Iowa rated No. 1 in WIN Preseason TPI and Rankings, which include past champs Lee, Suriano, Diakomihalis and Lewis

Updated: September 11, 2020

Sept. 11, 2020

NEWTON, Iowa — As the NCAA waits to announce when the Division I college wrestling season will take place this winter in the wake of the COVID pandemic, the University of Iowa has earned the No. 1 ranking in WIN Magazine’s 2020-21 Preseason Tournament Power Index and Rankings, which includes four past individual champions. WIN’s College Rankings are presented by Cliff Keen Athletic.

The TPI is an accumulation of potential national tournament points that are associated with individual wrestler’s rankings in WIN’s preseason poll and predicts how teams could finish at the 2021 NCAA Division I Championships, which are scheduled March 18-20 in St. Louis, Mo.

The Hawkeyes, with 114 TPI points, feature a ranked wrestler at every weight class, including a pair — two-time champ Spencer Lee (125) and three-time All-American Michael Kemerer (174) — who are ranked No. 1 in their weight classes. Iowa, which is looking to win a 24^th all-time NCAA team title and first since 2010, also features four past All-Americans in Austin DeSanto (5^th/133), Kaleb Young (9^th/157), Alex Marinelli (2^nd/165) and Jacob Warner (4^th/197) … as well as Jaydin Eierman (2^nd/141), who transferred from Missouri.

Three of the remaining eight top-ranked individuals per weight class have won NCAA championships in the past before taking an Olympic redshirt in 2019-20: Rutgers’ Nick Suriano (133), Cornell’s two-time champ Yianni Diakomihalis (141), and Virginia Tech’s Mehki Lewis (165). The other No. 1-rated wrestlers are North Carolina’s Austin O’Connor (149), Northwestern’s Ryan Deakin (157), Cornell’s Max Dean (184), West Virginia’s Noah Adams (197) and Minnesota’s Gable Steveson (heavyweight).

Rounding out the top five teams in WIN’s TPI are Michigan (72.5 TPI points), Cornell (68), Oklahoma State (56) and Nebraska (52.5). The Wolverines, Big Red and Cowboys all return former All-Americans who took Olympic redshirts last winter. WIN will announce a dual-team ranking once the season begins.

The following is WIN’s Tournament Power Index, which includes how many wrestlers are ranked per school and how many of them are rated in the Top 8 of their weight class. WIN’s TPI point totals are broken down by the following individual rankings: 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). Additional points for other rankings include: 9th/12th – 2; 13th/16th – 1.5; 17th-20th – 1. TPI points will be lower than the final actual NCAA tournament points because it does not include bonus points.

These rankings are subject to change as wrestlers finalize their weight classes for the 2020-21 season. Also true and redshirt freshmen are not ranked in WIN’s preseason rankings.

WIN’s 2020-21 Tournament Power Index

Rank.		School		Total Ranked		Top-8 Ranked		TPI Points
1.		Iowa		10		10		114
2.		Michigan		8		5		72.5
3.		Cornell		5		4		68
4.		Oklahoma State		7		5		56
5.		Nebraska		8		5		52.5
6.		Iowa State		8		5		48.5
7t.		Ohio State		5		3		41.5
7t.		NC State		8		3		41.5
9.		Penn State		4		3		40
10.		Virginia Tech		4		2		36.5
11.		Rutgers		4		2		35
12.		Minnesota		4		2		32
13.		Northwestern		4		2		29.5
14.		Princeton		4		2		28.5
15.		Missouri		7		2		26
16t.		North Carolina		4		1		25.5
16t.		Stanford		3		2		25.5
18.		Central Michigan		4		2		24.5
19.		Pittsburgh		5		3		24
20.		Michigan State		3		2		23
21t.		Oklahoma		6		2		22
21t.		Arizona State		5		2		22
23.		Purdue		3		2		21
24.		West Virginia		1		1		20
25.		Rider		2		1		14.5
26.		Lehigh		3		2		13.5
27t.		Virginia		3		1		12
27t.		Wisconsin		2		1		12
29.		Northern Colorado		5		1		11.5
30.		Utah Valley		2		1		11
31.		Binghamton		2		1		10.5
32.		Navy		2		1		10
33.		Harvard		2		1		7.5
34t.		Clarion		1		1		5.5
34t.		Fresno State		4		0		5.5
36t.		American U.		3		0		5
36t.		Northern Iowa		3		0		5
36t.		Wyoming		3		0		5
39t.		Army West Point		3		0		4.5
39t.		Illinois		3		0		4.5
41.		Chattanooga		3		0		3.5
42t.		Appalachian State		2		0		3
42t.		Campbell		2		0		3
42t.		Indiana		2		0		3
42t.		Lock Haven		2		0		3
42t.		Northern Illinois		2		0		3
42t.		Oregon State		2		0		3
42t.		South Dakota State		2		0		3
49t.		Edinboro		2		0		2.5
49t.		North Dakota State		2		0		2.5
51t.		Drexel		2		0		2
51t.		Bucknell		1		0		2
51t.	Columbia		2		0		2
51t.	Hofstra		2		0		2
51t.	Kent State		1		0		2
56.	Penn		1		0		1.5
57t.	Buffalo		1		0		1
57t.	Drexel		1		0		1
57t.	Ohio U.		1		0		1
57t.	SIU-Edwardsville		1		0		1

The following is a list of WIN’s individual rankings. It includes the wrestler’s year in school as well as 2019-20 won-loss record and what seed they earned in last year’s tournament, which was cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic. These rankings are subject to change in WIN’s Oct. 1 update preseason rankings once teams determine wrestlers weight classes for 2020-21. WIN also does not rank true or redshirt freshmen in preseason rankings.

WIN Magazine’s 2020-21 National Preseason Individual Rankings

125 pounds

Rank	Name	School	’20 W-L	’20 NCAA	Year
1.	Spencer Lee	Iowa	18-0	1^st	Senior
2.	Pat Glory	Princeton	24-0	2^nd	Junior
3.	Vito Arujau	Cornell	–	RS	Sophomore
4.	Rayvon Foley	Michigan State	–	RS	Junior
5.	Devin Schroder	Purdue	26-5	5^th	Senior
6.	Drew Hildebrandt	Central Michigan	31-3	6^th	Senior
7.	Michael DeAugustino	Northwestern	21-8	8^th	Sophomore
8.	Brandon Paetzell	Lehigh	21-3	7^th	Senior
9.	Brandon Courtney	Arizona State	25-5	9^th	Junior
10.	Jakob Camacho	NC State	20-6	10^th	Sophomore
11.	Alex Mackall	Iowa State	19-7	12^th	Senior
12.	Luke Werner	Lock Haven	30-5	13^th	Senior
13.	Jack Medley	Michigan	19-12	14^th	Junior
14.	Brock Hudkins	Indiana	10-2	Inj.	Senior
15.	Gage Curry	American	30-9	20^th	Senior
16.	Liam Cronin	Nebraska (Indiana transfer )	17-13	22^nd	Senior
17.	Justin Cardani	Illinois	16-10	21^st	Sophomore
18.	Joe Manchio	Columbia	25-11	23^rd	Junior
19.	Patrick McKee	Minnesota	17-8	24^th	Sophomore
20.	Fabian Gutierrez	Chattanooga	18-9	25^th	Senior

133 pounds

Rank	Name	School	’20 W-L	’20 NCAA	Year
1.	Nick Suriano	Rutgers	–	RS	Junior
2.	Daton Fix	Oklahoma State	–	RS	Sophomore
3.	Stevan Micic	Michigan	–	RS	Senior
4.	Roman Bravo-Young	Penn State	19-2	5^th	Junior
5.	Austin DeSanto	Iowa	17-4	6^th	Senior
6.	Mickey Phillippi	Pittsburgh	25-1	4^th	Junior
7.	Ridge Lovett	Nebraska	17-8	14^th	Sophomore
8.	Austin Gomez	Iowa State	–	RS	Junior
9.	Devan Turner	Oregon State	26-9	12^th	Senior
10.	Mosha Schwartz	Northern Colorado	23-10	15^th	Sophomore
11.	Anthony Madrigal	Oklahoma	21-9	16^th	Junior
12.	Taylor LaMont	Utah Valley	17-7	17^th	Junior
13.	Matt Schmitt	Missouri (W. Virginia transfer)	–	RS	Junior
14.	Jack Skudlarczyk	Northern Iowa	15-13	25^th	Junior
15.	Zack Trampe	Binghamton	12-3	26th	Junior
16.	Michael McGee	Arizona State (Old Dom. Transfer)	–	RS	Junior
17.	Jarrett Trombley	NC State	20-9	27^th	Sophomore
18.	Cole Manley	Lock Haven	–	RS	Junior
19.	Derek Spann	Buffalo	23-5	21^st	Senior
20.	Andrew Marten	Central Michigan	21-13	31^st	Junior

141 pounds

Rank	Name	School	’20 W-L	’20 NCAA	Year
1.	Yianni Diakomihalis	Cornell	–	RS	Junior
2.	Jaydin Eierman	Iowa (Missouri transfer)	–	RS	Senior
3.	Nick Lee	Penn State	20-1	2^nd	Senior
4.	Sebastian Rivera	Rutgers/ transfer Northwestern	13-2	1^st/133	Senior
5.	Real Woods	Stanford	19-1	3^rd	Sophomore
6.	Ian Parker	Iowa State	22-3	4^th	Senior
7	Chad Red Jr.	Nebraska	19-7	6^th	Senior
8.	Dom Demas	Oklahoma	26-4	5^th	Junior
9.	Kaid Brock	Oklahoma State	–	RS	Senior
10.	Joshua Heil	Campbell	29-4	8^th	Senior
11.	Zachary Sherman	North Carolina	27-5	11^th	Junior
12.	Dresden Simon	Central Michigan	29-8	12^th	Senior
13.	Michael Blockhus	Northern Iowa	22-10	13^th	Sophomore
14.	Grant Leeth	Missouri	15-5	17^th	Senior
15.	Tariq Wilson	NC State	24-6	15^th	Senior
16.	DJ Lloren	Fresno State	22-6	25^th	Senior
17.	Cole Matthews	Pittsburgh	16-9	27^th	Sophomore
18.	Cody Trybus	Navy	26-9	21^st	Senior
19.	Grant Willits	Oregon State	23-9	29^th	Junior
20.	Matt Kazimir	Columbia	26-9	28^th	Junior

149 pounds

Rank	Name	School	’20 W-L	’20 NCAA	Year
1.	Austin O`Connor	North Carolina	25-1	2^nd	Junior
2.	Sammy Sasso	Ohio State	24-3	3^rd	Sophomore
3.	Brock Mauller	Missouri	29-1	4^th	Junior
4.	Boo Lewallen	Oklahoma State	21-2	5^th	Senior
5.	Brayton Lee	Minnesota	25-6	7^th	Sophomore
6.	Jarrett Degen	Iowa State	16-4	8^th	Senior
7.	Kanen Storr	Michigan	17-5	10^th	Senior
8.	Andrew Alirez	Northern Colorado	24-4	14^th	Sophomore
9.	Kizhan Clarke	American	37-7	15^th	Senior
10.	Max Murin	Iowa	16-3	7^th/141	Junior
11.	Griffin Parriott	Purdue	16-11	16^th	Senior
12.	Jonathan Millner	Appalachian State	31-4	18^th	Junior
13.	Jarod Verkleeren	Penn State	17-8	19^th	Junior
14.	Bryce Andonian	Virginia Tech	18-6	20^th	Sophomore
15.	Mitch Moore	Oklahoma (Va Tech transfer)	17-8	18^th/141	Junior
16.	Graham Rooks	Indiana	16-10	23^rd	Sophomore
17.	Yahya Thomas	Northwestern	16-8	27^th	Junior
18.	Alec Hagan	Ohio	31-11	21^st	Junior
19.	Tanner Smith	Chattanooga	25-9	22^nd	Junior
20.	Hunter Richard	Cornell	25-10	25^th	Senior

157 pounds

Rank	Name	School	’20 W-L	’20 NCAA	Year
1.	Ryan Deakin	Northwestern	21-0	1^st	Senior
2.	Hayden Hidlay	NC State	28-1	2^nd	Senior
3.	David Carr	Iowa State	18-1	3^rd	Sophomore
4.	Jesse Dellavecchia	Rider	30-2	4^th	Grad
5.	Quincy Monday	Princeton	24-4	5^th	Junior
6.	Kendall Coleman	Purdue	29-8	6^th	Sophomore
7.	Josh Humphreys	Lehigh	20-5	7^th	Junior
8.	Wyatt Sheets	Oklahoma State	19-12	11^th	Junior
9.	Kaleb Young	Iowa	15-5	8^th	Senior
10.	Jacori Teemer	Arizona State	17-5	9^th	Sophomore
11.	Will Lewan	Michigan	21-7	10^th	Sophomore
12.	Markus Hartman	Army West Point	30-7	12^th	Junior
13.	Anthony Artalona	Penn	14-6	Inj.	Junior
14.	Peyton Robb	Nebraska	20-6	13^th	Sophomore
15.	Jared Franek	North Dakota State	27-7	16^th	Sophomore
16.	Justin Thomas	Oklahoma	21-9	17^th	Senior
17.	Jarrett Jacques	Missouri	25-7	14^th	Junior
18.	Justin Ruffin	SIU Edwardsville	26-9	19^th	Junior
19.	Jacob Wright	Fresno State	25-8	25^th	Junior
20.	Justin McCoy	Virginia	18-13	27^th	Sophomore

165 pounds

Rank	Name	School	’20 W-L	’20 NCAA	Year
1.	Mehki Lewis	Virginia Tech	–	RS	Sophomore
2.	Alex Marinelli	Iowa	20-1	1st	Senior
3.	Shane Griffith	Stanford	28-0	3rd	Sophomore
4.	Travis Wittlake	Oklahoma State	27-2	4th	Sophomore
5.	Anthony Valencia	Arizona State	22-6	8th/174	Senior
6.	Tanner Skidgel	Navy	20-4	9th	Senior
7.	Thomas Bullard	NC State	23-6	10th	Senior
8.	Jake Wentzel	Pittsburgh	18-7	11th	Senior
9.	Ethan Smith	Ohio State	19-13	12th	Junior
10.	Dan Braunagel	Illinois	23-9	15th	Sophomore
11.	Zach Hartman	Bucknell	27-8	16th	Junior
12.	Philip Conigliaro	Harvard	31-7	17th	Sophomore
13.	Kennedy Monday	North Carolina	20-8	18th	Senior
14.	Grant Cuomo	Princeton	19-7	24th	Junior
15.	Jake Tucker	Michigan State	27-9	20th/157	Senior
16.	Izzak Olejnik	Northern Illinois	19-10	25th	Sophomore
17.	Tanner Cook	South Dakota State	22-4	22nd	Sophomore
18.	Peyton Mocco	Missouri	27-12	30th	Sophomore
19.	Bailee O`Reilly	Minnesota	22-11	28th	Junior
20.	Ricky Stamm	Hofstra	22-9	27th	Senior

174 pounds

Rank	Name	School	’20 W-L	’20 NCAA	Year
1.	Michael Kemerer	Iowa	15-1	2^nd	Senior
2.	Logan Massa	Michigan	–	RS	Senior
3.	Mikey Labriola	Nebraska	20-10	10^th	Junior
4.	Kaleb Romero	Ohio State	19-7	6^th	Junior
5.	Anthony Mantanona	Oklahoma	21-7	9^th	Junior
6.	Demetrius Romero	Utah Valley	—	Inj.	Senior
7.	Samuel Colbray	Iowa State	18-9	13^th	Senior
8.	Anthony Montalvo	Oklahoma State	25-6	9^th/184	Sophomore
9.	Clay Lautt	North Carolina	21-7	14^th	Junior
10.	Daniel Bullard	NC State	24-6	15^th	Senior
11.	Gregg Harvey	Pittsburgh	17-8	22^nd	Senior
12.	Andrew McNally	Kent State	31-7	21^st	Senior
13.	Hayden Hastings	Wyoming	23-10	29^th	Junior
14.	Jacob Oliver	Edinboro	25-6	24^th	Junior
15.	Jackson Hemauer	Fresno State	10-8	DNQ	Junior
16.	Joe Grello	Rutgers	–	Inj.	Senior
17.	Thomas Flitz	Appalachian State	30-11	26^th	Senior
18.	Austin Kraisser	Campbell	27-8	DNQ	Senior
19.	Sage Heiler	Hofstra	21-8	DNQ	Senior
20.	Michael O`Malley	Drexel	19-9	28th	Sophomore

184 pounds

Rank	Name	School	’20 W-L	’20 NCAA	Year
1.	Max Dean	Cornell	—	RS	Junior
2.	Myles Amine	Michigan	–	RS	Grad
3.	Hunter Bolen	Virginia Tech	24-2	2^nd	Junior
4.	Aaron Brooks	Penn State	15-1	3^rd	Sophomore
5	Trent Hidlay	NC State	23-4	5^th	Sophomore
6.	Lou Deprez	Binghamton	26-5	4^th	Junior
7.	Nino Bonaccorsi	Pittsburgh	23-5	10^th	Junior
8.	Taylor Venz	Nebraska	20-8	7^th	Senior
9.	Dakota Geer	Oklahoma State	24-8	14^th/197	Senior
10.	Abe Assad	Iowa	22-7	11^th	Sophomore
11.	Chris Weiler	Wisconsin (Lehigh transfer)	17-7	13^th	Senior
12.	Rocky Jordan	Ohio State	29-9	14^th	Sophomore
13.	Zach Braunagel	Illinois	21-10	15^th	Sophomore
14.	Brit Wilson	Northern Illinois	21-3	19^th	Junior
15.	Tanner Harvey	American	24-8	16^th	Senior
16.	Matthew Waddell	Chattanooga	22-9	20^th	Junior
17.	Jelani Embree	Michigan	16-11	26^th	Junior
18.	Marcus Coleman	Iowa State	17-11	23^rd	Junior
19.	Alan Clothier	Northern Colorado	26-8	27^th	Senior
20	Travis Stefanik	Princeton	17-7	29^th	Junior

197 pounds

Rank	Name	School	’20 W-L	’20 NCAA	Year
1.	Noah Adams	West Virginia	32-0	2^nd	Junior
2.	Eric Schultz	Nebraska	23-4	3^rd	Senior
3.	Ben Darmstadt	Cornell	28-6	4^th	Junior
4.	Jacob Warner	Iowa	20-4	5^th	Junior
5.	Jay Aiello	Virginia	27-4	7^th	Senior
6.	Cameron Caffey	Michigan State	27-7	6^th/184	Junior
7.	Kordell Norfleet	Arizona State	14-3	9^th	Junior
8.	Greg Bulsak	Clarion	27-5	10^th	Senior
9.	Tanner Sloan	South Dakota State	21-6	11^th	Sophomore
10.	Nathan Traxler	Stanford	20-5	12^th	Senior
11.	Lucas Davison	Northwestern	17-8	15^th	Sophomore
12.	Ethan Laird	Rider	24-7	16^th	Senior
13.	Jake Woodley	Oklahoma	20-9	18^th	Junior
14.	Jake Jakobsen	Lehigh	16-9	22^nd	Senior
15.	Stephen Buchanan	Wyoming	26-13	26^th	Sophomore
16.	JT Brown	Army West Point	21-9	20^th	Junior
17.	Billy Janzer	Rutgers	21-10	21st/184	Sophomore
18.	Jacob Seely	Northern Colorado	18-9	25^th	Senior
19.	Bryan McLaughlin	Drexel	17-17	33^rd	Junior
20.	Wyatt Koelling	Missouri	20-7	23^rd	Senior

Heavyweight

Rank	Name	School	’20 W-L	’20 NCAA	Year
1.	Gable Steveson	Minnesota	15-0	1^st	Junior
2.	Mason Parris	Michigan	28-1	2^nd	Junior
3.	Tony Cassioppi	Iowa	20-3	3^rd	Sophomore
4.	Matt Stencel	Central Michigan	30-4	5^th	Senior
5.	Trent Hillger	Wisconsin	23-6	6^th	Junior
6.	Tate Orndorff	Ohio State (Utah Valley transfer)	18-4	8^th	Junior
7.	Zach Elam	Missouri	—	RS	Sophomore
8.	Yaraslau Slavikouski	Harvard	30-8	10^th	Sophomore
9	Gannon Gremmel	Iowa State	26-8	11^th	Senior
10.	Brian Andrews	Wyoming	30-7	13^th	Senior
11.	Carter Isley	Northern Iowa	20-10	14^th	Senior
12.	Dalton Robertson	Northern Colorado	17-8	16^th	Senior
13.	John Borst	Virginia Tech	21-9	18^th	Junior
14.	Christian Lance	Nebraska	10-7	Res.	Senior
15.	A.J. Nevills	Fresno State	–	RS	Junior
16.	Deonte Wilson	NC State	19-9	22^nd	Junior
17.	Brandon Metz	North Dakota State	22-10	20^th	Junior
18.	Ben Sullivan	Army West Point	16-8	24^th	Junior
19.	Quinn Miller	Virginia	19-7	23^rd	Junior
20.	Jon Spaulding	Edinboro	26-9	25^th	Senior