NEWTON, IOWA — Iowa’s Alex Marinelli and Virginia Tech’s Hunter Bolen have taken over the top spots at 165 pounds and 184 pounds, respectively, in WIN Magazine’s Feb. 15 NCAA Division I rankings, based on action that happened last week.

With Marinelli moving up, the Hawkeyes — who were put on a COVID pause and were unable to compete last weekend — now have four wrestlers ranked No. 1 among the ten weight classes; joining Spencer Lee (125), Jaydin Eierman (149) and Michael Kemerer (174). With these changes, Iowa has increased its lead in WIN’s Tournament Power Index with 144 points. Overall, Iowa, which also ranks No. 1 in WIN’s Dual Team rankings with a 5-0 record, feature 10 ranked wrestlers, including nine in the Top 8 of their weight class.

Bolen moves into the top spot at 184 after Michigan’s top-ranked Myles Amine weighed in and competed at 197 pounds this past weekend in the team’s dual against Penn State. Amine, having already qualified for the Olympic Games for San Marino at 189 pounds, likely is preparing his body for Olympic preparation training while also wrestling the collegiate season.

The TPI suggests how many NCAA points that a school could produce in the 2021 national tournament that will take place March 18-20 in St. Louis, Mo. 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.

The other five top-ranked wrestlers include Oklahoma State’s Daton Fix (133), North Carolina’s Austin O’Connor (149), Northwestern’s Ryan Deakin (157), Nebraska’s Eric Schultz (197) and Minnesota’s Gable Steveson (Hwt).

Nebraska, which features seven ranked wrestlers and four in the Top 8, has moved into No. 2 in the TPI with 65.5 points; just edging Penn State that has nine ranked wrestlers, four in the Top 8, for 65 points.

The Nittany Lions, coming off an 18-13 road victory over Michigan is in second place in WIN’s dual-team rankings.

Meanwhile, less than six points separate the next five schools in WIN’s TPI as Arizona State, fresh off a pair of wins over Iowa State and Northern Iowa, is ranked No. 4 with 57 points. The Sun Devils are followed by No. 5 NC State (54), No. 6 Oklahoma State (53.5), Virginia Tech (53) and Michigan (51.5).

Seven wrestlers are new to this week’s WIN rankings: Virginia’s Michael Battista (184) and Quinn Miller (Hwt); Iowa State’s Zach Redding (133), Army’s P.J. Ogunsanya (149), Northern Illinois’ Mason Kaufmann (174), North Carolina’s Clay Lautt (174) and Campbell’s Austin Murphy (174).

WIN Magazine’s Feb. 15, 2021 Tournament Power Index (TPI)

Rk.	School	Total Rank	Top 8	TPI Pts
1.	Iowa	10	9	144
2.	Nebraska	7	4	65.5
3.	Penn State	9	4	65
4.	Arizona State	8	5	57
5.	NC State	9	5	54
6.	Oklahoma State	8	3	53.5
7.	Virginia Tech	6	4	53
8.	Michigan	7	4	51.5
9.	Iowa State	7	4	41.5
10.	Missouri	9	3	39.5
11.	Ohio State	6	2	36
12.	Minnesota	5	2	34.5
13t.	Central Michigan	3	2	30
13t.	Northwestern	5	2	30
15.	North Carolina	6	1	28.5
16.	Pitt	4	2	26
17t.	Northern Illinois	4	3	23.5
17t.	Rutgers	3	2	23.5
19.	Illinois	7	2	20.5
20.	Stanford	3	1	18.5
21.	South Dakota State	4	1	18
22.	Rider	2	1	14
23t.	Binghamton	2	1	13.5
23t.	Lehigh	4	2	13.5
25.	Wyoming	5	1	13
26.	Oklahoma	5	1	12
27t.	Northern Colorado	2	1	11.5
27t.	Purdue	4	1	11.5
29t.	Navy	2	1	11
29t.	Utah Valley	2	1	11
29t.	Wisconsin	2	1	11
32.	Virginia	7	9	9.5
33t.	Bucknell	2	1	7.5
33t.	Northern Illinois	2	1	7.5
35t.	Duke	1	1	6.5
35t.	West Virginia	2	1	6.5
37t.	Appalachian State	3	0	4.5
37t.	Indiana	3	0	4.5
39.	Michigan State	2	0	4
40.	Army West Point	3	0	3
41t.	American U.	2	0	2.5
41t.	Oregon State	2	0	2.5
43t.	Campbell	2	0	2
43t.	Clarion	1	0	2
43t.	Fresno State	1	0	2
46t.	Cal Poly	1	0	1.5
46t.	North Dakota State	1	0	1.5
48t.	Buffalo	1	0	1
48t.	Chattanooga	1	0	1
48t.	Drexel	1	0	1
48t.	Ohio	1	0	1

WIN Magazine’s Feb. 15, 2021 Team Dual Rankings

Rk.	School	W-L	Previous	Upcoming Action
1.	Iowa	5-0	1^st	vs. Northwestern (2/19); at Wisconsin (2/21)
2.	Penn State	4-0	2^nd	at Ohio State (2/19); Maryland (2/22)
3.	Michigan	4-1	3^rd	at Michigan State (2/19)
4.	Oklahoma State	9-0	4^th	vs Oklahoma (2/21)
5.	Missouri	10-0	5^th	off until Feb. 26-27 MAC Tournament
6.	Nebraska	6-1	6^th	at Illinois (2/21)
7.	Virginia Tech	9-0	7^th	off until Feb. 28 ACC Tournament
8.	NC State	6-1	8^th	off until Feb. 28 ACC Tournament
9.	Arizona State	6-0	9^th	off until Feb. 28 Pac-12 Tournament
10	Minnesota	6-2	10^th	vs Northwestern (2/21)
11.	Illinois	5-2	11^th	vs. Nebraska (2/21)
12.	Ohio State	5-3	12^th	vs. Penn State (2/19)
13.	Iowa State	9-3	13^th	at West Virginia (2/19)
14.	North Carolina	5-2	14^th`	off until Feb. 28 ACC Tournament
15.	Navy	5-1	15^th	off until Feb. 26 EIWA Tournament
16.	Pitt	3-4	16^th	off until Feb. 28 ACC Tournament
17.	Wisconsin	1-6	17^th	vs. Iowa (2/21)
18.	Purdue	3-5	18^th	vs. Indiana (2/22)
19.	Northern Iowa	4-4	19^th	off until March 6-7 Big Ten Tournament
20.	Oklahoma	5-4	20^th	at Oklahoma State (2/21)
21.	Rutgers	0-4	21^st	at Maryland (2/19)
22.	Northwestern	2-5	22^nd	at Iowa (2/19); at Minnesota (2/21)
23.	Virginia	3-3	23^rd	off until Feb. 28 ACC Tournament
24.	Michigan State	2-4	24^th	vs. Michigan (2/19)
25.	Binghamton	3-1	25^th	off until Feb. 26 EIWA Tournament

WIN Magazine’s Feb. 15, 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	3rd
4.	Liam Cronin	Nebraska	Senior	5th
5.	Sam Latona	Virginia Tech	RS Freshman	6th
6.	Jakob Camacho	NC State	Sophomore	7th
7.	Michael DeAugustino	Northwestern	Sophomore	4th
8	Brody Teske	Northern Iowa	RS Freshman	9th
9.	Dylan Ragusin	Michigan	Freshman	8th
10.	Malik Heinselman	Ohio State	Junior	12th
11.	Rayvon Foley	Michigan State	Junior	13th
12.	Patrick McKee	Minnesota	Sophomore	10th
13.	Justin Cardani	Illinois	Sophomore	14th
14.	Devin Schroder	Purdue	Senior	11th
15.	Jaret Lane	Lehigh	Junior	17th
16.	Brock Hudkins	Indiana	Senior	18th
17.	Taylor Lamont	Utah Valley	Junior	15th
18.	Connor Brown	Missouri	Junior	19th
19.	Cage Curry	American U.	Senior	20th
20.	Trevor Mastrogiovanni	Oklahoma State	Freshman	16th

133 pounds

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

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	5th
6.	Ian Parker	Iowa State	Senior	6th
7.	Dom Demas	Oklahoma	Junior	7th
8.	Tariq Wilson	NC State	Senior	8th
9.	Zachary Sherman	North Carolina	Junior	9th
10.	Dylan Duncan	Illinois	Senior	10th
11.	Cody Trybus	Navy	Senior	11th
12.	D.J. Loren	Fresno State	Senior	12th
13.	Grant Willits	Oregon State	Junior	13th
14.	Brian Courtney	Virginia	Junior	14th
15.	Cole Matthews	Pittsburgh	Sophomore	15th
16.	Dresden Simon	Central Michigan	Senior	16th
17.	Pete Lipari	Arizona State	Senior	17th
18.	Derek Spann	Buffalo	Senior	18th
19.	Zach Trampe	Binghamton	Senior	19th
20.	Clay Carlson	South Dakota State	Sophomore	20th

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.	Andrew Alirez	Northern Colorado	Sophomore	6th
6.	Max Murin	Iowa	Junior	7th
7.	Jarrett Degen	Iowa State	Senior	5th
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.	Tanner Smith	Chattanooga	Junior	20th
20.	P.J. Ogunsanya	Army	Junior	NR

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	9th
10.	Jarrett Jacques	Missouri	Junior	13th
11.	Brady Berge	Penn State	Junior	14th
12.	Will Lewan	Michigan	Sophomore	11th
13.	Jacori Teemer	Arizona State	Sophomore	12th
14.	Jared Franek	North Dakota State	Sophomore	15th
15.	Jacob Wright	Wyoming	Junior	20th
16.	Wyatt Sheets	Oklahoma State	Junior	10th
17.	Hunter Willits	Oregon State	Junior	16th
18.	Requir Van der Merwe	Stanford	Senior	17th
19.	Markus Hartman	Army West Point	Junior	18th
20.	Justin McCoy	Virginia	Sophomore	19th

165 pounds

Wt.	Name	School	Year	Previous
1.	Alex Marinelli	Iowa	Senior	2nd
2.	Shane Griffith	Stanford	Sophomore	3rd
3.	Mekhi Lewis	Virginia Tech	Sophomore	1st
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	10th
11.	Jake Wentzel	Pittsburgh	Senior	11th
12.	Andrew Sparks	Minnesota	Freshman	13th
13.	Jake Keating	Virginia	Senior	14th
14.	Kennedy Monday	North Carolina	Senior	12th
15.	Thomas Bullard	NC State	Senior	15th
16.	Tanner Cook	South Dakota State	Sophomore	16th
17.	Peyton Robb	Nebraska	Sophomore	17th
18.	Cameron Amine	Michigan	RS Freshman	19th
19.	Joe Lee	Penn State	RS Freshman	18th
20.	William Formato	Appalachian State	Sophomore	20th

174 pounds

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

184 pounds

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

197 pounds

Wt.	Name	School	Year	Previous
1.	Eric Schultz	Nebraska	Senior	1st
2.	Jacob Warner	Iowa	Junior	3rd
3.	Tanner Sloan	South Dakota State	Sophomore	4th
4.	Myles Amine	Michigan	Grad	1^st/184
5.	Nino Bonaccorsi	Pittsburgh	Junior	5th
6.	Kordell Norfleet	Arizona State	Junior	10th
7.	Stephen Buchanan	Wyoming	Sophomore	12th
8.	Noah Adams	West Virginia	Junior	2nd
9.	Jay Aiello	Virginia	Senior	6th
10.	Greg Bulsak	Clarion	Senior	7th
11.	Cameron Caffey	Michigan State	Junior	8th
12.	A.J. Ferrari	Oklahoma State	Freshman	9th
13.	Lucas Davison	Northwestern	Sophomore	11th
14.	Jake Woodley	Oklahoma	Junior	13th
15.	Rocky Elam	Missouri	Freshman	14th
16.	Michael Beard	Penn State	RS Freshman	16th
17.	Jake Jakobsen	Lehigh	Senior	17th
18.	JT Brown	Army West Point	Junior	18th
19.	Isaac Trumble	NC State	Freshmen	15th
20.	Yonger Bastida	Iowa State	Freshman	19th

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.	Cohlton Schultz	Arizona State	RS Freshman	13th
6	Gannon Gremmel	Iowa State	Senior	5th
7.	Carter Isley	Northern Iowa	Senior	6th
8.	Jordan Wood	Lehigh	Senior	7th
9.	Trent Hillger	Wisconsin	Junior	10th
10.	Zach Elam	Missouri	Sophomore	9th
11.	Luke Luffman	Illinois	Sophomore	11th
12.	Seth Nevills	Penn State	Sophomore	12th
13.	Tate Orndorff	Ohio State	Junior	8th
14	Brian Andrews	Wyoming	Senior	14th
15.	Ethan Laird	Rider	Senior	15th
16.	Christian Lance	Nebraska	Senior	16th
17.	Deonte Wilson	NC State	Junior	17th
18.	Josh Heindselman	Oklahoma	RS Freshman	18th
19.	John Borst	Virginia Tech	Junior	19th
20.	Quinn Miller	Virginia	Junior	NR

Marinelli & Bolen new No. 1s in WIN rankings; Nebraska moves up to No. 2 in TPI

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