California High School boys wrestling rankings (1-13-2024)

It's the middle of January, the heart of the wrestling season.
With the postseason about six weeks away, here are the best wrestlers from California per age group according to Bill Buckheit, a long time national expert on the sport, who often serves on the seeding committees for many of the top tournaments in the country.
According to Buckheit, the huge Doc B Wrestling Invitational in Clovis provided major shake-ups, the biggest one being Buchanan-Clovis' Ashton Besmer (132) going from No. 28 to No. 6 after downing No. 6 Moses Mendoza (Gilroy) and No. 7 Manuel Saldate (SLAM! Academy, NV) in successive matches to win the title.
- BUCHANAN WINS 3 | Doc B Invitational results
The Doc B also provided the emergence for a few California wrestlers who went from unranked to now occupying spots in our latest list such as Merced’s Nathaniel Granados (106), Buchanan’s Iva Arias (150), Birmingham’s Slava Shabazyana (165), and two from the hosts, Clovis High School, Anthony Garza (106) and Raymond Rivera (138). Shabazyana shocked previous No. 7 Joseph Antonio (St. John Bosco). In all fairness, it should be noted that Garza had been at 113 Freddylbs where he was unranked but would have been ranked at 106.
Here are rankings from SBLive's Billy Buckeit with some help from calgrappler.com
2024-25 California High School Wrestling Rankings
106
1-Samuel Sanchez (Esperanza) FR
2-Anthony Garza (Clovis) SO
3-Nathaniel Granado (Merced) SR
4-Jorge Rios (St. John Bosco) FR
5-Tyler Sweet 9 (Clovis North) FR
113
1-Paul Ruiz (Buchanan) FR
2-Henry Aslikyan (Birmingham) JR
3-Jadyn Wren (Clovis East) JR
4-Zach Hoover (Laguna Creek) SR
5-Aaron Meza (St. John Bosco, CA) FR
120
1-Rocklin Zinkin (Buchanan) JR
2-Sean Willcox (St. John Bosco) JR
3-Paulo Valdez (Hesperia) SR
4-Caine Martin (Camarillo) SO
5-Caleb Rivas (Mission Oak) SR
126
1-Ronnie Ramirez (Walnut) SR
2-Antonio Rodriguez (Los Gatos) JR
3-Isaiah Cortez (Gilroy) SR
4-Nathan Carillo (St. John Bosco) JR
5-Edwin Sierra (Poway) SR
132
1-Ashton Besmer (Buchanan) JR
2-Moses Mendoza (Gilroy) JR
3-Jeff Lopez (Clovis West) SR
4-Billy Townson (Poway) SR
5-Leo Macias (Kingsburg) SR
138
1-Jesse Grajeda (St. John Bosco) SO
2-Elijah Cortez (Gilroy) SR
3-Paris Ruiz (Buchanan) SR
4-Raymond Rivera (Clovis) JR
5-Jacob Perez (Monache) SR
144
1-Nikade Zinkin (Clovis SR
2-Joseph Toscano (Buchanan) JR
3-Michael Romero (St. John Bosco) SO
4-Arseni Kikiniou (Poway) SO
5-Braden Priest (Bakersfield) SR
150
1-Daniel Zepeda (Gilroy) SR
2-Ivan Arias (Buchanan) JR
3-Niko Valenzuela (Fountain Valley) SR
4-Matthew Luna (Saint Francis) SR
5-Max Del Bosque (Clovis North) SR
157
1-Leo Contino (Buchanan) Sr.
2-Beau Priest (Bakersfield) SR
3-Alias Raby (Anderson) JR
4-Mark Del Bosque (Clovis North) SR
5-Tigran Greyan (St. John Bosco) JR
165
1-Mario Carini (Poway) SO
2-Slava Shabazyana (Birmingham) JR
3-Travis Grace (Gilroy) JR
4-Joseph Antonio (St. John Bosco) SR
5-Wyatt Lewis (Clovis) SO
175
1-Jonathan Rocha (Clovis North) JR
2-Mason Ontiveros (John H Pitman) JR
3-Isai Fernandez (St. John Bosco) FR
4-Adrien Reyes (Clovis) SR
5-Dylan Pile (Los Gatos) Sr
190
1-Levi Bussey (Granite Bay) SR
2-Brokton Borelli (Los Banos) SR
3-David Calkins (Liberty-Brentwood) JR
4-Carter Vannest (Pitman) JR
5-Jonathan Rocha (Clovis North) JR
215
1-Angelo Posada (Poway) SR
2-Khale McDonnell (Fountain Valley) SR
3-Wes Burford (Oakdale) JR
4-Brock Rios (Frontier) SR
5-Noah Bode (Vista Murrieta)
285
1-Nicholas Sahakian (St. John Bosco) SR
2-Coby Merrill (John W. North) JR
3-Mark Marin (Clovis), SR.
4-Daniel Moylan (Poway) SO
5-Adam Stanley (Bakersfield)