Wrestling 2023-24

[George64]

Excerpted from today's Rochester D&C:

Elijah Diakomihalis , an undefeated junior at Hilton, and three seniors on wrestling teams in Section V won state titles in Albany to close a long loop of workouts, drills at practices and workouts away from school:

• Diakomihalis , a state runner-up in 2023, improved his record to 46-0 while on his way to the Division I 190-pound state title, his first.

• Diakomihalis : He was dominant to the point where he seemed to roll up his four opponents like a mat after the end of a meet. The No. 1 seed had a bye then won by technical fall 22-6 after 3 minutes, 51, by pin after 46 seconds, another pin (:39) and by a score of 13-0 in the final, a major decision over Buffalo St. Francis sophomore Zachary Caldwell.

[ugarte]

2/29 rankings and conference bid allocations

Coaches' Rankings, RPI and the bid allocations for EIWA are out. I'd have posted all of this hours ago but in-between filling in all the services' ranking updates and the 3pm NCAA press release I got logged out and threw down my mouse and now I'm restarting. After the conference tournaments, the NCAA announces the final rankings and RPI along with the names of the wrestlers awarded at-large bids.

Very little movement in the Cornell rankings, though Ungar has fallen out of a few top 20s.

NB: WIN, Open Mat and AWN only rank to 20; Flo and Intermat rank to 33.

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WIN Flo Intermat OpenMat AWN WS WBP EIWA/Flo  CR   RPI  Bids
125: Ungar NR 18 15 20 NR 21  9 2/2  15    4   5
133: Arujau 1 2 2  3  3 1  3 2/2        3   NE   5
141: Cornella 10 9 12 15 12 16 13 1/1       12   13   4
149: Fernandez NR 28 21 13      20 20 16 1/1       21    9   4
157: Shapiro 5 7 6  5  3 1  2 1/1        6    1   3
165: Ramirez 7 3 3        5  4 4  5 1/1        3    7   5
174: Baker NR NR NR NR NR     53 41 ?/8       NR   32   6
184: Foca   11 12 7  9  7 4  7 1/1        7   10   7
197: Cardenas 7 8 8  7  8 7  6 2/3        8    2   6
285: Fernandes 16 18 16 19 20 18 18 5/5       17   13   8
TEAM DUAL: 10 9 8  8 xx 2  5
TEAM NCAA: 10 10 5  8 xx 2  6


WIN See above.
Flo See above.
Intermat See above.
The Open Mat See above.
Amateur Wrestling News See above.
Wrestling by Pirate Dual Impact Index I'd forgotten about this, but here it is just in time for the allocations, etc. Forum stalwart Seton Hall Pirate's formula likes Cornell a lot. He also confirmed that everyone but Baker earned an at-large spot for Cornell. FTR, his rankings put Baker at 41, but that's still 8th in the conference. I'm feeling good about his late season run and his chances in Lewisburg.
Wrestlestat See above. Way overrated in dual/tournament rankings but it's nice to see anyway.
Conference Rankings EIWA hasn't updated, but I suppose these will be reflected in the seeds soon enough.
Coaches' Ranking / RPI Looking good. Baker got onto the RPI board. Possible that a 7th place showing in a 6 bid conference may earn him an at-large, especially if he pulls off a decent upset. Everyone else is expected, based on these numbers, to qualify for a trip to NCAAs.

[ugarte]

Not going to check around for rankings because who cares? The tournaments are this weekend. Along those lines, EIWA seeds are out, so here's my capsule tournament preview.

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          Seed Bids My thoughts
Ungar      2    5   Ungar will get a bid regardless of his performance but falling short of the final would be disappointing.
Arujau     2    5   Arujau will get a bid regardless, but he gets a chance at revenge against Lehigh's Crookham, his only loss of the year.
Cornella   2    4   Cornella will get a bid regardless. The top 4 are a notch above the rest of the field with a 2022 AA in Composto at 4.
Fernandez  1    4   Fernandez will get a bid regardless. Not a very strong bracket with a tricky opponent in Swisher the 4 seed.
Shapiro    1    3   Shapiro will get a bid regardless but anything short of a title will be disappointing and be bad for his NCAA seed.
Ramirez    1    5   Everything I said for Shapiro... ditto.
Baker      8    6   Baker almost certainly needs to finish top 6 to get a bid. Tough row to hoe, but not impossible. Wrestling well lately.
Foca       1    7   Foca will get a bid regardless and is the clear class of the bracket but for Ayzerov at 5 who has inexplicably beaten him twice.
Cardenas   2    6   Cardenas will get a bid regardless. The top 3 at the weight are all AA contenders and he's lost to 1 and 3. Revenge coming?
Fernandes  5    8   Fernandes will get a bid regardless. EIWA is really deep at the weight and with 8 bids a ton of margin for ever.
                    Would be nice to see him beat someone rated higher than him, which I don't know that he's ever done even though he almost
                    never gets upset.


[ugarte]

The tournament kicks off on Friday at 10:30 and will be streamed on FloSports, which is a subscription site. (I think they only go by year; they do have a some hockey from a conference I don't recall and a lot of non-revenue sports if that's a saving grace.

We have returning champions in Arujau, Cornella, Ramirez, Foca and Cardenas; Ungar is a returning finalist. We're the favorite, going away. That said, we did lose the dual meet to Lehigh and they have the top seeds at 125, 133, 197 and 285, so they're strong. Still, ours to lose.

[dag14]

Flo now has a monthly option, but it is pretty expensive -- $30 I think.

[ugarte]

nvm - i started a new thread for the postseason

[ugarte]

Final rankings and Seeds

The final rankings are about where you'd expect after the conference performance.
Ungar, Arujau, shapiro and Ramirez didn't change much because they performed as expected. Cornella slipped a bit because he got hurt at went 1-2 at Easterns and his health is suspect; see also, Foca. Cardenas and Fernandes hopped a couple of slots because they beat people just in front of them at Easterns. Fernandez jumped into the rankings that only went to 20 who hadn't acknowledged him yet but not much higher because 149 isn't a very strong weight for EIWA. Baker, on the other hand, is now ranked by everyone that goes to 33 after beating a then-top-10 wrestler twice to finish third at EIWA.

The official Coaches Ranking and RPI are out and since, they're part of the seeding formula it's no surprise that they look a lot like the NCAA seeds. You can see the full bracket here. The NCAA tournment kicks off on March 21.

NB: WIN, Open Mat and AWN only rank to 20; Flo and Intermat rank to 33.

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WIN Flo Intermat OpenMat AWN WS CR   RPI  Seed
125: Ungar NR 17 18 20 NR 21 19    5   17
133: Arujau 3 2 3  3  3 3 3    5    6
141: Cornella 20 18 18 17 15 20 22   13   24
149: Fernandez 20 26 15 14      20 13 18    8    9
157: Shapiro 3 3 3  2  2 2 3    1    3
165: Ramirez 7 3 3        5  4 5 4    7    3
174: Baker NR 22 24 NR NR     26 27   26   26
184: Foca   13 15 15 11  7 6 13   12   14
197: Cardenas 5 5 6  5  6 5 5    3    5
285: Fernandes 14 15 16 17 16 13 14   12   15
TEAM NCAA: 8 5 4  5 xx 3