2010-11 Cal Poly Roster 2010-11 Cal Poly Wrestling Roster Name Barrett Abel Tucker Armstrong Kelan Bragg Jesse Delgado Ryan DesRoches Atticus Disney Geoffrey Doss Nick Fisher Travis Gallegos Alex Grandy Stephan Hampton Dominic Kastl Britain Longmire Drew Meulman Boris Novachkov Filip Novachkov Jim Powers Travis Rasmussen ]Brandan Rocha Ryan Smith Pearce Swerdfeger Jake Tanenbaum Stephen Thalin Steven Vasquez Matt Wykoff
Ht 5-10 5-4 6-1 5-5 5-11 6-2 5-8 5-10 5-11 6-2 6-2 5-11 5-3 6-0 5-7 5-8 6-1 6-0 5-4 6-0 6-0 5-8 5-10 5-10 5-10
Co-Head Coaches: Assistant Coach:
Yr. Sr. Fr. Jr. Fr. Jr. So. So. So. Fr. Fr. So. Fr. R-Fr. Fr. Jr. Sr. Sr. So. R-Fr. Jr. R-Fr. So. Sr. So. Fr.
Exp. TR HS 2V HS 2V TR 1V 1V HS HS TR HS RS HS 2V 3V 2V 1V RS 2V RS 1V 3V 1V HS
Class 157 149 285 125 174 285 149 149 165 184 184 165 125 285 141 133 285 157 133 184 157 125 149 165 174
Hometown (Schools Attended) Diamond Springs, CA Springfield, OH Tustin, CA Gilroy, CA Deer Park, Wash. Topeka, KS Los Gatos, CA Fresno, CA Palo Cedro, CA Santa Maria, CA Red Bluff, CA Gilroy, CA Las Vegas, NV Los Gatos, CA Sunnyvale, CA Sunnyvale, CA Ramsey, N.J. Bakersfield, CA Lemoore, CA Temecula, CA Glendale, AZ Leawood, KS San Jose, CA Tracy, CA Visalia, CA
John Azevedo (Eighth Season, Cal State Bakersfield ’81) Mark Perry (Second Season, Iowa ’08) Tyrel Todd (First Season, Michigan ’09)
Mustangs Return to National Polls
Barrett Abel was 21-9 and Pac-10 champ at 149 while at UC Davis.
After an absence of a few years, the Cal Poly wrestling team is back in the national rankings. The Mustangs were ranked anywhere from No. 15 to 25 most of the 2009-10 season, finished tied for 18th in the NCAA National Championships and opened the 2010-11 campaign with national rankings from No. 16 to 28. Co-head coaches John Azevedo and Mark Perry guided the Mustangs to to an early No. 16 ranking in WIN Magazine's Tournament Power Index, a measure of how a team will do in tournament competition. Amateur Wrestling News ranked Cal Poly No. 18 while WrestlingReport.com places the Mustangs 19th. The Mustangs are receiving votes in the National Wrestling Coaches Association poll. Individually, the Novachkov brothers are receiving the highest rankings. Boris Novachkov, seventh in the NCAA finals at 133 a year ago, was ranked No. 5 at 141 pounds by The Open Mat (formerly D1collegewrestling.net), No. 5 by WrestlingReport.com, No. 6 by both WIN Magazine and Amateur Wrestling News
and No. 9 by InterMat. Filip Novachkov was ranked No. 4 by Amateur Wrestling News and WrestlingReport.com at 133 pounds, No. 5 by InterMat and No. 6 by WIN Magazine. Ryan DesRoches, who recorded a school record-tying 17 falls a year ago, is ranked No. 12 by WIN Magazine, No. 17 by The Open Mat and WrestlingReport.com and No. 19 by InterMat. Barrett Abel, the transfer from UC Davis who was a Pac-10 champion a year ago, is ranked No. 15 by InterMat and WrestlingReport.com at 157 pounds, No. 16 by The Open Mat, No. 17 by WIN Magazine and No. 18 by Amateur Wrestling News. Atticus Disney, a transfer from Minnesota, has earned a No. 10 national ranking at 285 pounds by Amateur Wrestling News, No 11 by WIN Magazine, No. 15 by The Open Mat, No. 16 by WrestlingReport.com and No. 17 by InterMat. Nick Fisher drew a No. 29 ranking at 149 pounds by WrestlingReport.com while Ryan Smith is ranked No. 28 by the same Web site.
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