Mark Hall defeated Chance Marsteller in the finals of the UWW Junior World Team Trials (Photo/John Sachs, Tech-Fall.com)The next two wrestlers in the class rankings are a pair of three-time state champions. Nick Suriano (Bergen Catholic, N.J.), who has yet to lose an in-season high school match is ranked second in the class. He is a three-time Beast of the East champion, was a Super 32 Challenge champion in the fall of 2012 before finishing runner-up during the fall of 2013. Iowa verbal commit Alex Marinelli (St. Paris Graham, Ohio) was an undefeated 54-0 this past season, after a pair of seasons with a mark of 49-2; he has appeared in the Walsh Ironman final all three seasons to date, including a championship this past year, and was runner-up at the Super 32 Challenge this fall.
A pair of Fargo freestyle champions from last summer round out the top five of this class. Coming in fourth is Isaiah White (Oak Park River Forest, Ill.), a Junior National freestyle champion who has won state titles each of the last two seasons. He was undefeated this past high school season, and was also a Cadet National freestyle champion in the summer of 2013. Ranked fifth is Chad Red (New Palestine, Ind.), who is an undefeated 139-0 over three state championship seasons, and a Cadet National freestyle champion. In addition, he bookended Super 32 Challenge and Flo Nationals titles around the 2014-15 high school season.
Rounding out the top ten for the incoming senior class are 2014 UWW Cadet World freestyle silver medalist Jordan Wood (Boyertown, Pa.), 2014 UWW Cadet World freestyle champion Mason Manville (Virginia), 2014 Super 32 Challenge champion Luke Pletcher (Greater Latrobe, Pa.), Flo Nationals champion Nick Reenan (Wyoming Seminary, Pa.), along with Samuel Colbray (Hermiston, Ore.), a NHSCA Junior Nationals champion and three-time Fargo Greco-Roman champion.
From the standpoint of college recruiting, 10 of the top 25 in this class have committed to colleges, as have 20 of the top 50 and 29 of the top 100 (which includes the football commitment of No. 39 Osawaru Odighizuwa to UCLA as a defensive lineman). The most top 100 commitments to any college is two, for six different schools: Iowa, Lehigh, Cornell, Pittsburgh, Bucknell, and Rutgers.
Looking at the high school teams with multiple top 100 recruits at present, Wyoming Seminary, Pa. leads the way with four: Nick Reenan, Chris Weiler, Christian Dietrich, and Trent Olson. Another three squads, all of whom were within the top 15 of the InterMat Fab50 this past season have three ranked wrestlers each: Oak Park River Forest (Ill.), Bergen Catholic (N.J.), and Archer (Ga.). Five other teams had a pair of wrestlers ranked respectively: St. Paris Graham (Ohio), Marmion Academy (Ill.), Greater Latrobe (Pa.), San Marino (Calif.), and Santiago Corona (Calif.)
The state of Pennsylvania again has the highest quantity of quality talent, with eleven of the top 50 ranked wrestlers attending a high school in Pennsylvania, and 16 of the top 100 (though three of those are non-residents). Nine wrestlers each from Illinois, New Jersey, and Ohio are the next most. Seven from California, six from Iowa, and five from Minnesota and Wisconsin follow in line. Overall, wrestlers attending high schools in 25 states are represented on the list.
Link: Top 100 Seniors
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