We signed a very good class, filling a lot of future holes with high level guys.
We have had threads on most of the verbal below, so in brief:
Note: not sure if everyone below has signed their LOI as of yet.
Sammy Sasso
Projected 149 from the Lehigh Valley of western PA. Very high ceiling. Very good folkstyle wrestler with a killer cradle. Fits well with Jaggers (assistant coach) as they have similar styles.
PA state champ x1. In his freshman and sophomore years his only losses at the state tourney have been to Spencer Lee and Luke Pletcher.
Ironman champ, S32 champ.
He should take over the 149 spot during his redshirt freshman year (if Ke-shawn Hayes goes 141 for his senior year)
He is #12 on Flo's 2018 overall board.
He is #7 on Flo's pound for pound board. (based on wins/losses vs high ranked guys)
He is ranked as the #1 at 149 for NCAA Prospect rankings.
So basically, we needed a future 149 pounder, and we got the #1 guy.
Gavin Hoffman
Projected 197, also from western PA.
World team member (cadet level) this year. Won a bronze medal.
He is #10 on Flo's pound for pound board.
He is the #1 ranked high school 195, recently beating the #2 (Michael Beard, Penn State commit).
He is #7 on Flo's class of 2018 big board.
(Flo has not yet released a NCAA Prospect rankings for this weight, but I would assume he would be #1)
He will redshirt in 2018-9, then probably have to sit behind rs-sr Kollin Moore in 2019/20. Then take over for Kollin in 2020-21 season.
Here is one of his Akron final matches vs Karoly from last spring:
Malik Heinselman
Malik is from Colorado.
Very small kid at this point. Projected career 125 pounder.
Freestyle specialist. Has been on numerous world teams, cadet and junior levels.
He is #40 on Flo's class of 2018 big board (low due to the fact that he has been in so low of weight classes that he really hasnt wrestled a lot of big matches)
He is ranked #7 at 120 on Flo.
He is #13 on Flo's NCAA Prospect board for 125.
He will probably have to redshirt next year, and grow. He is very small and will need to get bigger overall to compete at a high level at 125 pounds. But, after a redshirt year, he should be a 4 year starter (tho Jacob Decatur will provide a challenge once he arrives on campus 2019.)
Here is his Fargo finals from 2016
more to come...
We have had threads on most of the verbal below, so in brief:
Note: not sure if everyone below has signed their LOI as of yet.
Sammy Sasso
Projected 149 from the Lehigh Valley of western PA. Very high ceiling. Very good folkstyle wrestler with a killer cradle. Fits well with Jaggers (assistant coach) as they have similar styles.
PA state champ x1. In his freshman and sophomore years his only losses at the state tourney have been to Spencer Lee and Luke Pletcher.
Ironman champ, S32 champ.
He should take over the 149 spot during his redshirt freshman year (if Ke-shawn Hayes goes 141 for his senior year)
He is #12 on Flo's 2018 overall board.
He is #7 on Flo's pound for pound board. (based on wins/losses vs high ranked guys)
He is ranked as the #1 at 149 for NCAA Prospect rankings.
So basically, we needed a future 149 pounder, and we got the #1 guy.
Gavin Hoffman
Projected 197, also from western PA.
World team member (cadet level) this year. Won a bronze medal.
He is #10 on Flo's pound for pound board.
He is the #1 ranked high school 195, recently beating the #2 (Michael Beard, Penn State commit).
He is #7 on Flo's class of 2018 big board.
(Flo has not yet released a NCAA Prospect rankings for this weight, but I would assume he would be #1)
He will redshirt in 2018-9, then probably have to sit behind rs-sr Kollin Moore in 2019/20. Then take over for Kollin in 2020-21 season.
Here is one of his Akron final matches vs Karoly from last spring:
Malik Heinselman
Malik is from Colorado.
Very small kid at this point. Projected career 125 pounder.
Freestyle specialist. Has been on numerous world teams, cadet and junior levels.
He is #40 on Flo's class of 2018 big board (low due to the fact that he has been in so low of weight classes that he really hasnt wrestled a lot of big matches)
He is ranked #7 at 120 on Flo.
He is #13 on Flo's NCAA Prospect board for 125.
He will probably have to redshirt next year, and grow. He is very small and will need to get bigger overall to compete at a high level at 125 pounds. But, after a redshirt year, he should be a 4 year starter (tho Jacob Decatur will provide a challenge once he arrives on campus 2019.)
Here is his Fargo finals from 2016
more to come...
