Flo's Top 10 D1 Freshman

[Tom McAndrew]

can be accessed at THIS LINK. The list includes true freshmen and RS freshmen. Nick Suriano made the top 10, and Cenzo Joseph made honorable mention.

 

[purescurve]

can be accessed at THIS LINK. The list includes true freshmen and RS freshmen. Nick Suriano made the top 10, and Cenzo Joseph made honorable mention.

Looks like I am not the only one high on this Suriano guy

 

[CowboyUp61]

I really thought that Joseph would have been higher than Suriano and maybe more so that Massa. Am I not giving Massa enough credit, or giving Joseph too much?

 

[MDAlum]

Well said. Suriano is in a cleared out weight class (Mega moving on, Tomasello moving up) and can notch a lot of wins. And its been said before, but Bo is huge in that freestyle match. Seeing David Taylor get big, and seeing Bo there tells me these guys are cutting some significant weight.

 

[RoarLions1]

I really thought that Joseph would have been higher than Suriano and maybe more so that Massa. Am I not giving Massa enough credit, or giving Joseph too much?

Massa's lone loss in his RS year was to Dieringer (by Decision!!), and beat Pickett, Rasheed, and Welch. Joseph didn't wrestle a very competitive schedule at all. It's fair in my estimation.

Really high on Joseph, and hanging around with the likes of Retherford, Nolf, Megaludis, Conaway and others will greatly help with his "regimen".

 

[KidNittany]

Marinelli ahead of Joseph is wrong IMO

Massa is really good though and having him high on this list is not surprising to me.

Solid list. Love Eierman.

One of my sleepers is Fred Green out in Potatoville

 

[mrh1645]

I really thought that Joseph would have been higher than Suriano and maybe more so that Massa. Am I not giving Massa enough credit, or giving Joseph too much?

I think Joseph's FS results suggest he should have been higher, but maybe that is comparing apples to oranges. As RoarLions1 mentioned, Massa's folkstyle redshirt season was impressive while Cenzo missed weight at the two bigger events he was set to participate in. If you look at FS, Massa and Cenzo both wrestled in the Junior Nationals (April) and Junior WTTs (May).
Here are the results:

JUNIOR NATIONALS
Cenzo (3rd)
TF St. John 10-0
TF Elling 10-0
TF Walter 15-4
pin JoJo Smith
L dec. Hall 8-4
dec Kutler 8-2
pin A. Valencia

Massa (2nd)
TF Mejia 11-1
TF Perkins 10-0
TF Boylan 10-0
TF Early 14-3
TF A. Valencia 11-0
L by fall to Hall

JUNIOR WTTs
Cenzo (2nd)
TF Diblasi, 10-0
TF Bastian 12-2
dec A. Valencia, 14-13
L dec. Nolf, 5-2

Massa (3rd)
TF Gunther 10-0
L dec. Nolf 6-5
TF Lydy 13-0
dec Kutler 7-0

 

[matter7172]

Let's thank Flo for placing a chip on Cenzo's shoulder. Yeah, he lost to Nolf and Hall last year. Who didn't? Only guys that didn't wrestle them. Looking forward to Cenzo showing Flo they were wrong.

 

[Divided42]

I really thought that Joseph would have been higher than Suriano and maybe more so that Massa. Am I not giving Massa enough credit, or giving Joseph too much?

Well Massa has the better collegiate wins and the better freestyle wins including a head to head win over Joseph at Junior World Team Trials. It's not Massa that you should have issue with Joseph being behind, it's Marinelli. Who is very very good but has an extremely paltry list of notable wins outside of the win over Manville at Ironman 2 years ago.

 

[El-Jefe]

Cenzo promoted to #4 in the now top 11.

 

[CowboyUp61]

forgot Massa pinned him in true 2nd match. That would kind of explain it