285 - Kerkvliet down two to #5; Cassioppi up one to #4; Parris up one to #3.
285 seems like an interesting discussion.
Kerk gets screwed on both the recency bias front and Schultz' duck. We're at the point of the season where rankings really do matter, so it'd be nice if the seeding committee treated that duck as an implicit loss to Kerk should we get there.
Gable is obviously in the 1 spot and unlikely to vacate it.
Parris has a loss to Kerk and Gable, but Kerk hasn't wrestled Gable (and won't until B1Gs)
Kerk has only one loss, to Cass, and some dominant wins. He didn't face Jordan Wood (whose only loss is to Cass), but was legitimately out sick/injured.
Cass got majored by Gable (so did Parris), beat Kerk, and got pinned by Jack DelGarbino, the only bad loss among the top guys. That should count, negatively, for something (yes, I know it actually counts for little).
Schultz hasn't wrestled anyone of particular note this year, and even some of his wins are eye-raising, such as when he edged Wyoming's Terren Swartz (who is 2-11 in D1 matches) 2-1. And of course he watched matside while Kerk went out and majored his backup.
Wyatt Hendrickson, like Schultz, is also undefeated but without many quality wins because of Air Force's schedule. That said, he's hammering everyone. 10 Falls, 1 TF, 1 MD, 1 DEC, 1 FFT. He deserves to be in the mix too. That said, he bonused a lot of guys last year too, and came up a match short of AA'ing.
Jordan Wood is 12-1 (aforementioned loss to Cass) in D1 matches but doesn't put up a lot of offense or bonus.
The conference tournaments may clean up some of this, but if Kerk winds up seeded fourth at B1Gs, in line with these rankings, he'll be unlikely to escape Gable's top half of the bracket, because the best he'd be able to do, assuming a loss to Gable there (I'm being realistic here--no one is on Gable's level), is finish third in B1Gs, which would translate to 4th or 5th seed at the NCAAs. Ironically, finishing 4th at B1Gs could drop him to a 6th or 7th seed, on the bottom half at NCAAs, if Hendrickson and Schultz squeeze in there and maybe Wood. All three guys are favorites to take their conferences.
Of the remaining regular season matches that could impact the aforementioned seeding speculation, Cass has Trent Hilger this coming weekend (Cass majored him last year), but that's unlikely to move the needle. Parris faces Matt Stencel on 2/20 and has beaten Stencel the last three times they've faced each other (4-1, 4-0, 9-2, all in the 2020 season), but Stencel pinned Parris in the 2019 NCAAs.
The only match with certain implications is Jordan Wood and Cohlton Schultz, scheduled to face each other on 2/18. The loser would likely drop below the B1G four, and if the loser is Schultz, maybe the NCAA committee would leave the B1G conference finishers intact for Detroit. Or Zeke could protect Schultz again and see how that goes.