COMPLETE INDIVIDUAL RANKINGS

ASHLAND – Coming off a ninth-place finish at last season's NAIA Championships, the Southern Oregon men's wrestling team will start 2025-26 with its highest ranking in nine years at No. 6.

The Raiders had 11 nationally-ranked individuals in Thursday's NAIA Top 25 preseason poll, which included six additional Cascade Conference teams: No. 14 Providence (Mont.), No. 15 Embry-Riddle (Ariz.), No. 16 Corban, No. 17 Arizona Christian, No. 21 Eastern Oregon and No. 23 Montana State-Northern.

The Raiders were led in the individual polls by their returning All-Americans, No. 2-ranked Vonn Fenn (125 pounds) and No. 3 Asher Ruchti (197). Three more Raiders earned top-10 designations: No. 7 Simon Graeber (133), No. 8 Adrian Chavez-Morales (184) and No. 10 Elias Corona (197).

Defending champion Grand View (Iowa) took the top team spot with four No. 1-ranked individuals. Providence was the only CCC team to produce a top-ranked wrestler in 157-pounder Hunter Hobbs.

The Raiders debut at their annual Red & Black Intrasquad on Oct. 30 and travel to Pacific's Mike Clock Open on Nov. 9. The first poll of the regular season will be released No. 6.

SOU INDIVIDUAL RANKINGS
C – Cascade Conference; N – NAIA
125 – 1C/2N Vonn Fenn, 5C/21N Isaac Hampton
133 – 2C/7N Simon Graeber, 4C/16N Dylan Clark
141 – 5C Tyler Rhue
149 – 3C/15N Kolton Malone
157 – 2C/12N Dylan Straley, 4C/19N Avant Stepherson
174 – 3C/11N Braylin Ruchti
184 – 3C/8N Adrian Chavez-Morales
197 – 1C/3N Asher Ruchti, 3C/10N Elias Corona
 

Rank	Institution	Points
1	Grand View (Iowa)	225
2	Life (Ga.)	190
3	Southeastern (Fla.)	185
4	Indiana Tech	180
5	Campbellsville (Ky.)	174
6	Southern Oregon	173
7	Missouri Valley	150
8	Cumberlands (Ky.)	142
9	Cumberland (Tenn.)	136
10	Doane (Neb)	127
11	Marian (Ind.)	124
12	Central Methodist (Mo.)	118
12	Oklahoma City	118
14	Providence (Mont.)	107
15	Embry-Riddle (Ariz.)	105
16	Corban (Ore.)	87
17	Arizona Christian	86
18	Saint Mary (Kan.)	85
19	Concordia (Neb.)	78
20	Dickinson State (N.D.)	67
21	Eastern Oregon	65
22	Baker (Kan.)	60
23	Montana State-Northern	50
24	St. Thomas (Fla.)	48
25	Morningside (Iowa)	45

Receiving Votes: Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) 40, Cornerstone (Mich.) 37, Missouri Baptist 36, Hastings (Neb.) 35, Reinhardt (Ga.) 34, Simpson (Calif.) 33, Lourdes (Ohio) 32, Wayland Baptist (Texas) 31, Friends (Kan.) 25, Northwestern (Iowa) 23, William Penn (Iowa) 22, William Woods (Mo.) 21, Keiser (Fla.) 21, Rio Grande (Ohio) 19, Benedictine (Kan.)18, Brewton-Parker (Ga.) 17, Cleary (Mich.) 16, Midland (Neb.) 16, Truett-McConnell (Ga.) 15, Texas Wesleyan 14, Avila (Mo.) 13, Oklahoma Wesleyan 11, Graceland (Iowa) 10, Briar Cliff (Iowa) 9, Dakota Wesleyan (S.D.) 8, Georgetown (Ky.) 8, Ottawa (Kan.) 4, St. Ambrose (Iowa) 4.