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College Rankings – Team & Wrestlers

NWCA Releases Final Regular Season NCAA D3 Men’s Coaches Polls
Manheim, PA – The National Wrestling Coaches Association (NWCA) released the final regular season NCAA Division III Men’s Coaches Polls, which now have Wartburg leading the Tournament poll and and Augsurg still in the #1 spot in the dual poll. 
In the tournament team poll, the top five are comprised of #1 Warburg (77.5), #2 Augsburg (77), #3 UW La Crosse (56.5), #4 North Central (47), and #5 Coast Guard (39). 
The top five teams in the dual poll are #1 Augsburg (10-1), #2 Wartburg (15-1), #3 UW La Crosse (12-2), #4 North Central (11-2), and #5 Coe (12-2). There one change in this month’s top-ranked individuals at 125: Johnson & Wales’ Joziah Fry is back in the top spot after dropping back down from 133 where he had been ranked second. Wartburg leads the country with two top-ranked wrestlers, while Johnson & Wales,  North Central, Ohio Northern, Baldwin Wallace, UW-La Crosse, Alvernia, Augsburg, and Coast Guard each have a single top-ranked individual. … story at … NWCAonline.com/D3-mens-coaches-polls
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NCAA DI Rankings Updated (2/27/2024)
We’ve made it through the regular season! In true, unpredictable fashion, on the last day of the dual season we had an undefeated, number-one ranked wrestler take a loss. Despite this, Ridge Lovett still assumes the number one position at 149 lbs. He has a head-to-head win over #2 Caleb Henson in the CKLV finals, a wrestler that Kyle Parco lost to in the CKLV semis. With Henson defeating Jackson Arrington, we’ve moved Parco above him and directly behind Henson. 
125 lbs stuck to the script and had number’s two and three lose during the final weekend of the regular season. Richie Figueroa was responsible for one of those upsets and then pulled another over a top-seven opponent. He’s showing signs of being the title threat we expected at the beginning of the year. He should fly up the rankings with a Pac-12 title … story at … Intermatwrestle.com/NCAA-D-I-rankings-updated-2272024
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WIN’s New Div. I Rankings released, sets up exciting postseason
NEWTON, Iowa — The regular season in NCAA Division I wrestling is complete and now those athletes will prepare for the postseason, including 200 wrestlers who are featured in WIN Magazine’s Feb. 26 rankings, presented by Cliff Keen Athletic. There are seven conference tournaments that will take place in two weeks which will help determine the 330 wrestlers who will qualify for the NCAA Division I Championships that will be held in Kansas City, Mo, March 21-23.
Those NCAA-qualifying tournaments, including dates and locations, are:

• Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), March 10, Chapel Hill, N.C.
• Big Ten Conference, March 9-10, College Park, Md.
• Big 12 Conference, March 9-10, Tulsa, Okla.
• Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association (EIWA), March 8-9, Lewisburg, Pa.
• Mid-American Conference (MAC), March 8-9, Kent, Ohio
• Pac-12 Conference, March 10, Corvallis, Ore.
• Southern Conference (SoCon), March 9, Boone, N.C.

Heading into the postseason, two-time national defending champ Penn State continues to be ranked No. 1 in both WIN’s final dual-team rankings with a 12-0 record and in WIN’s Tournament Power Index. The Nittany Lions feature 10 ranked wrestlers, including five No. 1-rated individuals, for 129 TPI points.
Iowa, coming off a 22-9 road victory over Oklahoma State, ended the dual season at No. 2 in WIN’s rankings; ahead of the Cowboys, Iowa State and Nebraska. OSU is still ranked No. 2 in WIN’s TPI, followed by Iowa, NC State, and Iowa State and Missouri, which are tied for fifth. … story at … WIN-magazine.com/2024/02/26/27089

March 1, 2024 - Posted by The TakeDown Report | Uncategorized