For the final time, the Class of 2021 is ranked as a top 25 freshman listing; the next time this group is ranked will be in late June as a top 50 list of rising sophomores. The top three positions in the rankings remain unchanged from the last update, which occurred before the start of the 2017-18 season. Carson Manville (Wyoming Seminary, Pa.) remains No. 1 after winning a National Prep title at 138 pounds with just three in-season losses against a rather tough schedule. His most notable wins came in the Powerade final at 132 when he beat national No. 1 Joey Silva 3-2 in the ultimate tiebreaker, and then in a late January dual meet when he avenged an earlier in the season loss against Ryan Anderson with a 7-2 victory.
Alex Facundo (Davison, Mich.) remains No. 2 in the rankings after finishing off an undefeated state title winning season with a 4-2 finals match victory over two-time returning state champion Cameron Amine. Later in March, he would add a Junior National folkstyle title -- while Cadet eligible -- to the Cadet folkstyle national title he won last year. Remaining third despite missing all but the early part of the 2017-18 season with an injury is Ryan Sokol (Simley, Minn.), a Cadet National freestyle champion last summer.
Rounding out the top five of the rankings are Victor Voinovich (Brecksville, Ohio) and Travis Mastrogiovanni (Blair Academy, N.J.). Voinovich would win his state title in a weight class that included three other ranked wrestlers, while National Prep runner-up Mastrogiovanni placed fifth at the Walsh Ironman and third at the Beast of the East.
Richard Figueroa won a California state championship title as a freshman (Photo/Tony Rotundo, WrestlersAreWarriors.com)The five California wrestlers ranked in the top 25 are the most of any state, with three of them among the top ten, a group that is led by Richard Figueroa (Selma); the No. 6 overall Class of 2021 wrestler was a state champion this season, champion at the FloNationals, runner-up at the Super 32 Challenge, and third at the Walsh Ironman. Four wrestlers each are ranked from New Jersey, Ohio, and Pennsylvania high schools. The lone sets of teammates in the rankings are three from Blair Academy and a pair from Wyoming Seminary.
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