They talked about this on FRL yesterday. How has Tyler Brennan wrestled 5 post seasons for Little Rock? Of course we have seen many wrestle 5 post seasons but that is because those athlete for the free COVID year in 2021. Brennan did NOT use the free COVID year and just wrestled in his fifth PAC-12 tournament (2020, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025).
Hamiti may be very solid but don't forget that David Carr was 1-3-2-1 at NCAA's with only 6 career losses. Carr also just soundly beat the reigning olympic silver medalist at 74kg that soundly beat Kyle Dake.
I have made this point before but I will make it again. There should never be a referee initiated review. It seems like half of the reviews that occur are the referees reviewing their own calls. If it is a close call and the coach wants to challenge, throw the brick. If not, lets keep it moving. Make the call on the mat and stick with it.
Another guy that deserves mention is Tagen Jamison. I have heard multiple opponents of his mention that he is the strongest opponent that they have ever wrestled.
125 will likely be LL
141 - I think Bartlett probably has the best case with 2 wins over Mendez and a Hardy win. Hardy has great wins but lost to the Big 12 guys (Happel and Jamison) as well as Bartlett. Alirez just doesn't have enough quality wins this year to get himself in the #1 conversation in my opinion.
MM has a much better resume than Foca. Foca (16-1 with a 55% bonus rate, 0.672 RPI) has a loss to Smith and his best win is over Fishbach. MM (20-1 with a 81% bonus rate, 0.687 RPI) has a loss to CStar and wins over Ruth, Arnold, Allred, Berge, etc.
Webster also got beat handily by D’Emillio early and won a controlled match against him. I think KW cuts a ton of weight and finally got it under control.
Webster looks to me like a guy with a really big cut that was struggling with weight mid season. He’s looking great now and presumably got his weight under control.
Anthony Molton is also in the Parco category but on team 3: Old Dominion, Fresno, Campbell
Sammy Alvarez is on team three: Rutgers, OKState, Rider
Evan Bockman is on team three: Cal Baptist, Utah Valley, ISU