2020 Redshirt Report: 133 Pounds
2020 Redshirt Report: 133 Pounds
Who is coming out of redshirt and ready to wreak havoc in the NCAA wrestling season? We will tell you!
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Red alert! Or redshirt alert, we should say. It may still be the summer, but a distant early warning that the new season is rapidly approaching are these redshirt reports.
An ill wind comes arising across the cities and the plains for those who don't know who is coming off redshirt and preparing to swim in the heavy waters of the 2019-20 NCAA season.
It's hard to stay up to date with everyone passing through the revolving doors of eligibility. The world weighs on our shoulders as we try to keep up with what everyone is going to do. Some wrestlers cruise under our radar despite us watching from satellites. But we've kept most of them in our sites.
Below is our attempt to discern the left and rights of passage, despite facing the knowledge that the truth is not the truth. At least not absolutely, anyway.
Nonetheless, below is our redshirt report for 133-pounds!
2020 Redshirt Reports: 125 Pounds
Seth Gross, Wisconsin, Senior
Some very knowledgable folks were saying that the 133-pound weight class last year may have been the most competitive they ever recall. And that was with the returning NCAA Champ Seth Gross missing all but one match.
Gross is presumably healthy and ready to add to the ridiculousness that is 133-pounds. He's also being reunited with head coach Chris Bono. Gross transferred to Wisconsin in the offseason after convalescing in Brookings, SD where he won a national title for Bono in 2018 for the Jackrabbits of South Dakota State. Before that, Gross was runnerup in 2017. In 2016 Gross reached the round of 12 at 141-pounds.
The Minnesota native figures to be the most impactful transfer and most credentialed competitor that sat (nearly) all of last season out. Regardless of how Gross' final season of eligibility shakes out, he just made a monster weight class that much more exciting.
Watch Seth Gross bump up from 133 to 141 to take on then #1 ranked Bryce Meredith during the 2016-17 season:
Taylor LaMont, Utah Valley, Sophomore
Like Gross, LaMont also missed the 2018-19 season due to injury. Also like Gross, LaMont reached the bloodround at the NCAA Tournament in his first year of eligibility. Unlike Gross, LaMont is expected to jump up a weight class in his second season of eligibility.
LaMont is also quite accomplished in Greco-Roman, having made five age-level world teams and notching a bronze medal at the 2016 Junior World Championships at 60 kg.
Utah Valley doesn't often find itself in the headlines, and having been out of action for a year, it would be easy to overlook LaMont in an already stacked division. We advise all spectators and competitors to avoid doing so, for their own benefit.
Watch LaMont defeat three-time All-American Ethan Lizak at the 2017 Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational:
Collin Gerardi, Virginia Tech, Freshman
With three-time NCAA qualifier Korbin Myers moving down to 125, the Hokies have an open spot at 133, which second-year man Collin Gerardi will look to claim in his first year of eligibility. Gerardi had a solid if not spectacular redshirt campaign with high potential for the postseason.
Watch Gerardi take All-American Roman Bravo-Young to overtime in the 2019 Southern Scuffle quarterfinals:
Jarrett Trombley, North Carolina State, Freshman
With All-American Tariq Wilson moving up to 141, the Wolfpack need a new 133-pounder, and it will likely be Jarrett Trombley. Trombley split matches with Gerardi over the course of their respective redshirt seasons, with the two potentially setting up a long term ACC lightweight rivalry.
Gavin Teasdale, Iowa, Freshman
Our bad for failing to mention Teasdale when this list was originally published. The Pennsylvania native had a tumultuous first year at Penn State that saw him eventually removed from the Nittany Lion roster. Teasdale found a new home in Iowa City and is by all accounts thriving in the Hawkeye wrestling room. Where Teasdale will fit into a lineup with Spencer Lee at 125, Austin DeSanto at 133, and two NCAA qualifiers in Max Murin and Vince Turk at 141 is anyone's guess, but a talent like Teasdale rarely stays on the bench for long.
Chance Rich, CSU-Bakersfield, Freshman
Rich will likely be the main man at 133 for the Roadrunners after a fairly quotidian redshirt season, competing in five opens and emerging with an 8-6 record.
Chris Wright, Rider, Freshman
Wright entered five tournaments as a redshirt and emerged with a 13-7 record, all against D1 competition. He should factor into the plans of John Hangey's rugged Rider wrestling crew this season.
Zach Price, South Dakota State, Freshman
Price recorded a 21-8 season while redshirted, but had a losing record when only considering D1 opponents. That still may be enough for him to nab the starting job for Damion Hahn and the South Dakota Jackrabbits.
Drew Bennett, Northern Iowa, Freshman
Bennett is going to have to navigate a crowded crop of lower weights if he wants to find his way into the Panther starting lineup, as Doug Schwab will have to choose between Bennett, Jay Schwarm, Jack Skudlarczck and Kyle Biscoglia with just two weight classes for the bunch. Bennett's 14-4 record as a freshman was decent but he may have to wait another season before he sees consistent varsity action.
Jamie Hernandez, North Carolina, Sophomore
Hernandez technically did not redshirt last season, as he wrestled varsity in several dual meets, but he didn't start the post-season due having a pair of national qualifiers at 133 and 141 ahead of him in Gary Wayne Harding and AC Headlee respectively. So he is being included in the spirit of listing wrestlers who did not participate in the 2019 postseason but figure to be in the mix in 2020. It's our list and we'll be as arbitrary with it as we like.
Nick Farro, Lehigh, Junior
Like Hernandez, Farro also didn't take a redshirt last season. After a truncated stint at 125, Farro moved up mid-season to 133 and was not part of Lehigh's postseason. With 2019's 133 National Qualifier Brandon Paetzell moving down to 125, expect Farro to be the Mountain Hawk at 133.
Allan Hart, Missouri, Sophomore
Another non-redshirt for the redshirt report (consider these bonus entries, providing far more value than your standard run-of-the-mill redshirt report would), Hart sat behind three-time qualifier and 2019 All-American John Erneste, but is expected to be the starter in 2020.
Ty Agaisse, Princeton, Junior
Agaisse was only able to compete in one match over the last two seasons, and we honestly wouldn't be surprised if he came back with three years of eligibility or one. Regardless, Agaisse will have to fend off talented Tiger teammates Jonathon Gomez and Sean Pierson for the starting job, but figures to be a force to reckon with should he earn the spot.