Notable Weight Changes for the 2024-25 Season

We are deep into the collegiate preseason - the first set of preseason rankings have been released. An updated set is on the way for next week and one thing you may have noticed is plenty of wrestlers who have shifted weights between the end of the 2023-24 season and now. 

Wrestling is unique compared to other collegiate sports because of the weight-cutting/weighing-in aspect. In football, a team can have multiple wide receivers on the field. In basketball, maybe you sub for a backup point guard. Baseball has a handful of starting pitchers and relievers. Once the wrestling postseason starts, you can only have one wrestler per weight class, so coaches and wrestlers need to plan ahead - to field the best possible postseason lineup. 

That aspect makes getting a potential starting lineup from a wrestling coach much more valuable than in any other sport. Is the team redshirting a good starter in hopes of building him up to a higher-weight class the following year? Did someone wrestle a higher-weight class last season because they couldn’t beat out the starter or for the good of the team? Those are the questions that get answered when you see a potential lineup. 

Now that we’ve received intel from many of the DI schools, we’re able to figure how who may be moving up and down. We’ve compiled a list of those wrestlers, sorted by weight class, and with some descriptors for you to follow who may be wrestling at a new weight in 2024-25. 

This isn’t every single wrestler who has changed weights - we’ve tried to limit it to wrestlers who were under strong consideration for the preseason rankings. 
 

125 lbs

#19 Ramazan Attasauov (Illinois) - 2022 NCAA Qualifier, Big 12 3rd Place (from 133)

#31 Nicolar Rivera (Wisconsin) - 12-12 in 2023-24 at 133 lbs

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