Midlands Div I ranked wrestlers

[Conquistadors]

Midlands Div I ranked wrestlers

It would be nice if Northwestern would publish a LIST of Div I participating schools. As best I can tell, below are participating Div I schools and ranked wrestlers (according Wrestling Report). Despite a weaker list of participants compared to past years, approximately one-third of those ranked in Wrestling Report’s top 30 are scheduled to wrestle. I have not attempted to include non-Div I or post-collegiate wrestlers.

5) Iowa State Cyclones √
6) Iowa Hawkeyes √
9) Northwestern Wildcats √
12) Central Michigan Chippewas √
13) Michigan State Spartans √
15) Indiana Hoosiers √
18) Harvard Crimson √
22) Illinois Fighting Illini √
23) Northern Iowa Panthers √
29) West Virginia Mountaineers √
***) Northern Illinois
***) Purdue
***) Eastern Michigan
***) Cleveland State
***) American
***) Columbia
***) Eastern Illinois
***) Sacred Heart
***) Boston University

125:
3) Franklin Gomez-Michigan State-Fr
6) Angel Escobedo-Indiana-Fr
9) Luke Smith-Central Michigan-Jr
14) Gabe Flores-Illinois-Jr
21) Kyle Anson-Northern Iowa-Fr
23) Charlie Falck-Iowa-So
25) Brandon Precin-Northwestern-Fr
26) Pat Castillo-Northern Illinois-Jr
29) Brandon Tucker-Purdue-Jr

133:
1) Nick Simmons-Michigan State-Sr (AA)
11) Mario Galanakis-Iowa-Sr
12) Cameron Doggett-Purdue-Fr
17) Matt DeLorenzo-Columbia-Sr
19) Andrae Hernandez-Indiana-So
23) Nick Gallick-Iowa State-Fr
24) Jimmy Kennedy-Illinois-Fr
28) Jordan Lipp-American-So

141:
1) Ryan Lang-Northwestern-Jr (AA)
4) Andy Simmons-Michigan State-Sr (AA)
7) Brandon Rader-West Virginia-So (AA)
8) Alex Tsirtsis-Iowa-Jr (AA)
9) Cassio Pero-Illinois-Sr (AA)
10) C.J. Ettelson-Northern Iowa-Jr
11) Mitch Mueller-Iowa State-Fr
12) Max Meltzer-Harvard-Sr
17) Eric Kruger-Central Michigan-So
30) Don Fisch-Rider-Jr

149:
5) Matt Coughlin-Indiana-Fr
7) J.P. O'Connor-Harvard-Fr
11) Jermaine Thompson-Eastern Michigan-Sr
12) Cyler Sanderson-Iowa State-Fr
13) Mike Grimes-Northern Illinois-Sr
15) David Jauregui-West Virginia-So
20) Troy Tirapelle-Illinois-So
27) Brandon Carter-Central Michigan-Jr
30) Jake Patacsil-Purdue-So

157:
1) Trent Paulson-Iowa State-Sr (AA)
3) Brandon Becker-Indiana-Jr (AA)
5) Mike Poeta-Illinois-So
9) Ryan Morningstar-Iowa-Fr
21) Moza Fay-Northern Iowa-So
22) Eric Neil-Central Michigan-Jr
23) Devin Mesanko-Columbia-Sr
24) Zac Fryling-West Virginia-Jr
26) Tony Greathouse-Michigan State-Sr
28) Dave Miller-Rider-Sr

165:
2) Mark Perry-Iowa-Jr (AA)
4) Travis Paulson-Iowa State-Sr (AA)
6) Nick Baima-Northern Iowa-Sr
10) Johnny Galloway-Northern Illinois-Sr
13) Max Dean-Indiana-Jr
18) Roger Smith-Bergsrud-Illinois-So
22) Trevor Stewart-Central Michigan-So
23) Mike Cannon-American-Fr
25) Rocky Cozart-Michigan State-Fr

174:
6) Brandon Sinnott-Central Michigan-Jr
7) Eric Luedke-Iowa-Sr (AA)
13) Matt Palmer-Columbia-Sr (AA)
16) David Bertolino-Iowa State-Jr
18) Doug Umbehauer-Rider-So
19) Nick Hayes-Northwestern-Jr
22) Ken Robertson-Eastern Illinois-Sr
24) Danny Burke-Northern Illinois-Sr
28) Alex Dolly-Northern Iowa-Jr
30) Nick Corpe-Purdue-So

184:
1) Jake Herbert-Northwestern-Jr (AA)
5) Jake Varner-Iowa State-Fr
7) Marc Bennett-Indiana-Jr
8) Louis Caputo-Harvard-So
10) Christian Sinnott-Central Michigan-Jr
12) Joe Williams-Michigan State-Jr
19) Justin Barent-Columbia-Sr
21) Duke Burke-Northern Illinois-Fr
22) Phillip Keddy-Iowa-Fr
27) Greg Perz-Eastern Illinois-Jr
28) Dan Dunning-Northern Iowa-Jr
29) Charlie Pienaar-Eastern Michigan-Sr

197:
5) Josh Glenn-American-Jr (AA)
7) Wynn Michalak-Central Michigan-Jr (AA)
12) Mike Tamillow-Northwestern-Jr
13) Nathan Moore-Purdue-Sr
14) Kurt Backes-Iowa State-Sr
15) T.J. Morrison-Rider-Jr
16) Jared Villers-West Virginia-Jr
19) Andrew Anderson-Northern Iowa-So
20) Dan Erekson-Iowa-So
24) Patrick Bond-Illinois-Fr

HWY:
2) Bode Ogunwole-Harvard-Sr (AA)
3) Dustin Fox-Northwestern-Jr
4) Matt Fields-Iowa-Jr
6) Bubba Gritter-Central Michigan-Jr
8) Adam LoPiccolo-American-Jr
15) Payam Zarrinpour-Sacred Heart-Sr
18) Dustin Rogers-West Virginia-Sr
29) John Wise-Illinois-So
30) David Zabriskie-Iowa State-Fr

[biff]

One third of those ranked will be at midlands?

From your list, it looks like there are 20 names in bold, that's not 1/3rd is it?

[biff]

My fault. I see the ILL wrestlers are the bolded ones in your list but the whole list is midland's participants, so your 30% number is dead on.

Thanks

[BARR]

One third of those ranked will be at midlands?

From your list, it looks like there are 20 names in bold, that's not 1/3rd is it?

All of those from his list will be at Midlands. The ones in bold are from Illinois colleges.

[Achilles]

Too bad michigain isnt going to make it this year, there are alot of matchups we wont be able to see that would have been pretty good.

[BARR]

Too bad michigain isnt going to make it this year, there are alot of matchups we wont be able to see that would have been pretty good.

Yeah that really sucks.:mad:

[sweetsweep22]

looks like 141 will be a fun weight to watch. 8 of the top 12 will be there. wish i could go!

[Conquistadors]

Biff, sorry I didn't explain more clearly. All too often I tend to over-explain what I'm doing and probably lose readers with a too-long-preface:( .

What I did was copy into a Word document Wrestling Report's last available ranking (30-deep) and then delete wrestlers from teams that, as best I could tell, were not participating at Midlands. For the Illinois Matmen site I set in bold wrestlers from Illinois colleges.

Just for fun I assigned standard tournament points for the guys on the list (16, 12, 10, 9, 7, 6, 4, 3 for 1st through 8th and 2 pts for any others) and then tallied up the totals. This can give a sense of who looks to be the favorite this year.

01 79 Iowa
02 77 Iowa State
03 69 Central Michigan
04 64 Indiana
04 64 Northwestern
06 54 Michigan State
07 45 Illinois
08 40 Harvard
09 37 Northern Iowa
10 29 American
11 27 Columbia
11 27 West Virginia
13 25 Northern Illinois
13 25 Purdue
15 17 Rider
16 12 Eastern Michigan
17 06 Eastern Illinois
17 06 Sacred Heart

It looks like a two- or three-team race, between Iowa & Iowa State and Central Michigan. I don't think that other teams have that combination of star fire power and breadth to challenge... but who knows? Illinois will have to have a great tournament in order to finish top-five. I see that Troy Tirapelle isn't seeded? Is he not wrestling? I see that Don Reynolds is seeded! I'm rooting for you, Don! Is there some way to have Hermione Granger put a "can't get hurt" spell on his legs?

With Michigan pulling out of the tournament, Midlands is certainly further weakened. I've gone the last four years and wrestlers from Lehigh (Letters), Hofstra (Skret, Masa), Penn (Valenti), Cornell (Manotti. Lee), and Ohio State (Rowlands) have helped to make the tournament more interesting. I sure wish that some/all of these teams were attending this year.

One sign of the weakened tournament is that three top seeds (not counting post collegian wrestlers) are FRESHmen. Just doesn't seem right.

[BARR]

Are you going this year Conquistadors? What about you Thindy?:) Who is all planning on attending Midlands this year?

[Grappler177]

I should be there on the 2nd day. Probably for the entire day.

Bill

[Duckunder132]

Isn't Nick at 125 lbs.? If so, why wouldn't he be seeded at Midlands?

[admin]

I'll be there both days.