)
197: Josh Barr - 4th (5th)
285: Greg Kerkvliet - 2nd (2nd)
Tournament - 1st (1st)


WrestlingByPirate Dual Impact Index
125: Luke Lilledahl - 3rd (3rd), Kurt McHenry - 24th (not ranked)
133: Braeden Davis - 3rd (6th), Gary Steen - 58th (not ranked), Timothy Levine - 63rd (not ranked)
141: Beau Bartlett - 6th (8th), Cael Nasdeo - 38th (not ranked)
149: Shayne Van Ness - 3rd (3rd), Connor Pierce - 32nd (not ranked)
157: Tyler Kasak - 3rd (2nd), Alex Facundo - 10th (11th)
165: Mitchell Mesenbrink - 2nd (2nd), Aurelius Dunbar - 57th (not ranked)
174: Levi Haines - 4th (5th), Jack Kelly - 46th (not ranked), Sam Beckett - 46th (not ranked)
184: Carter Starocci - 2nd (2nd), Zack Ryder - 3rd (not ranked)
197: Connor Mirasola - 3rd (not ranked), Josh Barr - 6th (6th)
285: Cole Mirasola - 2nd (not ranked), Greg Kerkvliet - 9th (9th)
P4P: Carter Starocci - 10th (10th), Mitchell Mesenbrink - 14th (14th), Tyler Kasak - 25th (28th), Shane Van Ness - 26th (24th), Luke Lilledahl - 27th (21st), Levi Haines - 32nd (31st), Braeden Davis - 47th (45th), Beau Bartlett - 73rd (51st), Josh Barr - 74th (72nd), Greg Kerkvliet - 9th (78th)
Dual Results - 2nd (2nd)
P4P: (no parenthesis, as this is the 1st time this was generated) Carter Starocci - 11th, Mitchell Mesenbrink - 15th, Shayne Van Ness - 22nd, Tyler Kasak - 26th, Luke Lilledahl - 29th, Levi Haines - 33rd, Braeden Davis - 44th, Beau Bartlett - 59th, Greg Kerkvliet - 64th, Josh Barr - 73rd


WrestleStat
125: Luke Lilledahl - 15th (15th), Kurt McHenry - 39th (45th)
133: Braeden Davis - 7th (7th), Aaron Nagao - 12th (12th), Timothy Levine - 85th (88th), Kyison Garcia - 86th (82nd), Gary Steen - 105th (101st), Karl Shindledecker - 154th (151st)
141: Beau Bartlett - 2nd (2nd), Cael Nasdeo - 59th (162nd), Sean Wang - 240th (239th), Brock Weiss - 241st (240th), Hayden Cunningham - 241st (240th)
149: Shayne Van Ness - 3rd (3rd), David Evans - 22nd (22nd), Connor Pierce - 36th (61st), Matt Rodriguez - 287th (283rd)
157: Tyler Kasak - 2nd (2nd), Alex Facundo - 25th (25th)
165: Mitchell Mesenbrink - 1st (1st), Aurelius Dunbar - 122nd (139th), Ty Watson - 203rd (200th), Joseph Sealey - 236th (234th)
174: Levi Haines - 2nd (2nd), Matt Lee - 48th (45th), Erik Gibson - 61st (59th), Sam Backett - 76th (105th), Jack Kelly - 89th (56th), Brian Borden - 99th (98th),
184: Carter Starocci - 2nd (1st), Zack Ryder - 11th (16th)
197: Josh Barr - 7th (6th), Lucas Cochran - 24th (25th), Connor Mirasola - 31st (37th), AJ Fricchione - 159th (158th)
285: Greg Kerkvliet - 1st (1st), Cole Mirasola - 23rd (41st), Dawson Bundy - 195th (193rd)
Tournament - 1st (1st)
Dual - 1st (1st)












 
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College Wrestling Report rankings are frequently used here. Of the eight major ranking services, I would not characterize this one as the best. For example, Luke Lilledahl is ranked at number 14 at 125. I know he's a freshman and he doesn't have quality opponent matches yet, but he's a multi-time world champion. You have to consider his entire body of work in wrestling. If you average all the ranking services together he would be ranked at number 9. RealClearPolitics takes all the political polls and puts them together and averages them to get a much more realistic view of what is going on. Wrestling needs to do that
 

Tom McAndrew

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Oct 27, 2021
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College Wrestling Report rankings are frequently used here. Of the eight major ranking services, I would not characterize this one as the best. For example, Luke Lilledahl is ranked at number 14 at 125. I know he's a freshman and he doesn't have quality opponent matches yet, but he's a multi-time world champion. You have to consider his entire body of work in wrestling. If you average all the ranking services together he would be ranked at number 9. RealClearPolitics takes all the political polls and puts them together and averages them to get a much more realistic view of what is going on. Wrestling needs to do that

In a week or two, I'll add the Averages to my weekly review. I've been posting the Averages for years. I could start them at any time, but the computer-generated polls frequently just don't have enough data at the start of the season to offer credible rankings, so in recent years I've decided to hold off the Averages until January.
 
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