Fantasy College Wrestling - 2024 Season Top-20 (184 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
 

184 Top-20

Notes:

The two national finalists in the 2024 NCAA Championships are atop the 184 leaderboard, but in reverse order. Parker Keckeisen may have gotten the better of Dustin Plott during the regular and postseason (3-0 in all competitions), but Plott ended up with the most Fpts to be #1 in Fantasy Wrestling. Plott used his three extra matches to his advantage to overcome two losses and finish 5 Pts ahead of Keckeisen.

For starting the season 4-5, with only one of those wins by bonus, it’s a wonder that Jha’Quan Anderson made it to #3. He finishes with 80 Fpts and the highest placer in Fantasy Wrestling for Gardner-Webb in the past four years at a weight and overall (article coming soon).

Isaiah Salazar improved from his 2023 placing (16th at 184) to 4th in the 2024 season and upped his fantasy production by 25 Fpts with only three additional matches. 

Next in the rankings comes four sets of ties with Fpts, though all with varying PPMs. Lenny Pinto and Dalton Harkins both with 64 Fpts, but with Harkins having double the number of losses (six to Pinto’s three), Pinto grabs the #6 spot. Maximus Hale and James Conway tied at 61 Fpts, with Hale taking the #8 spot by a 0.7 PPM difference.

Josh Barr and Jacob Nolan tied at 59 Fpts, with Barr wrestling nine fewer matches than Nolan. Barr rounds out the Top-10 thanks to a 3.9 PPM, which was the best out of any wrestler in the Top-20.

Last of the tied groups is Chris Foca and Caleb Hopkins at 58 Fpts. Foca had an impressive 62% bonus rate against countable D1 matches, while Hopkins was able to salvage an up-and-down first half (seven losses in 15 countable matches) with a string of 11 wins in 12 matches consisting of four pins and two techs. Foca finished with the better PPM and thus, the #12 spot.

Obviously, one win here or a loss there by any combination of these weight wrestlers, and we could have had a much different-looking Top-20.

Two Redshirts make the Top-20, with Josh Barr finishing at #10, which is the highest of any Redshirt in any weight for the 2024 season. Max McEnelly was the other, wrestling in 15 matches but having only 12 of them be D1 countable opponents. Winning all 12, McEnelly put together an impressive bonus streak with only three wins by decision. A few more matches at an open and he could have been right up there with Barr. 

Trey Munoz and Benett Berge didn't just meet in the Consi-finals at NCAAs, they also were neck and neck being separated by two Fpts. Munoz had a loss by fall to Feldkamp at CKLV, but had he won that match (which is how the match looked to be going in the first period) by decision, Munoz would have had at least 66 Fpts and ranked #6 in the 2024 Top-20.
 

Who Missed The Cut:

Three All-Americans missed the cut, one of which has been a fantasy staple these past few years.

Bernie Truax (PSU) took his talents from sunny California where he had finished twice in the Top-10 of his weight since the 2021 season. It may surprise you, but in his last four seasons (2021-2024), Truax had not wrestled more than 14 countable D1 matches. The difference this time, he suffered his most losses in one season within that time frame (three, including one loss by pin). Truax would end up with 34 Fpts.

Starting the season off at 17 Fpts in his first three duals, it seemed David Key (NAVY) was making a bid to end his career in the Top-20 again (which he was #10 in 2021, the COVID Season). Unfortunately, in his last 10 D1 matches, Key would go on to lose seven of them and end with 25 Fpts. He would go on to AA, so there’s that at least.

Vying for a starting spot, TJ Stewart (VT) wrestled only 8 regular-season matches. Two of those matches would go on to be -9 Fpts on his fantasy record, but even if he had won them, would still have fallen well short of anywhere near the Top-10. Stewart would finish with 12 Fpts, but like Key, at least he has an AA trophy.

Other notables to miss the cut include Triston Willis  (LR) who finished with 41 Fpts and 0.3 PPM behind #20, Clayton Whiting (MIZZ) with 40 Fpts, Nate Dugan (PRIN) at 38 Fpts, Brian Soldano (RUT) with 37 Fpts, Colton Hawks (MIZZ) with 30 Fpts, and Will Feldkamp (ISU) with 27 Fpts