The NCAA released the second coaches' poll and the first RPI rankings for the 2023-24 NCAA Season. The third coaches' poll and second RPI will come out on February 29, along with the NCAA Championship allocations for each conference tournament. 

Second Coaches' Poll

First RPI Ranking

INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA has announced the second coaches ranking and first

Ratings Percentage Index (RPI) for the 2024 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships.

The coaches’ rankings are determined by a vote of 14 coaches in each weight class with

two head coaches from each of the seven conferences. For ranking purposes, coaches may

only consider a wrestler that has been designated as a starter at a respective weight class.

Wrestlers must have eight Division I matches in the weight class to be considered with at least

one within the last 30 days.

The RPI is a calculation that consists of three factors: winning percentage, opponent

winning percentage (strength of schedule) and opponent’s opponent winning percentage

(opponent’s strength of schedule). Only matches against Division I opponents at the designated

weight class count towards the RPI and a wrestler needs to have wrestled 15 matches to be

ranked.

In the coaches rank, of the 10 weight classes two are led by former national champions

in Missouri’s Keegan O’Toole at 165 pounds, Penn State’s Carter Starocci at 174 pounds. The

pair has a combined five national titles led by Starocci with three.

Currently no wrestlers sit atop both the coaches rank and RPI in their respective weight

class. With many wrestlers still looking to reach the 15-match threshold to earn an RPI, the top

of those rankings looks a little different than the coaches’ rank.

At 125 pounds, Purdue’s Matt Ramos sits first in the coaches rank and second in RPI.

Jesse Mendez of Ohio State, Caleb Henson of Virginia Tech and Dustin Plott of Oklahoma

State are the top-ranked wrestlers in the RPI in their respective weight classes while being

ranked second in the coaches rank.

The coaches ranking and RPI are two of several criteria that will be evaluated by the

NCAA Division I Wrestling Committee during the at-large selection and seeding process along

with head-to-head competition, quality wins, conference tournament placement, results versus

common opponents and win percentage.

A full description of the entire selection process for the 2024 Division I Wrestling

Championships is available at ncaa.org.

The 2024 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships take place March 21-23 at T-Mobile

Center in Kansas City as the event returns to the city for the first time since 2003.