For what it's worth...08-09 WR.com Team Rankings

[setonhallpirate]

Note: I did this on the same 20-16-13.5-12.5-10-9-6.5-5.5-2-2-2-2-1.5-1.5-1.5-1.5 I do for everybody, except I only went down to 16 because that was all I could fill at 125's. Note that I simply deleted all seniors from the preseason lists, which may not be fair to those teams with quite a bit of depth, and ignores redshirts and whatnot, but at least it's something (albeit admittedly flawed)...one thing's for sure, and that's that unlike this year's apparent yawner of a team race, next year will likely be a dogfight...

1) Iowa State, 69.5 (1-2-5-6-6)
2) Nebraska, 65.5 (1-2-3-7)
3) Illinois, 64.5 (2-3-5-6-6-8)
4) Cornell, 53 (2-4-4-5)
5) Wisconsin, 52.5 (2-3-4-7)
6t) Indiana, 51 (1-2-3)
6t) Missouri, 51 (1-5-6-7)
6t) Ohio State, 51 (2-2-3-8)
9) Minnesota, 44 (1-4-5)
10) Harvard, 40.5 (3-4-4)
11) Oklahoma State, 39 (1-5-8)
12) Penn State, 38.5 (3-4-6)
13) Michigan, 37.5 (2-2-8)
14) Edinboro, 37 (1-3)
15) West Virginia, 32 (1-7-8)
16) Iowa, 27 (5-5)
17) Central Michigan, 23.5 (1)
18t) Maryland, 22.5 (4-5)
18t) Navy, 22.5 (4-5)
20) Cal State-Fullerton, 20 (1)

Numbers in parenthesis indicate finishes by All-Americans.

[stovepipe]

^^^PIRATE, Excellent and interesting post/analysis. Thank You, -Stove Pipe

[setonhallpirate]

Oh, yeah, one other comment...if Iowa finishes 16th, Tom Brands better get his resume polished, because he's not going to be at Iowa for very long after that...

[yankeekev]

Excellent observation.....Doesn't give any consideration to depth as you said but if some rs freshman don't step up for the Big 3 (OSU IOWA MINN) there will be some disgruntled homers.

[yankeekev]

I wish more wrestling afficianados posted on this site......I just read your post on themat.com
and maybe I just understand your post because my brother does the same thing on an excel spreadsheet (4 yrs out) but for those guys to call you retarded shows their ignorance as to how the tourny works. I love the post.

[l8agin]

This could be a great place to post without the ignorance.
Good job with the point totals
L8agin