Tough Weights in the Big Ten

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The Big Ten has several tough and deep weights but I think that 174 stands out. There are 8 (eight) ranked wrestlers in this weight class and 7 (seven) are in the top ten. Storley has put on show against Brown-pin- and Heflin-major- but just got by Kokesh.

The list below is the ranked wrestlers in this weight class. I think it is Storley's to lose and he is going to be damn hard to beat.

 

Rank Wrestler

 

2 Storley Minn

3 Brown PSU

4 Kokesh NEB

6 Evans Iowa

7 Heflin OSU

8 Blanton ILL

9 Munster NU

11 Yates MI

[Matburn155 3]

133...top 3 are 1,2,3 in the nation with other very tough individuals. I could easily see them being at 1-4 on the podium at NCAA's.

 

1. Logan Steiber

2. Tony Ramos

3.Tyler Graff

6. Chris Dardanes

10. Cody Brewer

14. Cashe Quiroga

 

*rankings are per intermat

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125

1. Matt McDonough, IOWA

2. Nico Megaludis, PSU

5. Jesse Delgado, ILL

12. Nikko Triggas, OSU

13. David Thorn, MINN

16. Dom Malone, NU

18. Camden Eppert, PUR

 

133

1. Logan Stieber, OSU

2. Tony Ramos, IOWA

3. Tyler Graff, WIS

6. Chris Dardanes, MINN

11. Daryl Thomas, ILL

15. Cashe Quiroga, PUR

20. Levi Mele, NU

141

2. Hunter Stieber, OSU

3. B.J. Futrell, ILL

9. Mark Ballweg, IOWA

11. Nick Dardanes, MINN

18. Camryn Jackson, MICH

 

149

3. Andrew Alton, PSU

5. Dylan Ness, MINN

8. Jake Sueflohn, NEB

12. Eric Grajales, MICH

13. Ivan Lopouchanski, PUR

14. Cam Tessari, OSU

19. Michael Kelly, IOWA

 

157

1. Derek St. John, IOWA

2. Jason Welch, NU

5. Dylan Alton, PSU

7. James Green, NEB

12. Taylor Walsh, IND

19. David Cheza, MSU

 

165

2. David Taylor, PSU

8. Conrad Polz, ILL

10. Ryan LeBlanc, IND

12. Cody Yohn, MINN

13. Taylor Massa, MICH

15. Pierce Harger, NU

19. Nick Moore, IOWA

 

174

2. Logan Storley, MINN

3. Matt Brown, PSU

4. Robert Kokesh, NEB

6. Mike Evans, IOWA

7. Nick Heflin, OSU

8. Jordan Blanton, ILL

9. Lee Munster, NU

11. Dan Yates, MICH

 

184

1. Ed Ruth, PSU

5. Kevin Steinhaus, MINN

8. Josh Ihnen, NEB

9. Ethen Lofthouse, IOWA

15. Kenny Courts, OSU

18. Tony Dallago, ILL

 

197

3. Quentin Wright, PSU

9. Andrew Campolattano, OSU

12. Mario Gonzalez, ILL

14. Scott Schiller, MINN

16. Alex Polizzi, NU

17. Braden Atwood, PUR

18. Max Huntley, MICH

 

Hwt

2. Tony Nelson, MINN

4. Michael McClure, MSU

6. Bobby Telford, IOWA

9. Mike McMullan, NU

11. Connor Medbery, WIS

12. Peter Capone, OSU

13. Adam Chalfant, IND

16. Jimmy Lawson, PSU

19. Ben Apland, MICH

174 definitely the deepest weight then 133,125,and 157 seem equally deep. Heavyweight then probably the next toughest before it drops off.

[LtWtLooker 0]

Silly thread indeed. Wonder if long arms is one he listed. The B13 is always tough in every wgt class. In fact they should win 7 at NCAAs and take 10 seconds. I'm not ready to crown DSJ yet and I'm saying Kendrick, JO and Killer win it. Anyone think I'm going out on a limb. Like i said dumb thread.

[MSU158 2,008]

Silly thread indeed. Wonder if long arms is one he listed. The B13 is always tough in every wgt class. In fact they should win 7 at NCAAs and take 10 seconds. I'm not ready to crown DSJ yet and I'm saying Kendrick, JO and Killer win it. Anyone think I'm going out on a limb. Like i said dumb thread.

 

I have to disagree with you. I think it is very noteworthy that there is a weight class that there is a legitimate chance of 7 of the 8 AA's coming from one conference even if it is the B1G.

[BRGuy 37]

the bigten has 12 programs in the top 15 for history and resources spent on wrestling is it really a shock to anyone that they may have 7 or 8 top ranked guys at one weight

[105Ace 0]

What makes a specific weight the toughest in a given tourney? Is it the volume of ranked cats in a weight class or the rankings of the biggest dogs?

 

I determined that the lowest number of ranked cats in any one weight in this years Bigs is five, so I averaged the rankings for each weight's top five. I also wanted to average the big dogs in each weight, and used the top three. Then I averaged the two rankings (1-10) to get my initial list of the toughest weights:

 

Avg top 5. Avg top 3. Combo pack

 

174. 4.4. 133 2.0. 133. 1.5

133. 4.6. 125. 2.7. 174. 2.5

157. 5.4. 157 2.7. 157. 2.7

Hwt. 6.4. 174 3.0. 125. 3.7

125. 6.6. Hwt. 4.0. Hwt. 4.2

184. 7.6. 141. 4.6. 184. 6.2

149. 8.2. 184. 4.6. 141. 7.2

141. 8.8. 149. 5.3. 149. 7.5

165. 9.0. 165. 6.7. 165. 9.0

197. 10.0. 197. 7.6. 197. 10.0

 

Then it occurred to me that the tru measure of how tough a weight class is by determining how difficult it is for the top ranked dog to win the tourney, and many times that means making it out of the semi's. I determined this by measuring the variance between the top dog and the ranking of the #4 sends and found:

 

Weight. Variance

174. 4

133. 5

157. 6

Hwt. 7

184. 8. T

149. 8. T

141. 9

165. 10

125. 11

197. 11

 

What does all of this mean? It means that this years OW is the Champ from 133, 174, or 157 unless Q can juggle bowling pins on a unicycle while pinning his way thru the tourney

[LtWtLooker 0]

Whenever I read Ace, SHP or St. Paul (1 corinthians 13:12 ) I feel like Cheech and Chong doin Blind Melon Chitlin. Overwhelmed by statistics that work occasionally. you guys should apply to Fed. Reserve for work.

[SetonHallPirate 990]

Whenever I read Ace, SHP or St. Paul (1 corinthians 13:12 ) I feel like Cheech and Chong doin Blind Melon Chitlin. Overwhelmed by statistics that work occasionally. you guys should apply to Fed. Reserve for work.

LOL!

[LtWtLooker 0]

thanks for permission on schedule.

[SetonHallPirate 990]

thanks for permission on schedule.

Not a problem.