As a high school coach, the rankings are not that important to me or my athletes. The rankings are for the news media and people that know nothing about the athletes. We as coaches and wrestlers know who the good wrestlers are.
But it is true that we normally will not consider freshmen in the rankings no matter how good they are at the national level in Freestyle or Greco. We normally wait until they prove themselves during the high school season to rank them at the high school level. And I personally think that Neil will prove himself very quickly in the season.
Credit at the high school level will be given when there is proof.