Win Magazine releases preseason high school wrestling rankings

by Jeff Fisher
Host, NHSCA Sports Hour
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The National High School Coaches Association's Final Four Festival in January is going to be a dandy if Win Magazine's preseason high school wrestling rankings are any indication. Three of the top six teams in the country are already entered in the field for the 15th annual event that will once again take place in York, Pennsylvania.

Headlining the field is defending 2012 NHSCA Final Four and national champ Blair Academy.  The Bucs are Win Magazine's preseason #1 team.  

Also in the NHSCA Final Four field is Wyoming Seminary (Pennsylvania), ranked #5 by Win Magazine, and Brandon (Florida), which is ranked #6 in the magazine's first poll of the season.

Below is Win Magazine's entire preseason Top 25 poll.

Win Magazine HS Wrestling Preseason Top 25

1. Blair Academy (New Jersey) 
2. Apple Valley (Minnesota)
3. Clovis (California)
4. Oak Park-River Forest (Illinois)
5. Wyoming Seminary (Pennsylvania)
6. Brandon (Florida)
7. Bergen Catholic (New Jersey)
8. St. Paris Graham (Ohio)
9. Franklin Regional (Pennsylvania)
10. Good Counsel (Maryland)
11. Archbishop Moeller (Ohio)
12. Massillon Perry (Ohio)
13. Marmion Academy (Illinois)
14. Montini Catholic (Illinois)
15. Edmond North (Oklahoma)
16. Don Bosco Prep (New Jersey)
17. Collinsville (Oklahoma)
18. Clovis Buchanan (California)
19. Bound Brook (New Jersey)
20. MacArthur (Oklahoma)
21. Marist (Illinois)
22. Hermiston (Oregon)
23. Centennial (Idaho)
24. Detroit Catholic Central (Michigan)
25. Mount Anthony (Vermont)