Lorenzo Serna of Emporia will be a senior next year and he is the returning state champion with a 37-3 record last year. He has to be the strong favorite to repeat.

However, he will be challenged by Ryan Kincaid of Miege who had a 16-9 reord last year that included two wins at State. He was only one victory away from placing this past year. Ryan was a transfer and only wrestled a half of a season. Ryan has been wrestling quite a bit this off season. Ryan placed 1st at Kansas Kids State and fourth at Brute Nationals. In freestyle and greco this off season he has three tournament wins and one second place.

Three returning juniors next year who will be strong challengers are state qualifiers Justin Walberg of St. Thomas Aquinas, David Garcia of Newton and Zach Hammer of Lansing.