Comments on: 2010 NCAA DI Tournament Predictions and Team Rank

By: Bob Mayeri

Bob Mayeri — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:33:48 +0000

Great rankings…….Iowa State may prove that it will not miss a beat with its new coaching staff. Kevin Jackson’s best move may be bring Chris Bono back to Ames, as Bono demonstrated that he is on track to become an accomplished coach. Please note, however, that 125 lbr Tyler Clark has tansferred to Iowa, where he will be redshirting this hear.

By: dckundr

dckundr — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:26:12 +0000

On ur predictions…..u listed Tyler Clark as being on Iowa State…..he transfered to Hawkeye Nation and University of Iowa of Iowa.

By: Bill Miller

Bill Miller — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 03:06:51 +0000

JBB,

Thanks for bringing this to my attention. You are correct: Oklahoma State belongs somewhere in the top 25. After reading your and Matt’s comments, I took a look at my spreadsheet, and Oklahoma State was missing from one of the worksheets used to evaluate the strength of the returning teams.

Without going into too much detail, I must have mistakenly deleted them when removing duplicates. Okla St sorts adjacent to Ohio St, and consequently, I must have selected Okla St when removing duplicates for Ohio St.

I will correct the ranking shortly when I can give it the time that it deserves. When I plugged Okla St into the spreadsheet, a quick analysis shows that they belong somewhere in the top 16.

My apolgies to Oklahoma State and their fans for the mistake: a correction to follow shortly.

By: Matt Diano

Matt Diano — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:11:45 +0000

JBB,

I concur with your assessment that Oklahoma State has every reason in the world to foresee themselves back in the top-10 by the end of 2010.

With a possible line-up consisting of the following, it would not surprise me to see the Cowboys claim upwards of 7-10 All-Americans this season:

125- Chris Notte
133- Jordan Oliver
141- Jamal Parks
149- Luke Silver/Albert White
157- Neil Erisman
165- Alex Meade
174- Mike Benefiel
184- Clayton Foster
197- Alan Gelogaev
285- Jared Rosholt

With regard to Oklahoma, Coach Spates in going to need to get career best efforts out of his veterans (Bailey, Kyle Terry, Shane Vernon, Jeff James, Lapotsky, and Fernandez)….The quality of the young talent on this team (Patterson, Ekstrom, Lester brothers,etc) is so good that even if the Sooners do not break through this season, the future looks mighty bright.

By: JBB

JBB — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:59:44 +0000

It seems pretty atypical to leave Oklahoma State out of the top 25. Yes, they had a down year last year, and they do not have a lot of returning AAs etc. (though under any circumstances they have more than Duke) but they have had good recruiting classes the last 2 years and I would think they will be close to the top 10 by the end of the season. OU also should be in any top 25.
JBB

By: rick

rick — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 05:30:32 +0000

i think any where cael goes his team should be in anybodys top 5; to me it does not matter & in any order who the top 4 teams u pick are, penn state i feel has to be in most top 5 teams, even with all the red shirts they will have this coming yr. my point; i think the talent he had at iowa state was not as good as the level the team wrestled to. maybe a level or 2 below. they are good young men as well as good wrestlers
for what ever it is cael steped them up to a whole new level in life & in wrestling it seams to me.

we will see come march 2010 not only about penn state but iowa state as well.

go get’em happy valley

rick
class of 68 hwt az

By: Matt Diano

Matt Diano — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 18:25:34 +0000

It is important to remember that two of Penn State’s more accomplished wrestlers, Jenkins and Wright are rumored be RSing in 2010…Therefore, top-5 might be a little bit ambitious

By: yoyodude

yoyodude — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 05:36:03 +0000

love the college rankings….I would predict Iowa, Iowa State, Ohio State, Cornell and Penn State as the top 5 in that order.