25/26 NCAA Dark Horses

[NotMikeMal]

As season quickly approaches I’d love to hear everyone’s Top 3 dark horses at every weight, someone ranked currently outside the top 7. I’ll start. I know some of these are obvious. 

125: Provo, Rivera, Renteria

133: Blaze or Ono, Davino, Ragusin 

141: Blaze or Ono, Jack, Valencia 

149: Echemendia, sorta lost on this weight

157: Larkin, Swensen, Arrington 

165: Brignola, Sparks, Ruiz 

174: Facundo, Mantanona, 

184: Sinclair, Dean

197: Merrill

285: Mriasola, Catka,

[PortaJohn]

1 hour ago, NotMikeMal said:

197: Merrill

Rademacher is the new hot pick @ '97

[Gene Mills Fan]

57 Cardenas

[nhs67]

6 minutes ago, PortaJohn said:

Rademacher is the new hot pick @ '97

He looked very lean and massive at 97 KG, which is just over 213lbs.  Where is that extra 16 pounds coming off from?  That's 8% of his bodyweight.

[Winners Circle]

11 minutes ago, nhs67 said:

He looked very lean and massive at 97 KG, which is just over 213lbs.  Where is that extra 16 pounds coming off from?  That's 8% of his bodyweight.

He wrestled 197 this past season (RS year) and beat Cody Merrill. Fwiw.

[CHROMEBIRD]

Sam Cartella, 149 at NU. Tough kid.

[Gene Mills Fan]

6 minutes ago, CHROMEBIRD said:

Sam Cartella, 149 at NU. Tough kid.

if your wrestling this kid don't go down, pick neutral 

[BigRedFan]

28 minutes ago, Gene Mills Fan said:

57 Cardenas

"someone ranked currently outside the top 7"

[JimmySpeaks]

Aiden Brenot 184 NDSU. Round of 12 last year as a RSFR. Imo has a very high ceiling. 

[nhs67]

29 minutes ago, Winners Circle said:

He wrestled 197 this past season (RS year) and beat Cody Merrill. Fwiw.

I have no doubt he can make it, my question is how does he keep that level of performance while losing 16lbs of functional mass?  I don't know that he does, or can.  Similar to Trumble and Bastida, his best weight might be a 235/240lbs HWT that drops to 213lbs for MFS.

[Winners Circle]

6 minutes ago, JimmySpeaks said:

Aiden Brenot 184 NDSU. Round of 12 last year as a RSFR. Imo has a very high ceiling. 

I agree that he has a high ceiling. But, during the year he had 17 losses, including to: Fernando Villaescusa (ISU backup), Gage Musser (Air Force), and Gerrit Nijenhuis (who went 12-10 on the year). So it'll be interesting to see if has a regression to his regular season, or if he stays at the R12 level he showed he can be. 

[JimmySpeaks]

17 minutes ago, Winners Circle said:

I agree that he has a high ceiling. But, during the year he had 17 losses, including to: Fernando Villaescusa (ISU backup), Gage Musser (Air Force), and Gerrit Nijenhuis (who went 12-10 on the year). So it'll be interesting to see if has a regression to his regular season, or if he stays at the R12 level he showed he can be. 

Tenn kid that didn’t have the greatest competition in high school.  Yep he had some losses against some pretty avg wrestlers.  That being said you could see him learning, improving and gaining confidence as the year went on.  He went 17-9 after Jan 1 including the Big 12 and National Tournaments against pretty good competition.  To me your second year as a regular is where you take the biggest jump forward and I’m hoping/expecting to see him do that.   

[RawDog]

How is ragusin ranked outside of the top 7? 

[Truzzcat]

125: Mcgowan, Rivera, Sotelo

133: Seidel, Yarbrough, Ayoub

141: Mendoza, larkin, Evans, Clark

149: Busgens, Kade brown, Cartella

157: Catrabone, Larkin, Millard

165: Ruiz, Church, Scoles

174: Augustine, Arujao, Norman

184: Dellegatto, Sinclair, Mcdonell

197: Bechtold, Lawrence, Hogan

285: Doucet, Pitzer, Carroll

Edited 4 hours ago by Truzzcat

[poorwrestler]

I’m going to go extremely biased and say Gavin Nelson (Minnesota) at 197 and Max Magayna (NDSU) at 174.


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[TNwrestling]

as a tn guy i have to list the kids from here to watch for

 

125- Cooper Flynn (Chattanooga) - finally back home. 

133 - Jarvis Little (App St) - fantastic rs season last year

141 - Hunter Mason (Chattanooga) - again...finally back home

149/157 - Landon Desselle (Ohio St) - medaled up a div at u23 at 19yo. 

165 - Mason Reniche (Chattanooga) - once again....back home

184 - Aiden Brenot (SDSU) - blood round guy last year

Edited 4 hours ago by TNwrestling

[BigRedFan]

57 minutes ago, Truzzcat said:

 

184: Dellegatto, Sinclair, Mcdonell

Cornell perspective:

125:  Greg Diakomihalis

141:  Vince Cornella

184:  (if he makes it down) Dellagatta (spelling)

[scorenomore]

100% Ohio State bias but I’ll go with Cannon at 157 and Birden at 165. 

[bnwtwg]

3 hours ago, nhs67 said:

He looked very lean and massive at 97 KG, which is just over 213lbs.  Where is that extra 16 pounds coming off from?  That's 8% of his bodyweight.

But we can't have weights that match UWW. Because we have low participation.

 

 

 

Because the weight class doesn't fvcking exist.

[bnwtwg]

157 Kannon Webster is the closest "outside of top 7 is a dark horse" as long as we all agree that 125 cannot be included in this conversation

[JimmySpeaks]

4 hours ago, TNwrestling said:

as a tn guy i have to list the kids from here to watch for

 

125- Cooper Flynn (Chattanooga) - finally back home. 

133 - Jarvis Little (App St) - fantastic rs season last year

141 - Hunter Mason (Chattanooga) - again...finally back home

149/157 - Landon Desselle (Ohio St) - medaled up a div at u23 at 19yo. 

165 - Mason Reniche (Chattanooga) - once again....back home

184 - Aiden Brenot (SDSU) - blood round guy last year

NDSU for the Tenn kid at 184 

[JimmySpeaks]

4 hours ago, poorwrestler said:

I’m going to go extremely biased and say Gavin Nelson (Minnesota) at 197 and Max Magayna (NDSU) at 174.


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Gophers need Gavin to be healthy and have a solid year. 

[Hillbilly Jim]

Jaxon Joy, Fr. 149, Cornell

[MPhillips]

2 hours ago, scorenomore said:

100% Ohio State bias but I’ll go with Cannon at 157 and Birden at 165. 

I don't mind the Birden over Paddy pick. Or is it Cannon over Paddy?