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Postseason Reset: New Names, Weight Jumps and Tough Decisions Shape Latest National Wrestling Rankings
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Postseason Reset: New Names, Weight Jumps and Tough Decisions Shape Latest National Wrestling Rankings

High School On SI·Billy Buckheit·about 1 month ago
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This report represents our first post-season national high school wrestling rankings of 2026. That meant plenty of weight movement and a significant amount of results to be considered. This includes everything from the USA Wrestling Folkstyle Nationals up to the U.S. Open. No results from the Open have been factored into this list. That will come with our next update. What you will see here are wrestlers slotted into their U.S. Open weight classes. We suspect significant movement of a lot of guys once we get back to normal weights. Fourteen classes have been narrowed down to 10 in the U17 and U20 fields, forcing wrestlers into weights that may not be ideal for them.  A shining example of this is Ohio’s Rylan Seacrist and Illinois’ Caleb Noble, who are normally at 113 pounds, but the U20 brackets begin at 57 kilograms (approximately 126 pounds), so they either had to wrestle up or sit it out. There are many others who had to make the same difficult choice.…

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