Oliver takes over top spot at 149 in WIN’s Nov 26 TPI and Rankings
Nov. 26, 2012
NEWTON, Iowa — Oklahoma State’s Jordan Oliver, a 2011 national champion and 2012 national runner-up at 133 pounds, has moved into the top spot of 149 pounds in WIN’s Nov. 26 NCAA Division I individual rankings.
Oliver, a senior from Easton, Pa., has replaced Boise State’s Jason Chamberlain, the 2011 All-American and previous top-ranked wrestler, who lost 3-2 this past weekend to Oregon State’s Scott Sakaguchi. The Beaver moved from number six to three in the current WIN rankings and trails Oliver and Binghamton’s Donald Vinson, who moved up one spot to number two.
Wrestling Insider Newsmagazine releases its NCAA Division I college ratings on a weekly basis and includes the magazine’s Tournament Power Index (TPI), Team Dual rankings and individual ratings per each of the ten college weight classes. These weekly rankings include action through Nov. 25, 2012. The WIN TPI does not rank teams according to dual meet performances. Instead, WIN also ranks teams in a separate Dual Team Rankings.
In this week’s TPI, the top nine schools remain the same from last week with Penn State, Minnesota, Iowa, Oklahoma State and Illinois continuing to hold the top five spots.
In working to compile the most accurate rankings possible during the season, WIN seeks to subjectively combine both the most recent week’s and season’s results with past performance and proven records of consistency. Those results, in regards to who’s wrestling well, are balanced against who have proven they can win the big matches towards the end of the year and those who will most likely place high or win the national tournament in March.
The WIN TPI is compiled by awarding points to each team for the ranked wrestlers they have in WIN’s current individual rankings that can be found below in all ten weight classes. In a sense, it suggests how many points these teams could score at this year’s NCAA tournament, March 21-23, in Des Moines, Iowa. TPI points will not match the final NCAA tournament points because it does not include bonus points for pins, technical falls, major decisions and forfeits/defaults.
Teams are awarded points based on how many potential All-Americans (Top 8 wrestlers) they could have and get advancement points for wrestlers ranked No. 9-20. The order of teams in the TPI vary greatly from dual meet rankings, as some teams have a number of highly-ranked individuals but may have holes in their dual meet line-up.
Point totals associated with individual rankings are as followed: 1st – 20 (16 AA points + 4 advancement points); 2nd – 16 (12+4); 3rd – 13.5 (10+3.5); 4th – 12. 5 (9+3.5); 5th – 10 (7+3); 6th – 9 (6+3); 7th – 6.5 (4+2.5); 8th – 5.5 (3+2.5); 9th/12th – 2; 13th/16th – 1.5; 17th-20th – 1.
WIN’S Nov. 26, 2012 Tournament Power Index
Rank College Top 8 TPI
1 Penn State 7 90
2 Minnesota 8 84.5
3 Iowa 5 80
4 Oklahoma State 4 75.5
5 Illinois 5 65
6 Ohio State 3 57.5
7 Missouri 4 45
8 Cornell 2 40.5
9 Central Michigan 3 38
10 Virginia Tech 3 36.5
11 Oregon State 3 36
12 Oklahoma 3 35.5
13 Nebraska 3 30.5
14 Pittsburgh 2 27
15 Northwestern 2 23
16 Edinboro 2 22
17t Kent State 1 21.5
17t Northern Iowa 2 21.5
19 Maryland 2 21
20 Lehigh 2 20
21 Binghamton 1 19.5
22 Virginia 2 17.5
23 Boise State 1 17
24 Clarion 1 16
25 Wyoming 1 15.5
26 Wisconsin 1 13.5
27t North Dakota State 1 12
27t Hofstra 1 12
29 Michigan 0 10
30 Bloomsburg 1 9
31 Penn 1 8.5
32 North Carolina 1 8
33 Michigan State 1 7.5
34 Purdue 0 7
35 Chattanooga 1 6.5
36t Rutgers 0 5.5
36t Old Dominion 0 5.5
38 Citadel 0 5
39 Arizona State 0 4.5
40 Columbia 0 4
41t Iowa State 0 3.5
41t Air Force 0 3.5
43 Harvard 0 3
44t West Virginia 0 2.5
44t Buffalo 0 2.5
44t Indiana 0 2.5
47t Army 0 2
47t Ohio 0 2
47t Drexel 0 2
50t Bucknell 0 1.5
50t Utah Valley 0 1.5
50t American 0 1.5
50t Cal Poly 0 1.5
50t Eastern Michigan 0 1.5
50t Boston University 0 1.5
56t Northern Illinois 0 1
56t Rider 0 1
WIN’S Nov. 26, 2012 Team Dual Rankings
Rk School (Previous) Record
1. Penn State (1st) 2-0
2. Oklahoma State (2nd) 1-0
3. Minnesota (3rd) 6-0
4. Iowa (4th) 6-0
5. Illinois (5th) 3-0
6. Ohio State (6th) 3-0
7. Nebraska (7th) 3-1
8. Missouri (8th) 5-0
9. Cornell (9th) 4-0
10. Oklahoma (11th) 2-1
11. Central Michigan (10th) 2-2
12. Virginia Tech (15th) 3-1
13. Maryland (12th) 4-1
14. Kent State (13th) 0-0
15. Michigan (14th) 2-1
16. Lehigh (16th) 2-1
17. Pittsburgh (17th) 0-2
18. Virginia (18th) 3-2
19. Wyoming (19th) 1-0
20. Oregon State (20th) 1-1
WIN’s Nov. 26, 2012 Individual Rankings
125 pounds
Rk. Name (Previous) Year School
1. Matt McDonough (1st) Sr. Iowa
2 Nico Megaludis (2nd) So. Penn State
3 Jesse Delgado (3rd) So. Illinois
4 Alan Waters (4th) Jr. Missouri
5. Jarrod Garnett (8th) Sr. Virginia Tech
6. Trent Sprenkle (9th) Sr. North Dakota State
7. Nick Soto (6th) So. Chattanooga
8. David Thorn (7th) Fr. Minnesota
9. Matt Snyder (5th) Sr. Virginia
10. Joe Roth (11th) Jr. Central Michigan
11. Mark Rappo (12th) Sr. Penn
12. Shane Gentry (13th) Jr. Maryland
13. Nahshon Garrett (16th) Fr. Cornell
14. Camden Eppert (17th) Jr. Purdue
15. Shane Young (18th) Sr. West Virginia
16. Jared Germaine (19th) Jr. Eastern Michigan
17. Jerome Robinson (NR) So. Old Dominion
18. Steve Bonano (10th) Sr. Hofstra
19. Sean Boyle (NR) Jr. Michigan
20. Nikko Triggas (NR) Sr. Ohio State
133 Pounds
Rk. Name (Previous) Year School
1 Logan Stieber (1st) So. Ohio State
2 Tony Ramos (2nd) Jr. Iowa
3 Scott Sentes (3rd) Sr. Central Michigan
4 Joe Colon (4th) Jr. Northern Iowa
5 A J Schopp (5th) So. Edinboro
6 Chris Dardanes (6th) So. Minnesota
7. Shelton Mack (8th) Jr. Pittsburgh
8. Nathan McCormick (10th) Sr. Missouri
9. Jon Morrison (11th) So. Oklahoma State
10. Zach Zehner (12th) So. Wyoming
11. Daryl Thomas (16th) Sr. Illinois
12. Geoff Alexander (15th) So. Maryland
13. Brian Owen (13th) Sr. Boise State
14. Cashe Quiroga (7th) Jr. Purdue
15. Nick Arujau (17th) Jr. Cornell
16. Cody Brewer (14th) Fr. Oklahoma
17. Scott Festejo (19th) Jr. Old Dominion
18. Levi Mele (NR) Sr. Northwestern
19. Erik Galloway (20th) So. Buffalo
20. Colin Johnston (NR) Jr. West Virginia
141 Pounds
Rk. Name (Previous) Year School
1. Kendric Maple (1st) Jr. Oklahoma
2. Hunter Stieber (2nd) So. Ohio State
3. B.J. Futrell (3rd) Jr. Illinois
4. Tyler Graff (4th) Sr. Wisconsin
5. Mike Mangrum (5th) Sr. Oregon State
6. Mitchell Port (6th) So. Edinboro
7. Nick Dardanes (7th) So. Minnesota
8. Evan Henderson (8th) So. North Carolina
9. Undrakhbayar Khishignyam (9th) Fr. The Citadel
10. Luke Vaith (10th) Jr. Hofstra
11. Zach Neibert (11th) Jr. Virginia Tech
12. Steve Keith (12th) Sr. Harvard
13. Matt Nelson (13th) Jr. Virginia
14. Nathan Hoffer (14th) Jr. Arizona State
15. Joe Bonaldi (15th) So. Binghamton
16. Mike Nevinger (16th) Jr. Cornell
17. Mark Ballweg (17th) Sr. Iowa
18. Kevin Fanta (18th) Jr. Northern Illinois
19. Justin LaValle (19th) Jr. Old Dominion
20. Steve Dutton (NR) Jr. Michigan
149 Pounds
Rk. Name (Previous) Year School
1. Jordan Oliver (2nd) Sr. Oklahoma State
2. Donald Vinson (4th) Sr. Binghamton
3. Scott Sakaguchi (6th) Jr. Oregon State
4. Jason Chamberlain (1st) Sr. Boise State
5. Dylan Ness (3rd) So. Minnesota
6. Justin Accordino (5th) Sr. Hofstra
7. Nick Lester (7th) Jr. Oklahoma
8. Andrew Alton (8th) So. Penn State
9. Cole VonOhlen (9th) Sr. Air Force
10. Steve Santos (11th) Sr. Columbia
11. Nick Brascetta (12th) So. Virginia Tech
12. Derek Valenti (10th) Sr. Virginia
13. Cam Tessari 13th) So. Ohio State
14. Eric Grajales (14th) Jr. Michigan
15. Ivan Lopouchanski (15th) Sr. Purdue
16. Josh Wilson (16th) Sr. Utah Valley
17 Drake Houdashelt (17th) Sr. Missouri
18. David Habat (18th) So. Edinboro
19. Daniel Young (19th) So. Army
20. Jake Sueflohnn (20th) So. Nebraska
157 Pounds
Rk. Name (Previous) Year School
1. Derek St. John (1st) Jr. Iowa
2. James Fleming (2nd) Sr. Clarion
3. Dylan Alton (3rd) So. Penn State
4. Jason Welch (4th) Sr. Northwestern
5. James Green (5th) So. Nebraska
6. Jesse Dong (6th) Sr. Virginia Tech
7. Joey Napoli (7th) Jr. Lehigh
8. Frank Hickman (8th) Sr. Bloomsburg
9. Alex Dieringer (10th) Fr. Oklahoma State
10. Matt Lester (11th) Jr. Oklahoma
11. Josh Demas (12th) So. Ohio State
12. Scott Winston (13th) Sr. Rutgers
13. Josh Kreimer (14th) Jr. Air Forice
14. David Bonin (15th) Sr. Northern Iowa
15. Roger Pena (9th) Jr. Oregon State
16. Corey Mock (16th) Jr. North Carolina
17. Jake O’Hara (17th) Sr. Columbia
18. Tommy Churchard (18th) Sr. Purdue
19. George Ivanov (NR) Sr. Boise State
20. John Nicholson (20th) Jr. Old Dominion
165 Pounds
Rk. Name (Previous) Year School
1. Kyle Dake (1st) Sr. Cornell
2. David Taylor (2nd) Jr. Penn State
3. Tyler Caldwell (3rd) Jr. Oklahoma State
4. Peter Yates (4th) Sr. Virginia Tech
5. Conrad Polz (5th) Jr. Illinois
6. Mike Evans (6th) So. Iowa
7. Nick Sulzer (7th) So. Virginia
8. Patrick Graham (8th) Sr. Oklahoma
9. Steve Monk (12th) Jr. North Dakota State
10. Joe Booth (11th) Sr. Drexel
11. Cody Yohn (9th) Sr. Minnesota
12. Pierce Harger (13th) So. Northwestern
13. Tyler Koehn (14th) Sr. Nebraska
14. Corey Lear (15th) Sr. Bucknell
15. Mark Lewandowski (17th) Sr. Buffalo
16. Tristan Warner (18th) Jr. Old Dominion
17. Tyler Wilps (19th) So. Pittsburgh
18. Taylor Massa (20th) Fr. Michigan
19. David Cheza (NR) Sr. Michigan State
20. John Greisheimer (NR) Jr. Edinboro
174 Pounds
Rk. Name (Previous) Year School
1. Chris Perry (1st) Jr. Oklahoma State
2. Nick Heflin (2nd) Jr. Ohio State
3. Logan Storley (3rd) So. Minnesota
4. Jordan Blanton (6th) Jr. Illinois
5. Josh Asper (4th) Sr. Maryland
6. Robert Kokesh (5th) So. Nebraska
7. Matt Brown (7th) So. Penn State
8. Jon Fausey (8th) Jr. Virginia
9. Grant Gambrall (9th) Sr. Iowa
10. Lee Munster (10th) So. Northwestern
11. Dan Yates (11th) Jr. Michigan
12. Greg Zannetti (12th) Sr. Rutgers
13. Mike Dessino (13th) Sr. Bloomsburg
14. Turtogtokh Luvsandorj (14th) Sr. Citadel
15. Todd Porter (NR) Sr. Missouri
16. Dominic Kastl (15th) So. Cal Poly
17. Ryan LeBlanc (16th) Jr. Indiana
18. Jim Resnick (17th) Sr. Rider
19. Coleman Gracey (NR) So. Army
20. Steve West (19th) Sr. Columbia
184 Pounds
Rk. Name (Previous) Year School
1 Ed Ruth (1st) Jr. Penn State
2 Steve Bosak (2nd) Sr. Cornell
3 Robert Hamlin (3rd) Sr. Lehigh
4 Kevin Steinhaus (4th) Jr. Minnesota
5 Ben Bennett (5th) Sr. Central Michigan
6 Josh Ihnen (6th) Sr. Nebraska
7 Ryan Loder (7th) Jr. Northern Iowa
8 Jimmy Sheptock (8th) Jr. Maryland
9 Ethen Lofthouse (9th) Jr. Iowa
10. Mike Larson (10th) Sr. Missouri
11. Tony Dallago (11th) So. Illinois
12. Jacob Swartz (12th) Jr. Boise State
13. Casey Newburg (13th) Sr. Kent State
14. Max Thomusseit (14th) So. Pittsburgh
15. Boaz Beard (15th) Jr. Iowa State
16. Dan Rinaldi (16th) Sr. Rutgers
17. MacKain Stoll (17th) Sr. North Dakota State
18. Victor Avery (18th) So. Edinboro
19. Chris Chionuma (NR) Sr. Oklahoma State
20. Alex Utley (19th) So. North Carolina
197 Pounds
Rk. Name (Previous) Year School
1. Dustin Kilgore (1st) Sr. Kent State
2. Matt Wilps (2nd) Sr. Pittsburgh
3. Alfonzo Hernandez (3rd) Sr. Wyoming
4. Quentin Wright (4th) Sr. Penn State
5. Mario Gonzalez (5th) So. Illinois
6. Brent Haynes (6th) Sr. Missouri
7. Micah Burak (7th) Sr. Penn
8. Scott Schiller (9th) So. Minnesota
9. Blake Rosholt (10th) Jr. Oklahoma State
10. Nathan Schiedel (11th) Sr. Binghamton
11. Taylor Meeks (12th) So. Oregon State
12. Richard Perry (13th) Jr. Bloomsburg
13. Dan Mitchell (14th) Sr. American
14. Christian Boley (8th) Jr. Maryland
15. Max Huntley (15th) So. Michigan
16. Brandon Atwood (18th) So. Purdue
17. Jake Meredith (19th) Sr. Arizona State
18. James Fox (16th) So. Harvard
19. Kyven Gadson (20th) So. Iowa State
20. Cody Magrum (NR) Sr. Ohio State
Heavyweight
Rk. Name (Previous) Year School
1. Anthony Nelson (1st) Jr. Minnesota
2. Alan Gelogaev (2nd) Sr. Oklahoma State
3. Dom Bradley (3rd) Sr. Missouri
4. Jarod Trice (4th) Sr. Central Michigan
5. Bobby Telford (6th) So. Iowa
6. Chad Hanke (8th) Sr. Oregon State
7. Michael McClure (7th) So. Michigan State
8. Michael McMullan (5th) So. Northwestern
9. Jeremy Johnson (9th) Jr. Ohio
10. Levi Cooper (10th) Sr. Arizona State
11. Zac Thomusseit (11th) Sr. Pittsburgh
12. Ben Apland (12th) Sr. Michigan
13. Adam Chalfant (13th) Jr. Indiana
14. Odie Delaney (14th) Sr. Citadel
15. Kevin Innis (15th) Jr. Boston University
16. Pat Walker (17th) Sr. Illinois
17. Blayne Beale (16th) Sr. Northern Iowa
18. Matt Gibson (18th) Sr. Iowa State
19. Connor Medbury (19th) Fr. Wisconsin
20. David Marone (20th) Sr. Virginia Tech
