Greg Kerkvliet (Penn State) with his arm raised in victory

Greg Kerkvliet of Penn State. Image by Mark Sellers, courtesy of Penn State Athletics

NEWTON, Iowa — There are changes at the top of two weight classes on the NCAA Division I level as Missouri’s Rocky Elam and Penn State’s Greg Kerkvliet are ranked No. 1 at 197 pounds and heavyweight, respectively, in WIN Magazine’s Dec. 5 Weekly Rankings, presented by Cliff Keen Athletic.

Elam, a sophomore, jumped up to the top spot after Penn State’s Max Dean, last year’s defending national champion, lost twice last weekend, to Rider’s Ethan Laird and Lehigh’s Michael Beard in a pair of dual meets. Kerkvliet, a junior, moved to No. 1 after Arizona State’s Cohlton Schultz, last year’s defending national runner-up, lost to South Dakota State’s A.J. Nevills at the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational last weekend.

This means that Penn State, ranked No. 1 in WIN’s Tournament Power Index and Dual Rankings, still has four No. 1 wrestlers, including defending national champs Roman Bravo-Young (133), Carter Starocci (174) and Aaron Brooks (184). The other top-ranked wrestlers by weight include Iowa’s Spencer (125), who had his first appearance of the season for the No. 2-ranked Hawkeyes, Northern Colorado’s Andrew Alirez (141), Cornell’s Yianni Diakomihalis (149), Princeton’s Quincy Monday (157) and Missouri’s Keegan O’Toole (165).

Standing behind Penn State and Iowa in the TPI are Missouri, Iowa State and Cornell.

Each of WIN’s individual rankings releases are a projection of where individuals will finish at next March’s Division I Championships in Tulsa, Okla. WIN’s Tournament Power Index is a total of a team’s possible NCAA points if their wrestlers finished where they are currently ranked. The following is a breakdown of the points from 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.

There are 18 newcomers to this week’s rankings, including three from Nebraska, which won the team title at the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invite: Liam Cronin (16th at 125), Bubba Wilson (17th at 165) and Lenny Pinto (14th at 184). The Cornhusker who made the biggest jump was sophomore Brock Hardy, who moved from No. 19 to No. 4 after he won the 141-pound championship in Las Vegas.

Meanwhile, South Dakota State, which finished third at the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invite, now has six ranked wrestlers as the Jackrabbits added three newcomers to WIN’s individual rankings: Tanner Jordan (14th at 125): Tanner Cook (15th at 165) and Cade King (17th at 184).

WIN will announce one more set of rankings, Dec. 12, before Christmas, and resume its weekly rankings on Jan. 3, following the holiday tournaments.

WIN Magazine’s Dec. 5 Tournament Power Index

Rk.	School	Total Rank		Top 8	TPI Pts
1.	Penn State	7		5	93.5
2.	Iowa	10		5	67.5
3.	Missouri	9		5	65.5
4.	Iowa State	8		5	58.5
5.	Cornell	7		5	54
6.	Arizona State	5		4	49.5
7.	Nebraska	7		3	47.5
8.	Virginia Tech	8		3	43.5
9.	NC State	6		4	43
10.	Michigan		7	3	40
11.	Wisconsin		7	2	39.5
12.	Oklahoma State		8	2	38
13.	Princeton		4	2	38
14.	Pitt		3	3	37.5
15.	Ohio State		8	3	37
16.	Northwestern		5	3	35.5
17.	Minnesota		6	2	32.5
18.	Northern Iowa		7	2	28
19.	North Carolina		4	2	26
20.	Northern Colorado		1	1	20
21.	Stanford		3	1	18.5
22.	West Virginia		2	2	18
23.	Cal Poly		2	1	17.5
24.	Purdue		3	2	14
25.	Harvard		3	1	12.5
26.	Utah Valley		3	1	12
27.	Michigan State		4	1	10.5
28t.	Lehigh		3	1	9.5
28t.	North Dakota State		3	1	9.5
28t.	Oregon State		5	0	9.5
31t.	Air Force		1	1	9
31t.	Appalachian State		1	1	9
33.	South Dakota State		6	0	8.5
34.	Oklahoma		5	0	7.5
35.	Drexel		1	1	6.5
36.	Rutgers		5	0	6
37.	Penn		4	0	5.5
38t.	Lock Haven		2	0	3
38t.	Virginia		2	0	3
38t.	Wyoming		2	0	3
41t.	Binghamton		1	0	2
41t.	Northern Illinois		1	0	2
41t.	Rider		1	0	2
44t.	Columbia		1	0	1.5
44t.	CSU Bakersfield		1	0	1.5
44t.	Indiana		1	0	1.5
47t.	Army		1	0	1
47t.	Campbell		1	0	1
47t.	Chattanooga		1	0	1
47t.	Kent State		1	0	1
47t.	Navy		1	0	1

WIN Magazine’s Dec. 5 Dual Rankings

Rk	School	Record	Prev.	Upcoming
1.	Penn State	(3-0)	1st	vs. Oregon State (Dec. 11)
2.	Iowa	(6-0)	2nd	at Chattanooga (Dec. 10)
3.	Ohio State	(3-0)	3rd	vs. Kent State (Dec. 11)
4.	Arizona State	(2-0)	4th	at Midlands (Dec. 29-30)
5.	Missouri	(2-1)	5th	at Virginia Tech (Dec. 11)
6.	Iowa State	(5-1)	7th	vs. Oregon St/Cornell/tba New Orleans (Dec. 19-20)
7.	Michigan	(3-0)	6th	at Cal Poly (Jan. 6)
8.	NC State	(5-0)	9th	vs. Cal Poly/Lehigh/tba New Orleans (Dec. 19-20)
9.	Minnesota	(4-0)	11th	at North Dakota State (Dec. 9)
10.	Oklahoma State	(3-1)	8th	at Oklahoma (Dec. 11)
11.	Virginia Tech	(0-1)	10th	vs. Missouri (Dec. 11)
12.	Wisconsin	(5-1)	12th	vs. Drexel (Dec. 11)
13.	Northwestern	(1-0)	13th	at Midlands (Dec. 29-30)
14.	Nebraska	(1-2)	17th	at South Dakota State (Dec. 18)
15.	Cornell	(0-1)	14th	vs. Oregon St/Iowa St/tba New Orleans (Dec. 19-20)
16.	Rutgers	(5-1)	19th	at Princeton (Dec. 11)
17.	North Carolina	(1-2)	15th	vs. Appalachian State (Dec. 15)
18.	North Dakota State	(2-0)	18th	vs. Minnesota (Dec. 9) vs. Buffalo (Dec. 11)
19.	Penn	(0-3)	16th	vs. Army (Dec. 9)
20.	Northern Iowa	(0-0)	20th	UNI Open (Dec. 10)
21.	Lehigh	(3-3)	21st	vs. Cal Poly/NC State/tba New Orleans (Dec. 19-20)
22.	Pittsburgh	(3-1)	22nd	at Brown (Dec. 9), at Columbia (Dec. 11)
23.	Oklahoma	(2-1)	23rd	vs. Oklahoma State (Dec. 11)
24	Cal Poly	(1-0)	24th	vs. Minnesota & Lindenwood (Dec. 11)
25	Oregon State	(2-1)	25th	at Penn State (Dec. 11)

WIN Magazine’s Dec. 5 NCAA Div. I Individual Rankings

125 pounds

Wt	Name	School	Year	Previous
125-1	Spencer Lee	Iowa	Sr	1st
125-2	Pat Glory	Princeton	Sr.	2nd
125-3	Pat McKee	Minnesota	Sr.	4th
125-4	Michael DeAugustino	Northwestern	Sr.	3rd
125-5	Richard Figueroa	Arizona State	So.	NR
125-6	Killian Cardinale	West Virginia	Sr.	7th
125-7	Eric Barnett	Wisconsin	Sr.	8th
125-8	Matt Ramos	Purdue	So.	10th
125-9	Trevor Mastrogiovanni	Oklahoma State	Jr.	9th
125-10	Brandon Kaylor	Oregon State	Jr.	6th
125-11	Noah Surtin	Missouri	So.	12th
125-12	Anthony Noto	Lock Haven	So.	14th
125-13	Malik Heinselman	Ohio State	Sr.	11th
125-14	Tanner Jordan	South Dakota State	Jr.	NR
125-15	Joey Prata	Oklahoma	Gr.	15th
125-16	Liam Cronin	Nebraska	Gr.	NR
125-17	Eddie Ventresca	Virginia Tech	RSFr.	17th
125-18	Dylan Shawver	Rutgers	So.	18th
125-19	Kysen Terukina	Iowa State	Jr.	16th
125-20	Ryan Miller	Penn	So.	20th

133 pounds

Wt	Name	School	Year	Previous
133-1	Roman Bravo-Young	Penn State	Gr.	1st
133-2	Daton Fix	Oklahoma State	Sr.	2nd
133-3	Vito Arujau	Cornell	Jr.	3rd
133-4	Michael McGee	Arizona State	Sr.	5th
133-5	Lucas Byrd	Illinois	So.	4th
133-6	Micky Phillippi	Pitt	Sr.	10th
133-7	Kyle Biscoglia	Northern Iowa	Jr.	16th
133-8	RayVon Foley	Michigan State	Gr.	9th
133-9	Jason Shaner	Oregon State	Sr.	NR
133-10	Dylan Ragusin	Michigan	So.	6th
133-11	Sam Latona	Virginia Tech	So.	8th
133-12	Jesse Mendez	Ohio State	Fr.	12th
133-13	Haiden Drury	Utah Valley	So.	13th
133-14	Ramazan Attasauov	Iowa State	Jr.	NR
133-15	Brody Teske	Iowa	Jr.	15th
133-16	Chance Rich	CSU Bakersfield	Jr.	NR
133-17	Chris Cannon	Northwestern	Jr.	7th
133-18	Joe Heilmann	Rutgers	Jr.	18th
133-19	Michael Colaiocco	Penn	Jr.	11th
133-20	Connor McGonagle	Lehigh	Jr.	19th

141 pounds

Wt	Name	School	Year	Previous
141-1	Andrew Alirez	Northern Colorado	Jr.	1st
141-2	Cole Matthews	Pitt	Sr.	2nd
141-3	Real Woods	Iowa	Sr.	3rd
141-4	Brock Hardy	Nebraska	So.	19th
141-5	Ryan Jack	NC State	So.	6th
141-6	Casey Swiderski	Iowa State	Fr.	7th
141-7	Dylan Droegemueller	North Dakota State	Sr.	8th
141-8	Allan Hart	Missouri	Sr.	9th
141-9	Jakob Bergeland	Minnesota	Gr.	4th
141-10	Frankie Tal Shahar	Northwestern	Jr.	10th
141-11	Beau Bartlett	Penn State	Jr.	11th
141-12	Joseph Zargo	Wisconsin	So.	15th
141-13	Cael Happel	Northern Iowa	So.	NR
141-14	Carter Young	Oklahoma State	So.	NR
141-15	Clay Carlson	South Dakota State	Sr.	12th
141-16	Tom Crook	Virginia Tech	Fr.	16th
141-17	Sammy Alvarez	Rutgers	Jr.	17th
141-18	Mosha Schwartz	Oklahoma	Jr.	18th
141-19	Cole Mattin	Michigan	Jr.	13th
141-20	Vince Cornella	Cornell	Fr.	14th

149 pounds

Wt	Name	School	Year	Previous
149-1	Yianni Diakomihalis	Cornell	Sr.	1st
149-2	Austin Gomez	Wisconsin	Sr.	3rd
149-2	Sammy Sasso	Ohio State	Sr.	4th
149-4	Kyle Parco	Arizona State	So.	5th
149-5	Yahya Thomas	Northwestern	Gr.	8th
149-6	Jon Millner	Appalachian State	Sr.	2nd
149-7	Brock Mauler	Missouri	Jr.	6th
149-8	Paniro Johnson	Iowa State	Fr.	13th
149-9	Max Murin	Iowa	Sr.	7th
149-10	Mitch Moore	Oklahoma	Gr.	9th
149-11	Doug Zapf	Penn	Sr.	10th
149-12	Caleb Henson	Virginia Tech	Fr.	11th
149-13	Michael Blockhus	Minnesota	Sr.	12th
149-14	Dom Demas	Cal Poly	Sr.	14th
149-15	Jaden Abas	Stanford	Jr.	15th
148-16	Shayne Van Ness	Penn State	RSFr.	17th
149-17	Jackson Arrington	NC State	Fr.	18th
149-18	Jarod Verkleeren	Virginia	Gr.	19th
149-19	Zach Sherman	North Carolina	Gr.	20th
149-20	Chance Lamer	Michigan	RSFr.	NR

157 pounds

Wt	Name	School	Year	Previous
157-1	Quincy Monday	Princeton	Sr.	1st
157-2	Peyton Robb	Nebraska	Jr.	3rd
157-3	Austin O’Connor	North Carolina	Gr.	4th
157-4	Brayton Lee	Minnesota	Sr.	2nd
157-5	Bryan Andonian	Virginia Tech	Sr.	5th
157-6	Ed Scott	NC State	So.	11th
157-7	Kendell Coleman	Purdue	Sr.	9th
157-8	Will Lewan	Michigan	Sr.	6th
157-9	Josh Humphreys	Lehigh	Sr.	7th
157-10	Jared Franek	North Dakota State	Sr.	8th
157-11	Kaden Gfeller	Oklahoma State	Sr.	14th
157-12	Jarrett Jacques	Missouri	Sr.	10th
157-13	Anthony Artalona	Penn	Sr.	12th
157-14	Jacob Wright	Wyoming	Gr.	13th
157-15	Chase Saldate	Michigan State	Jr.	15th
157-16	Garrett Model	Wisconsin	Gr.	16th
157-17	Derek Holschlag	Northern Iowa	Sr.	17th
157-18	Paddy Gallagher	Ohio State	RSFr.	18th
157-19	Daniel Cardenas	Stanford	Fr.	19th
157-20	Cobe Siebrecht	Iowa	Jr.	20th

165 pounds

Wt	Name	School	Year	Previous
165-1	Keegan O’Toole	Missouri	So.	1st
165-2	Shane Griffith	Stanford	Sr.	2nd
165-3	David Carr	Iowa State	Sr.	3rd
165-4	Cameron Amine	Michigan	Jr.	4th
165-5	Dean Hamiti	Wisconsin	So.	5th
165-6	Peyton Hall	West Virginia	Jr.	7th
165-7	Carson Kharchla	Ohio State	Jr.	6th
165-8	Julian Ramirez	Cornell	So.	8th
165-9	Justin McCoy	Virginia	Sr.	9th
165-10	Izzak Olenjnik	Northern Illinois	Sr.	10th
165-11	Austin Yant	Northern Iowa	Sr.	11th
165-12	Matt Olguin	Oregon State	So.	14th
165-13	Josh Ogunsanya	Columbia	Jr.	13th
165-14	Patrick Kennedy	Iowa	So.	15th
165-15	Tanner Cook	South Dakota State	Jr.	NR
165-16	Wyatt Sheets	Oklahoma State	Gr.	12th
165-17	Bubba Wilson	Nebraska	So.	NR
165-18	Dan Braunagel	Illinois	Jr.	20th
165-19	Michael Calliendo	North Dakota State	RSFr.	19th
165-20	Enrique Munguia	Kent State	So.	16th

174 pounds

Wt	Name	School	Year	Previous
174-1	Carter Starocci	Penn State	Jr.	1st
174-2	Mekhi Lewis	Virginia Tech	Sr.	2nd
174-3	Mickey Labriola	Nebraska	Sr.	4th
174-4	Dustin Plott	Oklahoma State	Jr.	3rd
174-5	Clay Lautt	North Carolina	Gr.	5th
174-6	Demetrius Romero	Utah Valley	Sr.	6th
174-7	Michael O’Malley	Drexel	Sr.	7th
174-8	Chris Foca	Cornell	Jr.	15th
174-9	Ethan Smith	Ohio State	Sr.	8th
174-10	Peyton Mocco	Missouri	Jr.	10th
174-11	Philip Conigliaro	Harvard	Jr.	11th
174-12	Lance Runyon	Northern Iowa	So.	12th
174-13	Donnell Washington	Indiana	Jr.	13th
174-14	Hayden Hastings	Wyoming	Gr.	9th
174-15	Darrion Roberts	Oklahoma	Sr.	16th
174-16	Edmond Ruth	Illinois	So.	17th
174-17	Jackson Turley	Rutgers	Jr.	14th
174-18	Ben Pasiuk	Army	Jr.	18th
174-19	Nelson Brands	Iowa	Sr.	19th
174-20	Rocky Jordan	Chattanooga	Sr.	20th

184 pounds

Wt	Name	School	Year	Previous
184-1	Aaron Brooks	Penn State	Sr.	1st
184-2	Trent Hidlay	NC State	Jr.	2nd
184-3	Parker Keckeisen	Northern Iowa	So.	3rd
184-4	Marcus Coleman	Iowa State	Sr.	5th
184-5	Hunter Bolen	Virginia Tech	Sr.	8th
184-6	Kaleb Romero	Ohio State	Sr.	4th
184-7	Jonathan Loew	Cornell	Sr.	6th
184-8	Abe Assad	Iowa	Jr.	10th
184-9	Matt Finesilver	Michigan	Gr.	11th
184-10	Brian Soldano	Rutgers	Fr.	12th
184-11	Layne Malczewski	Michigan State	Sr.	13th
184-12	Isaiah Salazar	Minnesota	Jr.	15th
184-13	Travis Wittlake	Oklahoma State	Sr.	9th
184-14	Lenny Pinto	Nebraska	RSFr.	NR
184-15	Trey Munoz	Oregon State	So.	7th
184-16	Gavin Kane	North Carolina	So.	14th
184-17	Cade King	South Dakota State	Sr.	NR
184-18	Travis Stefanik	Princeton	Sr.	16th
184-19	Anthony Montalvo	Arizona State	Jr.	18th
184-20	Sean Harman	Missouri	So.	19th

197 pounds

Wt	Name	School	Year	Previous
197-1	Rocky Elam	Missouri	So.	4th
197-2	Bernie Truax	Cal Poly	Jr.	3rd
197-3	Yonger Bastida	Iowa State	Jr.	6th
197-4	Nino Bonaccorsi	Pitt	Sr.	7th
197-5	Max Dean	Penn State	Sr.	1st
197-6	Jacob Warner	Iowa	Sr.	5th
197-7	Michael Beard	Lehigh	So.	9th
197-8	Isaac Trumble	NC State	Jr.	10th
197-9	Ethan Laird	Rider	Sr.	15th
197-10	Lou DePrez	Binghamton	Gr.	8th
197-11	Tanner Harvey	Oregon State	Gr.	NR
197-12	Thomas Penola	Purdue	Sr.	12th
197-13	Braxton Amos	Wisconsin	So.	14th
197-14	Evan Bockman	Utah Valley	So.	NR
197-15	Silas Allred	Nebraska	So.	20th
197-16	Cameron Caffey	Michigan State	Gr.	18th
197-17	Tanner Sloan	South Dakota State	Sr.	11th
197-18	Luke Stout	Princeton	So.	NR
197-19	Michial Foy	Minnesota	Gr.	NR
197-20	Luke Surber	Oklahoma State	Jr.	17th

Heavyweight

Wt	Name	School	Year	Previous
Hwt-1	Greg Kerkvliet	Penn State	Jr.	2nd
Hwt-2	Mason Parris	Michigan	Sr.	3rd
Hwt-3	Cohlton Schultz	Arizona State	So.	1st
Hwt-4	Tony Cassioppi	Iowa	Sr.	4th
Hwt-5	Lucas Davison	Northwestern	Sr.	5th
Hwt-6	Wyatt Hendrickson	Air Force	Jr.	6th
Hwt-7	Zach Elam	Missouri	Jr.	7th
Hwt-8	Yaraslau Slavikouski	Harvard	Sr.	13th
Hwt-9	Sam Schuyler	Iowa State	Sr.	9th
Hwt-10	Trent Hillger	Wisconsin	Gr.	10th
Hwt-11	AJ Nevills	South Dakota State	Gr.	12th
Hwt-12	Lewis Fernandes	Cornell	Jr.	11th
Hwt-8	Tate Orndorff	Ohio State	Sr.	8th
Hwt-14	Josh Heindselman	Oklahoma	Jr.	14th
Hwt-15	Owen Trephan	NC State	So.	NR
Hwt-16	Tyrell Gordon	Northern Iowa	Jr.	NR
Hwt-17	Isaac Reid	Lock Haven	Jr.	17th
Hwt-18	Taye Ghadali	Campbell	Jr.	18th
Hwt-19	Grady Griess	Navy	Jr.	19th
Hwt-20	Hunter Catka	Virginia Tech	So.	20th

Kerkvliet and Elam now No. 1 in WIN rankings; Penn State and Iowa are 1-2 in TPI

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