NCAA DI Rankings Updated (12/10/2024)

The first set of rankings after the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational is annually the week of the regular season with the most movement among the rankings. This year was no exception. 

The first thing you’ll notice is a new number one at 125 lbs. Matt Ramos is the new #1. Ramos captured a Vegas title with head-to-head wins over two wrestlers now in the top-five - Troy Spratley and Eddie Ventresca. He also has ranked wins over Charlie Farmer and Ethan Rivera. That’s enough to nudge him ahead of returning champion Richie Figueroa - who has one loss, albeit from an injury default. 

The weight class with the most movement from top to bottom was 133 lbs. You probably noticed Zeth Romney turning the bracket upside down in Vegas with wins over Evan Frost, Jacob Van Dee, and Nic Bouzakis. Also in Vegas, Bouzakis had another great run through the consi’s for third place. Top-seeded Dylan Ragusin lost three times. 

If you just focused on Vegas and ignored some of the other happenings nationwide, you might have missed the other crazy results at 133 lbs. On Friday night, Anthony Noto knocked off 2024 Big Ten champion Dylan Shawver. Noto was upset himself, on Sunday, by Wisconsin’s Zan Fugitt. At the Cougar Clash, Dom Serrano handed Tyler Wells his first loss of the year. Serrano is still unbeaten but hasn’t wrestled the schedule of other key podium contenders. 

We also had to introduce Reece Witcraft into the 133 lb field. Previously, we had Cael Hughes ranked for Oklahoma State. 

One thing I want to point out at 133 and a few other weights (157 and 165 in particular) is that on a week-to-week basis, you can look at the rankings and see how the current version built off the previous one. I like for readers to be able to see that. With the results that happened at 133 and 165, those weights had to be basically “blown up” and I started over. After having such a wide range of results at those two weights, it seems only fair. 

Some notes about wrestlers you may or may not see. 

125: We’ve dropped Nico Provo and Ramazan Attasauov for the time being. Attasauov will be out for a bit longer. There are some injury/redshirt questions that need to be answered for Provo within the next few weeks. Obviously, when either returns, they’ll be inserted at a fair place. 

174: Carson Kharchla and Josh Ogunsanya are two of the only wrestlers currently in the rankings who have not wrestled in 2024-25. It appears as if both could be on track to debut for the Collegiate Duals in Nashville. Because there was a lot of movement around their spots in the rankings, both did drop slightly. Both have been out of action for about a year now, so I’m not sure of their physical status yet, and gave the benefit of the doubt to the active wrestlers. 

There were some wild fluctuations within the team tournament rankings after Vegas. Michigan and South Dakota State were two teams that had subpar performances, overall, and ended up getting hit pretty hard. That led to Northern Iowa and Cornell creeping into the top ten. That is interesting because UNI’s point total remained the same from last week to this week. Cornell’s actually dropped by a few points - then again, everyone else that was ranked between 11-16 dropped too. 

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