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NCAA Wrestling: Ranking 2021-2022 weight classes

By Chris Snyder

ST LOUIS, MO - MARCH 20: Cater Starocci of Penn State celebrates after beating Michael Kemerer of Iowa in the 174lb weight class in the first-place match during the NCAA Division I Men's Wrestling Championship at the Enterprise Center on March 20, 2021 in St Louis, Missouri. (Photo by Dilip Vishwanat/Getty Images)
ST LOUIS, MO - MARCH 20: Cater Starocci of Penn State celebrates after beating Michael Kemerer of Iowa in the 174lb weight class in the first-place match during the NCAA Division I Men's Wrestling Championship at the Enterprise Center on March 20, 2021 in St Louis, Missouri. (Photo by Dilip Vishwanat/Getty Images) /
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Nick Lee of Penn State (Photo by Dilip Vishwanat/Getty Images)
Nick Lee of Penn State (Photo by Dilip Vishwanat/Getty Images) /

Things could be interesting? But probably not – No. 2

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2021 Top 4
1. Nick Lee (Sr.) Penn State
2. Jaydin Eierman (Sr.) Iowa
3. Tariq Wilson (Sr.) NC State
4. Sebastian Rivera (Sr.) Rutgers

So Nick Lee wins his first ever NCAA title and now you think he can sleepwalk his way through the 141 group in 2021-2022?

Yes. Yes I do.

I truly believe Lee’s thrilling revenge victory against Iowa’s Jaydin Eierman in the 2021 NCAA finals has propelled him several notches higher than anyone else at 141. And Nick isn’t about to let anyone take his crown in the 2021-2022 season.

I will admit, with Eierman now entering his 12th season as a collegiate wrestler, the experience and training he’s added along the way does have to count for something. But the so-called Riddler isn’t fooling Nick Lee again.

*checks notes* My apologies. This is Eierman’s 7th season as a collegiate wrestler.

The guy who scares me the most in this group? It’s Rutger’s Sebastian Rivera. I have no idea what his plans are for the 2021-2022 season, but if they’re like each of the past three seasons, then Rivera is going to bump up to 149.

In 2019 Rivera took home 3rd place in the NCAA’s at 125. The following year (2020) he moved up to 133 and beat RBY to win the B1G title. Then in 2021 Rivera moved up once again to 141 and snagged 4th place in the NCAA’s. The dude can flat out wrestle and he’s always going to be one of the nation’s best regardless of which weight class he’s in.

But this is still Nick Lee’s class to own.

Moving on.

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