Fantasy College Wrestling - 2024 Season Top-20 (141 lbs)

The data has been processed, the charts have been reviewed, and the evaluations are complete. The 2024 breakdown of the Top Fantasy Wrestlers of the 2024 season is here to help you start your 2025 season research.  

Just like in the past few years, some names are going to be expected, while a lot more may not be. That's the beauty of Fantasy Wrestling, where any wrestler can be the star of the weekend and win the dual for you.

To compile these lists, we used standard WrestleStat Fantasy College Wrestling Data & Scoring. Just a reminder of how points were tallied in WrestleStat leagues:

1) The scoring used was standard team scoring across all competitions (+3 for a win by decision, -4 for a loss by major, etc)

2) Scoring only counted against D1 competition

3) Wins via forfeits (FFT) would count as +6 towards a wrestler's point total

4) Wins or losses by medical forfeit (MFF) did not count as + or - towards a wrestler's point total

5) Points were only accumulated during the regular season
 

141 Top-20

Notes:

This season five wrestlers passed the 100 Fpt mark, and Wyatt Henson was one of them. He had the most matches won coming into 2024 NCAAs and was one of the D1 Tech leaders with 14 countable matches being won by the ol’ 15 pt margin. Impressively, he had a stretch where he had seven techs out of eight matches (with that lone non-tech being a FFT good for +6).

National Champion Jesse Mendez came in second while national runner-up Beau Bartlett came in fourth. Sandwiched between these two was Chattanooga’s True Freshman Isaiah Powe, who only had two regular season losses (one being a loss by Pin). He also benefited from not seeing any top-ranked competition for the entire regular season as well, which helps.

The champion of the EIWA, Joshua Koderhandt was eight Fpts short of fourth place, but just barely edged out Jordan Titus thanks to the one extra match wrestled. That said, Gardner-Webb’s Todd Carter wrestled 35 regular season matches, but finished one Fpt behind Titus.

Finishing with 58 Fpts was AA Lachlan McNeil along with Indiana’s Danny Fongaro, but McNeil takes the #8 spot by 0.01 PPM. Fongaro had a great start to the season with only one loss through the Southern Scuffle, but once the Big Ten dual season came around, he went 4-4.

Don’t call it a comeback, Anthony Echemendia was dawning a different shade of red this season and was able to All-American after a very strong regular season showing. He also grabbed the #10 spot of Top-141 lbers

Two non-starters made the 141 Top-20, Carter Bailey and redshirt Koy Buesgens. Bailey moved up from 125 in his 2023 season and Buesgens being a true freshman.

A year out from being the 2023 season's Top 141, Brock Hardy finds himself in 2024 just outside the top 15. The reason? Seven fewer matches wrestled and a string of three losses at CKLV amounting to -11 Fpts. Had he repeated as CKLV champ, conservatively, it would have been a 20-point swing landing him at #5.

Originally slated to redshirt the year, and enjoying his time up at 149, Tom Crook found himself taking one for the team and joining the starting lineup with a cut to 141. He finishes at #19 with 42 Fpts.

Who Missed The Cut:

The #26 seed at NCAAs snuck his way onto the podium but fell way short of breaking into the Top-20 at 141. Vance Vombaur (MINN) tied five other wrestlers with 37 Fpts but finished at #27 due to PPM: Nathan Higley (GMU) was the best with a 2.8 PPM at #25, Sam Hillegas (WVU) with 2.2 PPM, Vombaur with 1.9 PPM, Dario Lemus (MARY) with 1.5 as a True Freshman Redshirt, and 2022 AA CJ Composto (PENN) with 1.5 PPM at #29.

Speaking of tired Fpt scores and PPM, The Citadel’s Jacob Silka tied #20 Jordan Hamdan but fell short by 0.2 PPM to be #21.

Two wrestlers at opposite ends of their collegiate wrestling career find themselves next on the “Just Missed List” with #22 True Freshman Sergio Lemley (MICH) and #23 six-year Senior Mitch Moore (RUT). Lemley wrestled 20 matches while Moore had only 15, but Moore was only one point behind Lemley’s 40 Fpts.

Other notables include #32 Malyke Hines (LEH) with 35 Fpts, #38 Tagen Jamison (OKST) with 33 Fpts, #41 Cleveland Belton (ORST), and #42 Cole Matthews (PITT) with 41 Fpts (and 1.4 PPM to 1.3 PPM, respectively), and #47 Clay Carlson (SDSU) with 28 Pts.