Austin O'Connor (North Carolina) arm raised in victory

Austin O’Connor (North Carolina) is now No. 1 at 157 pounds. Photo by Tony Rotundo, Wrestlers Are Warriors.

NEWTON, Iowa — The conference tournaments are now complete and Penn State remains the favorite to win the team title at the 2023 NCAA Division I Championship according to WIN Magazine’s final rankings of the season, presented by Cliff Keen Athletic.

Coming off a Big Ten championship, the Nittany Lions feature nine ranked wrestlers, including seven who are ranked in the top eight of their weight classes and are projected to earn All-American honors at the upcoming NCAAs, held March 16-18 in Tulsa, Okla. With 105 TPI points, Penn State has a wide lead over Big Ten rivals Iowa and Nebraska, which both earned 69 points in WIN’s TPI, and EIWA champion Cornell with 67 points.

WIN’s TPI is based on a point total associated with individual placement and advancement points scored at the upcoming NCAAs if wrestlers finished where they’re ranked. The following is a breakdown of those points: 20 for 1st place, 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 one and a half points for wrestlers ranked 13-16 and one point for those ranked 17-20.

Three of Penn State’s individual recent Big Ten champs are defending champions and are rated No. 1 in their weight class: Roman Bravo-Young (133), Carter Starocci (174) and Aaron Brooks (184).

Meanwhile, Penn State’s fourth Big Ten champ, freshman Levi Haines played a big part in changing the 157-pound weight class when he upset Nebraska’s top-ranked Peyton Robb in the finals of the conference meet last weekend. Because of that result, North Carolina’s Austin O’Connor, who won an NCAA title at 149 pounds in 2021, has taken over the top spot at 157 pounds, just ahead of the Husker while Haines is ranked No. 6.

Meanwhile, the remaining six other top-ranked wrestlers are from six different schools: Iowa’s Spencer Lee (125), Northern Colorado’s Andrew Alirez (141), Cornell’s Yianni Diakomihalis (149), Iowa State’s David Carr (165), Pitt’s Nino Bonaccorsi (197) and Michigan’s Mason Parris (Hwt). Lee and Diakomihalis will be shooting for their fourth NCAA titles at the BOK Center; hoping to join four former wrestlers who all won four titles: Pat Smith (Oklahoma State), Cael Sanderson (Iowa State), Kyle Dake (Cornell) and Logan Stieber (Ohio State).

WIN’s March 6 Tournament Power Index

Rk.	School	Total Rank	Top 8	TPI Pts
1.	Penn State	9	7	105
2t.	Iowa	10	4	69
2t.	Nebraska	6	5	69
4.	Cornell	6	5	67
5.	Missouri	9	5	60.5
6.	Iowa State	7	4	57.5
7.	Ohio State	8	4	47.5
8.	NC State	8	4	46
9.	Arizona State	4	4	44
10.	Virginia Tech	6	4	42
11.	Michigan	6	4	41.5
12.	Oklahoma State	9	3	40
13.	Pitt	5	2	37.5
14.	Wisconsin	6	2	29.5
15t.	Minnesota	7	3	26
15t.	Princeton	2	2	26
17.	North Carolina	3	1	24
18.	Northern Iowa	7	1	23.5
19.	Northwestern	6	2	22.5
20.	Northern Colorado	2	1	22
21.	North Dakota State	5	1	19.5
22.	Oregon State	5	2	19
23t	Lehigh	4	2	18
23t.	South Dakota State	5	1	18
25t.	Cal Poly	2	1	14.5
25t.	Purdue	2	1	14.5
27t.`	Illinois	3	1	13.5
27t.	Penn	5	1	13.5
29.	Air Force	2	1	11
30.	Appalachian State	2	1	10.5
31.	West Virginia	4	1	9.5
32.	Oklahoma	6	0	8
33.	Rutgers	5	0	6.5
34.	Stanford	2	0	4
35t.	Harvard	2	0	3
35t.	Indiana	2	0	3
35t.	Michigan State	2	0	3
38t.	Campbell	2	0	2.5
38t.	Columbia	2	0	2.5
38t.	Wyoming	2	0	2.5
41t.	Chattanooga	1	0	2
41t.	Lock Haven	1	0	2
41t.	Maryland	1	0	2
44.	Northern Illinois	1	0	1.5
45t.	Army West Point	1	1	1
45t.	Drexel	1	0	1
45t.	SIU-Edwardsville	1	0	1
45t.	Utah Valley	1	0	1
45t.	Virginia	1	0	1

WIN Magazine’s March 6 NCAA Division 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	Liam Cronin	Nebraska	Gr.	4th
125-4	Matt Ramos	Purdue	So.	3rd
125-5	Eric Barnett	Wisconsin	Sr.	5th
125-6	Pat McKee	Minnesota	Sr.	6th
125-7	Brandon Courtney	Arizona State	Sr.	8th
125-8	Brandon Kaylor	Oregon State	Jr.	12th
125-9	Anthony Noto	Lock Haven	So.	10th
125-10	Michael DeAugustino	Northwestern	Sr.	13th
125-11	Stevo Poulin	Northern Colorado	RSFr.	20th
125-12	Killian Cardinale	West Virginia	Sr.	7th
125-13	Noah Surtin	Missouri	So.	11th
125-14	Caleb Smith	Appalachian State	So.	15th
125-15	Ryan Miller	Penn	So.	16th
125-16	Reece Witcraft	Oklahoma State	Jr.	NR
125-17	Jack Medley	Michigan	Gr.	14th
125-18	Joey Prata	Oklahoma	Gr.	NR
125-19	Dean Peterson	Rutgers	RSFr.	17th
125-20	Jore Volk	Wyoming	Fr.	18th

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	Lucas Byrd	Illinois	So.	6th
133-6	Michael Colaiocco	Penn	Jr.	8th
133-7	Dylan Ragusin	Michigan	So.	11th
133-8	Aaron Nagao	Minnesota	RSFr.	13th
133-9	Chris Cannon	Northwestern	Jr.	10th
133-10	Jesse Mendez	Ohio State	Fr.	9th
133-11	Kai Orine	NC State	So.	15th
133-12	Micky Phillippi	Pitt	Sr.	7th
133-13	Sam Latona	Virginia Tech	So.	5th
133-14	Brody Teske	Iowa	Sr.	14th
133-15	Zach Redding	Iowa State	Jr.	16th
133-16	Connor McGonagle	Lehigh	Jr.	12th
133-17	Joe Heilman	Rutgers	Gr.	17th
133-18	Jason Shaner	Oregon State	Sr.	NR
133-19	Kyle Biscoglia	Northern Iowa	Jr.	20th
133-20	Cody Phippen	Air Force	Sr.	NR

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.	5th
141-5	Beau Bartlett	Penn State	Jr.	4th
141-6	Ryan Jack	NC State	So.	6th
141-7	Vince Cornella	Cornell	Fr.	9th
141-8	Allan Hart	Missouri	Sr.	14th
141-9	Clay Carlson	South Dakota State	Sr.	10th
141-10	Mosha Schwartz	Oklahoma	Jr.	7th
141-11	Lachlan McNeil	North Carolina	RSFr.	8th
141-12	Carter Young	Oklahoma State	So.	13th
141-13	Jakob Bergeland	Minnesota	Gr.	11th
141-14	Frankie Tal Shahar	Northwestern	Jr.	12th
141-15	Casey Swiderski	Iowa State	Fr.	NR
141-16	Cael Happel	Northern Iowa	So.	15th
141-17	Matt Kazimir	Columbia	Sr.	NR
141-18	Dylan D’Emilio	Ohio State	Jr.	NR
141-19	Jordan Titus	West Virginia	RSFr.	16th
149-20	Carmen Ferrante	Penn	Sr.	NR

149 pounds

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

157 pounds

Wt	Name	School	Year	Previous
157-1	Austin O’Connor	North Carolina	Gr.	2nd
157-2	Peyton Robb	Nebraska	Jr.	1st
157-3	Jared Franek	North Dakota State	Sr.	3rd
157-4	Bryce Andonian	Virginia Tech	Sr.	4th
157-5	Josh Humphreys	Lehigh	Sr.	5th
157-6	Levi Haines	Penn State	Fr.	6th
157-7	Ed Scott	NC State	So.	7th
157-8	Kaden Gfeller	Oklahoma State	Sr.	10th
157-9	Chase Saldate	Michigan State	Jr.	9th
157-10	Kendell Coleman	Purdue	Sr.	8th
157-11	Will Lewan	Michigan	Sr.	12th
157-12	Cobe Siebrecht	Iowa	Jr.	11th
157-13	Jacob Wright	Wyoming	Sr.	15th
157-14	Trevor Chumley	Northwestern	So.	20th
157-15	Jarrett Jacques	Missouri	Sr.	13th
157-16	Derek Gilcher	Indiana	Jr.	NR
157-17	Garret Model	Wisconsin	Sr.	17th
157-18	Derek Holschlag	Northern Iowa	Sr.	18th
157-19	Andrew Clark	Rutgers	So.	NR
157-20	Paddy Gallagher	Ohio State	RSFr.	19th

165 pounds

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

174 pounds

Wt	Name	School	Year	Previous
174-1	Carter Starocci	Penn State	Jr.	1st
174-2	Mikey Labriola	Nebraska	Sr.	2nd
174-3	Mekhi Lewis	Virginia Tech	Sr.	3rd
174-4	Chris Foca	Cornell	Jr.	4th
174-5	Ethan Smith	Ohio State	Sr.	5th
174-6	Dustin Plott	Oklahoma State	Jr.	9th
174-7	Peyton Mocco	Missouri	Jr.	6th
174-8	Bailee O’Reilly	Minnesota	Gr.	10th
174-9	Nelson Brands	Iowa	Sr.	13th
174-10	Rocky Jordan	Chattanooga	Sr.	12th
174-11	Edmond Ruth	Illinois	So.	7th
174-12	Jackson Turley	Rutgers	Jr.	NR
174-13	Cade Devos	South Dakota State	So.	17th
174-14	Tate Picklo	Oklahoma	Fr.	15th
174-15	Alex Faison	NC State	Jr.	20th
174-16	Donnell Washington	Indiana	Jr.	14th
174-17	Philip Conigliaro	Harvard	Jr.	16th
174-18	Ben Pasiuk	Army West Point	Jr.	19th
174-19	Nick Incontrera	Penn	So.	18th
174-20	Michael O’Malley	Drexel	Sr.	11th

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	Kaleb Romero	Ohio State	Sr.	5th
184-6	Trey Munoz	Oregon State	So.	6th
184-7	Hunter Bolen	Virginia Tech	Sr.	7th
184-8	Matt Finesilver	Michigan	Gr.	9th
184-9	Isaiah Salazar	Minnesota	Jr.	8th
184-10	Travis Wittlake	Oklahoma State	Sr.	11th
184-11	Lenny Pinto	Nebraska	RSFr.	12th
184-12	Gavin Kane	North Carolina	So.	13th
184-13	Abe Assad	Iowa	Jr.	10th
184-14	Brian Soldano	Rutgers	Fr.	16th
184-15	Colton Hawks	Missouri	So.	17th
184-16	Deanthony Parker	North Dakota State	So.	14th
184-17	Layne Malczewski	Michigan State	Sr.	15th
184-18	Caleb Hopkins	Campbell	Jr.	20th
184-19	Tate Samuelson	Lehigh	Sr.	NR
184-20	Reece Heller	Pitt	Jr.	NR

197 pounds

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

Heavyweight

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

Penn State picked to win 2023 NCAAs; O’Connor new No. 1 at 157 in WIN’s final rankings

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