Eric Schultz image courtesy of WIN Magazine

NEWTON, Iowa — Nebraska senior Eric Schultz has taken over the top spot at 197 pounds in WIN Magazine’s Feb. 8 NCAA Division I national wrestling rankings.

This change happened after West Virginia’s previously-top-ranked Noah Adams lost 8-7 to Wyoming’s Stephen Buchanan in a Feb. 6 dual in Laramie, Wyo. Meanwhile, Schultz, formerly No. 2, improved his 2021 record to 7-0 with victories over Indiana’s Nick Willham and Michigan State’s nationally-ranked Cam Caffey last Saturday.

Another notable change came at 125 pounds as Virginia Tech’s 125-pound Sam Latona moved up two spots to No. 6 after the redshirt freshman beat No. 3 Jakob Camacho, 7-4, last Friday and helped the Hokies beat the Wolfpack on criteria.

Meanwhile, there are 13 newcomers to this week’s rankings, including four at 133 pounds (Illinois’ Lucas Byrd, Bucknell’s Darren Miller, NC State’s Jarrett Trombley and West Virginia’s Ryan Sullivan) and three at 174 (Indiana’s Donnell Washington, Missouri’s Peyton Mocco and Cal Poly’s Bernie Truax).

In the team ratings, Iowa remained No. 1 in the dual rankings with road victories over Purdue and Ohio State and also stayed on top of WIN’s Tournament Power Index as ten ranked Hawkeyes give the team 134 TPI points. Penn State, which will host Iowa this Friday, remained No. 2 in the dual ranks with a road victory over Wisconsin. The defending champion Nittany Lions are ranked No. 5 in WIN’s TPI (57 points) with nine ranked wrestlers.

Michigan, No. 2 in WIN’s TPI (82 and eight ranked wrestlers) hopes to return to action this weekend against Ohio State after the university put all winter sports on a pause because of COVID concerns on Jan. 24. Nebraska, with seven total ranked wrestlers, has moved up to No. 3 in WIN’s TPI.

Oklahoma State, No. 4 in the TPI with 58 points and eight ranked wrestlers, improved to 9-0 on the season with a victory over Bedlam-rival Oklahoma last weekend. Oklahoma State will host the Cowboy Challenge this Sunday against undefeated Missouri (10-0 with 10 ranked wrestlers), Wyoming and West Virginia.

WIN’s Tournament Power Index is a tally of potential NCAA placement points based on where wrestlers are currently ranked and could possibly place, March 20, at the NCAA Championships in St. Louis. The following is a point breakdown of the TPI, based on a wrestler’s ranking: 20 for 1st, 16 for 2nd, 13.5 for 3rd, 12.5 for 4th, 10 for 5th, 9 for 6th, 6.5 for 7th and 5.5 for 8th. Wrestlers ranked 9-12 earn two points each, followed by 1.5 points for wrestlers ranked 13-16 and 1 point for those ranked 17-20.

WIN’s Feb. 8, 2021 Tournament Power Index

Rk.	School	Total Rank	Top 8 Rank	TPI Points
1.	Iowa	10	9	134
2.	Michigan	8	6	82
3.	Nebraska	7	4	60.5
4.	Oklahoma State	8	4	58
5.	Penn State	9	4	57
6.	Virginia Tech	6	4	53.5
7.	NC State	9	5	51
8.	Iowa State	6	4	45
9.	Arizona State	8	3	40.5
10.	Ohio State	6	3	39
11.	Northwestern	5	2	38
12.	Missouri	10	2	36
13.	Minnesota	5	2	34
14.	Central Michigan	3	2	30
15.	North Carolina	5	1	27.5
16.	Pitt	4	2	23.5
17.	Rutgers	3	2	21
18.	Northern Iowa	4	2	17.5
19t.	South Dakota State	4	1	17
19t.	West Virginia	2	1	17
21.	Illinois	7	1	16.5
22.	Stanford	3	1	16
23.	Virginia	5	1	14.5
24t.	Lehigh	4	2	14
24t.	Rider	2	1	14
26.	Navy	4	1	13
27.	Oklahoma	5	1	12
28t.	Purdue	4	1	11.5
28t.	Utah Valley	2	1	11.5
30t.	Binghamton	2	1	11
30t.	Wisconsin	2	1	11
32.	Northern Colorado	2	1	10.5
33.	Duke	1	1	9
34.	Bucknell	2	1	7.5
35t.	Michigan State	2	1	7
35t.	Wyoming	5	0	7
37.	Clarion	1	1	6.5
38t.	Appalachian State	3	0	4
38t.	Indiana	3	0	4
40.	Oregon State	2	0	3
41t.	American U.	2	0	2.5
41t.	North Dakota State	2	0	2.5
43t.	Army	2	0	2
43t.	Edinboro	1	0	2
43t.	Fresno State	1	0	2
43t.	Kent State	1	0	2
43t.	Northern Illinois	1	0	2
48.	Hofstra	1	0	1.5
49t.	Buffalo	1	0	1
49t.	Cal Poly	1	0	1
49t.	Campbell	1	0	1
49t.	Chattanooga	1	0	1
49t.	Drexel	1	0	1
49t.	Ohio	1	0	1

WIN Magazine’s Feb 8, 2021 Team Dual Rankings

Rk.	School	W-L	Previous	Next Week
1.	Iowa	5-0	1st	at Penn State (2/12)
2.	Penn State	3-0	2nd	vs Iowa (2/12)
3.	Michigan	3-0	3rd	vs Ohio State (2/12)
4.	Oklahoma State	9-0	4th	Host Cowboy Challenge (2/14)
5.	Missouri	10-0	5th	at Cowboy Challenge (2/14)
6.	Nebraska	6-1	6th	off until 2/21 vs Illinois
7.	Virginia Tech	8-0	8th	vs Pitt (2/12)
8.	NC State	5-1	7th	vs Duke (2/12)
9.	Arizona State	3-0	9th	vs Cal Poly (2/12) at Iowa State with Northern Iowa (2/14)
10	Minnesota	5-2	13th	at Wisconsin (2/12)
11.	Illinois	5-2	10th	off until 2/21 vs. Nebraska
12.	Ohio State	5-2	11th	at Michigan (2/12)
13.	Iowa State	8-2	12th	vs No. Colo., Arizona St., and No. Iowa (2/14)
14.	North Carolina	4-2	14th	vs Virginia (2/13)
15.	Navy	4-1	15th	at Army (2/12)
16.	Pitt	3-3	16th	at Virginia Tech (2/12)
17.	Wisconsin	1-4	17th	vs Minnesota (2/12) & at Northwestern (2/14)
18.	Purdue	2-5	18th	at Michigan State (2/12)
19.	Northern Iowa	4-2	19th	at Iowa State with Arizona St. & No. Colo. (2/14)
20.	Oklahoma	5-4	20th	at Fresno State with Oregon State (2/14)
21.	Rutgers	0-4	21st	off until 2/19 at Maryland
22.	Northwestern	1-5	22nd	vs Wisconsin (2/14)
23.	Virginia	3-2	23rd	at North Carolina (2/13)
24.	Michigan State	2-3	24th	vs Purdue (2/13)
25.	Binghamton	3-1	25th	vs Hofstra (2/13)

WIN Magazine’s Feb. 8, 2021 Individual Rankings

125 pounds

Wt	Name	School	Year	Previous
1.	Spencer Lee	Iowa	Senior	1st
2.	Drew Hildebrandt	Central Michigan	Senior	2nd
3.	Brandon Courtney	Arizona State	Junior	4th
4.	Michael DeAugustino	Northwestern	Sophomore	5th
5.	Liam Cronin	Nebraska	Senior	7th
6.	Sam Latona	Virginia Tech	RS Freshman	8th
7.	Jakob Camacho	NC State	Sophomore	3rd
8.	Dylan Ragusin	Michigan	Freshman	6th
9	Brody Teske	Northern Iowa	RS Freshman	9th
10.	Patrick McKee	Minnesota	Sophomore	10th
11.	Devin Schroder	Purdue	Senior	11th
12.	Malik Heinselman	Ohio State	Junior	12th
13.	Rayvon Foley	Michigan State	Junior	13th
14.	Justin Cardani	Illinois	Sophomore	14th
15.	Taylor Lamont	Utah Valley	Junior	15th
16.	Trevor Mastrogiovanni	Oklahoma State	Freshman	16th
17.	Jaret Lane	Lehigh	Junior	20th
18.	Brock Hudkins	Indiana	Senior	17th
19.	Connor Brown	Missouri	Junior	18th
20.	Cage Curry	American U.	Senior	19th

133 pounds

Wt	Name	School	Year	Previous
1.	Daton Fix	Oklahoma State	Sophomore	1st
2.	Stevan Micic	Michigan	Grad.	2nd
3.	Roman Bravo-Young	Penn State	Junior	3rd
4.	Austin DeSanto	Iowa	Senior	4th
5.	Mickey Phillippi	Pittsburgh	Junior	5th
6.	Michael McGee	Arizona State	Junior	6th
7.	Sammy Alvarez	Rutgers	Sophomore	7th
8.	Korbin Myers	Virginia Tech	Senior	9th
9.	Matt Schmitt	Missouri	Grad.	11th
10.	Zach Price	South Dakota State	Sophomore	12th
11.	Chris Cannon	Northwestern	Freshman	14th
12.	Kyle Biscoglia	Northern Iowa	Sophomore	15th
13.	Jamie Hernandez	North Carolina	Junior	16th
14.	Lucas Byrd	Illinois	RS Freshman	NR
15.	Louie Hayes	Virginia	Senior	17th
16.	Mosha Schwartz	Northern Colorado	Sophomore	10th
17.	Darren Miller	Bucknell	Sophomore	NR
18.	Jarrett Trombley	NC State	Sophomore	NR
19	Mario Guillen	Ohio	Senior	20th
20	Ryan Sullivan	West Virginia	RS Freshman	NR

141 pounds

Wt.	Name	School	Year	Previous
1.	Jaydin Eierman	Iowa	Senior	1st
2.	Nick Lee	Penn State	Senior	2nd
3.	Sebastian Rivera	Rutgers	Grad.	3rd
4.	Chad Red Jr.	Nebraska	Senior	4th
5.	Allen Hart	Missouri	Junior	6th
6.	Ian Parker	Iowa State	Senior	7th
7.	Dom Demas	Oklahoma	Junior	8th
8.	Tariq Wilson	NC State	Senior	9th
9.	Zachary Sherman	North Carolina	Junior	10th
10.	Dylan Duncan	Illinois	Senior	11th
11.	Cody Trybus	Navy	Senior	12th
12.	D.J. Loren	Fresno State	Senior	13th
13.	Grant Willits	Oregon State	Junior	14th
14.	Brian Courtney	Virginia	Junior	15th
15.	Cole Matthews	Pittsburgh	Sophomore	16th
16.	Dresden Simon	Central Michigan	Senior	17th
17.	Pete Lipari	Arizona State	Senior	18th
18.	Derek Spann	Buffalo	Senior	19th
19.	Zach Trampe	Binghamton	Senior	20th
20.	Clay Carlson	South Dakota State	Sophomore	NR

149 pounds

Wt.	Name	School	Year	Previous
1.	Austin O`Connor	North Carolina	Junior	1st
2.	Sammy Sasso	Ohio State	Sophomore	2nd
3.	Brock Mauller	Missouri	Junior	3rd
4.	Boo Lewallen	Oklahoma State	Senior	4th
5.	Jarrett Degen	Iowa State	Senior	5th
6.	Andrew Alirez	Northern Colorado	Sophomore	6th
7.	Max Murin	Iowa	Junior	7th
8.	Kanen Storr	Michigan	Senior	8th
9.	Mike Carr	Illinois	Junior	9th
10.	Griffin Parriott	Purdue	Senior	10th
11.	Jonathan Millner	Appalachian State	Junior	11th
12.	Bryce Andonian	Virginia Tech	Sophomore	12th
13.	Yahya Thomas	Northwestern	Junior	13th
14.	Graham Rooks	Indiana	Sophomore	14th
15.	Jaden Abas	Stanford	RS Freshman	15th
16.	Jarod Verkleeren	Penn State	Junior	16th
17.	Joshua Heil	Campbell	Senior	17th
18.	Mitch Moore	Oklahoma	Junior	18th
19.	Casey Cobb	Navy	Senior	19th
20.	Tanner Smith	Chattanooga	Junior	20th

157 pounds

Wt.	Name	School	Year	Previous
1.	Ryan Deakin	Northwestern	Senior	1st
2.	Hayden Hidlay	NC State	Senior	2nd
3.	David Carr	Iowa State	Sophomore	3rd
4.	Jesse Dellavecchia	Rider	Grad	4th
5.	Kaleb Young	Iowa	Senior	5th
6.	Brayton Lee	Minnesota	Sophomore	6th
7.	Kendall Coleman	Purdue	Sophomore	7th
8.	Josh Humphreys	Lehigh	Junior	8th
9.	Justin Thomas	Oklahoma	Senior	12th
10.	Wyatt Sheets	Oklahoma State	Junior	9th
11.	Will Lewan	Michigan	Sophomore	10th
12.	Jacori Teemer	Arizona State	Sophomore	11th
13.	Jarrett Jacques	Missouri	Junior	13th
14.	Brady Berge	Penn State	Junior	14th
15.	Jared Franek	North Dakota State	Sophomore	15th
16.	Hunter Willits	Oregon State	Junior	18th
17.	Requir Van der Merwe	Stanford	Senior	16th
18.	Markus Hartman	Army West Point	Junior	17th
19.	Justin McCoy	Virginia	Sophomore	19th
20.	Jacob Wright	Wyoming	Junior	20th

165 pounds

Wt.	Name	School	Year	Previous
1.	Mekhi Lewis	Virginia Tech	Sophomore	1st
2.	Alex Marinelli	Iowa	Senior	2nd
3.	Shane Griffith	Stanford	Sophomore	3rd
4.	Travis Wittlake	Oklahoma State	Sophomore	4th
5.	Anthony Valencia	Arizona State	Senior	5th
6.	Tanner Skidgel	Navy	Senior	6th
7.	Zach Hartman	Bucknell	Junior	7th
8.	Dan Braunagel	Illinois	Sophomore	8th
9.	Ethan Smith	Ohio State	Junior	9th
10.	Keegan O’Toole	Missouri	Freshman	12th
11.	Jake Wentzel	Pittsburgh	Senior	10th
12.	Kennedy Monday	North Carolina	Senior	11th
13.	Andrew Sparks	Minnesota	Freshman	13th
14.	Jake Keating	Virginia	Senior	14th
15.	Thomas Bullard	NC State	Senior	15th
16.	Tanner Cook	South Dakota State	Sophomore	16th
17.	Peyton Robb	Nebraska	Sophomore	17th
18.	Joe Lee	Penn State	RS Freshman	18th
19.	Cameron Amine	Michigan	RS Freshman	19th
20.	William Formato	Appalachian State	Sophomore	NR

174 pounds

Wt.	Name	School	Year	Previous
1.	Michael Kemerer	Iowa	Grad.	1st
2.	Logan Massa	Michigan	Senior	2nd
3.	Mikey Labriola	Nebraska	Junior	3rd
4.	Kaleb Romero	Ohio State	Junior	4th
5.	Demetrius Romero	Utah Valley	Senior	5th
6.	Matt Finesilver	Duke	Junior	6th
7.	Carter Starocci	Penn State	RS Freshman	7th
8.	Daniel Bullard	NC State	Senior	8th
9.	Jacob Oliver	Edinboro	Junior	9th
10.	Devin Kane	North Carolina	Senior	10th
11.	Andrew McNally	Kent State	Senior	11th
12.	Dustin Plott	Oklahoma State	Freshman	13th
13.	Hayden Hastings	Wyoming	Junior	14th
14.	Trey Munoz	Arizona State	RS Freshmen	12th
15.	Sage Heller	Hofstra	Senior	16th
16.	Donnell Washington	Indiana	Freshman	NR
17.	Peyton Mocco	Missouri	Sophomore	NR
18.	Bernie Truax	Cal Poly	Sophomore	NR
19.	Michael O`Malley	Drexel	Sophomore	18th
20.	Thomas Flitz	Appalachian State	Senior	20th

184 pounds

Wt.	Name	School	Year	Previous
1.	Myles Amine	Michigan	Grad	1st
2.	Hunter Bolen	Virginia Tech	Junior	2nd
3.	Aaron Brooks	Penn State	Sophomore	3rd
4	Trent Hidlay	NC State	Sophomore	4th
5.	Lou Deprez	Binghamton	Junior	5th
6	Chris Weiler	Wisconsin	Senior	6th
7.	Parker Keckeisen	Northern Iowa	RS Freshman	7th
8.	Dakota Geer	Oklahoma State	Senior	8th
9.	Brit Wilson	Northern Illinois	Junior	12th
10.	Zach Braunagel	Illinois	Sophomore	9th
11.	Nelson Brands	Iowa	Sophomore	10th
12.	Taylor Venz	Nebraska	Senior	11th
13.	Jeremiah Kent	Missouri	Sophomore	13th
14.	Tanner Harvey	American	Senior	14th
15.	Owen Webster	Minnesota	Grad	17th
16.	Sam Colbray	Iowa State	Senior	16th
17.	Tate Samuelson	Wyoming	Junior	18th
18.	Max Lyon	Purdue	Senior	19th
19.	John Poznanski	Rutgers	Freshman	20th
20.	Rocky Jordan	Ohio State	Sophomore	NR

197 pounds

Wt.	Name	School	Year	Previous
1.	Eric Schultz	Nebraska	Senior	2nd
2.	Noah Adams	West Virginia	Junior	1st
3.	Jacob Warner	Iowa	Junior	3rd
4.	Tanner Sloan	South Dakota State	Sophomore	4th
5.	Nino Bonaccorsi	Pittsburgh	Junior	5th
6.	Jay Aiello	Virginia	Senior	6th
7.	Greg Bulsak	Clarion	Senior	7th
8.	Cameron Caffey	Michigan State	Junior	8th
9.	A.J. Ferrari	Oklahoma State	Freshman	9th
10.	Kordell Norfleet	Arizona State	Junior	11th
11.	Lucas Davison	Northwestern	Sophomore	10th
12.	Stephen Buchanan	Wyoming	Sophomore	14th
13.	Jake Woodley	Oklahoma	Junior	12th
14.	Rocky Elam	Missouri	Freshman	13th
15.	Isaac Trumble	NC State	Freshmen	15th
16.	Michael Beard	Penn State	RS Freshman	17th
17.	Jake Jakobsen	Lehigh	Senior	NR
18.	JT Brown	Army West Point	Junior	16th
19.	Yonger Bastida	Iowa State	Freshman	20th
20.	Jacob Koser	Navy	Sophomore	NR

Heavyweight

Wt.	Name	School	Year	Previous
1.	Gable Steveson	Minnesota	Junior	1st
2.	Mason Parris	Michigan	Junior	2nd
3.	Tony Cassioppi	Iowa	Sophomore	3rd
4.	Matt Stencel	Central Michigan	Senior	4th
5	Gannon Gremmel	Iowa State	Senior	5th
6.	Carter Isley	Northern Iowa	Senior	6th
7.	Jordan Wood	Lehigh	Senior	NR
8.	Tate Orndorff	Ohio State	Junior	7th
9.	Zach Elam	Missouri	Sophomore	8th
10.	Trent Hillger	Wisconsin	Junior	9th
11.	Luke Luffman	Illinois	Sophomore	10th
12.	Seth Nevills	Penn State	Sophomore	11th
13.	Cohlton Schultz	Arizona State	RS Freshman	12th
14	Brian Andrews	Wyoming	Senior	13th
15.	Ethan Laird	Rider	Senior	19th
16.	Christian Lance	Nebraska	Senior	14th
17.	Deonte Wilson	NC State	Junior	16th
18.	Josh Heindselman	Oklahoma	RS Freshman	17th
19.	John Borst	Virginia Tech	Junior	15th
20.	Brandon Metz	North Dakota State	Junior	18th

Nebraska's Eric Schultz take over top spot at 197 in WIN's Feb. 8 rankings

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