Three new No. 1 ranked individuals as NAIA releases Top 20 Coaches Poll and athlete rankings

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Grand View (Iowa) continues its reign at No. 1 in the in the NAIA Wrestling Coaches’ Top 20 Poll, the national office announced Wednesday. The next installment of the Coaches’ Poll is slated for December 29.

Top 25 Highlights (historical information dates back to 2000-01)
• Grand View has lived in the top spot for 41-consecutive polls. The Vikings own 45 all-time No. 1 rankings, which is the most for any program dating back to the start of the 2000-01 season.
• The Vikings boast 10 ranked grapplers, including No. 1 Josh Wenger at 141 pounds, No. 1 Grant Henderson at 165 pounds and No. 1 Dylan Blackford at 174 pounds.
• Hayden Lee of Cumberlands (Ky.) (125 pounds), Tres Leon of Cumberlands (149 pounds) and Blackford are the only new top-ranked individuals. Both Lee and Leon are unbeaten this season.
• No. 18 Eastern Oregon is the only new team to the top 20. The Mountaineers boast five ranked individuals, highlighted by a pair of seventh-ranked grapplers in A.J. Rockwell (141 pounds) and Eric Fan (197 pounds).
• Since 2001, only Grand View (2013-14, 2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17), former members Notre Dame (Ohio) (2010-11) and Lindenwood (Mo.) (2006-07) have spent the entire season ranked No. 1.

Poll Methodology
• The poll was voted upon by a panel of head coaches representing each of the eight conferences.
• Two days prior to the national poll, each qualifying group rater submits the top six individuals from each weight class in his conference into the system. Only wrestlers listed on a conference ballot are considered for the national ballot.
• The top 20 individuals in each weight class are based on how each voter ranks the best individuals. An individual receives 20 points for each first-place vote, 19 for second place and so on through the list. This same point system is used to determine the team ranking.
• The postseason poll is determined using the individual and team results from the national championship

2017-18 NAIA Wrestling Coaches' Top 20 Poll - No. 2 (December 6, 2017)

Rank	Previous Rank	School	Total Team Points
1	1	Grand View (Iowa)	155
2	2	Missouri Valley	144
3	3	Indiana Tech	133
4	4	Menlo (Calif.)	107
5	T7	Life (Ga.)	97
6	5	Providence (Mont.)	96
7	6	Cumberlands (Ky.)	95
8	9	Williams Baptist (Ark.)	93
9	16	Southeastern (Fla.)	90
10	10	Embry-Riddle (Ariz.)	79
11	T7	Campbellsville (Ky.)	77
12	11	Southern Oregon	70
13	12	Montana State-Northern	66
14	13	Lindsey Wilson (Ky.)	60
15	14	Baker (Kan.)	59
16	18	Reinhardt (Ga.)	56
17	20	Concordia (Neb.)	52
18	RV	Eastern Oregon	50
19	17	Briar Cliff (Iowa)	46
20	19	Midland (Neb.)	41

Others receiving votes: Northwestern (Iowa) 32; Oklahoma City 32; Benedictine (Kan.) 32; Hastings (Neb.) 30; Graceland (Iowa) 23; Lyon (Ark.) 22; Hannibal-LaGrange (Mo.) 21; Missouri Baptist 20; Bacone (Okla.) 20; Cumberland (Tenn.) 19; Morningside (Iowa) 18; Warner Pacific (Ore.) 18; York (Neb.) 16; Saint Mary (Kan.) 16; Truett-McConnell (Ga.) 14; Lindenwood-Belleville (Ill.) 14; William Penn (Iowa) 11; Bethany (Kan.) 11; Doane (Neb.) 10; Marian (Ind.) 11; Wayland Baptist (Texas) 10; Ottawa (Kan.) 9; Brewton-Parker (Ga.) 8; Kansas Wesleyan 8; Jamestown (N.D.) 6; Lourdes (Ohio) 6; Oklahoma Wesleyan 5; Waldorf (Iowa) 4. 

125 Pounds
Weight	Rank	First Name	Last Name	Team	League	Total Points
125	1st	Hayden	Lee	Cumberlands (Ky.)	Mid-South	120
125	2nd	Sawyer	Miller	Indiana Tech	SAC	110
125	3rd	Dustin	Miller	Lyon College	AMC	108
125	4th	Keegan	Hessler	Morningside (Iowa)	GPAC	104
125	5th	Chandler	Strand	Embry-Riddle (Ariz.)	Cascade	94
125	6th	Josh	Johnson	Warner Pacific	Cascade	90
125	T7th	Olson	Delisca	Southeastern	Mid-South	74
125	T7th	Mhar	Caballa	Eastern Oregon University (OR)	Cascade	74
125	9th	Jacob	Seto	Missouri Valley	Heart of America	73
125	10th	John	Altieri	William Penn (Iowa)	Heart of America	66
125	11th	Isaac	Wilson	Providence (Mont.)	Cascade	59
125	12th	Chad	Lampe	Lindsey Wilson (Ky.)	Mid-South	54
125	13th	Lucas	Nelson	Brewton-Parker (GA)	Mid-South	38
125	14th	Zane	Baugh	Baker (Kan.)	Heart of America	36
125	15th	Joel	Timmons	Grand View (Iowa)	Heart of America	33
125	16th	Kruz	Adamson	Graceland University	Heart of America	28
125	17th	Josh	Venia	Indiana Tech	SAC	21
125	18th	Robert	Ozuna	York (Neb.)	KCAC	20
125	19th	Triston	Santos	Doane College	GPAC	17
125	20th	Devonte	Upshaw	Truett-McConnell (Ga.)	AAC	13
133 Pounds
Weight	Rank	First Name	Last Name	Team	League	Total Points
133	1st	Jake	Sinkovics	Cumberlands (Ky.)	Mid-South	120
133	2nd	Erique	Early	Indiana Tech	SAC	112
133	3rd	Cartland	Allen	Graceland University	Heart of America	104
133	4th	Michael	Andreano	Briar Cliff (Iowa)	GPAC	100
133	5th	Ethan	Owen	Southeastern	Mid-South	97
133	6th	Tanner	Irwin	Williams Baptist	AMC	88
133	7th	Zachary	Durbin	Missouri Valley	Heart of America	75
133	8th	Brandon	Vela	Bacone (Okla.)	SAC	71
133	9th	Collin	Anderson	Embry-Riddle (Ariz.)	Cascade	68
133	10th	Giovanni	Castillo	Concordia (Neb.)	GPAC	64
133	11th	Brady	Moser	Lindsey Wilson (Ky.)	Mid-South	61
133	12th	Tyler	Dickman	Baker (Kan.)	Heart of America	55
133	13th	Jaitlan	Pitts	Williams Baptist	AMC	44
133	14th	Trevor	Murano	Grand View (Iowa)	Heart of America	33
133	15th	Haidon	Allen	St. Mary (KS)	KCAC	27
133	16th	David	Berryman	Benedictine College	Heart of America	25
133	17th	Triston	Blansit	Reinhardt University (GA)	AAC	21
133	18th	Blake	McNall	Eastern Oregon University (OR)	Cascade	13
133	19th	Ian	Morken	Menlo (Calif.)	Cascade	10
133	20th	Caysen	Smith	Bethany (Kan.)	KCAC	9
141 Pounds
Weight	Rank	First Name	Last Name	Team	League	Total Points
141	1st	Josh	Wenger	Grand View (Iowa)	Heart of America	120
141	2nd	David	Berg	Midland (Neb.)	GPAC	113
141	3rd	Chase	Zemenak	Reinhardt University (GA)	AAC	109
141	4th	Devin	Poppen	Southern Oregon	Cascade	99
141	5th	Jayce	Carr	Campbellsville (Ky.)	Mid-South	98
141	6th	Sonny	Gulesian	Briar Cliff (Iowa)	GPAC	84
141	7th	AJ	Rockwell	Eastern Oregon University (OR)	Cascade	82
141	8th	Matt	Weber	Montana State-Northern	Cascade	79
141	9th	Gaige	Torres	Indiana Tech	SAC	68
141	10th	Mason	Calvert	Life University	Mid-South	66
141	11th	Albert	Landeros	Hastings (Neb.)	GPAC	49
141	12th	Andrew	Ramirez	Southern Oregon	Cascade	47
141	13th	Taylor	Moeder	Kansas Wesleyan	KCAC	46
141	T14th	Nathan	Ryan	Briar Cliff (Iowa)	GPAC	42
141	T14th	John	Bindner	Missouri Valley	Heart of America	42
141	16th	Cameron	Huizar	Embry-Riddle (Ariz.)	Cascade	26
141	17th	Taylor	Lehman	Waldorf (Iowa)	Heart of America	21
141	18th	Austin	Meyn	Cumberland (Tenn.)	Mid-South	19
141	19th	Jessie	Hodge	Williams Baptist	AMC	12
141	20th	Brandon	Weber	Cumberland (Tenn.)	Mid-South	9
149 Pounds
Weight	Rank	First Name	Last Name	Team	League	Total Points
149	1st	Tres	Leon	Cumberlands (Ky.)	Mid-South	119
149	2nd	Jaedin	sklapsky	Campbellsville (Ky.)	Mid-South	114
149	3rd	Thomas	Garty	Indiana Tech	SAC	105
149	4th	Nosomy	Pozo	Life University	Mid-South	103
149	T5th	Dante	Preciado	Northwestern (Iowa)	GPAC	94
149	T5th	Shonn	Roberts	Providence (Mont.)	Cascade	94
149	7th	Terrill	Sidner	Menlo (Calif.)	Cascade	81
149	8th	Justin	Atkinson	Indiana Tech	SAC	76
149	9th	Austin	Roper	Benedictine College	Heart of America	70
149	10th	Chandler	Michael	Southern Oregon	Cascade	68
149	11th	Dominique	Evans	Midland (Neb.)	GPAC	60
149	12th	Dylan	Chatterton	Southeastern	Mid-South	52
149	13th	Kyle	Lee	Williams Baptist	AMC	32
149	14th	Colby	Johnson	Baker (Kan.)	Heart of America	31
149	15th	Brandon	Aragon	Jamestown (N.D.)	GPAC	25
149	16th	Kalvin	Harris	Reinhardt University (GA)	AAC	24
149	17th	Jose	Intrago	Lindenwood - Belleville (Ill.)	AMC	17
149	T18th	Baylen	Cooper	Warner Pacific	Cascade	16
149	T18th	Kyle	Kirkham	Southeastern	Mid-South	16
149	20th	Matt	Landgraff	Oklahoma City	SAC	15
157 Pounds
Weight	Rank	First Name	Last Name	Team	League	Total Points
157	1st	Brandon	Weber	Montana State-Northern	Cascade	120
157	2nd	Cam	Tessari	Lindsey Wilson (Ky.)	Mid-South	114
157	3rd	Tobias	Barnes	Missouri Valley	Heart of America	108
157	4th	Kevin	James	Menlo (Calif.)	Cascade	102
157	5th	Mason	Miller	Grand View (Iowa)	Heart of America	89
157	6th	Hunter	Hodges	Southern Oregon	Cascade	87
157	7th	James	Williams	Embry-Riddle (Ariz.)	Cascade	84
157	8th	Kalob	Rahoi	Life University	Mid-South	81
157	9th	Casey	Dobson	Providence (Mont.)	Cascade	66
157	10th	Chase	Hack	Indiana Tech	SAC	61
157	11th	Brandon	Lawson-Archuleta	Bethany (Kan.)	KCAC	58
157	12th	Kenny	Boyd	Missouri Valley	Heart of America	49
157	13th	Austin	Coy	York (Neb.)	KCAC	46
157	14th	Chris	Vaughan	Hastings (Neb.)	GPAC	36
157	15th	Tyler	Wilson	Lourdes University	SAC	34
157	16th	Drake	Randall	Eastern Oregon University (OR)	Cascade	29
157	17th	Evyn	Insalaco	Southeastern	Mid-South	23
157	18th	Shota	Sisco	Cumberland (Tenn.)	Mid-South	23
157	19th	Keanu	Tom	Concordia (Neb.)	GPAC	20
157	20th	Daniel	Rittell	Williams Baptist	AMC	18
165 Pounds
Weight	Rank	First Name	Last Name	Team	League	Total Points
165	1st	Grant	Henderson	Grand View (Iowa)	Heart of America	120
165	2nd	Andrew	Simmons	Missouri Valley	Heart of America	114
165	3rd	Lucius	Van Rensburg	Life University	Mid-South	108
165	4th	Mitch	Roadruck	Indiana Tech	SAC	98
165	5th	Joseph	Jauregui	Menlo (Calif.)	Cascade	90
165	6th	Josh	Romero	Benedictine College	Heart of America	84
165	7th	Andrew	Bartel	Montana State-Northern	Cascade	74
165	8th	Angel	del Cueto	Southeastern	Mid-South	73
165	T9th	Jonathan	Lado	Concordia (Neb.)	GPAC	65
165	T9th	Brok	Williams	Oklahoma City	SAC	65
165	11th	Riley	Jaramillo	St. Mary (KS)	KCAC	64
165	12th	Tristan	Macri	Cumberlands (Ky.)	Mid-South	61
165	13th	Taylor	Owens	Embry-Riddle (Ariz.)	Cascade	44
165	14th	Micah	Miller	Ottawa University	KCAC	37
165	15th	Jonathan	Stewart	Williams Baptist	AMC	29
165	16th	Matthew	Cates	Southeastern	Mid-South	28
165	17th	Brett	Johnson	Marian University (IN)	AMC	26
165	18th	Stephon	Gray	Midland (Neb.)	GPAC	22
165	19th	Trezdon	O`Neal	Marian University (IN)	AMC	17
165	T20th	Chris	Paulsen	Briar Cliff (Iowa)	GPAC	2
165	T20th	Connor	Webber	Lyon (Ark.)	AMC	2
165	T20th	Tate	Holmes	Reinhardt (Ga.)	AAC	2
174 Pounds
Weight	Rank	First Name	Last Name	Team	League	Total Points
174	1st	Dylan	Blackford	Grand View (Iowa)	Heart of America	120
174	2nd	justin	brown	Campbellsville (Ky.)	Mid-South	114
174	3rd	Anthony	Orozco	Menlo (Calif.)	Cascade	107
174	4th	Adrian	Lyons-Lopez	Providence (Mont.)	Cascade	103
174	5th	Kody	Davis	Embry-Riddle (Ariz.)	Cascade	96
174	6th	Colton	Gonzalez	Lindsey Wilson (Ky.)	Mid-South	88
174	7th	Keion	McVay	Williams Baptist	AMC	75
174	8th	Jeremiah	Reed	Hannibal-LaGrange (MO)	AMC	74
174	9th	Tyler	Noon	Menlo (Calif.)	Cascade	71
174	10th	Dalton	Tipton	Missouri Valley	Heart of America	61
174	11th	Scott	Sopko	Indiana Tech	SAC	60
174	12th	Brandon	Shuler	Northwestern (Iowa)	GPAC	54
174	13th	Michael	Carew	Reinhardt University (GA)	AAC	50
174	14th	Joseph	McAleavey	Bacone (Okla.)	SAC	43
174	15th	Nathan	Garcia	Briar Cliff (Iowa)	GPAC	33
174	16th	Lucas	Lovvorn	Baker (Kan.)	Heart of America	31
174	17th	Alex	Destra	Missouri Valley	Heart of America	22
174	18th	LJ	Henderson	Campbellsville (Ky.)	Mid-South	15
174	19th	Walker	Fisher	Concordia (Neb.)	GPAC	14
174	20th	Max	Emerson	Cumberlands (Ky.)	Mid-South	10
184 Pounds
Weight	Rank	First Name	Last Name	Team	League	Total Points
184	1st	charles	sharon	Campbellsville (Ky.)	Mid-South	120
184	2nd	Josh	Chiles	Williams Baptist	AMC	113
184	3rd	Hunter	Smith	Life University	Mid-South	109
184	4th	Tristan	Ramberg	Missouri Valley	Heart of America	99
184	5th	Jacob	Smith	Baker (Kan.)	Heart of America	95
184	6th	Bryce	Fisher	Grand View (Iowa)	Heart of America	89
184	7th	Joshua	Nelsen	Concordia (Neb.)	GPAC	80
184	8th	Randy	Keesler	Providence (Mont.)	Cascade	72
184	9th	Tyler	Webley	Providence (Mont.)	Cascade	60
184	10th	Chris	Williams	Southeastern	Mid-South	58
184	T11th	Bruce	Valdez	Menlo (Calif.)	Cascade	45
184	T11th	Zach	Davis	Indiana Tech	SAC	45
184	T11th	Alexander	Miller	Lindenwood - Belleville (Ill.)	AMC	45
184	14th	Zach	Linton	Doane College	GPAC	39
184	15th	Jason	Davis	Southeastern	Mid-South	37
184	16th	Charlie	Hill	Marian University (IN)	AMC	33
184	17th	antonio	stewart	Reinhardt University (GA)	AAC	27
184	18th	Steeler	French	Montana State-Northern	Cascade	25
184	T19th	Kaden	Truelove	Oklahoma City	SAC	11
184	T19th	Jacob	Matheson	Truett-McConnell (Ga.)	AAC	11
197 Pounds
Weight	Rank	First Name	Last Name	Team	League	Total Points
197	1st	Dalton	Bailey	Life University	Mid-South	120
197	2nd	Evan	Hansen	Grand View (Iowa)	Heart of America	114
197	3rd	Tanner	Fischer	Southern Oregon	Cascade	108
197	4th	Donavan	Fouchey	Missouri Valley	Heart of America	102
197	5th	Isaac	Bartel	Montana State-Northern	Cascade	96
197	6th	David	Dow	Baker (Kan.)	Heart of America	88
197	7th	Eric	Fan	Eastern Oregon University (OR)	Cascade	74
197	8th	Andrew	Mahone	Missouri Baptist University	AMC	72
197	9th	De`Andre	Jones	Cumberland (Tenn.)	Mid-South	60
197	10th	Alexander	Reimers	Concordia (Neb.)	GPAC	56
197	11th	Eric	Deluse	Cumberlands (Ky.)	Mid-South	52
197	12th	Josiah	Gittman	Southeastern	Mid-South	49
197	13th	Elias	Mason	Embry-Riddle (Ariz.)	Cascade	45
197	14th	Nicholas	Null	Northwestern (Iowa)	GPAC	41
197	15th	John	Hensley	Providence (Mont.)	Cascade	33
197	16th	Jack	Murphy	York (Neb.)	KCAC	31
197	17th	Riley	Williams	Wayland Baptist (Texas)	SAC	24
197	18th	Jacob	Hill	Lyon College	AMC	20
197	19th	Austin	Brown	Reinhardt University (GA)	AAC	19
197	20th	Chandler	Knight	Doane College	GPAC	17
285 Pounds
Weight	Rank	First Name	Last Name	Team	League	Total Points
285	1st	Demetrius	Thomas	Williams Baptist	AMC	120
285	2nd	Dean	Broghammer	Grand View (Iowa)	Heart of America	114
285	3rd	Javier	Gonzalez	Menlo (Calif.)	Cascade	107
285	4th	Bryson	McGowan	Oklahoma City	SAC	94
285	5th	Jesse	Gomez	Missouri Valley	Heart of America	91
285	6th	Quandre	Chisolm	Cumberlands (Ky.)	Mid-South	80
285	7th	Hinton	Bolinger	Reinhardt University (GA)	AAC	74
285	T8th	Cooper	Thomas	Grand View (Iowa)	Heart of America	69
285	T8th	Jeremiah	Gerl	Hastings (Neb.)	GPAC	69
285	10th	Jeff	Chandler	Truett-McConnell (Ga.)	AAC	67
285	11th	Mathew	Hopkins	Providence (Mont.)	Cascade	56
285	12th	Aaron	Rafalko	Midland (Neb.)	GPAC	53
285	13th	Nigel	Burnett	Hannibal-LaGrange (MO)	AMC	49
285	14th	Cory	Flemming	Missouri Baptist University	AMC	48
285	15th	Vernon	Willis	Wayland Baptist (Texas)	SAC	44
285	16th	Kyler	Childers	Oklahoma Wesleyan	KCAC	34
285	17th	Brandon	Reed	Lindsey Wilson (Ky.)	Mid-South	33
285	18th	Raynel	Brown	Lindsey Wilson (Ky.)	Mid-South	20
285	19th	Richard	Schooler	Ottawa University	KCAC	18
285	20th	Phil	Rasmussen	Morningside (Iowa)	GPAC	8