D1CW's Recruiting Rewind

[Earl]

2010's Recruiting Rewind has been posted. For those not familiar with it, I have listed my top 50 recruits from the Class of 2010 (which were posted in Summer 2010) and posted high school achievements for the top 20. Then I have come up with a fairly easy to understand point system, in which to grade the collegiate career, based on accomplishments at their respective conference tournament, as well as NCAA's. The 2009 Class came out a little fluky last year when 4x NCAA Champ Kyle Dake was re-ranked as the #3 overall recruit from the class. This is because the system is very Big Ten heavy, which generally makes sense.

Without further...here it is. I'll have more info later today about how the Class compares to others and my usual dose of useless (but fun) information....

www.d1collegewrestling.net/Recruiting_2010.html

[Earl]

Here is the list of the top 100 wrestlers from 2005-2010 based on D1CW's Recruiting Rewind point scale.....

1) Logan Stieber (Ohio State)--2010 88 points

2) Ed Ruth (Penn State)--2009 85 points

2) David Taylor (Penn State)--2009 85 points

4) Kyle Dake (Cornell)--2009 75 points

4) Tony Nelson (Minnesota)--2009 75 points

6) Jake Varner (Iowa State)--2005 74 points

6) Quentin Wright (Penn State)--2008 74 points

8) Andrew Howe (Wisconsin/Oklahoma)--2008 73 points

9) Jordan Oliver (Oklahoma State)--2008 69 points

9) Matt McDonough (Iowa)--2008 69 points

11) Derek St. John (Iowa)--2009 68 points

12) Jayson Ness (Minnesota)--2005 67 points

13) Mike McMullan (Northwestern)--2010 66 points

14) Angel Escobedo (Indiana)--2005 65 points

15) Tony Ramos (Iowa)--2009 64 points

16) Troy Nickerson (Cornell)--2005 63 points

16) Kellen Russell (Michigan)--2007 63 points

16) Dylan Ness (Minnesota)--2010 63 points

19) Jesse Delgado (Illinois)--2010 61 points

20) Brent Metcalf (Iowa)--2005 60 points

20) Chris Perry (Oklahoma State)--2009 60 points

22) Jordan Burroughs (Nebraska)--2006 59 points

22) Tyler Caldwell (Oklahoma/Oklahoma State)--2009 59 points

22) Tyler Graff (Wisconsin)--2008 59 points

25) Cam Simaz (Cornell)--2007 58 points

26) Frank Molinaro (Penn State)--2007 57 points

26) Robert Kokesh (Nebraska)--2010 57 points

28) Matt Brown (Penn State)--2008 54 points

28) Zach Rey (Lehigh)--2007 54 points

28) Craig Brester (Nebraska)--2005 54 points

31) Franklin Gomez (Michigan State)--2005 53 points

31) Jason Welch (Northwestern)--2008 53 points

33) Mike Pucillo (Ohio State)--2005 52 points

34) Dustin Schlatter (Minnesota)--2005 51 points

34) David Zabriskie (Iowa State)--2005 51 points

34) Nick Amuchastegui (Stanford)--2007 51 points

34) Lance Palmer (Ohio State)--2006 51 points

38) Mitchell Port (Edinboro)--2010 50 points

38) Zach Sanders (Minnesota)--2007 50 points

40) Nick Heflin (Ohio State)--2009 49 points

40) Mack Lewnes (Cornell)--2006 49 points

40) Montell Marion (Iowa)--2006 49 points

40) Jared Rosholt (Oklahoma State)--2005 49 points

44) Max Askren (Missouri)--2005 48 points

44) Steve Bosak (Cornell)--2008 48 points

44) Gregor Gillespie (Edinboro)--2005 48 points

44) Dustin Kilgore (Kent State)--2007 48 points

48) Drake Houdashelt (Missouri)--2010 47 points

48) Jon Reader (Iowa State)--2006 47 points

48) Anthony Robles (Arizona State)--2006 47 points

51) Kendric Maple (Oklahoma)--2009 46 points

51) Devin Carter (Virginia Tech)--2010 46 points

51) Mike Evans (Iowa)--2010 46 points

51) Robert Hamlin (Lehigh)--2008 46 points

55) JP O'Connor (Harvard)--2006 45 points

55) Chris Dardanes (Minnesota)--2010 45 points

55) Kevin Steinhaus (Minnesota)--2009 45 points

58) Boris Novachkov (Cal Poly)--2007 44 points

58) Scott Schiller (Minnesota)--2010 44 points

58) Dan Vallimont (Penn State)--2005 44 points

61) Kyven Gadson (Iowa State)--2010 43 points

61) Jimmy Kennedy (Illinois)--2006 43 points

63) Jay Borschel (Iowa)--2005 42 points

63) Bubba Jenkins (Penn State/Arizona State)--2006 42 points

65) Jason Chamberlain (Boise State)--2008 41 points

65) Hudson Taylor (Maryland)--2005 41 points

65) Taylor Walsh (Indiana)--2010 41 points

68) Ben Bennett (Central Michigan)--2008 40 points

68) Joe LeBlanc (Wyoming)--2007 40 points

68) AJ Schopp (Edinboro)--2010 40 points

71) Darrion Caldwell (NC State)--2006 39 points

71) Jordan Blanton (Illinois)--2008 39 points

72) Ryan Flores (Columbia/American)--2007 39 points

72) Brandon Precin (Northwestern)--2006 39 points

75) Trevor Brandvold (Wisconsin)--2006 38 points

75) Michael Cannon (American)--2005 38 points

75) Reece Humphrey (Ohio State)--2005 38 points

75) Ethen Lofthouse (Iowa)--2009 38 points

75) Alan Waters (Missouri)--2010 38 points

80) Adam Hall (Boise State)--2006 37 points

80) Phil Keddy (Iowa)--2005 37 points

80) Kyle Ruschell (Wisconsin)--2005 37 points

83) Mark Ellis (Missouri)--2005 36 points

84) Chase Pami (Cal Poly)--2005 35 points

85) Stephen Dwyer (Nebraska)--2006 34 points

85) David Habat (Edinboro)--2010 34 points

85) Chris Henrich (Virginia)--2007 34 points

85) Andrew Long (Iowa State/Penn State)--2008 34 points

85) Nick Marable (Missouri)--2005 34 points

85) Cyler Sanderson (Iowa State/Penn State)--2005 34 points

91) Clayton Foster (Oklahoma State)--2007 33 points

91) Nick Gallik (Iowa State)--2005 33 points

91) Chris Honeycutt (Edinboro)--2007 33 points

91) Kirk Smith (Boise State)--2007 33 points

91) Nick Sulzer (Virginia)--2010 33 points

96) Eric Grajales (Michigan)--2008 32 points

96) Tyler Nauman (Pittsburgh)--2007 32 points

98) Nick Dardanes (Minnesota)--2010 31 points

98) Ryan Morningstar (Iowa)--2005 31 points

98) Jamal Parks (Oklahoma State)--2007 31 points

98) Jimmy Sheptock (Maryland)--2009 31 points

98) Mike Thorn (Minnesota)--2006 31 points

98) Matt Wilps (Pittsburgh)--2008 31 points

98) Sonny Yohn (Minnesota)--2007 31 points

[yankeefan33]

Unless I missed something, shouldn't Pierce Harger be up here? 8th at NCAA's with 3 other qualifications (for 11 points), and four placements at Big 10's (for 12 points). 23 points would put him at 25th

[Earl]

Apr 28, 2015 13:57:04 GMT -5 yankeefan33 said:

Unless I missed something, shouldn't Pierce Harger be up here? 8th at NCAA's with 3 other qualifications (for 11 points), and four placements at Big 10's (for 12 points). 23 points would put him at 25th

Yes you're absolutely right. He had been added.

[gostanford]

Who's the most overachieving, under-recruited wrestler of the HS classes from 2005-2010? I believe Jesse Delgado wasn't even on InterMat's Top 100 recruits in 2010, and he was quite low (75!) on this one too. He came out as a 3x All-American and 2x NCAA Champ! I think those credentials might put him as one of the fore-runners. It'd be interesting to see a list of maybe the top 25 steals--for a lack of better words.

A formula we can use off the top of my head is taking their HS rank and subtracting it from their college rank (maybe not the best way to approach it).

For instance: Delgado was #75 in the HS c/o 2010 but ended up #4 in college c/o 2015: That would give him a whopping 71 points!

Somebody like Logan Stieber who was the #1 recruit ended up being the #1 guy in the college c/o 2015. That would give him 0 points (which is expected!). Logan Stieber was no steal! He was expected to achieve greatness, which he did. As stated before, we're looking for the best "steals". So it'd make sense to leave guys like Stieber, Ruth, Dake and Taylor off this list. Using this system would likely leave anyone who was a top 30 or so recruit off the list--which makes sense IMO.

Here are some other steals to look at:
Chris Dardanes was #81 in HS, and he ended up #11 after college: 70 points!

Scott Schiller was #78, ended up #12: 66 points!

Perhaps this system would also indicate which programs are great at developing their recruits (Minnesota?)!

A question I found myself pondering over was what to do with guys who weren't even ranked at all such as Tyler Wilps. I'm guessing it'd be fair to give them (and anyone else above 100) a base highschool score of  100.

That would leave Tyler Wilps (#20 in 2015) with 80 points! A guy who wasn't even on many school's radars ended up being a 2x All-American and NCAA Finalist--perhaps the biggest steal of 2010?

Stanford's Nick Amuchastegu was unranked in the C/o 2007 and ended up #5: 95 points!

Jordan Burroughs was 94 and ended up #1: 93 points!