Each weekday for the next ten days, d3wrestle will be posting preseason rankings for each weight class including a Top 10, top contenders, and notable newcomers. Feel free to discuss in the forum. We’ll start today with 125. Six All-Americans return at this weight including 2007 runner up Flodeen.
1. Flodeen (Aug)
2. McDonough (JW)
3. Heilman (Corn)
4. Vallejo (Man)
5. Flickinger (Y)
6. Oster (Elm)
7. McInally (RIT)
8. Struthers (Wart)
9. Baatar (St.J)
10. Quieroz (Wilk)
Contenders
Gummerson (Cente)
Greene (KP)
Parillo (LX)
Kingsland (Urs)
Calhoun (WSP)
Colagiavanni (Cort)
Penny (ONU)
Christner (Mill)
Newcomers
Sheetz (DelVal) PA State Champ, Ironman Champ
Rush (Coe) 2X IL State Champ
Reyes (USM) 5th New York
Fisher (Heid) MI State Champ
Bogue (Oliv) 3X MI State Pl.
Leviner (Osh) 2X WI State Champ
August (WW) 2X 2nd WI
Anthony Niccholicchia from our team, Roger Williams University, has wins over Gummerson from centenary and lost in the All-American round in 2006 @NCAA’s at TCNJ. He was injured at conference this past season and did not wrestle after 1 loss, but is all healed and will be back this season ready to wrestle. I’m not saying he deserves to be ranked top 8, but he definately deserves mention if gummerson and others are going to be mentioned.
The top three are fairly solid and a little above the rest of the wt class. After these three the class is wide open. McInally was a freshmen last year, look for him to improve greatly and make noise this year’s national meet.
Rush from Coe is a stud. He was a 3x finalist in IL. Be beat several top recruits at Junior National duals this summer including: Long(IA) and Zach Sanders(MN). It will be interesting to see how he develops in college.
Jared Christner from millikin won’t be wrestling this season. He is having a baby boy in december and is trying to get that situated.
Leading the Cyclones this weekend was junior Mike Gummerson, who was crowned the 125 pound tournament champion. After two consecutive second place finishes at the Ithaca Invitational and the Monarch Invitational (King’s College), Gummerson prevailed to capture his first tournament championship of the season. The Kittatinny Regional High School graduate won five matches including a fall over Anthony Niccolichia of Roger Williams University in the finals. Gummerson’s win over Niccolichia (#7) was his second victory over a nationally ranked competitor this season
SHeetz (PA state champ) is a huge favorite here….freshman or not. He was supposed to go to Bloomsburg, I dont know how that fell through.
waynesburg has a recruit and a 2x ncaa qualifier at 125 in john fleming coming next semester. also a 3 x piaa placewinner..something to watch for
with wins over vallejo and oster not to mention last year
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