WIN Magazine's Preseason Scouting Reports, by Weight Class

[Tom McAndrew]

I've been meaning to post these -- just getting around to it. In my defense, instead of posting them as they were posted, I decided to wait until all the weight classes were previewed. (And then it took me 5 days to get around to posting the below.)

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NCAA Preseason Scouting Report: 125 pounds - WIN Magazine

Photo: Spencer Lee’s third NCAA championship came in 2021 against Arizona State’s Brandon Courtney. The two-time Hodge winner from Iowa took a medical redshirt in 2022. Today marks the first day that NCAA Division I wrestling programs can officially start practice for the 2022-23 season. With...

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NCAA Preseason Scouting Report: 133 pounds - WIN Magazine

Photo: Penn State’s Roman Bravo-Young (right) and Oklahoma State’s Daton Fix have met in the last two NCAA finals at 133 pounds, with RBY winning both bouts. Will the 2023 NCAA final at 133 pounds be another Roman Bravo-Young vs. Daton Fix match-up? That is the major question of the...

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NCAA Preseason Scouting Report: 141 pounds - WIN Magazine

Photo: Pitt’s Cole Matthews (right) claimed his first All-American honor in 2022 after dealing with injuries in his college career. He hopes to become his school’s first NCAA champion since Keith Gavin, the Panthers’ current coach, who won a national title in 2008. With the top four wrestlers...

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NCAA Preseason Scouting Report: 149 pounds - WIN Magazine

Photo: Cornell’s Yianni Diakomihalis (left) sat out two years of college wrestling before beating Nebraska’s Ridge Lovett for his third NCAA title in 2022. There have only been four wrestlers to win four NCAA championships and Cornell University could become the first school to feature two...

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NCAA Preseason Scouting Report: 157 pounds - WIN Magazine

Photo: Minnesota’s Brayton Lee (left) earned his first All-American honor in 2021, but suffered a season-ending injury last February. Last year’s NCAA champ, Northwestern’s Ryan Deakin, has graduated and the 2022 national runner-up, Quincy Monday of Princeton, has moved up a weight; leaving the...

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NCAA Preseason Scouting Report: 165 pounds - WIN Magazine

Photo: Missouri’s Keegan O’Toole (left), then a true sophomore, beat the 2021 NCAA champion, Shane Griffith from Stanford, to earn his first title in 2022. As college wrestling heads into its second week of practice sessions in preparation for the upcoming NCAA Division I wrestling season, WIN...

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NCAA Preseason Scouting Report: 174 pounds - WIN Magazine

Photo: A difference of 15 riding-time seconds decided the 174-pound title in 2022 for Penn State’s Carter Starocci (right) over Virginia Tech’s Mekhi Lewis. The 174-pound weight class in the upcoming 2022-23 NCAA Division I wrestling season is another one where 2022 finalists and past champions...

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NCAA Preseason Scouting Report: 184 pounds - WIN Magazine

Photo: Penn State’s Aaron Brooks (right) avenged a Big Ten final loss to Michigan’s Myles Amine to capture his second NCAA championship last March. Four former Penn State wrestlers — Ed Ruth, Zain Retherford, Jason Nolf and Bo Nickal — have won three national championships in the past. Could...

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NCAA Preseason Scouting Report: 197 pounds - WIN Magazine

Photo: Max Dean (left) beat Iowa’s Jacob Warner in his first season at Penn State after also making the 2019 NCAA finals wrestling for Cornell University. Between the impact of COVID and the NCAA’s transfer portal, several wrestlers have moved to different schools over the past few years and...

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NCAA Preseason Scouting Report: Heavyweight - WIN Magazine

Photo: Arizona State’s Cohlton Schultz (left) scored a takedown against Minnesota’s NCAA and Olympic champion Gable Steveson before settling for second place and a second All-American honor for the Sun Devil. Who will take over the big-man’s weight class after Minnesota’s two-time Hodge winner...

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