Wrestling USA Magazine has ranked Spartan senior Matt Tourdot as the 17th best 215-pound wrestler in the country in this year’s senior class. Tourdot, coming off a summer in which he became Sparta’s first ever All-American, enters the school year as the second-ranked wrestler at his weight class in the state of Wisconsin according to the same rankings. Ranked third at 215 is Beloit Memorial’s Alex Polizzi.
The top ranked wrestler in this year’s senior class at 215 pounds is Trevor Rupp of Pocatello, ID who Tourdot wrestled twice earlier this summer in Fargo and lost both matches. However, Tourdot wrestled Nate Gaffney of Connellsville, PA at the same tournament and pinned him in 57 seconds. Gaffney enters the year ranked ahead of Tourdot at 4th.
Full rankings for all weight classes can be found here.
Here are the top 30 ranked wrestlers in this year’s 215 pound senior class.
1. Trevor Rupp (Pocatello, ID)
2. Aaron Pavlenko (Marcos de Niza, AZ)
3. Alex Polizzi (Beloit Memorial, WI)
4. Nate Gaffney (Connellsville, PA)
5. Kyle Colling (Pioneer, NY)
6. Spencer Myers (Selinsgrove, PA)
7. Antonio Giorgio (Warwick, PA)
8. Kyle Caylor (Wichita Northwest, KS)
9. Matthew Loew (Wantagh, NY)
10. Kyle Cowan (Cascia Hall, OK)
11. Kevin Innes (St. Peters Prep, NJ)
12. Drew Meulman (Saint Francis, CA)
13. Jacob Trotter (Mead, WA)
14. Brian Schoene (Bakersfield, CA)
15. Zach Greenwald (Paulsboro, NJ)
16. Beau Wenger (Fairless, OH)
17. Matt Tourdot (Sparta, WI)
18. Josh Davis (Freehold, NJ)
19. Cody Davis (The Woodlands, TX)
20. Don McNeil (Wyoming Seminary, PA)
21. Derrick Laney (Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe, GA)
22. Zeal McGrew (Burnt Hills, NY)
23. Trevor Voelker (Dallas Center-Grimes, IA)
24. Cody Dauphin (El Reno, OK)
25. Nick McDiarmid (Fowlerville, MI)
26. Zach Smith (Boylan, IL)
27. C.J. Collins (Collins Hill, GA)
28. Cody Mansur (Clackamas, OR)
29. Logan White (St. Paris Graham, OH)
30. Christian Lentz (Mishawaka, IN)