Back in the days when I had more time, I use to do my own rankings, which does take a lot of time. I would rank all of the others and then try to plug in the ones from our school which is really hard and over the years I have seen rankers that had their own kids way too high more than too low. it is a hard part of the job. As far as weights, yes I know a lot of wrestlers have a good idea where they want to go but this too is not necessarily where they will be. It takes about a week of practice to really figure out where you should be. obviously for those that wrestle year round, they have a better idea of what to expect of their weight when conditioning starts.

Obviously, Chief has put a lot of time into his rankings. I some times wonder if he actually has a job. As for the new rankers, they are just getting started and I think anyone who has ever ranked kids knows it is just one opinion.

As far as the team rankings. Jeff West has one kid ranked (yes a stud) but not much else returning form the state tournament and Chanute has a #1, three #3 ranked and two #5 ranked kids. Obviously that is not credible by anyone's measure and if I were the ones doing the rankings, I would re-think how that is done or not even bother. "no criticism of Jeff West intended"