Manheim, Pennsylvania – The new year opened with top-ranked Penn State setting a new team scoring record at the Southern Scuffle and numerous ranked teams met head-to-head, but the top 10 teams in the NWCA Division I Wrestling Coaches Poll remained the same as the new poll was released on Tuesday.
Penn State (4-0) was again the unanimous No. 1, followed by Ohio State, Oklahoma State, Iowa and Missouri.
No. 2 Ohio State improved to 4-0 with a 26-10 win over No. 9 NC State on Sunday in a dual shown live on ESPN2. Over 3,700 fans were in attendance. No. 6 Michigan improved to 3-0 after a west coast swing gave them wins over Oregon State 33-8 and No. 16 Arizona State 23-12. Michigan true freshman Mason Parris made his varsity debut against returning All-American Amar Dhesi of Oregon State and came away with a victory. Dhesi was ranked No. 1 according to a handful of college wrestling individual rankings.
No. 8 Minnesota (7-1) won its Big Ten opener with a 22-15 win over visiting Rutgers on Sunday. No. 11 Nebraska (5-2) rallied from an early deficit to beat Northwestern 26-14 on Sunday. The Huskers Tyler Berger knocked off second-ranked Ryan Deakin at 157 pounds in the dual’s feature match.
No 12 Wyoming moved up a spot after they swept the Cowboy Shootout in Laramie. The Cowboys (9-3) beat No. 15 North Carolina, Army West Point and American. All four schools are coached by Oklahoma State alumni. North Carolina (7-4) went 2-1 and earned wins over American and Army West Point.
The only other ranked team in action was Pittsburgh, which improved to 6-0 after beating Oklahoma 20-17 at Tuttle High School in Tuttle, Oklahoma.
The NWCA Division I Wrestling Coaches Poll is voted on by two coaches from each Division I wrestling conference. Each first-place vote is worth 25 points, 24 points for a second-place vote, 23 for a third-place vote and so on through to one point for a 25th-place vote.
| Rank | Team (First) | Record | Points | Conference | Previous |
| 1 | Penn State (16) | 4-0 | 400 | Big Ten | 1 |
| 2 | Ohio State | 5-0 | 381 | Big Ten | 2 |
| 3 | Oklahoma State | 5-0 | 370 | Big 12 | 3 |
| 4 | Iowa | 6-0 | 347 | Big Ten | 4 |
| 5 | Missouri | 10-0 | 336 | MAC | 5 |
| 6 | Michigan | 5-0 | 321 | Big Ten | 6 |
| 7 | Cornell | 5-1 | 305 | EIWA | 7 |
| 8 | Minnesota | 8-1 | 291 | Big Ten | 8 |
| 9 | NC State | 9-2 | 265 | ACC | 9 |
| 10 | Wisconsin | 6-1 | 256 | Big Ten | 10 |
| 11 | Nebraska | 6-2 | 242 | Big Ten | 11 |
| 12 | Wyoming | 9-3 | 215 | Big 12 | 13 |
| 13 | Virginia Tech | 2-2 | 204 | ACC | 12 |
| 14 | Northern Iowa | 1-2 | 175 | Big 12 | 14 |
| 15 | North Carolina | 7-4 | 166 | ACC | 15 |
| 16 | Arizona State | 1-4 | 147 | Pac-12 | 16 |
| 17 | Purdue | 3-4 | 122 | Big Ten | 17 |
| 18 | Pittsburgh | 6-0 | 119 | ACC | 20 |
| 19 | Illinois | 1-1 | 113 | Big Ten | 18 |
| 20 | Lock Haven | 2-0 | 111 | EWL | 19 |
| 21 | Iowa State | 2-1 | 97 | Big 12 | 21 |
| 22 | Utah Valley | 6-5 | 87 | Big 12 | 22 |
| 23 | North Dakota State | 6-3 | 47 | Big 12 | 20 |
| 24 | Rutgers | 6-2 | 43 | Big Ten | 24 |
| 25 | Princeton | 3-3 | 17 | EIWA | 25 |
Others Receiving Votes: Stanford 9, Old Dominion 7, Lehigh 5, Virginia 2
Dropped Out: None