Liam Cronin (Nebraska) tosses Michael DeAugustino (Northwestern).

Liam Cronin (Nebraska) tosses Michael DeAugustino (Northwestern). Photo by Mark Lundy, LutteLens

NEWTON — A trio of wrestlers — Nebraska’s Liam Cronin, Virginia Tech’s Caleb Henson and Penn State’s Levi Haines — have all moved into the Top-10 of their weight class in WIN Magazine’s Jan. 16 Rankings, presented by Cliff Keen Athletic.

Cronin (13-2 as of Jan. 15) is a senior who jumped from 12th to 7th at 125 pounds after the Husker defeated both Minnesota’s Pat McKee and Northwestern’s Michael DeAugustino last weekend. Henson (14-3), a freshman, moved from 12th to 8th at 149 pounds, after he defeated Appalachian State All-American Jon Millner last Friday. Haines, also a freshman, jumped sixth spots from No. 15 to No. 9 at 157 and has a record of 13-1; his last victory coming over Wisconsin’s Garrett Model on Jan. 6.

Overall, Penn State (8-0) remains the No. 1 team in both WIN’s Dual Rankings and Tournament Power Index, which projects where a team will finish in this season’s NCAA Division I Championships, March 16-18, in Tulsa, Okla. The Nittany Lions feature nine ranked wrestlers — including top-ranked Roman Bravo-Young (133), Carter Starocci (174), Aaron Brooks (184) and Greg Kerkvliet (Hwt) — for 103.5 TPI points.

Iowa (10-0), Iowa State (10-2), Ohio State (8-1) and Missouri (5-2) are ranked second through fifth, respectively, in WIN’s Dual Rankings. In the TPI, the next four schools behind the Nittany Lions are Missouri (71.5 points), Iowa (63.5), Cornell (62) and Iowa State (57.5).

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.

The other No. 1-ranked wrestlers are Spencer Lee (Iowa, 125), Andrew Alirez (Northern Colorado, 141), Yianni Diakomihalis (Cornell, 149), Peyton Robb (Nebraska, 157), Keegan O’Toole (Missouri, 165) and Rocky Elam (Missouri, 197).

Moving into WIN’s weekly rankings this week were Michigan’s Jack Medley (13th at 125), Appalachian State’s Caleb Smith (20th at 125), Minnesota’s Aaron Nagao (17th at 133), Columbia’s Angelo Rini (20th at 141) and Josh Ogunsanya (20th at 165), Stanford’s Tyler Eischens (19th at 174) and Oklahoma’s Keegan Moore (19th at 184).

Among the notable match-ups this weekend, Penn State will play host to Michigan (6th in dual rankings and tied for 10th in the TPI) on Jan. 20, and NC State (7th in Dual and ninth in TPI) will travel to Virginia Tech (10th/7th) this Friday. The Penn State-Michigan dual will feature a matchup between No. 1 Kerkvliet and No. 2 Mason Parris. One of the bigger bouts in the ACC rivalry will come at 184 pounds, where NC State’s No. 3 Trent Hidlay battles Virginia Tech’s No. 5 Hunter Bolen.

WIN Magazine’s Jan. 16 Tournament Power Index

Rk.	School	Total Rank	Top 8	TPI Pts
1.	Penn State	9	6	103.5
2.	Missouri	8	6	71.5
3.	Iowa	9	4	63.5
4.	Cornell	8	5	62
5.	Iowa State	7	5	57
6.	Nebraska	6	4	55
7.	Virginia Tech	6	5	51.5
8.	Arizona State	5	4	43
9.	NC State	7	4	40
10t.	Michigan	7	3	38
10t.	Wisconsin	5	3	38
12.	Pitt	3	3	37
13.	Ohio State	7	3	35.5
14.	Northwestern	6	2	32
15.	Princeton	2	2	29.5
16t.	Northern Iowa	8	1	28.5
16t.	Oklahoma State	6	2	28.5
17.	Minnesota	7	1	21.5
18t.	North Carolina	4	1	21
18t.	North Dakota State	6	1	21
20.	Northern Colorado	1	1	20
21t.	Illinois	5	2	19.5
21t.	Lehigh	3	2	19.5
23.	West Virginia	2	2	19
24.	Purdue	2	2	18
25.	Stanford	5	1	17
26.	Cal Poly	1	0	16
27t.	Oregon State	4	1	10.5
27t.	South Dakota State	7	0	10.5
29.	Drexel	1	1	10
30.	Air Force	1	1	9
31.	Harvard	2	1	7.5
32.	Oklahoma	5	0	6
33t.	Michigan State	4	0	5.5
33t.	Penn	4	0	5.5
33t.	Utah Valley	3	0	5.5
36.	Rutgers	3	0	4
37t.	Appalachian State	2	0	3
37t	Chattanooga	2	0	3
37t	Rider	2	0	3
40.	Campbell	2	0	2.5
41t.	Binghamton	1	0	2
41t.	Columbia	2	0	2
41t.	Lock Haven	1	0	2
44t.	Bucknell	1	0	1.5
44t.	CSU Bakersfield	1	0	1.5
44t.	Northern Illinois	1	0	1.5
44t.	Wyoming	1	0	1.5
48t.	Navy	1	0	1
48t.	SIU-Edwardsville	1	0	1
48t.	Virginia	1	0	1

WIN Magazine’s Jan. 16 Dual Rankings

Rk	School	Record	Prev.	Upcoming
1.	Penn State	(8-0)	1st	vs. Michigan (Jan. 20)
2.	Iowa	(10-0)	2nd	vs. Nebraska (Jan. 20)/at Wisconsin (Jan. 22)
3.	Iowa State	(10-2)	3rd	off until Jan. 27 vs. Oklahoma/Jan. 29 vs., Okla. St.
4.	Ohio State	(8-1)	4th	at Maryland (Jan. 20)
5.	Missouri	(5-2)	5th	off until Feb. 3 at Oklahoma/Feb. 5 at Okla. St.
6.	Michigan	(7-0)	6th	at Penn State (Jan. 20)/at Rutgers (Jan. 22)
7.	NC State	(10-0)	7th	at Virginia Tech (Jan. 20)
8.	Northern Iowa	(4-2)	8th	off until Jan. 28 vs. Okla. St./Jan. 29 vs Oklahoma
9.	Cornell	(5-2)	9th	at Brown & Harvard (Jan. 21)
10.	Virginia Tech	(5-2)	11th	at NC State (Jan. 20)
11.	Northwestern	(2-2)	12th	vs. Illinois (Jan. 20)
12.	Minnesota	(8-2)	13th	vs. Indiana (Jan. 20)/vs. Purdue (Jan. 22)
13.	Oklahoma State	(6-1)	14th	vs. Northern Colorado (Jan. 20)/vs. WVU (Jan. 22)
14.	Nebraska	(6-2)	15th	at Iowa (Jan. 20)
15.	North Dakota State	(6-2)	16th	vs. Wyoming (Jan. 21)/vs. Utah Valley (Jan. 22)
16.	Illinois	(4-3)	17th	at Northwestern (Jan. 20)/vs. Maryland (Jan. 22)
17.	Wisconsin	(6-3)	18th	vs. Purdue (Jan. 20)/vs. Iowa. (Jan. 22)
18.	Appalachian State	(5-2)	20th	at VMI (Jan. 20)
19.	West Virginia	(7-1)	23rd	at Oklahoma (Jan. 20)/at Okla. St. (Jan. 22)
20.	Lehigh	(5-6)	21st	at Penn (Jan. 20)/at Navy (Jan. 21)
21.	Oregon State	(5-5)	NR	off until Jan. 29 (vs. CSU Bakersfield)
22.	Arizona State	(2-3)	10th	vs. Cal Poly (Jan. 20)/at Stanford (Jan. 22)
23.	Pittsburgh	(6-2)	25th	at Virginia (Jan. 20)
24.	Stanford	(3-3)	NR	vs. Arizona State (Jan. 22)
25.	Penn	(2-4)	22nd	vs. Lehigh (Jan. 20)/at Columbia (Jan. 22)

WIN Magazine’s Jan. 16 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	Killian Cardinale	West Virginia	Sr.	6th
125-4	Pat McKee	Minnesota	Sr.	3rd
125-5	Eric Barnett	Wisconsin	Sr.	5th
125-6	Brandon Courtney	Arizona State	Sr.	NR
125-7	Liam Cronin	Nebraska	Gr.	12th
125-8	Matt Ramos	Purdue	So.	8th
125-9	Michael DeAugustino	Northwestern	Sr.	4th
125-10	Malik Heinselman	Ohio State	Sr.	10th
125-11	Anthony Noto	Lock Haven	So.	11th
125-12	Noah Surtin	Missouri	So.	9th
125-13	Jack Medley	Michigan	Gr.	NR
125-14	Brandon Kaylor	Oregon State	Jr.	14th
125-15	Brett Ungar	Cornell	Fr.	17th
125-16	Dean Peterson	Rutgers	RSFr.	20th
125-17	Tanner Jordan	South Dakota State	Jr.	16th
125-18	Nico Provo	Stanford	Fr.	18th
125-19	Trevor Mastrogiovanni	Oklahoma State	Jr.	13th
125-20	Caleb Smith	Appalachian State	So.	NR

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.	4th
133-5	Micky Phillippi	Pitt	Sr.	5th
133-6	Sam Latona	Virginia Tech	So.	7th
133-7	Lucas Byrd	Illinois	So.	8th
133-8	Dylan Ragusin	Michigan	So.	6th
133-9	Michael Colaiocco	Penn	Jr.	9th
133-10	Chris Cannon	Northwestern	Jr.	10th
133-11	Jesse Mendez	Ohio State	Fr.	11th
133-12	Haiden Drury	Utah Valley	So.	13th
133-13	Chance Rich	CSU Bakersfield	Jr.	14th
133-14	Connor McGonagle	Lehigh	Jr.	15th
133-15	Kyle Biscoglia	Northern Iowa	Jr.	16th
133-16	Brayden Palmer	Chattanooga	Jr.	17th
133-17	Aaron Nagao	Minnesota	RSFr.	NR
133-18	Kai Orine	NC State	So.	18th
133-19	Joe Heilman	Rutgers	Gr.	19th
133-20	RayVon Foley	Michigan State	Gr.	20th

141 pounds

Wt	Name	School	Year	Previous
141-1	Andrew Alirez	Northern Colorado	Jr.	1st
141-2	Real Woods	Iowa	Sr.	2nd
141-3	Cole Matthews	Pitt	Sr.	3rd
141-4	Brock Hardy	Nebraska	So.	4th
141-5	Ryan Jack	NC State	So.	5th
141-6	Allan Hart	Missouri	Sr.	6th
141-7	Casey Swiderski	Iowa State	Fr.	7th
141-8	Beau Bartlett	Penn State	Jr.	8th
141-9	Jakob Bergeland	Minnesota	Gr.	9th
141-10	Cael Happel	Northern Iowa	So.	10th
141-11	Frankie Tal Shahar	Northwestern	Jr.	11th
141-12	Clay Carlson	South Dakota State	Sr.	12th
141-13	Lachlan McNeil	North Carolina	RSFr.	19th
141-14	Vince Cornella	Cornell	Fr.	13th
141-15	Darren Miller	Bucknell	Sr.	16th
141-16	Jesse Vasquez	Arizona State	So.	17th
141-17	Mosha Schwartz	Oklahoma	Jr.	18th
141-18	Cole Mattin	Michigan	Jr.	20th
141-19	Dylan Droegemueller	North Dakota State	Sr.	14th
141-20	Angelo Rini	Columbia	Jr.	NR

149 pounds

Wt	Name	School	Year	Previous
149-1	Yianni Diakomihalis	Cornell	Sr.	1st
149-2	Austin Gomez	Wisconsin	Sr.	2nd
149-3	Sammy Sasso	Ohio State	Sr.	3rd
149-4	Yahya Thomas	Northwestern	Gr.	4th
149-5	Kyle Parco	Arizona State	So.	5th
149-6	Paniro Johnson	Iowa State	Fr.	6th
149-7	Brock Mauler	Missouri	Jr.	8th
149-8	Caleb Henson	Virginia Tech	Fr.	12th
149-9	Jon Millner	Appalachian State	Sr.	7th
149-10	Colin Realbuto	Northern Iowa	Jr.	13th
149-11	Max Murin	Iowa	Sr.	9th
149-12	Shayne Van Ness	Penn State	RSFr.	15th
149-13	Doug Zapf	Penn	Sr.	11th
149-14	Mitch Moore	Oklahoma	Gr.	10th
149-15	Jaden Abas	Stanford	Jr	NR
149-16	Michael Blockhus	Minnesota	Sr.	14th
149-17	Kellyn March	North Dakota State	Jr.	16th
149-18	Jackson Arrington	NC State	Fr.	17th
149-19	Victor Voinovich	Oklahoma State	RSFr.	18th
149-20	Quinn Kinner	Rider	JR	19th

157 pounds

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

165 pounds

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

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	Mikey Labriola	Nebraska	Sr.	3rd
174-4	Chris Foca	Cornell	Jr.	4th
174-5	Michael O’Malley	Drexel	Sr.	5th
174-6	Edmond Ruth	Illinois	So.	6th
174-7	Dustin Plott	Oklahoma State	Jr.	7th
174-8	Ethan Smith	Ohio State	Sr.	8th
174-9	Peyton Mocco	Missouri	Jr.	9th
174-10	Demetrius Romero	Utah Valley	Sr.	10th
174-11	Clay Lautt	North Carolina	Gr.	11th
174-12	Philip Conigliaro	Harvard	Jr.	12th
174-13	Lance Runyon	Northern Iowa	So.	13th
174-14	Donnell Washington	Indiana	Jr.	14th
174-15	Rocky Jordan	Chattanooga	Sr.	16th
174-16	Nelson Brands	Iowa	Sr.	17th
174-17	Nick Incontrera	Penn	So.	15th
174-18	Cade Devos	South Dakota State	So.	19th
174-19	Tyler Eischens	Stanford	Sr.	NR
174-20	Julian Broderson	Iowa State	So.	20th

184 pounds

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

197 pounds

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

Heavyweight

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

Cronin, Henson, Haines move into top 10 at their weight in WIN rankings

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